1700s
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The name for the North during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
He gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Cities that had atomic bombs dropped on them at the end of WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This colonial region includes Massachusetts and Connecticut. (options: New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern)
What is New England?
President who oversaw the forced removal of the Cherokee from their ancestral homelands in Georgia.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people with education and jobs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The U.S. entered World War I in this year.
What is 1917?
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 targeted this city, as well as the Pentagon.
What is New York City (the Twin Towers)?
Final battle of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This belief said the U.S. was meant to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after the Civil War.
What are Jim Crow laws?
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
He was the first African American President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
This colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
He was President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Industrialist who made his money in Pittsburg, PA by running steel mills. Hint: Was he a hero?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This New Deal Program gave people with disabilities and the elderly a guaranteed income.
What is Social Security?
Protest where Black and White people would sit in a whites only restaurant in order to protest segregation.
What were lunch counter sit-ins?
This act required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1863 proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the 15th Amendment?
This international organization was formed after World War II to promote peace.
What is the United Nations?
A theory that states that if one country falls to communism, the others around it will fall as well.
What is domino theory?