Reconstruction
This war ended in 1865, leading to the Reconstruction Era.
What is the Civil War?
This was a law that gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who farmed it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This event, starting in 1929, caused a severe worldwide economic crisis with many people losing jobs.
What is the Great Depression?
This event in 1914 sparked the start of World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
After WWII, this country became the main rival of the United States in the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment
This animal was very important to Native American tribes on the Great Plains, but was hunted almost to extinction.
What is the buffalo?
This U.S. president created the New Deal programs to help Americans during the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
These two sides fought in World War I: the Allies and the _____.
What are the Central Powers?
This term describes the tense political and military rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
What other groups were discriminated against during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow Era?
Chinese Americans and Immigrants
American Indian
Mexican Americans
This railroad, completed in 1869, connected the East and West coasts of the U.S. and made travel and trade much faster.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This natural disaster during the 1930s caused huge dust storms that damaged farms in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The surprise attack on this U.S. naval base in 1941 led the U.S. to enter World War
What is Pearl Harbor?
These are the rights that protect people’s freedom and ensure everyone is treated fairly by the government and society.
What are civil rights?
This group used violence and fear to stop African Americans from voting during Reconstruction.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Which group of people were primarily displaced by the Westward Expansion of the United States?
Native Americans
This series of programs and reforms was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help the U.S. recover from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This group, led by Adolf Hitler, was responsible for the genocide of millions during World War II.
What is the Nazis?
This African American leader helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and gave the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and promised “equal protection under the law.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Native American leader tried to lead his people to safety in Canada but was captured and famously said, “I will fight no more forever.”
Who is Chief Joseph?
This 1935 law provided money to elderly people, unemployed workers, and families with disabilities.
What is the Social Security Act?
These two major events in 1945 led to the end of World War II.
What are the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the surrender of Germany?
This wall was built in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin and became a symbol of Cold War division.
What is the Berlin Wall?