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This man invented the cotton gin, reinforcing slavery (not his intention)...
Who was Eli Whitney?
The alliance proposed by President Wilson at the end of World War I...the US did not join...
What was the League of Nations?
This amendment gave women the right to vote...
What is the 19th amendment?
The Confederate army never got as far north again after this Civil War turning point battle - it was 3 days and was also the bloodiest battle of the war...
What is Gettysburg?
The first time the colonists acted together in the Revolutionary period...
What was the 1st Continental Congress?
This woman wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Lincoln called her the "little lady who started this great war"...
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The reason the US did not join the League of Nations...
What was the Senate failed to approve it / too much like joining an alliance (cause of the war)?
This US Supreme Court case established "judicial review" and all other cases are based on this principle...
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The program to help Americans get relief from the Great Depression that President F. Roosevelt put in place...
What was the New Deal?
This tract of land was purchased by Jefferson, explored by Lewis, Clark & Sacajawea, and was the largest single addition of land to the US...
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This man was a former slave, encouraged Lincoln to allow freed slaves to serve in the Union army and was a great orator...
Who was Frederick Douglass?
What are nurses in the military and entering the workforce at home?
The amendment that allows the citizens of each state to directly elect their Senators...
What is the 17th amendment?
The rise of black culture through art, music, literature and poetry in the early 1900's in a NYC neighborhood...
This document told Europe that their government was different than the West's; it said stay out of our business in the western hemisphere & that if they didn't, we'd consider it a threat...
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This abolitionist believed slavery went against Christian beliefs and he published the first anti-slavery newspaper - "The Liberator"...
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This World War II battle was a turning point because Japan is prevented from invading Hawaii...
What is Midway?
The US Supreme Court case that said "separate but equal" was legal....even though things were rarely equal...
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for this...
What is being spies for the Soviet Union?
This made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state; it also said no slavery north of the 36'30" latitude line (Missouri's southern border)...
What was the Missouri Compromise OR the Compromise of 1820?
This woman was the leading lady in the fight for women's suffrage...
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
The group of Americans that used their spoken-only language to communicate so that Japan could not break the code...
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
The US Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools...
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In the early to mid-1800s, this policy allowed newly formed states to vote on whether or not slavery would be legal there...
What was popular sovereignty?
Where the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered, ending the Civil War...
Where is Appomattox, VA?