This is where the Brown v. Board of Education decision ended segregation.
What are schools?
100
She was a Civil Rights activist who sparked the movement by refusing to move from her bus seat.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This is the President who liked to flash our navy around the world and was pivotal in creating the Panama Canal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
This baseball player was famously known as the "Sultan of Swat" and played for the Yankees.
Who is Babe Ruth?
100
This is what "turned out pockets" began to symbolize.
What is Hoover flags?
200
This is what segregation enforced by the rule of law is called.
What is de jure segregation?
200
This is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
What is totalitarianism?
200
This president's foreign policy was "dollar diplomacy."
Who is William Howard Taft?
200
This is the town where the film industry took off and is still the center of it today.
What is Hollywood?
200
This is what sleeping on newspapers and living in shantytowns were called.
What are Hoover blankets and Hoovervilles?
300
This is the town where President Eisenhower used the US Army to assist nine African American students to their high school to end segregation.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
300
This is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict, most especially used by Britain before WWII with Germany and Italy.
What is appeasement?
300
This was an informal agreement between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan whereby the United States would not impose restrictions on Japanese immigration, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the United States.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
300
This is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
300
This is the major event that led to the end of this period.
What is WWII?
400
This is the landmark court case that encouraged the Jim Crow laws to exist.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
This was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
He was a famous yellow journalist.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
400
He was an American mobster, crime boss, and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
Who is Al Capone?
400
The period of time in an economy that is relatively stagnant or on the decline.
What is a recession?
500
This law prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, facilities, and schools and outlawed discrimination in federally funded projects.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
500
This is also known as the "night of broken glass."
What is Kristallnacht?
500
The United States believed this Southeast Asian Pacific country was made of savages and it was our duty to Americanize them.
What is the Philippines?
500
These type of people were left out of the economic boom.
Who are Native Americans, minorities and African Americans.
500
This is the downward and upward movement of an economy around its long-term growth trend. The fluctuations typically involve shifts over time between periods of relatively rapid booms and periods of decline.