1877-1900
This era, named by Mark Twain, is all about corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
This invention helped create a national culture, across all Americans.
What is radio?
It was FDR's federal program to get the US out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
The two proxy wars of the Cold War.
What are Korea and Vietnam?
This is George W. Bush's educational reform policy.
What is No Child Left Behind?
It was started by imperialism, yellow journalism and the explosion of the USS Maine, among other things.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Threes a crowd! List all three progressive Presidents.
Who are Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
This axis nation attacked us at Pearl Harbor, causing the war. Then we dropped atomic bombs on them, ending the war.
What is Japan?
This led Nixon to resign.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
Reagan's economic policies went by many names. Name just one!
What is Reaganomics OR Voodoo Economics OR Trickle-Down Economics OR Supply-side economics?
This law, passed in 1883, reformed the way the government hires employees.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
Temperance reformers got this amendment added to the Constitution.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The 3 R's of the New Deal.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
We've actually had two of these - one during World War I and another during the Cold War. Both times, the US hunted down people it thinks are communists.
What are Red Scares?
This disaster occurred on the Gulf Coast (and even all the way up here!) in 2005. Over 1,300 people died.
He gave the "Cross of Gold" speech.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This body of water was created as a direct result of Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy.
What is the Panama Canal?
Drought caused this disaster in the Great Plains, and the worst-off state was Oklahoma.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Name all three voting restriction policies used under Jim Crow and eliminated during the Civil Rights era.
Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause.
This building was attacked by terrorists in 1993 and 2001.
What is the World Trade Center?
The Populists won these two amendments - for direct election of senators and an income tax.
What are the 16th and 17th amendments?
With a similar philosophy as the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact went a step further and banned this.
What is war?
A supreme court case holding up the Japanese Internment policy during WWII.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This 1968 attack in Vietnam (during the Vietnamese New Year!) led many to doubt if the US could win the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
This is the name for the reverse discrimination Supreme Court case that is part of the backlash against affirmative action.
What is Bakke v. Regents of the University of California OR What is the Bakke case?