Constitutional Foundations
Civil War/Reconstruction
Foreign Policy
Industrialization/ Progressive Movement
Miscellaneous
100
What document was included in the U.S. Constitution to ensure that individual civil rights would be protected from the federal government?
What is The Bill of Rights
100
What was the final reason the south separated from the Union?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln.
100
Manifest Destiny was used to justify an American desire to
What is expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.
100
In the early 1900s, the muckrakers provided a service to the American public by
What is exposing abuses in government and industry
100

This climate event led to an exodus of farmers and their families from the Great Plaines to California in the 1930's

What is the Dust Bowl

200
Why was the government created by the Articles of Confederation unsuccessful at solving many major problems?
What is weak central (federal) government.
200

Many argue this speech changed the purpose of the Civil War from preserving the Union to ending slavery. 

What is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

200
In his Farewell Address, President George Washington warned against
What is foreign alliances or forming political parties.
200

Jacob Riis was a progressivist who used photography to bring awareness to this issue

What is urban poverty

200
The “clear and present danger” doctrine established in Schenck v. United States (1919) concerned the issue of
What is freedom of speech
300
This conflict was resolved during the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What is representation in Congress.
300
In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to
What is allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery
300
What was the United States foreign policy before World War I?
What is neutrality.
300

These American businessmen created monopolies on steel and oil in the industrial age

Who are Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockafeller

300

What was one outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

What is the principle of "separate but equal" or "legalization of segregation"

400
What principle of the United States Constitution is intended to ensure that no one branch of government has more power than another branch?
What is checks and balances
400

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were adopted in Southern States. These are examples of...

What are Jim Crow Laws

400
Which event most influenced President Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter World War I?
What is unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany.
400
Which major population shift in the late 1800s occurred as a result of industrialization?
What is rural residents to urban areas
400

In the 1850s, this abolitionist wanted to start a slave rebellion by seizing the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry

Who is John Brown

500
Federalism is a term used to define the division of power between the
What is the state and the national government.
500

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman used this tactic when he marched his men from Savannah, Georgia to the sea, burning everything in their path. 

What is total war

500

This event led to the United States entering World War II, declaring war against Japan and Germany

What is the attack on Pearl Harbor

500

In the early 1900s, Progressive Era reformers sought to increase citizen participation in government by supporting ______________ right to vote

Who are women

500

This American Hero broke over 250 bones in his body attempting world record motorcycle jumps over a 30 year career

Who is Evel Kenivel

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