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Very Important People
World Wars
Amendments
Academic Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
He was the first African American President elected in the United States
Who is Barack Obama?
100
This was the result of the use of trench warfare, machine guns, and other new technology during World War I.
What is a stalemate?
100
This amendment guarantees women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
100
This event, lasting from 1945 until 1989, was an ideological battle between communism and democracy.
What is the Cold War?
200
This woman established Hull House to help the poor immigrants of Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
This was the naval base that was attacked that led to the entry of the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
This amendment was frequently used during the Civil Rights movement to guarantee citizens equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
A non-violent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.
What is civil disobedience?
200
The expansion of this transportation system helped bring settlers to the West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
300
This American President sponsored the creation of the Peace Corps and boosted the US into the Space Race?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
300
This new weapon was used by President Harry Truman to end World War II.
What is the atomic bomb?
300
This amendment was passed as a response to Franklin Roosevelt's frequent re-election as President.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
300
Laws forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
What is prohibition?
300
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court said that segregation was legal as long as it met this criteria.
What is "separate but equal"?
400
This African-American woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
This battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific during World War II.
What is the battle of Midway?
400
This amendment changed the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
400
To absorb or adopt one group into the culture of another
What is assimilation?
400
This territory became a state after American plantation owners brought about the overthrow of the queen.
What is Hawaii?
500
This man was the Supreme Commander of the Allied troops at the D-Day invasion and was later elected President in 1952.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
This was the strategy used by the Allied forces during World War II to gain control of the Pacific and push back the Japanese.
What is "island-hopping"?
500
This amendment provided for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
500
The movement of people from rural areas to the cities
What is urbanization?
500
The case of Schenck v. the United States ruled that the first amendment did not protect words that met this guideline.
What is "clear and present danger"?