The man who caused massive anti-communist sentiment in the U.S. during the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
100
This Secretary of State proposed the American System in the early 1800s.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
The hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States following WWII
What is the Cold War
100
This document created over 12 new federal judgeships.
What is the Midnight Judges Act
100
The name given to the three part powers during World War II
What is the Axis Powers?
200
The bombing of this man's house stirred up anti-communist feelings in the 1920s.
Who is Mitchell A. Palmer?
200
This Vice President served under John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
Region that stretches from Virginia through Florida and Texas to Arizona and California. Saw a significant increase in population during the late 1900s.
What is the Sunbelt
200
Tyler annexed this state via joint resolution.
What is Texas
200
The name given to the transfer of slaves, raw materials, and manufactured goods between Africa, New England, and Britain
What is the Triangle Trade
300
This trial wrongly sentenced two Italian anarchists to death in the 1920s.
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
300
This Secretary of State purchased Alaska for 7.2 million dollars.
Who is William Seward?
300
New method of transportation created in 1807 which played a vital role in opening agriculture in the West and South
What is a steamboat
300
The South seceded during his presidency.
Who is Buchanan
300
Previously home to Indians and Buffalo, this 1000 square mile area became Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Arizona
What is the Great Plains
400
This man's trial brought Richard Nixon to political prominence.
Who is Alger Hiss?
400
This Secretary of Labor was the first woman to hold a position in the presidential cabinet.
Who is Frances Perkins?
400
Western New York during the Second Great Awakening where heavy revivalism occured
What is the Burned-Over District
400
First public works project for the great depression's unemployed.
What is the Hoover Dam
400
Roosevelt's program aimed at fixing social problems, big business, and labor unions and distinguish between good and bad trusts
What is the Square Deal
500
This man proposed the communist containment policy under the pseudonym "Mr. X".
Who is George F. Kennan?
500
There are this many presidential cabinet members as of June, 2009
What is 15
500
Desperate policy taken by the Cubans during the 1890s which was aimed at driving out the Spanish
What is the scorched-earth policy
500
This amendment shortened the lame duck period.
What is the 20th amendment
500
This conflict changed the fate of World War II in favor of the United States