Native Americans
Hispanic Americans
African Americans
Asian Americans
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100

What is the cash crop that created tensions between Native Americans and white settlers (because they took land to grow this)

Tobacco

100

Name one Hispanic influence in the American South/Southwest BEFORE the United States acquired the land.

Mexican settlements in Texas and California

Vaqueros

El Camino Real

Spanish settlements in the New World

Tejano and Californios cultures

100

What is the name for the slave-trade journey from Africa to the New World?

Middle Passage

100

What law blocked Chinese immigrants entry to the United States?

Chinese Exclusion Act

100

Fill in the blank: Aw, we're so sorry to hear that your brother passed away- he gets five big _______.

Booms 

200

Name the tribe that the highest amount of causalities during the Trail of Tears

The Cherokee

200

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Officially ended the Mexican-American War and made Mexico's land purchasable

200

What is Reconstruction

Reintegrating the Confederate states to the Union after the Civil War

200

What did Commodore Matthew Perry's voyage do?

Forcibly opened Japan to the world

200

What is Mr. Bailey and Mr. Kuolt's government names? (First names)

Douglas and Michael

300

What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?

The largest massacre in American history, with over 300 Lakota Natives being killed

300

How much of Mexico's land was ceded to the United States?

Around 55%

300

What is indentured servitude?

Where an individual will gain their freedom after their labor contract is fulfilled

300

Name one challenge of the Hmong living in the United States

Cultural assimilation

Isolation/detachment from both Americans and Hmong

Refugees following Vietnam and other wars

300


Quadratic Formula

400

When was the approximate date that the Ohio Serpent Mound was created?

Between 1000 - 300 BCE

400

What were the Zoot Suit Riots?

Violent clashes in Los Angeles between U.S. servicemen and Mexican American youths, who were targeted for wearing flamboyant "zoot suits," symbolizing cultural pride but perceived as unpatriotic and rebellious by many at the time

400

What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

Allowed runaway slaves to be captured and returned to slavery, even in Free States

400

What is the "minority model myth?"

The idea that Asians are the "ideal" minority in the United States, putting unfair stereotypes on all minority groups.

400

Name what game this is from (double points for his name)

Fortnite / Spitfire

500

What is the Ghost Dance and why did the Lakota perform it?

The dance would return ancestors from the dead, renew the way of life, and drive the whites from the earth. They performed it for cultural preservation and as resistance to the government's attempt to control and assimilate them.

500

How did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo affect Mexicans now living in newly acquired American territory?

Mexicans in these territories can become American citizens

Full American rights

Mexicans got to "keep" their property

Protection from Native tribes

500

Name one Reconstruction Amendment and what it did

13th Am. - Abolished slavery

14th Am. - Grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States and guarantees equal protection/due process of law

15th Am. - Gives any male of color the right to vote

500

What is islamophobia and how does it affect the attitudes of the United States?

The fear of people who practice Islam or that look Arab/Muslim. It has shaped a very negative perception of these people and increased hostilities toward Muslim/Arab Americans.

500

What was the first state of the United States?

Delaware

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