This U.S. Supreme Court case focused on the government's move to put Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II on the basis of national security and military necessity.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
100
This U.S. president was largely blamed for the Great Depression. People living in shantytowns outside cities named the makeshift villages, Hoovervilles, after him.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
This U.S. president championed the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA, a 1993 treaty that lowered tariffs and brought Mexico into the free trade zone established by the United States and Canada.
Who is Bill Clinton?
100
This term refers to powerful industrialists, such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, who ruthlessly drove their competitors out of business, stole from the public and paid their workers low wages, etc.
Who are robber barons?
100
The first term refers to a journalist who exposes illegal business practices, such as when Ida Tarbell wrote about John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil. The second term refers to a practice by journalists to exaggerate the news, such as when they wrote about the Spanish American War.
What is muckraker? What is Yellow Journalism?
200
This Tennessee Supreme Court case focused on the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes (1925)?
200
This U.S. president is largely applauded for helping to end the Great Depression with his New Deal, a program of relief, recovery and reform that put people back to work and resulted in more oversight of business.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
200
These men served as U.S. president during the Cold War, the period from 1945 to 1991.
Who are Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
200
The main reason the United States did not join the League of Nations after World War I. It was the U.S. foreign policy before World War I and World War II started.
What are isolationism and neutrality?
200
After World War I, Americans feared the spread of communism by the Soviet Union and two Italians, Sacco and Vanzetti, became victims of this fear. After World War II, Americans also feared the spread of communism, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg became victims of this fear.
What is the Red Scare?
300
This U.S. Supreme Court case brought an end to legalized segregation. It focused on school desegregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
300
After World War I, this U.S. president stated that "what the nation needs is a return to normalcy." His presidency was plagued by scandal.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
300
This U.S. president was enthusiastic about the idea of America expanding its business influence in Central America and parts of South America in the 1800s.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep peace, such as when France and Britain did to Hitler and Germany.
What is appeasement?
300
A key factor that caused many farmers in the Midwest to leave their farms behind in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl (drought)?
400
This U.S. Supreme Court case gave women the right to have an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy.
What is Roe v. Wade (1973)?
400
This U.S. president was involved in the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
400
This U.S. president instituted a policy called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," concerning the service of homosexuals in the military.
Who is Bill Clinton?
400
This occurs when stronger countries try to overpower weaker countries politically, militarily or economically.
What is imperialism?
400
People born in the United States the first few years after World War II.
Who are Baby Boomers?
500
This U.S. Supreme Court case made segregation or separation of the races legal in public transportation, schools, water fountains, restrooms, etc.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
500
This U.S. president was accused in 2005 of lying to Congress and the American people, stating that Saddam Hussein of Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "He played on our fears!"
Who is George W. Bush?
500
This U.S. president promoted a program in the 1960s called the "Great Society." Its purpose was to end poverty.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
A policy aimed at easing Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia).
What is detente?
500
The day (October 29, 1929) when a fall in stock prices ushered in the Great Depression.