Unit 1: Creation of a Nation
This was the date the Declaration of Independence was formally approved.
When is July 4th, 1776?
The number of planes that were hijacked during the 9/11 Terror Attacks.
What is Four planes?
What are/is Four?
A time period after the Civil War where America entered an era of economic growth and expansion.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This is the year that America entered into WWI.
When is 1917?
Built by Henry Ford, this was the first affordable car for the average working class family.
What is the Model T?
What is the Model T Ford?
The Main Author of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Who is James Madison?
This person was in charge of planning/carrying out the 9/11 Terror Attacks.
Who is Osama Bin Laden?
Who is Bin Laden?
A "new" technology completed in 1869, physically connected the East and West coasts of the U.S.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This person ran on the slogan, "He kept us out of War!" during the 1916 Presidential election.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This Law banned the production, importation, sale and transportation of alcohol within the U.S.
What is Prohibition?
What is the 18th Amendment?
A series of 85 essays which defended the US Constitution to the American Public.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This was the longest war in American history, fought as a direct result of 9/11.
What is the War in Afghanistan?
What is the Afghanistan War?
This American ship exploded in Havana Harbor in Cuba in 1898, starting the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This socialist leader distributed over 15,000 pamphlets titled, "Assert Your Rights" urging men to protest the draft during WWI.
Who is Charles Schenck?
This was the first person to solo-fly across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris, in 1928.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
The First System of Government in American History, which was in use from 1777-1787.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This is the group who is currently ruling over Afghanistan.
Who are the Taliban?
What are the Taliban?
The first "progressive" president, who's "Square-Deal" policies were aimed at helping average Americans.
This U.S. law made it illegal to publicly protest or speak against the American war efforts during WWI.
What is the Espionage/Sedition Acts?
This was the nickname given to Homeless camps across the U.S. during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
The group of colonists who met in Philadelphia to discuss the issues with the British Government.
Who are the Continental Congress?
The number of victims killed during the 9/11 Terror Attacks.
What is 3,000?
What is 2,996?
This photographer took pictures across the U.S. for the National Child Labor Committee.
Who is Lewis Hine?
This was the Federal Organization tasked with creating Propaganda during WWI.
What is the CPI?
What is the Committee on Public Information?
During this event, a Biology teacher from Tennessee was put on trial for teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?