Presidents
Created the New Deal
Who was FDR?
This war was fought between the northern and southern states over the issue of slavery
What is the Civil War?
The rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s that included famous events like the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
The belief that it was the God-given right of the United States to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?
The arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas
What is 1492?
Created the Great Society
Who was LBJ?
This war LED TO colonial dissatisfaction with British rule in the 13 colonies
What is the French and Indian War (OR the Seven Years' War)?
The 1848 women's rights convention led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
The forced journey of millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade
What was the Middle Passage?
The Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The war was fought to kick the British out of colonial North America
What is the Revolutionary War? (or war of independence)
The most famous abolitionist, orator, and writer who was born into slavery and toured the world speaking against it after his successful escape
Who was Frederick Douglass?
The largest internal migration in U.S. history, in which thousands of African Americans fled the south for the north and west
What is the Great Migration?
The purchase of the first enslaved Africans in British North America (what would become the U.S.)
What is 1619?
Vetoed the Second National Bank
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This war ended with the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What is World War 2?
The muckraking author of the Jungle whose work led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act
Who was Upton Sinclair?
A 2,170-mile east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in North America that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory
What is the Oregon Trail?
The passage of the 13th amendment and the end of the Civil War
What is 1865?
Tried to block the 14th amendment
Who was Andrew Johnson?
What is World War 1?
This reform movement began in the antebellum period but didn't see success until 1919 with the passage of the 18th Amendment
The first targeted restrictive immigration law in U.S. history, passed in 1882
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The founding of Jamestown
What is 1607?
Pushed for the Espionage and Sedition Acts
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
In this war, the U.S. backed Cuban independence fighters and the U.S. ended up in possession of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
What is the Spanish American War?
This activist founded Hull House and was a pioneer in the field of social work as well as the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace prize
Who was Jane Addams?
These 1920s laws set numerical limits on the number of immigrants from different countries who could enter the United States, and favored immigration from northern and wester Europe
What are the Quota Laws? (Credit also for immigration acts of 1921 and 1924)
The end of Reconstruction
1877 (OR compromise of 1876 - both acceptable answers)
Pursued and oversaw the Mexican American War
Who was James K. Polk?
This war was fought between the young United States and the British, ending mostly in a stalemate, and inspiring the composition of the Star Spangled Banner
What is the War of 1812?
These two people founded the Black Panther Party as college students and wrote the Ten Point Platform
Who were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?
This group was a nativist political movement in the 1850s that gained notoriety for its strong anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic sentiments
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
Bacon's Rebellion
What is 1676?
Passed the Alien and Sedition Acts
Who was John Adams?
This war did not end in a formal peace treaty but instead a ceasefire agreement, an armistice line and a demilitarized zone (DMZ)
What is the Korean War?
This conservative activist, and anti-feminist, was nationally prominent in conservatism in the 1970s and is often credited with blocking the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
Who was Phyllis Schlafly?
This company's goal was to establish a profitable colony in Jamestown, and they implemented various strategies, including the headright system and indentured servitude
What is the Virginia Company?
The passage of the Voting Rights Act
What is 1965?