Wars and Conflicts
The battle of Yorktown effectively ended this war.
What was the American Revolutionary War?
This law was signed by George W. Bush after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, and limited American citizens' privacy rights.
What is the PATRIOT Act?
This amendment banned chattel slavery, unless used as a punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He ushered in the First Party System following the departure of George Washington.
Who was John Adams?
This foreign policy focuses on domination over outside territories through military, economic, or political means.
What is imperialism?
This plan was made by Woodrow Wilson to help peace after World War I.
What were the Fourteen Points?
This set of social programmes were designed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help the country recover in the midst of the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal?
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling held that de jure segregation was constitutional.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
He was responsible for pushing the US into the Korean War.
Who was Harry S Truman?
This foreign policy focuses on interfering with other nations when appropriate to defend US interests.
What is interventionism?
This operation expelled Saddam Hussain's government from Iraq under the pretense of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
What is Operation Iraqi Freedom?
Daily Double! (Team who picks clue will wager X amount of money to be removed or added)
This 1820 compromise set in place the 36°30′ boundary that marked where how far north slavery could expand in the Western United States.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This 2022 Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v Wade, and allowed states to set their own timeframes on banning abortions.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization? (Will also just take Dobbs)
He was the first to be elected with a female vice president.
Who is (for now is) Joe Biden?
This 19th century belief held that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its dominion and spread civilization across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny? (will also take expansionism, i guess)
American intervention in this war was sparked by the sinking of a British cruise liner and a telegram intended to propose an alliance with Mexico.
What was World War I?
This act was instituted in-light of a growing anti-Asian sentiment after their mass migration to California for work.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This amendment was passed after Franklin D. Roosevelt's precedent-breaking 4 term presidency to create a 2-term limit for presidents.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
He was almost impeached under the Tenure in Office Act by Radical Republicans during Reconstruction, but survived in the Senate by 1 vote.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This movement, perpetrated and named after a Wisconsin senator, focused on rooting out so-called Communists in government and popular culture.
What is McCarthyism?
Daily Double! (Team who picks clue will wager X amount of money to be removed or added)
This war resulted in the arson of the White House and other parts of Washington D.C.
What was the War of 1812?
This act was passed after the Vietnam War, in order to limit unilateral military action without the approval of Congress.
What is the War Powers Act?
This faction in post-revolutionary America was most likely to agree with the statement: "We should ratify the constitution."
Who were the Federalists?
He was in office for less than a year before his assassination in 1881.
Who was James Garfield?
This movement was a philosophical, literary, and religious one focused on personal liberties and idealism.
Key figures: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
What was transcendentialism?