One of the reasons the Depression became worse in the early 1930s is because President Hoover was given flawed advice about how to handle this.
What is the economy?
100
Square Deal
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
In 1957, the Soviets launched this into space, sparking a space race with the US.
What is Sputnik?
100
As women became more active in the abolitionist movement and creating settlement houses, they acquired leadership skills which they applied to this movement which ended in victory in 1920.
What is suffrage?
100
This 1896 case legalized the idea of seperate but equal, especially in the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
The overplowing of millions of acres of land in the Midwest made this Depression event inevitable.
What is the Dust Bowl?
200
Détente with China
Who is Nixon?
200
This US foreign policy prompted us to fight a war in Vietnam (thus stopping the spread of communism in Southeast Asia).
What is the domino theory?
200
In 1877, the army chased the Nez Perce Indians into Canada. Their main motivation was to take this valuable resource from the Nez Perce.
What is their land?
200
In 1925, this trial became a battleground between evolutionists and creationists.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
300
Buying things on margin is an action that most likely would have been performed by a person in this profession in the 1920s (but not in the 1930s)?
What is a stock broker?
300
Marshall Plan for Europe
Who is Harry Truman?
300
This city experienced an airlift in the 1940s and a wall in the 1960s.
What is Berlin?
300
This reform effort, which began around 1890, worked to improve working conditions for the working class (TR became a major contributor).
What is the Progressive Movement?
300
Radio is to the 1920s as these are to the 1990s
What are computers?
400
The banking crisis in 2008 did not lead to the collapse of America's banks due, in part, to this New Deal banking concept which protects personal savings.
What is the FDIC or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
400
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Who is Jimmy Carter?
400
This late 1940s plan extended billions in economic aid to Western Europe and helped to contain communism from spreading beyond the iron curtain.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
The invention of the steamboat as part of the Market Revolution was significant because it allowed Southern farms and Northern industrialists to do this rapidly?
What is get their products to a market (store)?
400
America did not get involved in WWII immediately because the majority of Americans favored this foreign policy.
What is isolationism?
500
The New Deal provided job and electricity to millions of people in the South as a result of this program.
What is the TVA or Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
Conservative supported by the New Right
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
This 1968 surprise attack by the North Vietamese was the turning point of the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
500
From 1812-1814 the US fought its second war of independence (or the War of 1812) against this nation.
What is Britain?
500
In the early 1960s, SNCC used this non-violent tactic to force the integration of lunch counters in North Carolina.