Early US Immigration
What New York harbor site processed millions of immigrants?
Ellis Island
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in what year?
1776
A Founding Father and author of the Declaration of Independence, who was the third president of the United States?
Thomas Jefferson
What treaty ended WWI
Treaty of Versailles
What year did the Revolutionary war begin?
1775
During what decade or era was immigration to the United States fell to its lowest levels since the 1830s?
During the Great Depression of the 1930s
What did the 18th Amendment (The Volstead Act) do?
Banned alcohol
What was the name of FDR's plan to pull the USA out of the Great Depression?
New Deal
The Red Scare was used to describe American fear of what construct?
communism, socialism, and/or anarchism
What year did women gain the right to vote?
1920
What was the name of the structures where many immigrants lived in cities.
tenement
What does the 16th Amendment allow for?
What is income tax?
Which president gave the Gettysburg address
Aberham Lincon
The Soviet Union placed missiles here due to it being only 90 miles away from Florida.
Cuba
What year did the U.S. land on the moon?
1969
what ethnicity was denied access to the United States in the late 19th century?
Chinese
What declaration stated that enslaved peoples in border states, not in direct conflict with the Union, are free.
Emancipation Proclamation
Instead of being impeached for his part in the Watergate Scandal, this president resigned.
Richard Nixon
What 1846–48 conflict yielded the Mexican Cession?
The Mexican–American War.
When did the U.S. enter World War I?
1917
Gave Indians land if they assimilated as an American citizen
What is the Dawes Act?
This Amendment to the Constitution took 200 years, 7 months and 10 days to pass.
27th Amendment to the Constitution
At the time of his death, who was the fourth president to have been assassinated?
John F. Kennedy
what was the name of the ship that sank outside of Havana, which brought the US closer to war with Spain
USS Maine
What year did the Challenger disaster occur?
1986