America & Europe
The year that Columbus first sailed to the New World
What is 1492?
On July 4, 1776 delegates representing the 13 colonies signed this document proclaiming their freedom for Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
This was the belief that the United States was destined by God to stretch from sea to sea.
What is manifest destiny?
This linked the East and West Coasts.
What is the transcontinental railroad.
This was the US's main rival in the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
What early explorers to the New World were seeking.
What is a shorter route to Asia?
This is a major reason that Great Britain raised taxes on the colonist.
What is to pay for the French/Indian War?
These were the people who felt that slavery should be ended.
Who were abololitionist.
People who came to the United States from different communities to find new opportunities.
Who are immigrants?
He was the main champion for Black's push for Civil Rights.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
The site of the first successful British Settlement.
What is Jamestown?
This document precluded the U S Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The southern states ceded from the union to preserve slavery and that which they saw as these?
What are states' rights.
This began with the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
This was a stand off between the US and Soviet Union that took place on an Island Country off the coast of Florida,
What was the Cuban Missal Crisis?
This notoriously bad practice began in the colonies in 1619.
What is the slave trade?
Also the leader of the Continental Armey, he became the first US president.
Who is George Washington?
His election was the final straw that led to the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the deliberate killing of Jews and other people who Hitler considered undesirable.
What is the Holocaust?
This was an Act Signed in 1964 that helped to advance the cause of Justice for Blacks and other minorities.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
The exchange of plants, animals, and natural resources between the Americas and Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Lewis and Clark explored the land bought from France by Thomas Jefferson in a deal that is called this.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
He was the leader of the Confederate troops who eventually surrendered to General Grant.
Who was General Lee?
He was the United States President during World War II who was also charged with helping the US out of the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This building was attacked on September 11, 2001 by terrorists.
What is the World Trade Center in New Yourk