The idea popular in the U.S. during the 1800s that the country should expand its borders from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Between 1892 and 1954 this was the main immigration processing center for immigrants coming to America from Europe.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
100
This president made the decision to drop the first atomic bomb on Japan in order to end WWII.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
100
This president proposes several programsm for America known as the New Frontier.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
200
In 1867 the Indian Peace Commission recommended moving Native Americans to tracts of land set aside for them.
What are reservations?
200
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Chapman Catt were crusaders for women's rights, especially the right to vote.
What are suffragists?
200
This event in 1929 caused many businesses to fail.
What was the Stock Market Crash?
200
Retooling factories to make military equipment; rationing products; more women entered the work force; bought war bonds; grew victory gardens during World War II
How did Americans at home support the war effort?
200
The 1954 Supreme Court ruling that said it was unconstitutional to separate school children by race.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
300
This state became a territory of the U.S. in 1912, but was purchased from Russia in 1867 by Secretary of State William Seward.
What is Alaska?
300
Militarism
Allliance System
Imperialism
Nationalism
What are causes of World War I?
300
This New Deal Program built dams, provided jobs, and provided electricity to seven Southern states in the 1930s.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
300
This entertainer was known as the "King of Rock and Roll" in the 1950s.
Who was Elvis Presley?
300
Many Americans participated in antiwar protests during this war.
What is the Vietnam War?
400
American business interests in Cuba, yellow journalism, explosian of the Maine, and Cuban struggle for independence.
What are causes of the Spanish-American War?
400
Formally ended WWI and, along with the League of Nations, was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
This event on December 7, 1941 led to America's involvement in World War II.
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
400
The U.S. and the Soviet Union competed by building up their military strength and nuclear weapons, through the space race, and sporting events.
What was the Cold War?
400
Terrorists attacked the Twin Towers in New York City on this date.
What is September 11, 2001?
500
Cuba became an American protectorate; Puerto Rico and Guam became U.S. territories; and the U.S. bought the Philippines for $20 million.
What are results of the Spanish-American War?
500
Henry Ford revolutionized industry with this.
What is the assembly line?
500
Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and United States during World War II.
Who were the Allied Powers?
500
The U.S. and the Soviet Union came dangerously close to nuclear war in 1962 when missile sites were discovered in Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This leader announced the end of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.