Vocabulary
Most important laws in the country.
What is the constitution?
What word was named the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year, most often used by Gen Z?
Hint: It happens when you watch too many Tik Toks in a row
What is brain rot?
A colonial rebellion and war of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British rule to form the United States of America.
What is the American Revolution?
Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation and his goal was to keep the Union united.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Time period of the Civil War (exact dates)
What is 1861-1865?
First 10 amendments.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The CLAIM and ANALYSIS you need to make on the long Regents Civic Literacy Essay.
What are two efforts made by the people or government AND were they successful or not?
A conflict between the Union (Northern states) and the Confederacy (Southern states) that lasted from 1861 to 1865. The war primarily revolved around the issue of slavery and the states' right to own slaves.
What is the Civil War?
The President during the Trail of Tears who was a man for the lower-class white men and was key during the Manifest Destiny time period.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Time period of Pearl Harbor.
What is 1941?
Cold War belief that if one country falls to communism they all will fall.
What is the domino theory?
Describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What is freeing African-Americans from slavery, making everyone born in the US a citizen, and the right to vote for black men?
A armed conflict that primarily took place in _____________ (Asian country) from 1955 to 1975. It was a complex conflict involving the containment and domino theory.
What is the Vietnam War?
Led an infamous slave revolution that was one of the key tense events that led to the Civil War. Hint: His last name is a color.
Who is John Brown?
Time period of American Revolution?
What is 1775 – 1783?
The group of people who wanted to expose the gross and dangerous parts of industrialization.
Who are the muckrakers?
A global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It involved major European powers and other nations in a war of unprecedented scale and destruction. The war began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is World War 1?
Who is Richard Nixon?
Time period of the Civil Rights Movement? (Brown v. Board of Edu)
What is 1954?
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the colonizer country taking advantage of the colony's raw materials. Hint: Word starts with an M.
What is mercantalism?
The names of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's four kids.
Who are North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm?
A short six-week conflict in 1898, resulted in a decisive US victory and the end of Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. The war began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor and the US believed it was Spanish sabotage.
What is the Spanish American War?
Two presidents with opposite economic and political ideas during the Great Depression. Hint: One was popular and the other was hated
Who are Herbert Hoover and FDR?
Time period of Spanish American War.
What is 1898?