This war was fought between the North, the Union, and the South, the Confederacy with states' rights and slavery being the main conflicting issues.
What is the Civil War?
100
One of these treaties ended the American Revolution (1783) and the other ended the Spanish-American War (1898).
What are the Treaties of Paris?
100
Famous Southern Baptist pastor leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
The 19th century American belief that the United States should expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What is manifest destiney?
100
The famous Union nurse who founded the American chapter of the Red Cross in 1881.
Who is Clara Barton?
200
This war was fought between the U.S. and Russia over which country could develop the most nuclear weapons and who could make it to space first; however, the two countries never once met on the battlefield.
What is the Cold War?
200
This was the peace settlement that was signed in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference after WW1 had ended, with one of its most controversial provisions requiring Germany to accept sole responsibility for causing the war.
What is Versailles?
200
He became the 36th president of the U.S. when JFK was assassinated, and once president he launched his own domestic agenda-the Great Society-to fight the "war on poverty".
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
The large amount of western land bought by Thomas Jefferson from the French in 1803 that doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
200
Leader of the women suffrage movement who helped to define the movement's goals and beliefs and to lead its actions.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
300
America gained its independence from Great Britain's monarchy as a result of Cornwallis' surrender and America winning this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
300
This treaty was negotiated by a U.S. Chief Justice between America and Great Britain in which the British agreed to give up control of their forts in the Northwest Territory.
What is Jay's?
300
He was an important African American labor leader who threatened to have a march on Washington to demand an end to the discrimination of hiring African Americans in defense industries.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
300
The economic theory that countries should acquire gold and focus on exporting goods and owning colonies.
What is mercantilism?
300
An environmental activist and conservationist who wrote "Silent Spring".
Who is Rachel Carson?
400
This war was fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allies and the Axis Powers; with the U.S. becoming involved in 1941 due to a suprise attack on U.S. soil Dec. 7th of that year.
What is WWII?
400
This was the peace agreement where several countries met with the French and the Vietminh on temporarily splitting Vietnam in half at the 17th parallel with the North controlled by the Vietminh and the South by anti-communist nationalists.
What is the Geneva Acccords?
400
This President earned his claim to fame as a war hero at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, but once in the White House he "spoiled" the system with his kitchen cabinet and made the Native Americans shed deadly "tears".
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
Shortly after WW1 ended and a communist government was established in Russia, this idea took hold in the U.S., which was a nationwide fear of Communism.
What is the Red Scare?
400
Well-known muckraker of the Progressive Era who exposed the ruthless business practices of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida B. Tarbell?
500
This war ended a stalemate with the country divided at the 38th parallel; a communist North surrendering to the People's Republic of China and Soviet forces and a democratic South surrendering to the U.S. and United Nations allied countries.
What is the Korean War?
500
This treaty secured the purchase of Florida from Spain and the Spanish also agreed to give up any claims they had to the Oregon Territory.
What is Adams-Onis?
500
He was the 19th president of the U.S. who brought an end to Reconstruction in 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
The idea that states had the right to void or not follow any law they deemed unconstitutional.
What is nullification?
500
This female pair were leaders in the abolitionist reform movement during the mid-1800s.