First 5 Presidents
Jacksonian Era
Civil War
Reconstruction
Guilded Age/Industrial Revolution
WWI/Great Depression
WWII
The Cold War
100

Group of department heads who advise the president.

Cabinet

100

Part of his campaign asked the people: "Do you want someone who can write or someone who can fight?"

Andrew Jackson
100

These two states were the center of the Missouri Compromise.

Missouri and Maine

100

This Amendment abolishes slavery except as a punishment for a crime. 

13th Amendment

100

For many Asians who immigrated to the US, they came through Angel Island. However, Europeans came through where?

Ellis Island

100

Overproduction of goods and speculative investing were some of the causes of this event, signaling the Great Depression in 1929.

Stock Market Crash

100

WWI began with Britain and France declaring war on Germany because they invaded this country:

Poland

100

These were the two main nations involved in the Cold War:

US and Soviet Union

200

The unpopular, one-term president who won against Thomas Jefferson and also introduced the Alien and Sedition Acts.

John Adams

200

Under Jackson's presidency, the Indian Removal Act forced thousands of American Indians (particularly the Cherokee in GA) to travel to the west, causing death along the way due to starvation, disease, and exhaustion. It would make you cry. What was the name of this event?

Trail of Tears

200

In 1857, this court case ruled that Black people could not be citizens (slave or free).

Dred Scott

200

They were left out of the principle of "equality" during the Reconstruction Era?

All women.

200

This is the city where the stockyard stories took place in the book, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Chicago

200

Over-farming and poor agricultural practices contributed to this misfortune in the Great Plains where part of the name is a dish used to eat cereal.

The Dust Bowl

200

Responsible for many heinous atrocities to Jewish people during WWII, Benito Mussolini inspired this man who became the leader of Germany:

Adolf Hitler

200

Although the Cold War was more of an arms and space race, how many casualties were suffered in DIRECT conflict between the US and the Soviet Union?

0

300

This president was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and held a controversial relationship with one of the enslaved women (Sally Hemings) on his property.

Thomas Jefferson

300

Even though the court decision sided with them in the Worcester v. Georgia case, this American Indian Nation in Georgia refused to give up their land to the state.

Cherokee Nation

300

This is the year the Emancipation Proclamation was implemented.

1863

300

Define or explain sharecropping.

Sharecropping kept many freed Black people in a cycle of debt and poverty. They had to rent land from white landowners and give a portion of their crops as payment.

300

Any one of four business tycoons who established and made famous the concept of "monopoly" during the Industrial Revolution.

Andrew Carnegie

John Rockefeller

Cornelius Vanderbilt

JP Morgan

300

This term refers to makeshift shantytowns created by homeless people as a result of President Hoover's lack of attention.

Hooverville

300

In WWII, he held office as the president for more than the normal number of terms set by George Washington:

Franklin D Roosevelt

300

The Soviet Union was the first to send a human to:

Space

400

The War of 1812 (return of the British) took place under his presidency.

James Madison

400

Another principle of Jacksonian Democracy was that politicians should be allowed to appoint their followers to government jobs as a way of limiting the power of elite groups. This process became known as the spoils system. Jackson believed that the President had to make sure the executive branch employees were carrying out the business of the government according to the plans of the party in power. In current events, who does this resemble?

Pres. Donald Trump

400

He suggested to Lincoln to make the war about emancipation and to enlist Black men.

Frederick Douglas

400

Explain the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.

EP - Abolished slavery in the Confederate States.

13th - Abolished slavery nationwide.

400

Samuel Morse is best known for inventing (they even named the code for him) this.


Telegraph

400

They were the new workers in factories during World War I.


African Americans and women.

400

The United States entered WWII because of Japan's attack on this place in Hawaii:

Pearl Harbor

400

The Manhattan Project introduced this to WWII and was then used by the US to attack Japan. The Soviet Union became a threat to the USA because it now had access to this:

Atomic Bomb (Nuclear Weapons)

500

Under this doctrine of the same name, President James Monroe warned the nations of Europe not to meddle in the politics of North and South America.

The Monroe Doctrine

500

Out of respect for the "common man", the Jacksonian Democracy sought to broaden public participation in government, so it expanded voting rights to include not just landowners but .......?

All adult white males. 

500

Who won the Civil War?

The Union

500

Initially suggested by Gen. Sherman and supported by President Lincoln, this was a Field Order later rescinded (denied) by Andrew Johnson after Lincoln was assassinated.

40 Acres (and a mule)

500

Black Gold is another name for what John D. Rockefeller became rich and famous for.

Oil

500

By attacking an American ship, this country led the United States to enter World War I:

Germany

500

Name the Axis Powers

Germany

Italy

Japan

500

These are the two nations that emerged as a result of the Korean War:

North and South Korea