What is people who traveled from Asia across the Bering Strait into North and South America and established tribal cultures and advanced civilizations.
100
Early in U.S. history, the North and South developed differently economically. Explain the economy of the North.
What is based on industry and commerce as well as some agriculture.
100
What natural resources did the U.S. gain when it obtained the vast western territories?
What is metals, like steel, and fuels, like coal.
100
What is Imperialism?
What is the policy by which a stronger nation extends economic, military, and/or political control over a weaker nation or region.
100
What is the Cold War?
What is a power struggle between capitalist and communist nations, mainly involving the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
200
What happened in the 1400s that opened this area up to Europeans?
What is Christopher Columbus stumbled over here, thinking he had found a way to get to India -- in 1492.
200
What was the economy of the South like early in U.S. history?
What is based largely on agriculture -- especially the cotton crop -- and depended on slave labor to work the plantations.
200
With the rise of industrialization, name four cities (of the five listed) that grew because large factories were built nearby.
What is New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
200
Give one example of a time when the U.S. showed Imperialism.
What is after the Spanish-American War, when it obtained Spanish colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam).
200
When did the Cold War end?
What is 1991, with the breakup of the Soviet Union and the end of communism.
300
What four European nations began settling in North America during the 1500s and 1600s?
What is Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands.
300
Much of the South seceded as soon as Lincoln was elected as president. Why?
What is he promised the halt the spread of slavery.
300
Name three reasons for the rapid industrialization of the United States from the late 1700s to the mid 1800s.
What is increase in natural resources; inventions of new machines and new processes to manufacture goods easily, more efficiently, and less expensively; and a booming population, which meant more people could buy more goods.
300
Who were the Allies during WWI and WWII?
What is Great Britain, France, and Russia. The U.S. joined them later during both wars.
300
What was the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s?
What is African Americans (with those who supported their fight) working for the end of segregation and discrimination in the U.S.
400
Name one thing that led the colonists to declare their independence from Great Britain.
What is taxation without representation.
400
What were some factors that led to the defeat of the Confederacy and the South's surrender in 1865?
What is without industry, ammunition, uniforms, and shoes were in short supply, as well as there was a food shortage.
400
What caused unions to form?
What is grueling, dangerous work and low pay, for long hours.
400
Who were the Central Powers of WWI?
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
400
What have been some outcomes as a result of the Civil Rights movement?
What is integration of public schools and other public facilities, the passage of laws protecting the voting rights of minorities, and striking down laws that discriminated based on race or cultural background.
500
These amendments to the U.S. Constitution were written to counter fears of an overly powerful central government.
What is the Bill of Rights.
500
What happened as Reconstruction ended in the 1870s that eventually led to needed the Civil Rights movement in the mid 1900s?
What is whites who came back to power prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote and racism continued on.
500
What is the Progressive Era?
What refers to a time in the early 1900s when there were many groups working toward social and political improvements.
500
As listed in Lesson 4, name four things that happened in WWII that led to the greatest destruction and despair the world has ever known to date.
What is horrific battles, fire-bombing of cities, the Holocaust, and the dropping of two atomic bombs.
500
What have been some challenges that have arisen due to the advancement in technology?
What is pollution of air (exhaust from cars), water (acid rain due to coal burned to generate electricity), and land (trash and hazardous waste).