American Government
This branch includes the president.
What is the Executive Branch?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This event started the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
This powerful weapon used at the end of WWII began the nuclear age.
What is the atomic bomb?
Mr. Hughes grew up spending his summers living in this state.
What is Florida?
This branch makes laws (Congress).
What is the Legislative Branch?
These laws were made to break up big monopolies.
What are antitrust laws?
This program created jobs through government-funded projects.
What is the New Deal?
The U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, which was a policy officially called _______.
What is containment?
Mr. Hughes played this instrument in high school and college bands.
What is the tuba?
This branch includes the Supreme Court.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This law helped make food safer to eat.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This group faced forced relocation into internment camps during WWII.
Who are Japanese Americans?
The Cold War is called “cold” because the U.S. and USSR did NOT do this.
What is go to war with one another?
Mr. Hughes has traveled to this many countries. (Double for total continents)
What is 0? (US not included) (1 continent)
The first ten amendments are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A wartime hero from the Spanish American War, this US president split the Republican vote in 1912 while running for re-election under the third party "Bull Moose" ticket.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This term refers to limiting goods like food during WWII.
What is rationing?
This term is used to describe the temporary cease to fighting agreed to by North and South Korea following the end of the Korean War.
What is armistice?
Mr. Hughes graduated from this high school.
Thomas Worthington High School
Freedom of speech is protected by this amendment.
What is the First Amendment?
People, most often reporters or journalists, who exposed problems in society were called this in the Progressive era.
What are muckrakers?
This term describes when people rushed/ran to withdraw money from banks.
What is a bank run?
U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy accused people of being communists, leading to a practice of accusations without evidence called ________.
What is McCarthyism?
Mr. Hughes watches too many sports. He even (very casually) follows this professional soccer club.
What is AC Milan?