Category 1: Reconstruction & Gilded Age
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This war in 1898 marked the U.S. as a global power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This conflict was fought to stop the spread of communism in Asia from 1950–1953.
What is the Korean War?
The highest court in the U.S. government.
What is the Supreme Court?
This 1794 uprising tested the power of the new U.S. federal government and was quickly suppressed by George Washington.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This organization was founded in 1865 to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This U.S. policy warned European nations to stay out of Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
These were FDR's programs to help the U.S. recover from the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This U.S. Senator led anti-communist investigations in the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This president resigned due to the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This 1919 Supreme Court case upheld limits on free speech during wartime, establishing the “clear and present danger” test.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This term describes business leaders like Rockefeller and Carnegie who were seen as ruthless.
What are Robber Barons?
This was the U.S. president during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This event brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This Supreme Court case ended school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The U.S. fought this 20-year war to stop communism in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
This 1890 massacre marked the end of major Native American resistance in the Plains Wars.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Laws passed in the South to restrict the rights of African Americans post-Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This act made it illegal to speak out against the government during WWI.
What is the Espionage Act (or Sedition Act)?
The U.S. strategy of capturing specific Pacific islands during WWII.
What is island hopping?
This act outlawed discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
These are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This economic theory, dominant in the Gilded Age, argued that the wealthy had a moral obligation to use their riches to help society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
These were the reasons for the U.S. entering WWI. Name two.
What are unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram?
This secret project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This movement promoted pride in African American culture and rejected assimilation.
What is the Black Power movement?
This 2001 event led to the War on Terror.
What is the 9/11 terrorist attack?
Passed in 1947, this law restricted the power of labor unions after WWII and is still a source of debate today.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?