Founding
Principles
Principles
This 19th-century construction project connected the East and West coasts, revolutionizing travel and trade.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
These schools aimed to assimilate Native American children into white culture during the late 19th century.
What are boarding schools?
This proclamation by Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This economic system, characterized by private ownership and free markets, fueled industrial growth in the U.S.
What is capitalism?
This 1941 attack led the U.S. to enter World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This foundational principle ensures that no branch of government becomes too powerful by providing checks and balances.
What is separation of powers?
This movement, led by women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, fought for women's right to vote.
What is the women's suffrage movement?
These laws in the South restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws?
These journalists exposed corruption and social issues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What are muckrakers?
This WWII strategy involved capturing key Pacific islands to advance toward Japan.
What is island hopping?
This secret U.S. project developed the atomic bomb during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This 1862 law granted land to settlers in the West, encouraging westward expansion.
What is the Homestead Act?
This doctrine warned European nations against colonizing or interfering in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This Reconstruction-era amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This legislation aimed to prevent monopolies and promote fair competition in business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This international organization was created after WWI to promote peace but failed to prevent WWII.
What is the League of Nations?
This Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This compromise during the Constitutional Convention counted enslaved individuals as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This group of African Americans left the South after Reconstruction to establish communities in Kansas.
Who are the Exodusters?
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Progressive reform allowed citizens to propose laws directly through petitions and voting.
What is an initiative?
This executive order authorized the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This alliance of Western nations was formed in 1949 to counter Soviet influence.
What is NATO?
This clause in the Constitution ensures that federal laws take precedence over state laws.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This 1820 agreement attempted to balance free and slave states in the Union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This African American leader emphasized vocational education and economic self-reliance in the late 19th century.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This New Deal program employed millions of Americans in public works projects during the Great Depression.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This Tennessean played a significant role in establishing the United Nations.
Who is Cordell Hull?