Foundations of the Nation
This man was the general of the Continental Army and our first President.
Who is George Washington?
This was the name for the belief that the United States had a special destiny, and that a higher power had given them this continent to conquer and inhabit.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This term describes a society changing "from farms to factories" and usually involves increasing technology and manufacturing.
What is Industrialization?
This attack on U.S. soil by Japan caused the United States to get involved in World War 2.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This U.S. policy stated that Communism must not be allowed to spread.
What is Containment?
Heavily flawed and quickly replaced by the Constitution, this document was our first attempt at creating a national government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Many people moved westward hoping to get rich quick after the discovery of this mineral in the mountains of western states like California.
What is gold?
This event is commonly said to have marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This was the first all-Black unit of military aviators in the United States.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
This hugely unpopular war ended in failure and resulted in the growth of the anti-war movement and public disillusionment with Cold War policies.
What is the Vietnam War?
This is the term for a period of European science and philosophy that inspired the founding fathers of America, including ideas such as natural rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
The United States went to war with Spain over the sinking of this ship (later confirmed to have been an accident).
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This term is used to describe a series of racist laws passed in the South in the early 1900s in an attempt to return to the pre-Civil War social order.
What is Jim Crow?
The United States did not join this international organization that was founded after World War I, leading to its eventual failure.
What is the League of Nations?
This scandal, involving a break-in at a hotel during a presidential campaign, ended Richard Nixon's presidency.
What is Watergate?
This amendment to the Constitution guarantees, among other things, your right to protest.
The United States helped liberate these islands during the Spanish-American war, before turning around and conquering them for themselves.
What are the Philippines?
This was Franklin Roosevelt's package of new laws and government programs aimed at solving the problems of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This treaty ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This barrier separated the democratic half of Germany's capital from the communist half, and was eventually torn down when the city was reunited.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This was the European philosopher who came up with the idea of the Social Contract (that governments and their citizens have responsibilities to each other)?
Who is John Locke?
This term is used to describe news that is driven by emotion and sensationalism rather than facts, and is often made to advance a specific political position.
What is Yellow Journalism?
These people were journalists who investigated corruption in business and politics.
What are Muckrakers?
This term describes a policy of staying out of other countries' affairs.
What is Isolationism?
This was the first artificial satellite ever launched into space, and started the "Space Race" between the United States and USSR.
What is Sputnik?