Stuff 1
This 1862 Act provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
-6
This term, coined by Mark Twain, suggested that the era looked glittering on the surface but was corrupt and decaying underneath.
What is the Gilded Age?
-8
This "Day of Infamy" saw the Japanese attack on a Hawaiian naval base, bringing the U.S. into WWII.
What is December 7, 1941
-5
This 1964 resolution gave President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
+2 or -3
In 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq based on the (later disproven) belief that Saddam Hussein possessed these.
What are Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)?
-4
This series of programs and reforms was launched by FDR to provide "Relief, Recovery, and Reform" during the 1930s.
What is the New Deal?
-6
This style of sensationalist reporting, led by Hearst and Pulitzer, used exaggerated headlines to whip up public support for the war.
What is Yellow Journalism?
-3
This U.S. naval victory in June 1942 is considered the turning point of the Pacific war, as it destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers.
What is the Battle of Midway?
-2
Under Executive Order 9066, over 110,000 people of this descent were forced into internment camps.
What are Japanese Americans?
-9
This term for "lightning war" described the fast-moving German tactic of using tanks and planes to overwhelm enemies.
What is Blitzkrieg?
+3
The 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education overturned this 1896 doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
+6 or -4
This 1,900-mile steel link, completed in 1869 at _______ _______, Utah, connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Promontory Summit (Point)
+7
These 1935 laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and forbade marriage between Jews and non-Jews.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
+4
This 1978 peace agreement, brokered by Jimmy Carter, was signed between Israel and Egypt.
What are the Camp David Accords?
+3
This "Party of the People" emerged in the 1890s, representing farmers who wanted the free coinage of silver and government control of railroads.
What is the Populist Party?
-2
To fund the war and suppress dissent at home, the U.S. government passed these two controversial acts in 1917 and 1918.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
+6
This 1890 law was the first federal attempt to prohibit "trusts" and monopolies that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
+4
This 1940 evacuation saw over 300,000 Allied soldiers rescued from a French beach by a fleet of military and civilian ships.
What is Dunkirk?
+7
This iconic propaganda character encouraged millions of women to take industrial jobs in factories and shipyards.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
+1
As a result of the Treaty of Paris, the U.S. acquired these three territories (one in the Caribbean, two in the Pacific).
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
-5 or +3
This belief held that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its dominion across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
-2
This secret U.S. research project led to the development of the first atomic weapons used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is the Manhattan Project?
+4
My granny got hit by a _______
bazooka
+6 or -7
After WWII, this massive aid package was designed to rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
-7
This strategy involved bypassing heavily fortified islands to seize lightly defended ones that could serve as airfields.
What is Island Hopping?
-1