Economics
What is one of four major sectors in the U.S. economy
ships, household, babies, or games?
Household
Men who drove cattle from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail in the American West were known as this.
Cowboys
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Black men gained the right to vote because of this amendment being added to the U.S. Constitution.
The 15th Amendment
This affected international trade by making goods move from the Atlantic to the Pacific more quickly.
The Panama Canal
Saving money is an important way for people to pay for what?
Unexpected expenses
The main purpose of many nineteenth-century cattle trails such as the Chisholm Trail was to ____.
provide food to eastern cities.
Who was the U.S. State Senator who caused a lot of excitement and trouble by claiming that he had a list of communist spying and working in the U.S. government?
Jseph McCarthy
The difference between rights and responsibilities are what?
Rights are protected under the U.S. Constitution.
Who included an amendment process in the document because they knew overtime, changes would need to be made to account for changes in society?
The Framers
goods and services for the public
If you are standing in the Chisholm Trail, in which direction would you travel to visit Kitty Hawk, NC?
East
What do Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ceasar Chavez have in common?
They were all key players during the Civil Rights Movement.
A citizen has the right to vote for a government official if he believes that an elected official is what?
Not doing a good job in his or her position.
The only office of the Federal Government that has the power to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution is who?
Congress
He is an entrepreneur because he spent thousands of dollars developing the first Ford car.
Henry Ford
Why was the location of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania important to its rapid growth in the late 19th century?
Rivers intersected at this city and made life better for the economy.
Why was the assassination of John F. Kennedy significant?
He was a popular president who was pushing many social changes.
Paying poll taxes, passing literacy tests in order to vote, the legal separation of African Americans or blacks and whites in transportation all fit under what catagory?
Name three events that caused people to move into cities during the early 1900s.
Farm work became industrialized, steady employment in factories, and transportation became cheaper and easier.
This is a basic responsibility of citizens living in the United States.
Paying taxes
What three reasons caused people to move into cities during the 1900s?
Farm work became industrialized. Transportation became cheaper and easier, and Steady employment in factories.
He allowed communication over long distances to become faster and efficient.
Alexander Grahm Bell
Two Part Question:
In 1964, this amendment to the United States Constitution was added, outlawing poll taxes. Name the Amendment.
How did this amendment discriminate against African Americans?
24th Amendment
African Americans did not have an easy way to vote, it kept many from voting.
This place became a major center for agriculture between the end of the Civil War and 1900s.
The Great Plains