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What are the Federalist Papers
Series of essays written in support of ratification of the US Constitution
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What is urbanization?
The growth of cities
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What is the New Deal?
Name of FDR's plan to help the American people through the Great Depression.
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What is the Korean War?
1950's Cold War conflict, in which America became militarily involved to prevent the spread of communism below the 38th parallel.
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Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
African American Civil Rights leader who promoted peaceful protests and civil disobedience.
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What are checks and balances?
The idea that government power will be divided and that each of the 3 branches will keep one another in their place.
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What is the New Colossus?
Poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
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What is The Manhattan Project?
Plan that led to the development of the Atomic Bomb.
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What is Sputnik?
Soviet satellite that triggered the Space Race between the US and the Soviets.
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What is Brown vs. The Board of Education Topeka, Kansas?
Landmark Supreme Court case that led to the desegregation of Public Education.
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
Name given to America's first official government.
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What are push factors?
Issues/factors that cause someone to leave their home country
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Who is Harry S. Truman?
US President who authorized the use of the Atomic Bomb.
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What is the Great Society?
LBJ's social/economic plan of the 1960's.
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Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Name given to the students protected by federal troops while attending Central High School, in Little Rock Arkansas.
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What is Federalism?
Term used to define the division of power between the national and state governments.
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What is Hull House?
Jane Addams work that attempted to address the social problems of urban living.
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What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Name of Japanese cities the US utilized the atomic bombs on (2 cities required)
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What is the Great Recession?
Name given to explain America's economic condition in 2008-2009.
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What is Montgomery?
Alabama city where Rosa Parks and fellow supporters of African American Civil Rights boycotted public buses.
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What is 1788?
The year that the Constitution was ratified.
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What is nativism?
Belief that "American born" citizens were superior to immigrants.
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What is the Holocaust?
The mass extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany.
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Who are Bush and Obama?
The two Presidents during the Great Recession. (Requires 2 answers)
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Who is Justice Earl Warren?
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the Brown vs. The Board of Ed case
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