Caused greater crime and gang activity nationwide.
What is Prohibition?
100
Germany invaded Poland.
What is 1939?
100
A brutal slaughter of Jews and other minorities in WWII.
What is the Holocaust?
100
Journalists and others who worked to expose corruption and poor work environments during the Progressive Era.
What are Muckrakers?
100
"You don't need the vote to raise h***"
Who is Mother Jones?
200
Caused the tainted reputation of President Herbert Hoover.
What is the Great Depression?
200
The year the stock market crashed.
What is 1929?
200
This black man was beaten by police officers in 1991.
Who is Rodney King?
200
A failed attempt to invade Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
"I am not a crook!"
Who is President Nixon?
300
Caused the Dust Bowl
What are dry weather conditions and over-farming of the Midwest?
300
The year Apollo II landed.
What is 1969?
300
The first major school shooting in America.
What is the Kent State Shooting?
300
Appalled and horrified Americans to watch these TV-broadcasted spectacles of Vietnamese individuals protesting American involvement in Vietnam.
What is the suicide burnings of Buddhist Monks?
300
"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
Who is Henry Ford?
400
The reason for anti-communist immigrant hysteria after WWI.
What were the effects of the Russian Revolution?
400
The year Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated.
What is 1968?
400
Young female factory workers died in a much publicized event.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
400
This President is known for being a peace-loving president.
Who is president Woodrow Wilson?
400
"There can be no great accomplishment without risk."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
500
The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What are the effects of Cold War pressures and the Civil Rights Movement?
500
The year The Gospel of Wealth emerged as an alternative to Social Darwinism.
What is 1901?
500
This is the city of the "Children's March," where black children were arrested for marching in the streets, sprayed with fire hoses and attacked by police dogs.
What is Birmingham, Alabama?
500
These women starved themselves in prison to raise awareness for their movement.
Who are suffragists?
500
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."