Pre Columbian
This term describes the time period in the Americas before European influence.
What is Pre-Columbian?
The three motivating factors for Spanish and Portuguese explorers during the Age of Discovery.
What are God, Glory and Gold?
The four ingredients that set England up to lead the 1st Industrial Revolution.
What are resources, supportive government, technological advanced and population growth.
The president who was the leader of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This invention by Thomas Edison in 1879 revolutionized factories and made them more efficient.
What is the light bulb?
The years the US was involved in WWI.
What is 1917-1919?
The government's response to massive unemployment during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
What was President Kennedy referring to doing "not because it's easy, but because it's hard"?
Going to the moon
This South American mountain range was home to the Inca civilization.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This explorer made a short-lived settlement in Northern Newfoundland around 1000 CE.
Who was Leif Erikson?
This economic concept explains why wages were low when there were so many workers.
What is supply and demand?
The Supreme Court case that ruled that enslaved people are property, not persons.
What Dred Scott?
The completion of this transportation network facilitated westward expansion and access to raw materials.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The doctrine that led the US to resist entering WWI and stressed the importance of isolationism.
What is the Monroe Doctrine.
Military tactic deployed by Germany in 1939 when it invaded Poland.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This was the first artificial satellite launched into space.
What is Sputnik 1?
This was the capital city of the Aztec Empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This explorer led a voyage that resulted in his crew circumnavigating the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
England got cotton and wood from these places.
What are the colonies?
The acts of congress that stated that for every new "free" state, there would also be a new "slave" state.
What are the Compromises of 1820 and 1850.
This process, invented in 1856, made steel production more efficient and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer process?
The term for the money Germany was forced to pay after WWI to the victors.
What are reparations?
The two overseas regions invaded by Japan before the outbreak of WWII.
What are Manchuria and China?
This Apollo mission successfully landed astronauts on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
The first people are believed to have arrived in the Americas around this many years ago.
What is 30,000 years ago?
This native woman served as an interpreter for Hernán Cortés.
Who was Malinche?
In 1801, only this fraction of England’s population lived in cities.
What is 1/5?
The group that started as a social club and morphed into a white supremacy terrorist group.
What is the KKK?
This era was a time of significant social and political reform in response to the problems caused by industrialization.
What is the Progressive Era?
The note Germany sent to Mexico to take back the land lost to the US.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
The drop in wages experienced by people who still had jobs at the height of the Great Depression.
What is 45%?
This African American mathematician's calculations were crucial for the Apollo missions.
Who was Katherine Johnson?
Name the three factors that contributed to the downfall of the Maya civilization.
What are overpopulation, overuse of the land and drought, and warfare?
The three regions profoundly shaped by the Columbian Exchange.
What are the Americas, Europe, or Africa?
He introduced a four-field crop rotation system.
Who is Charles Townshend?
The abolitionist who killed slave owners and armed slaves.
Who is John Brown?
Businesses sometimes hired these workers to replace those on strike.
What are scabs?
The three main countries who fought as the "central powers" in WWI.
What is Austria-Hungary, Germany and the Ottoman Empire?
The US spent $9 billion on its military in 1940. This is the number it spent on its military in 1945.
What is $98 billion?
This was the first living being sent into orbit.
What is Laika (the dog)?