Group of people who want to illegaly control the government
What is a politcal machine?
100
Dropped to atomic bombs to end the war and save American lives.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
Year the Stock Market crashed and the Great Depression hit America.
What is 1929?
100
Created the Model T and gave us the ability and idea to mass produce goods with an assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
Amendment allowing black men to vote, but not black women.
What is the 15th amendment?
200
Famous leader of a political machine who worked out of Tammany Hall.
Who is Marcy "Boss" Tweed?
200
General in charge of D-Day (Normandy).
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
200
Year of the Spanish-American War
What is 1898?
200
Policy to open ports to China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
300
Amendment allowing 18 year olds the right to vote due to the Vietnam Conflict.
What is the 26th amendment?
300
Drew pictures of Boss Tweed to show New Yorkers how corrupt he was.
Who is Thomas Nast?
300
General in charge of the Pacific Ocean and then during the 1950s "Cold War" era was in Far Asia to contain Communism.
Who is General MacArthur?
300
Year the Russian Satellite orbits the earth and this increases the "space race".
What is 1957?
300
Court case involving reverse discrimination.
What is Regents of the University of CA v. Bakke (1978)?
400
Amendment giving ALL women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
President who built the Panama Canal to make more money in Central America. It changed the world's transportation, communication and economic systems.
Who is President Teddy Roosevelt?
400
General Eisenhower's eyes and ears for WWII. He was not behind the war. He believed it was "the wrong war at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy".
Who is Omar Bradley?
400
Year the era of Reconstruction ended when the North pulled out South.
What is 1877?
400
In 1887 the government decided to regulate the railroad system.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
500
Amendment allowing the people of Washington DC the right to vote.
What is the 23rd amendment?
500
President who gave the Panama canal to the Panama people to avoid conflict.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
500
Known for being able to gather large forces of soldiers together with little notice.