The document that freed the slaves on Jan.1st 1863 was the
What is Emancipation Proclamation
100
American women were given the right to vote in 1920 though which Amendment
What is the 19th Amendment
100
Thomas Jefferson made this one of the greatest bargains in U.S. history and doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
100
What event brought the U.S. into WWII by a surprise attack by the Japanese in Hawaii
What is Pearl Harbor
100
In 1931, large storms/clouds of dirt blew through the Midwest because of a drought was known as what?
What is the Dust Bowl
200
The major turning point for the north during the Civil War was what battle in Pennsylvania because it forced the slow retreat of the south
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
200
Henry Ford's invention which had goods and products put together on a conveyer belt
What is an Assembly Line
200
Man America is named after
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
200
A new type of fighting style in WWI in which soldiers literally dug in and brought the war to a stalemate
What is Trench Warfare
200
Immigrants attempt to become part of a society’s culture and lifestyle
What is to Assimilate
300
Before taking on slavery, what was Lincoln’s first goal was to do what?
What is keep the country/Union together
300
The era of American history where the making or selling of alcoholic beverages was outlawed
What is Prohibition
300
The global swap of plants, animals, people, technology, ideas, and disease
What is the Columbian Exchange
300
What brought America out of the Great Depression and turned the country into a world superpower
What is World War II
300
The large forced movement of thousands of Native Americans/Indians from their homes into Oklahoma
What is the Trail of Tears
400
The period after the Civil War in the U.S. which attempted to reunite the country and give aid to recently freed slaves was known as what?
What is Reconstruction
400
On Tuesday Oct. 29 1929, this happened thrusting the U.S. into the Great Depression
What is the Stock Market crashed
400
England’s first permanent settlement in America and the eventual leader of this colony
What is Jamestown and Captain John Smith
400
On June 6th 1944, U.S. troops launched the largest military attack from sea on Normandy, France which was known as Operation Overlord and also given what name
What is D-Day
400
The American economic system which provides competition amongst companies and limited govt. involvement
What is Capitalism
500
Soldiers that fought for the North and South (be specific)
What is Union (North) and Confederates (South)
500
President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt oversaw the construction of what object which connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Panama Canal
500
The belief that Americans had a religious/divine right to take any lands they wanted for themselves as they moved west
What is Manifest Destiny
500
When countries have the philosophyof building an empire by taking over other countries