Reconstruction and the Gilded Age
What year did the Reconstruction period begin?
1865
What did the 19th Amendment achieve?
Women's suffrage
What year did the stock market crash, starting the Great Depression?
1929
What policy aimed to stop the spread of communism?
Containment
Which U.S. president resigned due to the Watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Who became president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
Andrew Johnson
Who was president during the start of World War I?
Woodrow Wilson
Who introduced the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which conflict is known as "America's longest war" during the Cold War?
Vietnam War
What landmark event happened on September 11, 2001?
Terrorist attacks
What laws aimed to restrict African American rights in the South?
Black Codes
What was Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" about?
Meatpacking industry
What event led to the U.S. entering World War II?
Pearl Harbor attack
Who was the U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Who was the first African American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
Which 1917 act required men to register for the draft?
Selective Service Act
What was the main purpose of the Lend-Lease Act?
Aid Allies
What did the Marshall Plan provide to Europe?
Economic aid
What year was the Affordable Care Act passed?
2010
Name one of the most famous "Robber Barons."
John D. Rockefeller
What global organization was proposed by Woodrow Wilson?
League of Nations
What was the code name for the Normandy invasion?
D-Day
What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
What major environmental disaster occurred in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico?
Deepwater Horizon oil spill