What is the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama?
100
This court case that stated that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
The Progressive Era reform that provides a way to remove elected officials from office.
What is recall?
200
He founded the company Microsoft.
Who is Bill Gates?
200
The amendment that lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
200
The year that the Spanish-American War was fought.
What is 1898?
200
This law banned discrimination and segregation in public accommodations, housing, businesses, etc.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
This agreement calls for free trade between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
300
The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
300
The amendment that made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
This battle was a turning point in the Pacific for the U.S. during World War II.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
The decision in the Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter was this.
What is that the University of Texas Law School had to allow African Americans to enroll.
300
It was a plan put together by Republican candidates for the House of Representatives in 1994 in order to convince voters to elect them instead of Democrats.
What is the Contract with America?
400
The two lawyers involved in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Who are William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow?
400
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were enacted to give rights to this group.
What is former slaves (African Americans)?
400
The strategy of providing billions of dollars in financial aid to Europe after World War II to help rebuild countries' economies and keep them from becoming Communist.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
The Supreme Court decision that stated that students do not lose their 1st Amendment rights in school, and that schools must prove conduct must “materially and substantially interfere” with the operation of the school before it can be banned.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
400
The first Hispanic female member of the Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
500
The first female member of the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O' Connor?
500
The amendment that has been used to apply the Bill of Rights to the states and has been used to ensure that state do not violate people's rights and provides for due process.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
In 1979, over 40 Americans were taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in this country.
What is Iran?
500
The name of the law that guarantees women equal access to various opportunities (especially sports) in schools and colleges.
What is Title IX?
500
The name of the program during World War II that developed the atomic bomb.