Expansion and Migration
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the U.S. overnight.(3.6)
What is The Louisiana Purchase
This 1941 surprise attack by the Japanese Navy brought the United States into World War II.(9.4)
What is Pearl Harbor
The first two political parties in the U.S. were the Federalists and this group led by Thomas Jefferson.(3.4)
What is Democratic-Republicans
The 19th Amendment
What is American Women Rights to Vote
He is known as the "Father of the Constitution.(3.2)
What is James Madison
This 1862 act provided 160 acres of free public land to settlers who agreed to farm it for five years.(6.6)
What is The Homestead Act
This "splendid little war" in 1898 led to the U.S. acquiring Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is The Spanish-American War
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.(3.6)
What is Marbury v. Madison
These were the state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.(6.4)
What is Jim Crow Laws
He made one of the Largest Car Companys(7.1)
Henry Ford
The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North during and after WWI.
What is The Great Migration
This 1796 speech warned the nation to avoid "entangling alliances" with foreign nations.(3.4)
What is Washington's Farewell Address
Andrew Jackson’s practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.(4.3)
What is The Spoils System
An African American who changed the game of Baseball
What is Jackie Robinson
This escaped slave and orator published "The North Star" and advised Abraham Lincoln.(4.4)
What is Frederick Douglass
This 1849 event triggered a massive population boom in California, leading to its rapid statehood.
What is The Gold Rush
The Cold War theory that if one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, others would surely follow.
What is The Domino Theory
This 1930s series of programs and reforms was FDR’s response to the Great Depression.(9.3)
What is The New Deal
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
This Gilded Age tycoon built a monopoly in the oil industry with Standard Oil.(7.1)
What is John D. Rockefeller
This 1890 event is often cited as the symbolic end of the Indian Wars and the "closing" of the American frontier.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre
This 1823 policy warned European nations that the Western Hemisphere was closed to further colonization.
What is The Monroe Doctrine
This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.(6.5)
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
A 1920s intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, and literature centered in New York City.(9.1)
What is The Harlem Renaissance
The most dripped out in school
What is Mr Berkley