A Puritan who believed in liberty of conscience and founded a permanent settlement in Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
100
Originally meant to secure a railroad's passage through Chicago, it eventually undermined the delicate compromise achieved over sectional tensions.
What is the Nebraska-Nebraska Act (1854)?
100
Roger Taney's leadership of the Supreme Court resulted in this controversial decision, which contributed to causing the Civil War.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford?
100
Acquisition of this territory resulted in a newly re-ignited controversy over slavery and its expansion during the antebellum period.
What is the Mexican Cession?
100
Filled with tents and make-shift homes, these were a prominent feature of the Great Depression landscape.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
The major events of his administration were the Teapot Dome Scandal and the Washington Naval Conference.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
200
A retaliatory measure passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, it contributed to the tensions between the colonists and Great Britain.
What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
200
Direct election of U.S. Senators, nationalization of the railroad industry, and an income tax were all part of the political agenda of this party.
What is the Populist Party?
200
This was a primary cause of the 2nd American War for Independence, which itself led to this.
What are impressment and the Era of Good Feelings?
200
One of the first and most vocal college groups during the 1960s that led the anti-war movement.
What is SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)?
300
When did he make his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"
Who is Jonathan Edwards during the First Great Awakening?
300
It requires the President to inform Congress within 48 hours of troop deployment abroad.
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
300
She challenged the traditional ethos of the cult of domesticity and signaled an new era for the women's liberation movement.
Who is Betty Friedan?
300
This, along with neutrality violations by the German U-boats, was a primary reason for US entry into World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
300
This was the first state to grant women suffrage.
What is Wyoming?
400
His "Atlanta Compromise" advocated for pursuing an economic route to equality and cooperation with supportive whites toward integration.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
It was a secret document that called for tremendous increases in military expenditures and a re-evaluation of American military posture.
What is NSC-68?
400
A riot that signaled the death of the Knights of Labor and led many Americans to associate labor unions with socialists and anarchists.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
This is the underlying logic of deterrence, which prevented all-out nuclear exchanges between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War.
What is M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)?
400
His innovations in tobacco growing and harvesting propelled the Chesapeake into a labor-intensive, slavery-oriented, agrarian economy.
Who is John Rolfe?
500
Her work in opposition to the feminist movement partially contributed to the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
500
Passed in 1830, this law signaled a shift in United States policy toward Native Americans.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
500
It was the first time the federal government took a direct role in influencing immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
500
The Quasi-War with France led to the passage of this legislation (the first of two such instances in all of U.S. History).
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
500
The Fall of France and the Battle of Britain contributed to the passage of this act, a decisive end to American neutrality and isolationism.