Buying stocks for really cheap and promising to pay the rest later
Buying on margin
100
Patent filed in 1793, separated the usable part of this cash crop from its seeds.
Cotton gin
100
This is the year in which the United States sent 675 Advisers to South Vietnam.
1960
200
Took control in 1924; communist; soviet union
Joseph Stalin
200
Gave the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863
Abraham Lincoln
200
This was the main cause of the stock market crash. It involved buying stocks and hoping they gained value and selling to make a quick profit.
speculating/Overspeculation
200
This invention helped plains farmers declare their property and kept livestock in. Cowboys hated it. It "Divided the Open Range"
Barbed wire invented by Joseph Glidden
200
The President when the Vietnam war started
Dwight D. Eisenhnower
300
What date did the USA enter into WWII officially by declaring War on Japan?
December 8th 1942
300
The president during Operation Desert Storm
George H. W. Bush
300
The year the stock market crashed
1929
300
Invented in 1879, This did a lot to lighten up the lives of people worldwide.
Light bulb invented by Thomas Edison
300
This is the type of warfare used by the Vietcong forces
Guerrilla Warfare
400
Which country was attacked by Germany on September 1, 1939, marking the beginning of WWII? This attack led to Great Britain and France declaring war on Germany
Poland
400
Second president of the United States
John Adams
400
The reporters/activists who sought to make the problems of the depression known.
muckrakers
400
This fully automatic rifle helped the Americans soldiers push back the relentless Viet Cong forces in the Vietnam War.
M-16
400
The approximate number of Vietnamese casualties was
3,000,000
500
Who were the Nisei?
Japanese Americans born in the USA
500
17th president of the United states
Andrew Johnson
500
This conflict created many jobs which brought the USA out of the Great Depression
WWII
500
Invented in 1844, this was used primarily by the North and Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to help speed up communications.