Organizations
What was the name of the civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans?
NAACP
Who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States?
Sandra Day O'Connor
What term was formed from the idea that the United States is destined by God, its advocates believed to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent?
Manifest Destiny.
The Last Battle of the Revolutionary War was the Battle of?
The Battle of Yorktown.
The _____________ was a Act prohibiting the colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation Act of 1763.
The _____________________ was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace?
League of Nations
Under his leadership for almost 20 years in Iraq, he systematically executed, tortured, imprisoned, raped, terrorized and repressed Iraqi people?
Saddam Hussein
What was the German word meaning “Lightning War” that Adolf Hitler came up with and would be the type of fighting style he would incorporate during WWII?
Blitzkrieg
On August 9, 1945, the second bomb named _________ was dropped on the Nagasaki, Japan?
Fat Man
What virus attacks the body's immune system?
AIDS
Which President will sign into law and start the Department of Homeland Security?
George W. Bush
Who was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age?
JP Morgan
What term refers to the legal or political process of ending the separation and isolation of different racial and ethnic groups?
Desegregation
What were the Causes of WWI?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism
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What Amendment ended slavery in the US?
13th.
This was a group of Democrats in the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates?
Copperheads
Who was the founder of the American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood) as we call it today?
Margaret Sanger
What is the Economic policy called by which a nation seeks to gain power by exporting more goods than importing goods in order to build its national wealth?
Mercantilism
The Persian Gulf War was an invasion of ________ that led to sanctions on Iraq with US troops on the ground and in the air?
Kuwait
The ____________________ College Act of 1862 set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts?”
Morrill Land Grant
What is the second-largest stock exchange in the world for investors looking to buy and sell shares of stock?
NASDAQ
Who was the self-taught nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War that would eventually find the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
What stated that a territory could determine whether to allow or not allow slavery based on Popular Sovereignty?
The Freeport Doctrine
The __________________ was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war during the Cold War?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
What term means the less the government is involved in the economy, the better off business will be?
Laissez-faire