Civ

Question 1

What important thing did Abraham Lincoln do?

Answer 1

Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation declared the freedom of slaves in Confederate states.

Question 2

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Answer 2

• freed the slaves
• freed slaves in Confederate states
• freed slaves in most Southern states

Question 3

What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Answer 3

• fought for women’s rights
• fought for civil rights

Question 4

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.

Answer 4

• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• (Persian) Gulf War

Question 5

Who was President during World War I?

Answer 5

(Woodrow) Wilson

Question 6

Who was President during the Great Depression and World War II?

Answer 6

(Franklin) Roosevelt

Question 7

Who did the United States fight in World War II?

Answer 7

• Japan
• Germany
• Italy

Question 8

Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?

Answer 8

World War II

Question 9

During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?

Answer 9

Communism

Question 10

What movement tried to end racial discrimination?

Answer 10

civil rights (movement)

Question 11

What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do?

Answer 11

• fought for civil rights
• worked for equality for all Americans

Question 12

What major event happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States?

Answer 12

Terrorists attacked the United States.

Question 13

Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.

Answer 13

• Cherokee
• Navajo
• Sioux
• Chippewa
• Choctaw
• Pueblo
• Apache
• Iroquois
• Creek
• Blackfeet
• Seminole
• Cheyenne
• Arawak
• Shawnee
• Mohegan
• Huron
• Oneida
• Lakota
• Crow
• Teton