Germany's unrestricted use of submarine warfare, Zimmerman telegram and sinking of the Lusitania.
What is World War I?
100
These "laws" required blacks and whites to attend separate schools in the Reconstruction South.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
100
This 1837 innovation united the country by making business, military and personal communication faster and easier.
What is the telegraph?
100
This type of information is created at or near the time of an historical event by someone who observed the event first hand. Examples include newspaper articles, census records, letters, diaries etc.
What is a Primary Source?
200
1787
What is the Constitution is ratified?
200
Major turning point of World War II in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
200
The literacy test, poll tax and grandfather clause were all aimed at denying African Americans this--
What is the right to vote?
200
This discovery made life more convenient; less expensive than wood and coal
What is electricity?
200
This type of information that provides an event after sometime has passed. Examples: history books, reference books.
What is a Secondary source?
300
1861-65
What are the years of the Civil War?
300
Sinking of the USS Maine was the cause of this War.
What is the Spanish-American War?
300
Unsanitary living conditions, inadequate ventilation in houses and crime were all problems that arose from this--
What is overcrowding in cities?
300
This discovery made possible the development of many modern products such as fertilizer, medicines, and plastics.
What are Fossil Fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)?
300
This term refers to prejudices, stereotypes or distortions of fact expressed in a source of information. Examples: exaggeration and opinions disguised as fact.
What is bias?
400
1898
What is the Spanish American War?
400
The primary goal of this Program, was to help restore economic stability in Western Europe following World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
This court case said that "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
Advances in this industry improved public health, decreased infant mortality rate and increased life expectancy.
What is Medicine?
400
This 1619 legislative body was the first representative legislature in the English colonies. Representatives immediately began to enact laws and safeguard individual rights.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
500
1914-18
What is World War I?
500
This supreme Allied commander during World War II would later became the 34th President of the United States.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
500
This was the main cause for growth of cities at the end of 19th century.
What is Industrialization?
500
This innovation enables fast storage, retrieval and manipulation of data; simplified complex calculations.
What are computers?
500
This amendment safeguards the powers of the states; "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states."