Misc. History
This was a period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This was the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
What is it is unconstitutional to separate school children by race?
This is opposing armies on land fighting from networks of ditches.
What is trench warfare?
This 1865 constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This person is the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
A. Frederick Douglas B. William Lloyd Garrison C. Sojourner Truth D. Harriet Tubman
Who is Harriet Tubman?
In the 1800s this occupation (job) was possible choice for a woman.
A. doctor B. schoolteacher C. minister D. lawyer
What is a schoolteacher?
Belief that if one Asian nation fell to communism, others would also fall.
What is the domino theory?
World War I is also known as this.
What is the Great War?
This U.S. Supreme Court case stated the "separate but equal" was ok.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson.
This person is known as the first American feminist.
A. Lucretia Mott B. Susan B. Anthony C. Harriet Tubman D. Eleanor Roosevelt
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This is the belief that the United States was set apart to extend its boundaries to the Pacific.
A. America's destiny B. rendezvous C. Manifest Destiny D. joint occupation
What is Manifest Destiny?
The equal rights amendment...
A. passed in 1971 B. was supported by all states C. was never ratified D. became part of the Constitution
What is was never ratified?
Hawaiian seaport that was bombed by the Japanese that caused the United States to join WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This act gave 160 free acres of land to settlers in the west.
This person demanded women's suffrage.
A. Henry David Thoreau B. Maria Mitchell C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
This is the reason that Abraham Lincoln was unable to carry out his Reconstruction plan.
What is he was assassinated?
This is what the NAACP worked to end.
What is segregation?
This is the Japanese prime minister during WWII
A. Calvin Coolidge B. Joseph Stalin C. Hideki Tojo D. Franklin Roosevelt
Who is Hideki Tojo?
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote. (Name the amendment)
A. 14th amendment B. 18th amendment C. 19th amendment D. 21st amendment
What is the 19th amendment?
This person was President of the United States during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is the assembly line and/or Ford Motor Company and the Model A and Model T Fords?
This is the most common form of farm work for freed individuals.
A. pig farming B. corn farming C. sharecropping D. cotton growing
What is sharecropping?
What is the Cold War?
This is the prohibition law (name the amendment).
A. 14th amendment B. 18th amendment C. 19th amendment D. 21st amendment
What is the 18th amendment?
This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
A. Robert E. Lee B. Stephen A. Douglas C. Thomas Jefferson D. Jefferson Davis
Who is Jefferson Davis?