A relatively small percentage of the total transatlantic slave trade, 5% of abducted Africans were brought to this country.
What is the United States of America?
100
Her refusal to give up her seat in the whites-only section of the bus made Montgomery, Alabama - and its black Church - the front line of the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This "deal" was given to Americans by President Roosevelt and the Democratic Congress in 1933.
What is the New Deal?
100
This 1950-1953 conflict was a stalemate that left an east Asian country divided to this day along the 38th Parallel.
What is the Korean War?
100
This 2003-2012 conflict began with a confusing argument about UN Resolution 1441.
What is the Iraq War?
200
This system of government that took root in the United States networks semi-independent states under a relatively weak national government that tends the military and interstate commerce.
What is federalism?
200
Enacted by Southern governments across the South between the 1870s and the 1890s, these laws segregated public facilities.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
200
"New" liberalism did not promise that the poor would come to have just as much as the rich, but they did promise that all people would have this kind of equality.
What is equality of opportunity?
200
This war ended in 1973 when Richard Nixon secretly negotiated the withdrawal of American troops, calling the U.S. defeat "peace with honor."
What is the Vietnam War?
200
This war, now in its eleventh year, began when the Bush Administration demanded that the Taliban hand over Osama bin Laden.
What is the War in Afghanistan?
300
This 1863 document released by the Lincoln Administration after the Battle of Antietam transformed its Civil War aims from simply quelling rebellion to abolishing slavery in the breakaway Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
"Separate could be equal", Americans learned in this 1896 Supreme Court decision which argued the mixed-race man Homer Plessy could not ride on whites-only train cars.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Named for a British economist of the 1930s and 40s, this theory associated with the New Liberalism argues that government should spend money that they do not have - creating deficits - in order to encourage economic growth.
What is Keynesianism?
300
Starting in 1955, Vietnamese patriots - many of them communist - fought for independence from this European imperial power.
What is France?
300
In the 2000 election, he called his politics "compassionate" conservatism.
Who is George W. Bush?
400
This region of the United States is said to owe its hardy people to its rocky soil, cold climate, and austere Calvinist religion.
What is New England?
400
In this landmark 1954 decision, the Warren Court reversed precedent to argue that the racial segregation of schools violated blacks' 14th Amendment rights.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
400
This organization known by three initials was the primary public works organization of the New Deal.
What was the WPA?
400
This event in 1963 saw the Russians put nuclear weapons in a Caribbean island to retaliate for American missiles in Turkey.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
His 1980 election made him the first president widely identified as a conservative Republican.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
After the fracas surrounding the election of 1824, the tradition of bipartisan government sprung from the wizened, whiskered head of this brilliant American who would use one such party - Jackson's Democrats - to make himself president soon thereafter.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
500
Two years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, exhausted after a largely fruitless struggle for black self-esteem and equality, W. E. B. Du Bois earned the citizenship of this newly independent African country.
What is Ghana?
500
Ironically it was another human catastrophe - this one - that brought America out of the Great Depression.
What was World War II?
500
Operation Desert Storm (1991) was a major U.S. military effort that responded against his invasion of Kuwait.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
500
Demolished in the general election by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, this Arizona senator is nonetheless considered the founder of the conservative movement in America that rejects Johnson's Great Society programs.