People
Former slave who went on to give great speeches; he encouraged Abraham Lincoln to allow slaves to enlist in the Union Army.
Frederick Douglass
Where Lee surrendered to Grant.
Appomattox
Harlem Renaissance
Freedom of religion, speech, petition, press & assembly
1st
The president who cheated to win re-election in the Watergate Scandal and resigned (rather than be impeached).
Richard Nixon
This trio (3) explored the Louisiana Territory; the woman and the men she guided.
Lewis & Clark + Sacajawea
Yorktown, VA
Forced to leave their lands in the east, Native Americans walk to the Oklahoma territory in winter with low supplies.
Trail of Tears
Slavery is abolished forever
13th
The US Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal" = legal segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Vanderbilt, JP Morgan, Rockefeller & Carnegie are major examples of these; they were seen as "abusers" of workers in order to get ultra wealthy within their industries.
Berlin (Berlin Wall)
This doubled the size of the nation in 1803 when Jefferson bought it from Napoleon.
Louisiana Purchase
The right to vote cannot be denied based on race (black men given the right to vote).
15th
The Enlightenment philosopher who said people have the rights of life, liberty and property.
John Locke
These people exposed the evils of the Gilded Age in order to bring about change during the Progressive Era; examples are Ida Tarbell & Upton Sinclair
Muckrakers
When Japan attacked this location, the US entered World War II:
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
This telegram brought the US into World War I since Germany tried to get Mexico to start a war with the US;
Zimmerman Telegram
Women are given the right to vote.
19th
The rules for treatment of prisoners of war that came soon after World War II were decided at the:
Geneva Convention
He fought for Native American rights and made several trips to D.C. to advocate for honoring treaties the government made with the tribes.
Chief John Ross
President Theodore Roosevelt negotiated to buy land in this country to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans:
Panama (Panama Canal)
The TWO cities that were devastated by atomic bombs at the end of World War II; leads Japan to surrender
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The TWO amendments dealing with alcohol - the one that made it illegal and the one that repealed it
18th & 21st
When Brown v. Board of Education forced integration of schools, Virginia and other states refused by closing schools altogether. This is called:
Massive Resistance