1800's America
1900's America
America At War
Post-War America
Civics and Presidents
100

The belief that Americans had the "god-given right" to move West to take over the continent and spread democracy. 

What is Manifest Destiny? 

100

"Fake Apple Pie," Hoover Stew, and dandelion salad were meals eaten during this time.

What is the Great Depression?

100

It was called the "War to End All Wars." 

What was WWI? 

100

The Berlin Wall fell in this year. 

What is 1989? 

100

The only US president to serve more than two terms in office. 

Who is FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)? 

200

Despite being at the center of the American Civil War, this word does not appear in the US Constitution. 

What is slavery? 

200

A business leader who is seen as having become rich by working hard and using money in a smart way to grow wealth. They are also often seen as benevolent philanthropists. 

What is a Captain of Industry? 

200

The meaning of "blitzkrieg." 

What is "lightning warfare"?

200

An Indian activist who's writings on nonviolent protest inspired Civil Rights leaders like Dr. King. 

Who is Gandhi? 

200

The number of judges on a fully filled Supreme Court. 

What is nine? 

300

Eli Whitney's 1791 invention that helped to make the South's farming economy very profitable (for some people).  

What is the cotton gin? 

300

The movement of millions of African-Americans from South to cities in the Northeast and Midwest. 

What is the Great Migration? 

300

The "day that shall live in infamy."

What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor? 

300

Neil Armstrong and the Apollo crew "officially" ended this when they landed on the moon. 

What is the Space Race? 

300

This Amendment gave women the right to vote.  

What is the 19th Amendment? 

400

Created by Henry Clay, this agreement would divide the US along the 36'30" line into "slave" and "free" land. 

What is the Compromise of 1820? 

400

A practice of paying just a little of the stock’s price and borrowing the rest of the money to pay for it from a stockbroker, who was usually borrowing from a bank. 

What is margin buying or buying on margin? 

400

The Northern strategy during the Civil War, designed to snake around the South and cut it off from supplies or any possible foreign aid. 

What is the Anaconda Plan?  

400

A principle of deterrence (pushing something off) based on the idea that "a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack" and both the "attacker and the defender would be annihilated.”

What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)?

400

The length of one term as a senator. 

What is six years? 

500

An Abolitionist who's final words before execution were "I...am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood." 

Who is John Brown? 

500

Which Amendments are referred to as the "Prohibition Amendments? 

What are the 18th and 21st Amendments? 

500

The code-name of a project so secret that even the Vice President didn't know of its existence. 

What is the Manhattan Project? 

500

In 1948 President Truman issued an Executive Order desegregating this. 

What is the US military? 

500

The year in which the most recent Constitutional Amendment was ratified.  

What is 1992? 

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