U.S. History

Thomas Jefferson bought a huge territory from France (it doubled the size of the United States).

The US gained new territory and also New Orleans (an important port on the Gulf of Mexico), as well as control of the Mississippi River (important for the transportation of goods and people).

This is known as:

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Civil War

• Louisiana Purchase

• War of 1812

In 1896, the Supreme Court upheld [supported] Southern segregation laws in which court case?

They said that “separate but equal” facilities were legal.

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Roe vs. Wade

• Marbury vs. Madison

This idea is also known as “survival of the fittest" and said that the rich were rich because they deserved to be rich (they were the “fittest”), while the poor were blamed for being poor

• Individualism

• Structuralism

• Social Darwinism

• Socialism

After WWI ended, President Wilson presented a set of guidelines for world peace. What is this called?

• Democracy for All

• Fourteen Points for Peace

• Wilson's Peace

• World Peace Guidelines

In order to build the first atomic bomb, what was the name of the top-secret program that the government pursued?

• Albany Project

• Washington Project

• Brooklyn Project

• Manhattan Project