Historical Figures
Historical Eras
Laws & Acts
Terms & Concepts
Writing Skills
100

This man is known as a captain of Industry after creating a steel empire.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

100

This time period in American history is commonly associated with immigration & urbanization.

What is Industrialization?

100

These laws segregated black and white Americans in the US south

What are Jim Crow laws?

100

The phrase you use when showing up to someone's house on Halloween to get candy.

What is "trick or treat"?

100

The first step of any written response to a question 

what is restating the question?

200

This US president was responsible for ending slavery in the United States.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

200

This was the time period right after the Civil War and took place mainly in the southern states of the US.

What is the Reconstruction Era?

200

This US amendment gave all American men voting rights.

What is the 15th Amendment?

200

This became a popular form of labor in the south to keep many freedmen in a cycle of labor.

What is sharecropping?

200

The purpose of wearing a Halloween costume on Halloween

what is to entertain?

300

These "old immigrants" were responsible for making Halloween in the US popular.

Who are the Irish?

300

The time period when America gained much wealth, but the wealth was unevenly distributed.

What is the Gilded Age?

300

This Act made it so that trusts and monopolies could no longer be formed.

What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?

300

These were American writers who exposed corruption leading to the Progressive Era.

Who are muckrakers?

300

A term you should avoid using in a written response, unless you already specified a person or group of people.

Who are "they"?

400

This famous Halloween character wears a white mask and dark jumpsuit

Who is Michael Myers?

400

The time period where many women in a town in Massachusetts were claimed to be witches.

Salem Witch Trails

400

These types of clauses were found in many southern states' constitutions to prevent wealthy and educated black men from voting.

What is a Grandfather Clause?

400

The four factors of Production are

What is land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship?

400

List one thing you should include when writing a historical circumstance response about Halloween.

What is who? what? when? where? or why?
500

This person was the plaintiff (person fighting for something) of a Supreme Court Case that famously ruled "separate but equal".

Who was Homer Plessy?

500

The time period when abuses of the Industrial era in the US were corrected.

What is the Progressive Era?

500

This act banned the construction of dark and poorly ventilated buildings in NYC.

What is the New York State Tenement House Act of 1901?

500

A change made to the Constitution.

What is an Amendment?

500

If you get two documents and doc A shows you a picture of candy and doc B gives you information of what happens to your sugar levels after eating the candy, which document caused the other?

Document A caused Document B.

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