Reconstruction
Westward Expansion
The Great Depression
WWI and WWII
Post-WWII
100

This war ended in 1865, leading to the Reconstruction Era.

What is the Civil War?

100

This was a law that gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who farmed it for 5 years.

What is the Homestead Act?

100

This event, starting in 1929, caused a severe worldwide economic crisis with many people losing jobs.

What is the Great Depression?

100

This event in 1914 sparked the start of World War I.

What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

100

After WWII, this country became the main rival of the United States in the Cold War.

What is the Soviet Union?

200

This amendment ended slavery in the United States.

What is the 13th Amendment

200

This animal was very important to Native American tribes on the Great Plains, but was hunted almost to extinction.

What is the buffalo?

200

This U.S. president created the New Deal programs to help Americans during the Great Depression.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

200

These two sides fought in World War I: the Allies and the _____.

What are the Central Powers?

200

This term describes the tense political and military rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII.

What is the Cold War?

301

What other groups were discriminated against during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow Era? 

Chinese Americans and Immigrants

American Indian

Mexican Americans

301

This railroad, completed in 1869, connected the East and West coasts of the U.S. and made travel and trade much faster.  

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

301

This natural disaster during the 1930s caused huge dust storms that damaged farms in the Great Plains.

What is the Dust Bowl?

301

The surprise attack on this U.S. naval base in 1941 led the U.S. to enter World War

What is Pearl Harbor?

301

These are the rights that protect people’s freedom and ensure everyone is treated fairly by the government and society.

What are civil rights?

400

This group used violence and fear to stop African Americans from voting during Reconstruction.

Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?

400

Which group of people  were primarily displaced by the Westward Expansion of the United States? 

Native Americans

400

This series of programs and reforms was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help the U.S. recover from the Great Depression.

What is the New Deal?

400

This group, led by Adolf Hitler, was responsible for the genocide of millions during World War II.

What is the Nazis?

400

This African American leader helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and gave the "I Have a Dream" speech.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

500

 This amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States and promised “equal protection under the law.”

What is the 14th Amendment?

500

This Native American leader tried to lead his people to safety in Canada but was captured and famously said, “I will fight no more forever.”

Who is Chief Joseph?

500

This 1935 law provided money to elderly people, unemployed workers, and families with disabilities.

What is the Social Security Act?

500

These two major events in 1945 led to the end of World War II.

What are the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the surrender of Germany?

500

This wall was built in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin and became a symbol of Cold War division.

What is the Berlin Wall?