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1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase
100
Group that organized Boycotts of English goods
What is the Sons of Liberty
100
Commander of the Continental Army during the late 1700s
Who is George Washington
100
Another name for the first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights
100
Laws that were made to prevent former slaves from voting and having equal rights
What are the Jim Crow Laws
200
Landmark Supreme Court Case that overturned "Plessy vs. Ferguson" by saying that separate schools for blacks and whites are not "equal"
What is "Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka"
200
This group was kept in internment camps during World War II
What is the Japanese
200
Which president was in charge of something called the "New Deal" that helped get us out of the Great Depression?
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt
200
The "Triangle Trade" (Columbian exchange) was between which three entities?
What are Europe, Africa, America
200
Women received the right to vote in what year?
What is 1920
300
All three branches of government put limits on the other branches. What is this called?
What is "checks and balances"
300
In what decade was the 19th amendment was enacted, the first talking movie was released, radio became a popular form of entertainment
What is the roaring 20s
300
What are our unalienable rights according to the Declaration of Independence?
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
300
1607
What is the founding of Jamestown
300
The USA's response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik I
What is NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
400
This document was written on a boat before the pilgrims disembarked. It pushed the idea of "consent of the governed"
What is the Mayflower Compact
400
The act of targeting a particular racial or ethnic group for extinction
What is genocide
400
Government spending more money than it takes up in taxes
What is national deficit or debt
400
controllilng enough of an industry to control all the prices for that market
What is a monopoly
400
The colonies were expected to do two things with regards to economics for Great Britain... what are those two things?
What is providing raw materials and purchasing finished goods
500
Journalism that exploits, distorts or exaggerates events to attract readers
What is "yellow journalism"
500
To "ratify" means to what?
What is "Approve"
500
fear of "reds" or communists taking over the USA
What is the "Red Scare"
500
Belief that it was the destiny of the nation to stretch from sea to sea
What is Manifest Destiny
500
the area between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains
What is the "Great Plains"
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