Key U.S. Figures
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
British government placed a tax on any paper goods (newspapers, legal documents, etc;) circulating in the colonies to raise funds for their army in North America
What is the Stamp Act
War caused by the expansion of slavery
What is the Civil War
Prohibition, Jazz Age, and High Consumerism were only a few of many things that occurred during the time.
What was the Roaring 20s
Three Branches of Government outlined in the U.S. Constitution
(50 additional points for the "head" of each branch)
Executive (President), Legislative (Congress), Judicial (Supreme Court)
President who created the three "R's" during the New Deal
(Bonus 100 points if you write the three R's)
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Established the United States as an independent nation
What is the Declaration of Independence
American viewpoint before WWI and WWII
What is Isolationism
Era which reformers exposed corruption in politics and workers rights’
What is the Progressive Era
Exchange of resources and diseases between the Old World and New World
What is the Columbian Exchange
Leaders of Progressivism
Who is...
Theodore Roosevelt (Pres.)
Jane Addams
W.E.B. Du Bois
Upton Sinclair
Ida B. Wells
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Walter Rauschenbusch
Right to vote cannot be denied by any state
Ended World War II
What is the dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Time period of...
Reunification of the Union and the South, Protection and strengthening of Constitution, New, radical (far-reaching) social changes and Racial conflict and violence
What is Reconstruction
Symbolized the end of the Cold War
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall
Robber Barons during the Gilded Age (list two)
Who is..
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Clay Frick
J.P. Morgan
Henry Ford
Restricted new freedoms of African Americans following the Civil War
What are Black Codes
United States foreign policy during the Cold War
What is Containment
Time period marked by...
Rapid industrialization, Urban growth, Economic change , Corruption and greed and A lot of wealth
What is the Gilded Age
All- Black American women group that distributed mail during WWII
What is the Six Triple Eight Battalion
Presidents exposed in the Pentagon Papers (List 4)
Who is...
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Banned Chinese laborers for 10 years; authorized deportation
(50 bonus points for year)
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
A violent insurrection (uprising) in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787
What is Shay's Rebellion
“Intense political movements between northern and southern states regarding the expansion of slavery" in 1800s
What is the Sectionalism Crisis
American belief that it was their “God-given” right to expand westward and control the entire continent of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny