Constitution & Government
The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The belief that the United States should expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Industrialist who built the Standard Oil Company.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
War that gave the United States control of Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
U.S. policy designed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
What are muckrakers?
Canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
1962 crisis that brought the U.S. and Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This compromise created a two-house Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
The major issue that divided the North and South before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Upton Sinclair's book that exposed the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
Message from Germany that helped bring the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This principle prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
This proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Movement that sought government reform and consumer protection.
What is the Progressive Movement?
President who proposed the Fourteen Points.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Civil rights leader who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
This document begins with the words "We the People."
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
Amendment that established the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Attack that brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Law that outlawed discrimination in public places and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?