Reconstruction Era
This president was assassinated at the end of the Civil War.
Who was President Lincoln?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
This was a worldwide economic crisis that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939.
What is the Great Depression?
This is the beginning of the Declaration of Independence.
What is the preamble?
This is the smallest state in the US (by land area).
What is Rhode Island?
This set of state and local laws enforced racial segregation and discrimination against Black Americans.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
This woman was a leading figure in the 19th-century women's rights movement, most notably for her role in organizing the Seneca Falls Convention. She co-authored the "Declaration of Sentiments."
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This was a series of government programs created by President Roosevelt to provide economic relief for Americans.
What was Roosevelt’s New Deal programs?
This number of states seceded from the Union.
What is 11 states?
This man was the tallest US President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the political party that black men primarily voted for once they had the right to vote.
What is the Republican party? Newly enfranchised black men in the South cast 700,000 votes for the Republican ticket.
This woman was one of the founding members of the NAACP and a prominent anti-lynching activist.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
This is when the stock market crashed.
What is October 1929? Triggering a crisis in the international economy.
This amendment gives all men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The passage of this act came down to one vote.
What is the 19th Amendment? It came down to one one representative from in Tennessee who flipped his vote. Harry T. Burn voted to pass it because of a letter from his mother asking him to be a “good old boy” and grant her the right.
Reconstruction policies officially end in this year.
What was 1877?
This woman co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to push for a national constitutional amendment.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
From 1900 to 1920, this many immigrants arrived to the US during what is known as the “Great Wave.”
What is nearly 24 million immigrants?
This state abstained from voting for independence.
Who is New York?
During the Great Depression, this game was wildly popular for children and families because of low operating costs.
What is miniature golf?
Republican-led Congress passes this Bill, prohibiting segregation in public facilities. The law will stand only until 1883.
What was the Civil Rights Bill of 1875?
This woman was a key strategist in public campaigns to pass the 19th Amendment. She co-founded the National Woman's Party (NWP) with Lucy Burns.
Who was Alice Paul?
Before the Great Depression, the United States Congress passed this act. The act set quotas, with a specific number of visas available each year for each country.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This is what the "last full measure of devotion" refers to in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
What is the willingness to die for the cause?
In 1961, this state was almost accidentally nuked when a B52 bomber crashed carrying two 4 megaton warhead bombs, each of which are about 200 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. On one of the bombs, four of the five failsafes had failed.
What is North Carolina?