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Who organized the National Farm Workers Association and led Mexican farm workers in their protests against unfair labor practices in California?
Cesar Chavez
100
Which city is the capital of the United States?
Washington D.C.
100
The first ten amendments to the United States' Constitution are known as the:
Bill of Rights
100
What was the name of the American President throughout the majority of World War II?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
100
At the time of the Civil War, the South had an agricultural economy, made up of large plantations growing crops with forced slave labor. The economy of the North was very different. What type of economy did the Northern states have at this time?
Industrial Economy or Industrialism
200
Which Civil Rights Movement leader preached nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to end segregation and achieve equal rights for African-Americans?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
200
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought the United States into World War II. Name the state where Pearl Harbor is located.
Hawai'i
200
What is the name of the economic system used throughout the United States that encourages competition and increasing financial profits?
Capitalism
200
The United States' main enemy during the Cold War was which country?
Soviet Union
200
What was the name of the forced migration of Native Americans to the western lands of the United States after the Indian Removal Act was passed?
Trail of Tears
300
The ideas of this Enlightenment writer expressed equality for all people and later influenced the leaders of the American Revolution.
John Locke
300
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and was also important because it now gave Americans access to which large river?
Mississippi River
300
The American political philosophy after World War I in which the United States cut itself off from the rest of the world and focused on domestic issues was known as:
Isolationism
300
Name the war in which the Union Army and the Confederate Army fought against each another within the United States.
Civil War
300
Which Constitutional Amendment officially freed all the slaves from the Southern United States after the Civil War?
13th Amendment
400
Name one of the famous American women who struggled for equal voting rights in the United States during the Women's Suffrage Movement in the 19th century.
Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton
400
One reason why the United States fought in the Mexican-American War was because they wanted to annex a new large territory. What is it called?
Texas
400
The belief that Americans were encouraged by God to expand and bring civilization to the rest of the western territories is known as:
Manifest Destiny
400
What was the name of the American President who decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945?
President Harry S. Truman
400
What device, invented by Eli Whitney, picked the seeds from cotton much faster than people could, which made slavery very profitable?
Cotton Gin
500
Who led the Colonial Army of the former American colonies when they were fighting for independence from England?
George Washington
500
King George III's Proclamation of 1763 stated the American colonists could not expand beyond which group of mountains in the eastern United States?
Appalachian Mountains
500
The idea that all Americans have the right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" was written by Thomas Jefferson in which early American document?
Declaration of Independence
500
During the 1960's, President John F. Kennedy helped organize a failed attack on Cuba to kill their Communist leader. What is this Cuban leader's name?
Fidel Castro
500
The book, "How the Other Half Lives", was written by which photographer and reporter who documented the poor living conditions in New York City tenements?
Jacob Riis