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100
This president gave a farewell address which urged the USA to stay out of foreign affairs and not create Political Parties.
Who is George Washington
100
It was actually the form of government before the US Constitution. However, it did not work because the states were too strong and the federal government had no power to collect taxes and pay off debts.
What are the Articles of Confederation
100
This form of transportation was created during Manifest Destiny to connect the East Coast to the West Coast. Chinese people and Irish people helped to build it.
What is the "Transcontinental" Railroad?
100
President Andrew Jackson removed this group of people based on one of his acts. In turn, these people walked along the Trail of Tears to the West while white settlers took their land.
Who are Native Americans?
100
This area of colonies was known for growing Cash Crops on Plantations
What are the Southern Colonies?
200
This President was known as the "trustbuster" in that he signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act against monopolies and made it a law.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
200
The phrase "consent of the governed" comes from THIS document written by Thomas Jefferson. it means the government gets its powers from the vote of the people.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
200
This device was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. It led to the surrender of Japan.
What is the atomic bomb
200
This court case reinforced the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT, meaning that even if slaves ran away to the North and lived there for a period of time, slaves could still be brought back to the South and controlled by their owners.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
200
These two muckrakers wrote about the filth in the meatpacking industry and the squalid conditions of tenements for immigrants.
Who are Jacob Riis (Tenements) and Upton Sinclair (Meatpacking)
300
This man was President at the beginning of World War II. In addition, he also created New Deal legislation to aid people during the Great Depression.
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt
300
The Anti-Federalists would not sign the Constitution of the United States because they feared personal freedoms would be taken away. The Federalists added THIS SECTION of the Constitution to get Anti-Federalists to sign it.
What are the Bill of Rights?
300
During America's Age of Imperialism, this waterway was constructed through Panama to create a quicker path between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, especially considering the number of naval bases.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Despite the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment, blacks still were affected negatively by Jim Crow laws. Name the Jim Crow laws by their proper title, which made black people have to read properly to vote, pay in order to vote, and get seperated from white people.
What are Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and Segregation.
300
This President founded the Peace Corps in the 1960's. In addition, he urged Cuban Rebels to fight against Castro, with the help of the CIA, in the Bay of Pigs invasion. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?
400
This president is responsible for enforcing the Patriot Act of 2001, which allows government agencies to spy on its citizens without a warrant in order to stop terrorism.
Who is President George W. Bush.
400
This part of the Unwritten Constitution allows the President to add THIS GROUP of advisors including the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Education.
What is the Cabinet?
400
Henry Ford created the first of these in America, termed a Model T, which allowed people to move out to the suburbs during the 1950s.
What is an automobile?
400
Define the main ideas of these four amendments. The 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th
13th- Slavery is abolished. 14th- Blacks are citizens or Equal Protection 15th- Black males can vote 19th- Women can vote
400
This case of the Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, grants rights to criminals by saying that police must read them rights when being arrested.
What is "Miranda?"
500
This is one of our most famous presidents who signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and created a program to get people out of poverty called "The Great Society."
Who is President Lyndon Johnson.
500
There are two major compromises that led to the creation of the Constitution. One of them led to a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives based on population and a Senate based on equality. The other compromise stated that five slaves count as three people for the purpose of representation in the house. These are the names of the two compromises.
What are the Great Compromise and the 3/5ths Compromise.
500
During the Space Race, rocket technology helped to place a man on the moon. Name one other piece of technology that resulted from the Space Race other than rocket technology.
What are on board computers, laptops, GPS devices, etc...
500
This act, passed by President Barack Obama, allows women to earn equal pay for equal work in private companies.
What is the Lily Ledbetter Act?
500
There are five presidents who lost the popular vote but ended up winning the electoral college and, subsequently, the Presidency. Name two of them.
John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.