Civil Rights
What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
13th Amendment
What government program, launched by President Johnson, aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice?
The Great Society
What was the governments plan (Act) to encourage settlement of the west by giving land to settlers?
Homestead Act 1862
What was the US policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism?
Containment or Truman Doctrine
What event leads the United States into WWII?
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
ANdrew Johnson
What industry was dominated by John D Rockefeller?
Oil (Standard Oil Company)
What was the name of the trail that a lot of settlers took west?
Oregon Trail
What was the significance of the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920?
Womens Vote
What US ship exploded in Havana Harbor, leading to the Spanish American War?
USS Maine
What were the laws called that restricted African American rights in the South?
Black Codes/ Jim Crow Laws
What method of refining stell will lead to the creation of skyscrapers and stronger rail lines?
The Bessemer Process
What was the last major battle between the United States Army and Native Americans in 1890?
Wounded Knee Massacre
What was Franklin Roosevelts plan to combat the Great Depression called?
The New Deal
What major infastructure project, started by President Eisenhower, transformed the United States?
Interstate Highway System
What 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
What major event in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
Stock Market Crash
What was tghe name of the Native American Leader that will lead his people at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Sitting Bull
What President was known for Trust Busting and his Square Deal?
Theodore Roosevelt
What construction project connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, completed in 1914?
Panama Canal
What was the name of the Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation under "seperate but equal"?
Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)
What major event in Chicago in 1886 resulted in a bomb explosion
Haymarket Riot
What was the name of the US General that will die at Little Big Horn?
George Custer
What was the conflict between the US and the USSR that led to an arms race and political tension?
Cold War
What was the allied invasion of Normandy called, June 6, 1944?
D-Day