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Random Questions
100
When a state formally leaves a country
What is secession (to secede)
100
The Constitution favors _______ government over the ____________ government
What is "The Constitution favors central/federal government over the state government
100
The Dust Bowl forced Americans to
What is move West?
100
The Supreme Court case which created the doctrine "separate but equal"
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
100
This war was fought between 1914 and 1918
Who is World War I?
100
A figure of the European Enlightenment
Who is John Locke?
200
The belief that the United States should control all of the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
What is manifest destiny?
200
This freed the enslaved population of the Confederacy during the American Civil War
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
Stories published in newspapers which intentionally misrepresent fact
What is yellow journalism?
200
This court case from the 1910s was all about your freedom of speech
What is Schenck vs the United States?
200
This war began in 1776 and did not officially end until 1791
What is the American Revolution
200
Who is this?
Who is FDR?
300
An economic system where individuals have ownership over goods; the goal is to make money
What is capitalism?
300
A plan of government that favored individual states over the central government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
300
The rights of citizens to political freedom and social equality
What are Civil Rights?
300
The Supreme Court which lead to the Great Resistance
What is Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka
300
This war began in 1950 and did not end until 1953
What is the Korean War
300
Which Supreme Court case decided the rights of Japanese-Americans in internment camps
What is Korematsu vs United States?
400
When a writer investigates and exposes corruption and wrongdoing in industry
What is Muckraking?
400
The official action taken by President Andrew Jackson to displace Native Americans from their homes
What is the Indian Removal Act?
400
The American policy to support European powers prior to direct invovlement in World War II
What is the Lend-Lease Program?
400
When a man was taken from Missouri to Illinois, he argued for his freedom. This freedom would be denied by the decision in this Supreme Court Case
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford
400
This war was concluded without a treaty being signed by either side
What is the American Civil War?
400
Martin Luther King Jr. believed in this style of protest to argue for the rights of African Americans
What is civil disobedience?
500
The movement to get rid of slavery in the United States
What is abolition?
500
The passing of the _______________ in (1820) led to the ____________________ in 1854 which directly lead to the ____________________.
The passing of the Missouri Compromise in (1820) led to the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 which directly lead to the Civil War
500
The time in which Northern and Western economies took off as a result of Industrialization. During this time (early 1900s) Americans began making major money
What is the Gilded Age/Progressive Era?
500
The Court Case of Gideon vs Wainwright has to do with your right to have a ________________ present during a criminal investigation
What is a lawyer?
500
This war lasted from 1846 to 1848 and ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the Mexican-American War?
500
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are commonly referred to as
Hint: They were passed after 1865
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?