Founding Documents
What document, signed in 1776, declared the American colonies independent from Britain?
What is the Declaration of Independence
What was Upton Sinclair's book, "The Jungle", about?
What is the poor conditions in the meatpacking industry?
What was the name of FDR's plan to help the US recover from the Great Depression?
What is the New Deal?
What country was the main rival of the US during the Cold War?
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
What was the main reason the US entered World War I?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
What are the Bill of Rights?
What term best describes journalists who exposed corruption and social problems in the early 1900s?
What are Muckrackers?
What was one major cause of the Great Depression?
What was the stock market crash of 1929?
(Black Tuesday, October 29th, 2929)
What was the main goal of the US during the Cold War?
What is stop the spread of Communism?
What surprised attack led the US to enter WWII?
What is Pearl Harbor?
What was added to the US Constitution to convince Anti-Federalists to support ratification?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What reform movement focused on banning alcohol in the early 1900s?
What is the Temperance or Prohibition Movement?
What was the name of the US project that developed the atomic bomb?
What is the Manhattan Project?
What African-American activist promoted self-defense and was a leader of the Black Panther Party?
Who is Malcolm X?
What is the Fourteen Point Plan?
What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 do for new territories, including Ohio?
What is establish a process for statehood and ban slavery in the Northwest Territory?
What law gave free land to settlers in the West if they farmed it for five years?
What is the Homestead Act?
What was the US foreign policy at the start of both WWI and WWII?
What is isolationism?
What Supreme Court case ended racial segregation in public schools?
What is Brown Vs. Board of Education?
What was the US policy of stopping the spread of communism during the Cold War called?
What is containment?
Which Enlightenment philosopher's ideas about natural rights heavily influenced the Declaration of Independence?
Who is John Locke?
What was the main goal of the Sherman-Anti Trust Act?
What was breaking up monopolies?
What was the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio broadcasts during the Great Depression?
What are Fireside Chats?
What military alliance was formed by the US and Western European countries to counter the Soviet Union?
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
What political, cultural, and economic tension began post-WWII?
What is the Cold War?