Foundations of US Government
What document, written in 1787, established the framework for the United States government?
What is the U.S. Constitution?
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
What is slavery/states' rights?
Which term describes a hands-off approach to government regulation of business?
What is laissez-faire?
What is the term for the U.S. policy of avoiding involvement in foreign affairs before World War I?
What is isolationism?
Which Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Which principle of government divides power between the national and state governments?
What is federalism?
What declaration freed slaves in Confederate states during the Civil War?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who was the business leader known for controlling the oil industry?
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Which war in 1898 resulted in the U.S. gaining control of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico?
What is the Spanish-American War?
Who delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
What compromise during the Constitutional Convention resolved how slaves would be counted for taxation and representation?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What law was passed in 1890 to limit monopolies and promote fair competition?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What U.S. policy aimed to prevent the spread of communism after World War II?
What is containment?
What 1965 law outlawed literacy tests and increased African American voter registration?
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Which series of essays supported ratification of the Constitution and argued for a strong central government?
What are the Federalist Papers?
What laws were passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans after the Civil War?
What are Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws?
What movement aimed to address problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and corruption?
What is the Progressive Movement?
What was the name of the plan to provide economic aid to Western Europe after WWII?
What is the Marshall Plan?
What form of protest, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and used by civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., involves the nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws?
Civil Disobedience
Which 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review?
Which 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review?
What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau during Reconstruction?
What is to assist formerly enslaved people with education, jobs, and legal support?
What journalist exposed the conditions of tenement housing in his book “How the Other Half Lives”?
Who is Jacob Riis?
What Cold War conflict ended in a stalemate and the division of the country at the 38th parallel?
What is the Korean War?
What U.S. president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?