From 1800 to 1900
This President is responsible for the Trail of Tears and signed the Indian Removal Act, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing and relocation of certain Native American tribes onto reservations.
Andrew Jackson
The 1918 Pandemic which led to the death of millions of deaths for America and globally.
Spanish Flu
This Supreme Court case established the precedent of "separate but equal," which allowed segregation to flourish as a result.
Plessy v Ferguson
The first major women's rights / feminist convention and meeting was held in this city.
Seneca Falls, New York
The mythological and ideological interpretation of the American Civil War and its aftermath, particularly from the perspective of white Southerners. It was an attempt to both whitewash and justify the South's actions during and reasons for the war, as well as slavery prior to the war.
The Lost Cause Myth
This amendment banned slavery, except for as punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
Underground bars that became popular during Prohibition and acted as a form of third space for marginalized communities.
Speakeasies
This Supreme Court case ruled that US federal authorities had powers over immigration matters, even when changes in US immigration law reversed earlier policy and practice.
Chae Chan Ping v. United States
Immigrants went through this major inspection and processing center in New York state.
Ellis Island
These schools and institutions were created to make Native American children into citizens in line with American ideas of how a person should act (in line with whiteness). It aided in the cultural genocide of many indigenous cultural practices and linguistic traditions.
Native American Boarding Schools
Extended voting rights to back men; Southern states formed Jim Crow laws (Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, etc.) to bypass this amendment.
15th Amendment
Name a single cause for the Great Depression.
First Team that can name one will be given 300 points.
The court case which ruled that internment camps were a military necessity and not based on race; kept the internment of Japanese Americans and immigrants in place during WW2.
Korematsu v United States
The US dropped nuclear bombs on these two Japanese cities.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This right wing fascist authoritarian ideology gained prominence in Germany during the 1930s and gained sympathizers in the United States.
Nazism
The idea that the US had the right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific and beyond the continental US.
Manifest Destiny
A prison camp for the confinement of political prisoners, "enemy aliens," prisoners of war, etc; a concentration camp for civilian citizen, especially those with ties to the enemy during a time of war.
Internment Camp
A US Supreme Court decision that protected the right to have an abortion prior to fetal viability in all 50 states. Was overturned recently by the Dobbs Decision.
Roe v Wade
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. What state is Little Rock Central High School located in?
Arkansas
This period of time was characterized by extreme anti-communist and anti-Soviet rhetoric and government policies. Joseph McCarthy gained prominence through his HUAC house panel and engaged in witch-hunts in an attempt to find communist sympathizers and spies.
Red Scare
Towns which persecute Black people who stay within the town limits after dusk; the towns would be accessible (to some degree) during the day, but if one stayed after dark, this could lead to hate crimes, arrest, beatings, murder, etc. It was a form of segregation.
Sundown Towns
Joseph McCarthy spearheaded a government committee to hunt down communists in the government, Hollywood, and broader American society during the Red Scare. The Red Scare included the Lavender Scare which went after LGBTQ+ people viewed as compromised to be blackmailed. What was this government committee called?
The House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
A US Supreme Court decision that ruled that US state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional; overturned "separate but equal," and gave the power of desegregation to local authorities.
Brown v Board of Education
Afghanistan and Iraq
The major trade deal between the US, Canada, and Mexico under Bill Clinton, which increased free trade and aided in the establishment of maquiladoras in Mexico.
NAFTA