Geography/Places
The Japanese brought the U.S.A. into WWII by bombing this Hawaiian naval base.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This system of allowing government branches to limit each others' power is intended to protect against abuses of power.
What is checks and balances?
Executive Order 9066 mandated this; the imprisonment of thousands of Asian-Americans during WWII.
What is Japanese internment?
This man is the current Governor of North Carolina.
Who is Josh Stein?
We compared and contrasted two important Civil Rights leaders: MLK, Jr. and this man.
Who is Malcolm X?
This U.S. state is the smallest geographically.
What is Rhode Island?
This is the policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands to preserve peace.
What is appeasement?
The Civil War began at this battle in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
This man was the General of the Union Army in the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This man was the leader of North Vietnam for 25 years.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This United States region borders Mexico.
What is the South West?
This term means "to break away from a group/nation in order to create a new one."
What is secession/seceding?
This passenger ship being sunk in 1915 caused outrage in America.
What is the Lusitania?
This young woman was the focus of the Disney movie Pocahontas. (Looking for her birth name)
Who is Matoaka?
This nonviolent form of protest during the Civil Rights Movement became famous in nearby Greensboro, NC.
What is a sit-in?
This North Carolina region is home to our state's capital.
What is the Piedmont?
This term refers to the journey enslaved Africans were forced to take from their homes to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
Crispus Attucks was the first person killed in this deadly riot between colonists and British troops in Massachusetts.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This man is considered the "father" of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This United States Senator was such a proponent of the Red Scare, it's often referred to as his "-ism."
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This colonial region was known as the "breadbasket" for its mild winters, fertile soil, and large population of farmers.
What is the Middle Colonies region?
This term means "to cover thinly with gold."
What is gild?
This Amendment to the Constitution outlawed the production and sale of alcohol (looking for the number).
What is the 19th Amendment?
This group of WWI African-American soldiers were given the highest possible honor, the Croix de Guerre, from the French military.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?
This animated reptile encouraged American schoolchildren to "duck and cover!"
Who is Bert the Turtle?