18th & 19th Century
This person is considered to be the father of the U.S. Constitution.
James Madison
This is the name of the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States.
Red Summer
This President made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb during wartime for the first time in human history.
Harry S. Truman
From this city, state in a jail cell, Martin Luther King Jr. outlined his pacifist philosophy for the American public.
Birmingham, AL
The Constitution for this country was mostly written by General Macarthur's lawyers. Article 9 forbade this country from ever waging war again.
Japan
This is the name of the state that first seceded from the Union.
South Carolina
An American New Deal agency, that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935
The WPA.
These countries were the three main Axis powers during WWII.
Italy, Germany, and Japan.
On May 9, 1960, the FDA approved this drug, granting greater freedom to American women.
The Pill or Birth Control
After siding with the Guerilla fighters in this country during the Spanish American War, the United States turned against the freedom fighters and made this country a US territory until 1945.
Philippines
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are..."
Finish the phrase.
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
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* Monopoly
* Laissez Faire
* Teddy Roosevelt
* The Spanish Flu
This is the dissent to a 1944 which legalized which wartime practice.
"I dissent, therefore, from this legalization of racism. Racial discrimination in any form and in any degree has no justifiable part whatever in our democratic way of life. It is unattractive in any setting, but it is utterly revolting among a free people who have embraced the principles set forth in the Constitution of the United States... They must, accordingly, be treated at all times as the heirs of the American experiment, and as entitled to all the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution."
The Internment of Japanese Americans.
ALL PLAY - Charades!
* Woodstock
* Kennedy
* Vietnam
* Black Power
This officially neutral country became a battleground in the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union, with American bombers dropping over two million tons of cluster bombs over it—more than all the bombs dropped during WWII combined.
Laos
The Cherokee tribe lives in this modern day state.
Oklahoma
This is a philosophical viewpoint arguing that human beings are the central or most significant entities in the world. This belief regards humans as separate from and superior to nature and holds that human life has intrinsic value while other entities are resources that may justifiably be exploited for the benefit of humankind.
Anthropocentrism
"YESTERDAY, December 7, 1941 a date which will ____________ the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
Complete the famous quotation.
"live in infamy"
June is pride month partially because it coincided with this historic moment in LGBTQ+ history.
The Stonewall Riots
This is the term that describes any exploitative government that functions poorly for its citizenry while disproportionately benefiting a corrupt elite group or individual. In 1904, the American author O. Henry coined the term to describe Honduras and neighbouring countries under economic exploitation by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Brands International).
Banana Republic
"Faneuil Hall has resounded with echoing applause of... a murderous war—as a war against the free states—as a war against freedom, against the Negro, and against the interests of workingmen of this country—and as a means of extending that great evil and damning curse, negro slavery."
Frederick Douglass said the above quote in reference to this war.
The Mexican American War
"The children of English, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, and other European parentage, quickly merge into the mass of our population and lose the distincitive hallmarks of their European origin. On the other hand, it cannot be doubted that the children born in this country of Hindu parents would retain indefinitely the clear evidence of their ancestry... If the applicant is a white person, within the meaning of this section, he is entitled to naturalization; otherwise not."
The following is text from this 1923 case.
Thind v. the United States
ALL PLAY - Pictionary
* Atomic Bomb
* Hitler
* D-Day
* Pearl Harbor
She was a national leader of the conservative movement since 1964. She led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment.
Phyllis Schlafly
When the people of this country rose up against Soviet Power in 1956, the United States’ unwillingness to militarily intervene grew out of the Eisenhower administration’s policy of “keeping the pot boiling” behind the Iron Curtain without having it “boil over” into a possible nuclear conflict
Hungary