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Important Events and Ideas of American History
1860 – Present Internet Scavenger Hunt
Use the following events, ideas etc. in order to answer the What Am I Questions.
Each item on the list will only be used once.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
Civil War
13th Amendment
Freedman’s Bureau
14th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
15th Amendment
Great Western Cattle Trail
Chisholm Trail
Black Cowboys of Texas
Spanish American War
Panama Canal
World War I
Lusitania
Treaty of Versailles
Harlem Renaissance
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
New Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
World War II
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Iwo Jima
D-Day
Holocaust
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Atomic Bomb
Rosie the Riveter
Tuskegee Airmen
United Nations
Iron Curtain
Berlin airlift
Korean War
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Brown vs. Board of Education
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Persian Gulf War
Collapse of the Soviet Union
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September 11 Attacks
War on Terrorism
Use the following links to find the answers to the Who Am I Questions.
Civil War
Important African Americans
A Century in Review
World War II
Business and Economics Timeline
World War I
Cold War Museum
Panama Canal
The Chisholm Trail
Civil Rights
Industrial Revolution
Kids.Net
Ask 4 Kids
Fact Monster
Encyclopedia Britannica
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What Am I?
1.) I was opened in 1914 and connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in order to increase
world trade. What am I?
2.) Known at the time as the “War Between the States”, I was fought from 1861 – 1865. What am
I?
3.) We are cities in Japan that were hit by atomic bombs in 1946. What are we?
4.) Beginning in Texas and ending in Kansas, I was the way cowboys took their cows. What am I?
5.) I am a book that was written by Hariett Beecher Stowe in 1850. What am I?
6.) In 2001, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were struck by airplanes.
What am I?
7.) Founded in 1945, this organization helps keep world peace by promoting social progress,
economic development and human rights. What am I?
8.) Montgomery, Alabama was the home of this protest began by Rosa Parks. What am I?
9.) Sunk by the German U-boats, this ship sank with many Americans on board. What am I?
10.) This change to the constitution gave former slaves citizenship. What am I?
11.) This agreement brought the end of World War I. What am I?
12.) The most dangerous weapon ever, this was dropped on two Japanese cities in World War II.
What am I?
13.) Created by Franklin D. Roosevelt, this plan set in motion programs to help get the United States
out of the Great Depression. What am I?
14.) When the United States was attacked on it’s own soil in this city, it entered World War II. What
am I?
15.) This war is still being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also in other places around the world.
What am I?
16.) Nicknamed Black Tuesday, this event marked the beginning of the Great Depression. What am
I?
17.) This landmark civil rights case gave African American students the same rights to education as
white students. What am I?
18.) Abolitionists took over the US Armory in this famous raid. What am I?
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19.) Drought and poor farming practices caused this series of serious dust storms in the Midwest of
the United States. What am I?
20.) This treaty, nicknamed NATO, was signed in 1949, to protect the United States from the Soviet
Union. What am I?
21.) The imaginary wall that separated Europe ideologically from the end of World War II in 1945
until the end of the Cold War in 1991. What am I?
22.) This change to the US Constitution got rid of slavery. What am I?
23.) In this war, the US helped the South Vietnam government fight against the communist
government of North Vietnam. What am I?
24.) Part of the New Deal, this program was started to give jobs to men who were out of work, and
to protect natural resources. What am I?
25.) During this event, Germany isolated and killed Jewish people in the areas it occupied during
World War II. What am I?
26.) These laws brought about segregation and prevented many newly free former slaves from
voting. What am I?
27.) Also known as Desert Storm, this war was fought in Iraq, to keep the Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
What am I?
28.) Starting in 1929, these economic hard times spread world wide. What am I?
29.) Sometimes called the Great War, this war was fought by the United States and her European
allies against Germany, Hungry and Italy in 1918. What am I?
30.) Passed in 1965, this law stopped Jim Crow laws. What am I?
31.) The New Deal started this federally owned corporation to bring electricity to poor areas in
Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and Georgia. What am I?
32.) This battle is often called the turning point of World War II. What am I?
33.) Former slaves would visit this agency to receive aid and education after the Civil War. What am
I?
34.) In this war, the US helped the South Korean government fight against the communist
government of North Korea. What am I?
35.) This change to the constitution allowed people of any race or background to be able to vote.
What am I?
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36.) This was a group of African American pilots who flew during World War II, when the armed
forces were very segregated. What am I?
37.) Passed in 1965, this law prohibited any discrimination in voting registration. What am I?
38.) Fought between the Allied powers and the Axis powers, this war was fought from 1939 until
1945. What am I?
39.) This famous picture of a woman with muscles represented many women who left their homes
to work while men were away at war during World War II. What am I?
40.) This war was fought between Spain and America over the independence of Cuba. What am I?
41.) Started in New York City in the 1920, this cultural movement brought pride to many African
Americans and brought us the work of musicians and writers like Duke Ellington and Langston
Hughes. What am I?
42.) During the Cold War, Americans brought supplies to the people of Berlin in this famous event.
What am I?
43.) Passed in 1964 by Lyndon B. Johnson, this law prohibited segregation in schools, public places
and employment. What am I?
44.) The largest Japanese battle in World War II, this battle was the first American attack on the
home islands. What am I?
45.) This economic and political downfall of one of the largest “nations” had world wide implications.
What am I?
46.) A disagreement between the Soviet Union and America about nuclear weapons in Cuba during
the Cold War. What am I?
47.) Former slaves who herded cattle in the “Wild West” were known by this term. What am I?
48.) Part of the New Deal, this program put millions of people to work, building roads, building
public building and participating in art based programs. What am I?
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