Road to War
This surprise attack on a U.S. naval base pushed America into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This group was forced into internment camps during WWII.
Who are Japanese Americans?
These two Japanese cities were hit by atomic bombs.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This economic system dominated the Southern states.
What is plantation agriculture?
This term means an argument supported by evidence.
What is a claim?
This type of question cannot be answered with yes or no.
What is a compelling question?
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These laws were passed to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This executive order authorized internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This was the main goal of dropping the atomic bombs.
What is forcing Japan to surrender?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Primary and secondary sources are examples of this.
What is evidence?
Different interpretations explain why historians do this.
What is disagree?
This abolitionist escaped slavery and became a powerful speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This program allowed the U.S. to send weapons to Allied nations.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Fear of this and racial prejudice were used to justify internment.
What are espionage and sabotage?
This was an immediate effect on Japan after the bombings.
What are massive civilian casualties?
This political issue caused major sectional conflict.
What is the expansion of slavery?
This separates facts from opinions.
What is verification?
Author, purpose, and evidence help determine this.
What is credibility?
This U.S. president authorized Japanese American internment.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This belief argued the U.S. should avoid involvement in foreign conflicts.
What is isolationism?
These constitutional rights were violated by internment.
What are due process and equal protection?
This global tension developed after WWII due to nuclear weapons.
What is the Cold War?
This agreement attempted to settle sectional disagreements.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This explains why historians use multiple perspectives.
What is reducing bias?
This compares two historical viewpoints.
What is historical interpretation?
This activist challenged internment in the Supreme Court.
Who is Fred Korematsu?
This congressional action officially brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is declaring war on Japan?
This claim evaluates whether internment was justified using evidence.
What is a supported historical argument?
This evaluation judges whether the bombings were necessary.
What is a supported historical judgment?
This claim explains what caused the Civil War using evidence.
What is slavery caused the Civil War?
This response uses two sources to support an argument.
What is a defensible claim?
This judgment explains which source is most reliable.
What is source evaluation?
This president approved the use of atomic bombs on Japan.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This combination of events and policies shifted the U.S. from isolationism to direct war involvement.
What are Pearl Harbor, Lend-Lease, and rising Axis aggression?
This Supreme Court case upheld internment during WWII.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This alternative plan involved a land invasion of Japan with projected heavy casualties.
What is Operation Downfall?
This Supreme Court ruling declared enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This skill evaluates how reliable and useful a source is.
What is sourcing or credibility evaluation?
This explains why two credible historians might still disagree.
What are different perspectives or interpretations of evidence?
This abolitionist led a violent raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?