Period 6 (1865-1898)
Period 7 (1890-1945)
Period 8 (1945-1980)
Period 9 (1980-Present)
Wildcard
200
Controlling every step of production for a single product (best represented by Andrew Carnegie's steel business).
What is vertical integration?
200
The U.S. military's strategy for victory in the Pacific during WWII.
What is island hopping?
200
Domino Theory, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, and the Tet Offensive are all connected with this conflict.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
This president was the second president ever to be impeached.
Who is Bill Clinton?
200
The 16th president of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
"Yellow dog contracts" were used by businesses to limit the influence of these organizations.
What are labor unions?
400
The image above was linked to this sensationalized trial in the 1920s.
What is the Scopes (Monkey) Trial?
400
While the Berlin Wall was the source of much controversy in the 1960s, Berlin was also the source of this earlier Cold War standoff in 1949.
What is the Berlin Blockade/Airlift?
400
This president was the third president to be impeached.
Who is Donald Trump?
400
This doubled the size of the continental United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
600
We have the railroad industry, not the government, to thank for creating four of these for the entire country.
What are time zones?
600
The novel pictured above led to the passage of this federal regulatory law (and almost convinced Teddy Roosevelt to become a vegetarian).
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
600
This landmark supreme court case overturned the "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
600
While the Soviet Union stuck around for a bit longer, the collapse of this structure is often seen as a symbolic end to the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin wall?
600
Trust-busting Bull Moose.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
800
The NYC-based political machine being satirized in this political cartoon.
What is Tammany Hall?
800
December 7th, 1941 is forever known as a "day which will live in infamy" due to this event.
What is Pearl Harbor?
800
The leaking of these documents to the New York Times confirmed many Americans' suspicions that the government was lying to them about Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
800
This terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.
What is Al Qaeda?
800
War instigated by President James K. Polk.
What is the Mexican-American War?
1000
President Arthur passed this major reform law in 1883 to curtail patronage/the spoils system's influence on federal jobs.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
1000
This WWI-era supreme court decision led to a rare restriction on first amendment rights, stating that your freedom of speech can be limited if it creates a "clear and present danger."
What is Schenk v. United States?
1000
This strategy helped Nixon and the Republicans win the presidency in 1968 by courting former Democrats who left the party over civil rights issues.
What is the southern strategy?
1000
Ronald Reagan was criticized for his lack of response to this health crisis in the 1980s.
What is the AIDS epidemic?
1000
The number of documents you need to cite and explain to get full credit for evidence on a DBQ (not PPHA/HIPPO).
What is four?