The Presidents
This president was responsible for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, which doubled the size of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Favored by the Anti-Federalists, this is the name given to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
"A nation divided cannot stand"...these were the two opposing sides that fought in the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
During the Roaring Twenties, this term was used to refer to the liberated women who challenged social norms through short hair and other "scandalous" behavior.
What is a flapper?
Coined by newspaper columnist John L. O'Sullivan, this term advocated support for U.S. expansion westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This president served more terms than any other before him. He died shortly after beginning his fourth term.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Enacted through the 18th amendment, this was the name given to the period when the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol was made illegal.
What is Prohibition?
"A date which shall live in infamy"...this event brought the United States into World War II.
What is Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor?
The fall of which structure in November 1989 marked the symbolic end of the Cold War?
Completing over a dozen rescue missions, this female icon of the abolitionist movement helped at least 70 enslaved persons reach freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This president was in office during the September 11th terror attacks in 2001.
Who is George W. Bush?
Based on the principle of separation of powers, these are the three branches of the federal government.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
This Cold War proxy war was fought in the 1960s and 70s and inspired mass waves of protest in the United States.
What is the Vietnam War?
Explored in the 2023 film "Oppenheimer," this was the top-secret mission to develop the atomic bomb during World War 2.
What is the Manhattan Project?
In 1954, the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education determined this was unconstitutional.
What is segregation?
This founding father and later president was the first to serve as Vice President of the United States.
Who is John Adams?
What is the formal process of charging a government official of misconduct or wrongdoing?
Fought from 1846-48, this war resulted in the United States gaining the southwestern territory of the country, including the modern-day states of Arizona, Nevada, and California.
What is the Mexican-American War?
What is the New Deal?
This famous founding father served as the nation's first Secretary of the Treasury and is the face of the $10 bill, but was never president.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This state is the birthplace to more presidents than any other state.
What is Virginia?
An important step towards women's rights, this amendment was passed in 1920 and granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Known as America's "Second War of Independence," this war made Andrew Jackson a national hero.
What is the War of 1812?
Formally ending the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers after WWI, this treaty, and the harsh terms it placed on Germany, is often blamed for contributing to WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Founded in Virginia in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?