Historic Figures
He was the Father of the Constitution
James Madison
Prohibition became a law under this Amendment
18th Amendment
This was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history
Battle of Antietam
He established the first research laboratory in New Jersey
Thomas Edison
This offered aid to students in exchange for part-time work
NYA
She served as the Secretary of Labor and was the first female cabinet member
Francis Perkins
This Amendment repeals prohibition by the end of 1933
21st Amendment
This was the bloodiest battle in American history
Battle of Gettysburg
Journalists who expose corruption in politics and business are called __________
Muckrackers
The Manhattan Project was the building of what
An atomic bomb
The presidents during the depression
Hoover and FDR
In 1919 Congress passed this Amendment granting women the right to vote
19th Amendment
This ship blows up in Havana Harbor and kills Americans onboard and started the Spanish American War
USS Maine
Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace was known as ______________________
Fourteen Points
When Britain and the US flew supplies, medicine and presents into Berlin
Berlin Airlift
May 20, 1927 he took off from New York in the Spirit of St. Louis
Charles Lindbergh
This trial debates evolution and the role of science and religion in school
Scopes Trial
Nikita Khrushchev sent weapons including nuclear missiles to Cuba in what became known as ____
Cuban Missile Crisis
A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover hunted down communists, socialists and anarchists in what were called the _________________
Palmer Raids
Kent State
In 1867 this person arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
William Seward
This court case allows "separate but equal"
Plessey v. Ferguson
January 16, 1991 ______________ liberates Kuwait from Iraq
Operation Desert Storm
The scandal where Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall leased government oil fields to private companies
Teapot Dome Scandal
Forbids colonists to settle west of the Appalachian mountains
Proclamation of 1763