Civil War
An unorganized series of secret paths and safe houses used by people escaping slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The US military massacring a large group of Lakota people, mostly women and children, following a period of tension caused by the fear of the Ghost Dance Movement.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Prohibition.
What is the time where making, moving, or selling alcohol is illegal in the USA?
Trench Warfare, Automatic and Chemical Weapons, and new machinery like Tanks and Planes.
What makes World War One so deadly?
The Supreme Court case that decided people of African Descent are not American Citizens and are not protected by the constitution.
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford?
A series of forced relocations of Native Americans from their ancestral homes to modern day Oklahoma following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The group torture and murder of a person without a trial with the goal of causing terror or fear in a specific population.
What is lynching?
The period of time where all Japanese Americans are forced to give away all of their property and businesses and are imprisoned due to American Fears of spies following Pearl Harbor
What is Japanese Internment?
A government that is ruled by the very rich.
What is Oligarchy?
A group of men hired by the government to track down freedom seekers. In reality, they just kidnapped anyone they saw to sell them into slavery.
What are Slave Patrols?
Ghost Dance.
What is a Lakota dance prayer of hope - specifically the hope that the colonizers will leave, dead loved ones will return, and life will return to how it once was?
Jim Crow Laws.
Laws that encourage and help segregation.
Two laws passed during World War One that make it illegal to be "disloyal" or critical of the United States Government, Flag, or Military.
Fascism.
What is a government type with one very powerful leader who rules through violence and has no social freedom or voting rights?
Bleeding Kansas.
What was mini-civil War in Kansas where Slavers from Missouri tried to force Kansas to be a Slave State?
Native American Residential Schools.
What are boarding schools where Native American students are kidnapped and forced to live without their languages, cultures, or religions in the hopes that the Native American cultures will be replaced with European Culture?
What is the time when American society is moving away from agriculture and farming and into factories and machinery?
The attack on Pearl Harbor.
Aristocracy or Kingdom.
What is a government type that determines who the leaders are through birth into powerful families?
The Emancipation Proclamation.
The location that the five Native Tribes in modern day Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Alabama were forced to walk to during the Trail of Tears.
What is Oklahoma?
Suffrage.
What are Voting Rights, especially Women's Voting rights in the early 1900s?
Schenck vs United States.
What is the supreme court decision that says that Freedom of Speech is sometimes limited?
Communism.
What is the government type where the government controls everything and there is equal wealth regardless of job or social class?