Unit 1 - American Democracy
This president gave the "Four Score" speech, abolished slavery, and was the 16th president of the U.S. He was assassinated at Ford's Theatre.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
He was an American labor leader, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association.
Who was Cesar Chavez?
The United States took over the building of this modern marvel in 1904, and finished its construction in 1914, thus creating a shortcut from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
In 2009, this president became the first black president in American history.
Who is Barack Obama?
He was a Founding Father and author of the Declaration of Independence, who was the third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This name was given to the laws aimed at enforcing segregation in public places in the United States.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
The largest and oldest civil rights organization founded in 1909.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
This group was behind the plane attacks against the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
What is Al-Qaeda?
The first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional in this legal case.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
He was the President during the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This war occurred from 1914 - 1918.
What is World War I?
The year Christopher Columbus reached the Americas.
What is 1492?
On Dec. 16, 1773, colonists dumped a shipment of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This amendment grants citizenship to all people born in the United States.
What is the 14th amendment?
What plan did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt create to use the government to help regular Americans get back on their feet?
What is the New Deal?
The time period between 1929 and 1939 was an economic shock to most of the world.
What is The Great Depression?
The type of government that exists in the U.S.
What is a democracy?
This document is known as the supreme law of the land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The forced removal of Native Americans from their homeland in the Southeastern part of the U.S. to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This muckraking journalist who tried to bring the public’s attention to social and economic problems in his book, "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
On October 25, 1945, the United States, along with 50 other nations formed this organization.
What is the United Nations?
This event prompted the U.S. to enter World War II.
What was the Bombing of Pearl Harbor?