Democracy
The United States' main governing document
What is the Constitution?
The name of gases that get trap heat in the atmosphere- leading to global warming
What are green house gases?
The amendment that puts an end to slavery in the US (bonus points for naming the exception)
What is the 13th amendment?
Attack in Hawaii that led the US to join in WW2
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
What is the Gold Rush?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
The two guys who went on an expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory
Who are Lewis and Clark?
President Jacksons law that forced Indigenous people off their land
What is the Indian Removal Act
When the US bought land west of the Mississippi river from France (doubling territory)
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Name of the era in the last 1800s when the rich were very rich and poor workers supported the economy
What is the Gilded Age?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
The two environmental groups during the Progressive Era
Who are the preservationists and conversationists?
The Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools
(Bonus points for naming the court case that allowed segregation)
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
(Bonus: What is Plessy v. Ferguson?)
The war that begins US imperialism
What is the Spanish American War?
System of farming after slavery that left many African Americans economically behind
What is share cropping?
Name of the Senator who led the "Red Scare" accusing people of being communists
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The hurricane that devastated New Orleans
What is Hurricane Katrina?
The Supreme Court case that allowed the internment of Japanese Americans
What is Korematsu v. US?
Brutal murder of Vietnamese civilians that turned Americans against the war in Vietnam
What is the My Lai Massacre?
Strike against Andrew Carnegie at his steel mill (hint: we acted it out in class)
What is the Homestead Strike?
Law that got rid of discriminatory voting practices (like literacy tests)
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The name of the proposed legislation to reduce emissions and create green jobs
What is the Green New Deal?
US army murder of over 200 Indigenous people in South Dakota
The name of the US campaign that led to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan post 9/11
What is the War on Terror?
Ronald Reagan's economic system/ theory
What is trickle down economics?