Historical Documents
What document declared unalienable rights and government by consent of the people?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What shift happened in American jobs during the Industrial era pertaining to the type of work citizens did (1877-1920)
What is the shift from agricultural work to factory work?
What 1898 war helped the U.S. become a world power regarding Cuba and United States Imperialism?
What is the Spanish-American War?
What caused many Americans to lose savings and jobs during the 1930s?
What is the stock market crash and widespread unemployment?
What movement involved marches, sit-ins, and Freedom Rides?
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
What did the Northwest Ordinance prohibit, becoming a precedent later echoed in the 13th Amendment?
What is slavery?
What movement resulted in urban overcrowding and the rise of nativism?
What is immigration?
What was the U.S. policy after WWI to avoid foreign alliances?
What is isolationism?
What happened in October 1929 that triggered the beginning of the Great Depression?
Stock Market Crashed
What 1954 case ended legal segregation in public schools?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What was a key Federalist argument for ratifying the Constitution?
What is the need for a strong central government with national taxation and a standing army?
Which labor tactics were used to fight for better pay and conditions?
What are strikes, boycotts, and collective bargaining?
What Cold War policy aimed to prevent the spread of communism?
What is containment?
What economic practice involved people buying stocks with borrowed money, contributing to the crash?
Buying on Margin
What group used the courts to fight for African American civil rights?
What is the NAACP?
What was one major Anti-Federalist concern about the Constitution?
What is fear of too much federal power and loss of states' rights?
What 1910s-1920s legislation gave women the right to vote and banned alcohol? (2 Amendments)
What are the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage) and 18th Amendment (Prohibition)?
What wars in Asia were part of U.S. efforts to contain communism?
What are the Korean War and Vietnam War?
What term describes producing more goods than could be sold, which led to factory closures and layoffs?
Overproduction
What laws passed in the 1960s banned segregation and protected voting rights?
What are the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Which document protected freedoms like speech, press, and due process in response to Anti-Federalist concerns?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What reforms aimed to make government more democratic and fix urban conditions?
What are Progressive reforms like settlement houses, building codes, and direct election of Senators?
What program allowed the U.S. to supply the Allies before joining WWII?
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
What caused bank failures to worsen during the Depression?
What is the Federal Reserve restricting the money supply?
The most liberal court in the history of the U.S
Warren Court