(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956
A nationwide infrastructure project to build a network of highways to allow the US government to move federal troops around in the event of war.
Northwest Ordinance 1787
The only major success of the Articles of Confederation, which organized the territories that could later apply for statehood into the Union. The ordinance established civil liberties and public education within the new territories, but did not a
18th Amendment
Prohibition that banned the production and transportation of alcoholic beverages around the United States
Chinese exclusion act
A discriminatory act against Chinese immigrants in the US, which prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the US, and saw discrimination in the US.
Patriot act
Gave the federal government the power to wiretap and listen to US citizens with the purpose of preventing terrorism acts in the US.
Reconstruction
A period following after the Civil War that saw Northern troops in the south that enforced the new rights of African Americans passed by Radical Republicans in the North.
Bill of rights
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution were written to protect the liberties and rights of citizens of the United States.
Lend lease act
Act that loaned supplies to the allies in WW2 exchange for military bases for the US.
Mcculloch vs. Maryland
Established the precedent that state governments cannot tax federal agencies.
26th amendment
The right given to 18 year olds to vote in all elections, federal, state and county wide.
19th Amendment
Women’s suffrage, gave women the right to vote.
Progressive era
A time of significant social change that was led by the federal government to improve the nation. The main leaders would be Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow Wilson. Other reformers include Jane Addams and Upton Sinclair.
laissez faire economics
An ideology that emphasized a lack of government intervention in the economy, regardless of the health of the economy.
War on Drugs
The global effort was mainly fought by the US to combat the growing drug abuse in the US. The combat strategies were through military aid and intervention in other nations while also creating the DEA (drug enforcement agency).
Tonkin Gulf resolution
An emergency bill passed by Congress that allowed President Lyndon Johnson to send US troops. The bill was prompted by the attack of a US warship in the Tonkin Gulf in Vietnam.
Missouri compromise
An agreement by congress to implement Missouri into the US as a slave state in exchange for Maine becoming an independent state and that no slave state can be north of the 36 '30'’ line. It was later proven to be unconstitutional.
Federal Bank
Created by Alexander Hamilton it consolidated the national debt, established tariffs, and supported northern commerce.
Constitution
A new legal document that was written to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more powerful federal government that could maintain stability.
Articles of Confederation
A loose confederation containing the 13 colonies in the postwar era of the revolutionary war, that could not tax the colonies or have a standing army. The federal power was weaker than the states.
13th Amendment
Abolished the institution of slavery in the United States, marked the start of reconstruction.
NASA
Set up by a federal government to explore the universe and a political victory over the USSR. Supported heavily by JFK. The program succeeded in reaching space and continues today.
Marshall plan
A US economic plan to send US monetary aid to Europe to prevent a turn of countries to communism. Two countries that benefited from this are Greece and Turkey.
Marbury vs. Madison
Established the power of judicial review for the US supreme court allowing the highest court of the nation to declare if an act by the legislative or executive branch is constitutional.
Mccarthyism
Also known as the second red scare, led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, it emphasized spreading fear of alleged communist and accusations of such communists. It was a political move to gain fame by McCarthy under the guise of rooting out communists.
Brown vs. Board of Education
US supreme court decision that decided segregation in schools was unconstitutional which then President Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce that decision.
