The 50 States
More than 800 languages are spoken in this Northeastern state's most famous city
New York
Ellis Island
Fearless leader of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
imperialism
This duo led an westward expedition across the newly purchased Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
This Southeastern State, once owned by Spain, is considered to be a peninsula because it is surrounded by water on three sides.
Florida
This 1882 Act suspended Chinese immigration to the United States for 10 years
Chinese Exclusion Act
Leader of the Feminist movement and author of "The Feminine Mystique"
Betty Friedan
believe in “survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
social darwinism
First President and his Secretary of Treasury
Washington and Hamilton
This state entered the union as a free state in the Compromise of 1850
California
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"- a poem inscribed on this welcoming figure
Statue of Liberty
Muckraking journalist who exposed widespread lynchings in the south and activist for women's rights
Ida B. Wells
favoring the interests of those born in the country, against those of immigrants
nativism
Italian immigrant anarchists accused of murder in 1920
Sacco and Vanzetti
The second smallest state gets its nickname as "the first state", because it was the first to ratify the U.S. Constitution
Delaware
The devastation of this major crop from 1845 to 1849 caused a wave of Irish immigration to the U.S.
Potato (Irish potato famine)
Dolores Huerta
the idea that colonies existed for the benefit of the Mother Country (for raw materials and trade)
mercantilism
19th century authors and activists who sharply disagreed on strategies for black social and economic progress
Washington and Dubois
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Many people from this state sought refuge in California during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Oklahoma
The Immigration act of 1921 used this type of system to cap the number immigrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe to just 3%
Quota
Founder of the Red Cross and famous Civil War nurse
Clara Barton
an economic system in which a society's means of production are held by private individuals or organizations, not the government
capitalism
Assassinated President and his VP who were in office during the Vietnam war and Civil Rights movement
Kennedy and Johnson