Unit 1
Map that shows country, state, or county boundaries
What is political map.
War fought between British and French troops that kicked off over disputed land in the Ohio River Valley.
What is French and Indian War.
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
What is the Bill or Rights.
Who did we purchase the Louisiana Purchase?
What is France.
Some causes of this event include the stock market crash of 1929, bank failures, overproduction in agriculture and industry, and high unemployment rates.
What is the Great Depression.
This 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation laws under the doctrine of “separate but equal,” legally allowing discrimination in public facilities.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This global conflict, lasting from the late 1940s to the early 1990s, involved political and military tension primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct large-scale fighting between the two superpowers.
What is the Cold War?
Map that shows election results by state
What is thematic map
This economic theory held that colonies existed to benefit the mother country by supplying raw materials and serving as a market for finished goods.
What is Mercantilism.
This invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 made cotton more profitable and led to the expansion of slavery in the South.
What is the Cotton Gin.
Before World War I, this industry was crucial in connecting the country, promoting trade, and encouraging westward expansion in the United States.
What are Railroads
Passed in 1930, this tariff raised U.S. import taxes to record levels, worsening international trade during the Great Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Founded in 1909, this organization worked to fight racial discrimination and challenged segregation laws through legal cases and advocacy.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union avoided direct conflict but supported opposing sides in these kinds of localized wars, such as those in Korea and Vietnam.
What are proxy wars?
A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination
What is an indentured servant.
These 1767 laws placed taxes on imported goods like glass, paper, paint, and tea—and led to widespread boycotts by the American colonists.
What are the Townshend Acts
This religious group was one of the first to publicly oppose slavery in the American colonies, believing it was morally wrong and against their faith.
What is the Quakers.
After the Civil War, Southern states used these laws to criminalize unemployment and homelessness, leading to the arrest of many Black men who were then forced into labor building railroads and other projects.
What are vagrancy laws?
This series of programs and reforms, launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform to the United States during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
During the Vietnam War, this form of artistic expression became a powerful tool for protest, with songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Fortunate Son” criticizing the war and inspiring the anti-war movement.
What is protest music?
The British East India company is an example of this...
What is a joint stock company.
What geographical boundary did the Proclamation Line of 1763 run along?
What is the Appalachian Mountains.
This candidate’s victory in 1860, without any support from Southern states, led to the immediate secession of several Southern states.
What is Abraham Lincoln
Completed in 1869, this railroad connected the East and West coasts, leading to faster transportation, increased trade, and the rapid settlement of the American West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad.
These informal radio broadcasts by FDR helped reassure the American public and explain his policies during the Great Depression.
What are Fireside Chats?
The resistance to integrating this Arkansas high school in 1957 forced the federal government to send troops to uphold a Supreme Court ruling on public school segregation.
What is Central High School?
This 1957 Soviet achievement, launching the first artificial satellite into orbit, sparked the beginning of the Space Race between the United States and the USSR.
What is Sputnik?
Someone leaving their country of origin would be considered this.
What is an Emigrant
One of the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation was that Congress could not enforce its laws because it lacked this essential component of government
What is an executive branch.
In this 1857 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This 1917 German policy, which proposed a military alliance with Mexico against the United States, helped push the US to enter World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This 1944 act not only increased higher education enrollment and homeownership among veterans but also contributed to widening racial disparities, as many minority veterans faced barriers accessing its benefits
What is the GI Bill.
This set of domestic programs, launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice through initiatives like Medicare, Medicaid, and education reform.
What is the Great Society?
Despite their critical contributions to U.S. space efforts during the Cold War, the women featured in Hidden Figures faced this system of legally enforced racial segregation that limited their access to equal facilities and opportunities.
What is Jim Crow?