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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
100
Camps in which 127000 people were imprisoned for being of Japanese decent.
What are Japanese Internment Camps.
100
Issued by Abraham Lincoln on Sept. 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
100
First UMWA President from WV.
Who is Miller.
100
German Submarines that convoys were used to stop.
What are U-boats.
100
A member of Massachusetts colony who could be ready in a few minutes to fight the British.
What is a Minuteman.
200
Reducing or eliminating military weapons.
What is disarmament
200
It freed all slaves without compensation to the slave owners,
What is the 13th Amendment.
200
The worst mining disaster in U.S. History.
What is the Monongah disaster
200
Head of the War industries Board.
Who was Bernard Baruch.
200
Groups organized in the 1770s to keep colonists informed of important events.
What are committees of Correspondence.
300
A tactic used by the German military involving fast attacks.
What is Blitzkreig.
300
Northern Victory which led to Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam.
300
First Gov. to be sentenced to jail.
Who is Berron
300
Payments for war damages.
What are Reparations.
300
A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is Boston Tea Party.
400
Attack that happened on December 7, 1941, that sparks the start of WWII
What is Pearl Harbor.
400
Most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater, fought September 19-20, 1863 in Georgia.
What is Chickamauga.
400
This Hotel was used as an Army Hospital during WWII.
What is the Greenbrier Hotel and Resort.
400
He killed 25 Germans and captured 132 prisoners armed only with a rifle and a revolver.
Who is Alvin York.
400
Part of the British government in which members make laws for the British people.
What is Parliament.
500
Rhineland
What was a part of Germany, but according to the Treaty of Versailles, it was a demilitarized area.
500
The first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
Who is Ruby Bridges.
500
A slave abolitionist who seized a federal arsenal and was eventually hung.
Who is John Brown?
500
Certificates sold by the US government to pay for the war.
What are war bonds.
500
A cruel use of authority.
What is Tyranny.