The officers in the Continental Army threaten to rebel against the government because they had not been paid. George Washington convinces them to be patient.
What is the Newburgh Conspiracy
100
This is the year the US entered World War I
What is 1917
100
Name for the Communists in South Vietnam
What is the Viet Cong
100
The most inclusive labor union - admitted women and minorities and unskilled labor
What is the Knights of Labor
100
This 1807 law really hurt the US economy and was shown in a political cartoon with a snapping turtle and the heading "O Grab Me"
What is the Embargo Act
200
The rifles sent to Bleeding Kansas by a New England preacher
What are Beecher's Bibles
200
This sparked World War I
What is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand
200
This authorized Lyndon Johnson to use all necessary force to protect American troops - basically a blank check
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
200
The amendments that started and ended Prohibition
What is the 18th and 21st
200
The general who was fired in the Korean War
Who is MacArthur
300
The 1920s scandal that involved businessmen bribing the Secretary of the Interior to drill into US Oil Reserves.
What is Teapot Dome
300
The starting and ending years of World War I
What are 1914-1918
300
This temporary success by the Communists made the American public doubt the US could win the war
What is the Tet Offensive
300
Lyndon Johnson's program - also called the War on Poverty
What is the Great Society
300
The French ask for a bribe from Americans who went to France to talk to the Foreign Minister about the seizure of American ships by the French.
What is the XYZ Affair
400
A court order to end a strike is called...
What is an injunction
400
What does MANIA stand for?
What is militarism, autocracies, nationalism, imperialism and alliances.
400
Site of the massacre conducted by the US military
What is My Lai
400
The US assisted Cuban rebels, trained in the U.S., in this unsuccessful attempt to overthrow Castro's government.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
400
The three R's of the New Deal they were designed to provide direct aid, improve the economy and prevent another Depression from happening.
What are relief, recovery, and reform
500
The term for the Republican tactic of using the slavery and the Civil War against the South
What is "waving the bloody shirt?"
500
The leader of US forces in World War I
Who is General John Pershing
500
This battle ended French presence in Vietnam
What is Dien Bien Phu
500
These 4 border states allowed slavery but stayed in the Union during the Civil War
What are Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware and Missouri