Fear and Loathing
Fight for Your Right
Warring Factions
World Wide
Cultural Bias
100
During this period the US adopted immigration restrictions, prosecuted Sacco and Vanzetti and adopted an isolationist foreign policy.
What is the 1920s?
100
This union, run by Samuel Gompers, focused on the needs of skilled workers with an emphasis on improving working conditions and raising wages. (bonus: Name one Union that focused on unskilled workers - and of course, improving working conditions and raising wages)
What is the American Federation of Labor? Unskilled: Knights of Labor, IWW, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
100
This country was America's main adversary in the Cold War because their controlling, oppressive Communist government was the opposite of our Democracy, they had nuclear weapons and they took over parts of Eastern Europe.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
This post-WWII international organization was founded to increase cooperation among nations and keep peace around the world.
What is the United Nations?
100
Native Americans traditionally lived in extended family tribes on wide swaths of land until this act was passed requiring reservations to be broken up and make Native Americans farm individual plots of land.
What is the Dawes Act?
200
Sufferagettes (like Alice Paul who was force fed in prision) who protested against President Wilson were arrested in WWI under this act that said free speech during wartime is limited because opposition to WWI would hurt war effort.
What is the Espoinage and Sedition Act?
200
If you have ever been accused of a crime, this Supreme Court case gurantees your right to remain silent and have an attorney present... but anything you say after this is read can be used against you!
What is Miranda v. Arizonza?
200
Before entering the conflicts, the United States exercised a policy of neutrality during...
What are World War I and World War II?
200
This 1899 policy said that all western nations should be allowed to trade with China with none colonizing it.
What is the Open Door Policy?
200
American Mothers opposed this policy because it led to organized crime, illegal bars (speakeasies) and laws that could not be enforced.
What is Prohibition?
300
Watergate, Iran Contra, the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill Hearings, Partisainship in Congress and Clinton's Impeachment all led Americans to feel this way about government.
What is negative or disillusioned?
300
In which war did African American troops finally fight in integrated Unions: World War I, World War II or Korea?
What is Korea?
300
The harsh conditions of this treaty are considered a major factor in Hitler's rise to power and the outbreak of World War II.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
US support for this nation led Muslim countries in the Middle East, such as Iran, Iraq and Palestine, to dislike the United States.
What is Israel?
300
Its growth led to the expansion of the beef industry and other products into a national market.
What is the railroad?
400
These laws limited the flow of immigrants to the US in the 1920s. (Which act limited the entry of people from a certain country in 1882?)
What are the National Origins Act and the Emergency Quota Act of 1921? Bonus: Chinese Exclusion Act
400
The March on Washington, the Freedom Rides, the Little Rock Nine and other Civil Rights events led to the passage of this legislation. (bonus: What legislation did the Selma march lead to?)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Bonus: Voting Rights Act of 1965.
400
This event led the US to enter World War II.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
400
After this war, the United States acquired Puerto Rico, the Phillipines and Guam but NOT Cuba. (bonus: what DID Cuba become?)
What is The Spanish-American War? (Bonus: a protectorate)
400
This word referes to American Culture in the 1950s.
What is Conformity?
500
During the 20th century (1900s), the United States was most afraid of the threat of this form of government.
What is Communism?
500
To the dismay of many feminists, this amendment to the Constitution was never ratified.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
500
These events led the US to declare war on Germany in World War I.
What is are the Zimmerman note, unrestricted submarine warfare and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia?
500
This leader and friend of Ronald Reagan with the big red birthmark on his head's policies of openness in the Soviet Union were a key part of ending the Cold War.
Who is Mikhail Gorbechov?
500
This put Darwinism on trial, pitting science vs. religion and highlighting a major conflict in the 1920s.
What is the Scopes Trial?
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