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100
The US President during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
The major Caribbean island that the US took control of after the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
100
FDR's overall program for fixing the problems of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
The new technology of the early 1900s that allowed music and news to spread quickly across the U.S. and the world.
What is radio?
100
West Valley is the new state champion in this event.
What is Academic Decathlon (ACADECA). Also correct: Boys XC Skiing, or Girls Hockey!
200
The suffragist who led the NWP (National Woman's Party).
Who is Alice Paul?
200
The part of New York City that was the center of a "re-birth" of African-American art, literature and music.
What is Harlem?
200
FDRs failed strategy to make sure New Deal programs were judged to not violate the Constitution.
What is "Court Packing"?
200
The film of the Depression Era in which a girl from Kansas is swept away in a Tornado.
What is "The Wizard of Oz"?
200
An ongoing argument between Fairbanks area citizens, and the Borough, state, and federal government, especially on the coldest days.
What is the air quality debate?
300
A Progressive reformer, leader of the Niagara Movement, and founder of the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
300
The place that gives it's name to the treaty that assigned blame after World War One.
What is Versailles?
300
The idea that the American frontier is essential to creating and continuing the greatness of the American Dream.
What is Turner's Thesis?
300
A development that greatly reduced travel time between the East and West coasts of the U.S. in 1914.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
The film for which Daniel Day-Lewis just won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
What is "Lincoln"?
400
An event that killed millions of people around the world in 1918 and 1919.
What is the influenza epidemic?
400
The region to be flooded as part of a New Deal program.
What is the Tennessee Valley?
400
The controversial new theory questioned in the Scopes Trial.
What is the Theory of Evolution?
400
The method of production used by Henry Ford (and others) to make products quickly and inexpensively.
What is the Assembly Line?
400
The controversial leader of Venezuela who died this week.
Who is Hugo Chavez?
500
President Lincoln's Secretary of State, who purchased Alaska in 1867.
Who is William Seward?
500
In John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath," the family escapes the Dust Bowl by traveling to this state.
What is California
500
The political ideology/belief of Sacco and Vanzetti.
What is Anarchy?
500
A scandal in which president Harding's Interior Secretary took bribes for the use of oil reserves that were intended for use by the U.S. Navy.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
500
The Superintendent of our school district.
Who is Pete Lewis?
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