Geo Deal
This river forms part of the border between Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
What is the Constitution of the United States?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This term describes the late 1800s period of rapid industrial growth and political corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
This event sparked U.S. entry into World War I in 1917.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania (or the Zimmermann Telegram)?
This is the full original name of Menlo School when it was founded in 1915 as a boys' military school.
What is the William Warren School for Boys?
The 1803 Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S. and was purchased from this country.
What is France?
The First Amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and this.
What is the right to petition the government?
She was a key leader in the women’s suffrage movement and co-founded the National Woman’s Party.
Who is Alice Paul?
This New Deal program provided jobs through public works projects like building roads and schools.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy during this operation.
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
Though Menlo began admitting girls in 1979, it did not become fully coeducational in all grades until this decade.
What is the 1990s?
This 1869 innovation physically and symbolically united the eastern and western United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This amendment protects citizens from “unreasonable searches and seizures.”
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This 1906 Upton Sinclair novel exposed conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
Ronald Reagan’s economic policies emphasized tax cuts and this type of market deregulation.
What is supply-side economics (or trickle-down economics)?
This conflict began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
Menlo School and Menlo College shared facilities for decades—like the dining hall and library—until this specific year when the school built its own campus cafeteria.
What is 2017?
The first wave of the Great Migration took place during and after this global event, which created labor shortages in Northern factories.
What is World War I?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Progressives supported this kind of election reform that allows voters to propose laws directly.
What is an initiative?
his railway union leader was jailed for defying a court order during the Pullman Strike and later became a five-time Socialist candidate for president.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This 1968 military campaign by the Viet Cong turned U.S. public opinion against the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This iconic building, once home to both Menlo School and Menlo College administrative offices, is named after a long-serving headmaster.
What is Stent Hall?
The U.S. acquired this Pacific territory in 1898 after overthrowing its monarchy.
What is Hawaii?
In this 1966 case, the Supreme Court ruled that suspects must be informed of their rights before police questioning.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This suffragist was arrested for voting in the 1872 election and later co-founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This law created the FDIC to insure bank deposits and restore trust in the U.S. banking system.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
This 1962 Cold War crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Menlo School and Menlo College officially became separate entities in this year.
What is 1994?