Slavery
The president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This communist nation "fought" the United States in the Cold War
What was the Soviet Union?
The only president to serve three terms and be elected to a fourth
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
A large number of immigrants came from this country in the early 1800s
What is Germany?
What is Ireland?
Farmers were able to grow this crop in the South more easily because of fertile soil and a long growing season
What is tobacco?
What is cotton?
This amendment outlawed slavery in all the USA
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This president declared a "corrolary" to the Monroe Doctrine, saying that the United States should be a police power in the world
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
The first president to serve only a single term
Who was John Adams?
This group of immigrants was completely excluded in 1882
Who are the Chinese?
This president was a dedicated outdoorsman and was the first to seriously support the Conservation movement
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was written in response to the Fugitive Slave Act and the slavery crisis
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
While the Federalists supported an alliance with Britain, the Anti-Federalists supported an alliance with this country
What is France?
He accused John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay of making a "corrupt bargain" in the election of 1824
Who was Andrew Jackson?
A small political party in the 1850s that aimed to restrict immigration and prevent immigrants from holding political office
Who were the Know-Nothings?
This president signed the Clean Air Act and Endangered Species Act in the 1970s
Who was Richard Nixon?
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
Bush declared these two countries an "axis of evil" after the terrorist attacks of 9/11
What are Iran and North Korea?
What was the end of Reconstruction?
Many immigrants came from this geographic area in the late 1800s
What is Eastern Europe?
What is Southern Europe?
This novel by Rachel Carson raised awareness about the devastating effects of the pesticide DDT
What is Silent Spring?
This small party wanted immediate abolition, in contrast to the Whigs and Republicans who only wanted to stop the spread of slavery
What was the Free Soil Party?
America took this island nation from Spain during the Spanish-American War and kept it until its independence in 1946
What are the Philippines?
He ran against William McKinley in the election of 1898 and lost
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
The only US President who was an immigrant
None of them. The constitution says that you must be born on American soil to become president.
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was drawn along this mountain range
What are the Appalachians?