PROGRESSIVES
RACE
WORLD WAR II
CIVIL RIGHTS
VIETNAM WAR
100
It established the income tax
What is 16th Amendment?
100
If you can read this, you can vote.
What is a literacy test?
100
This is seen as the main reason Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany.
What is the economic depression?
100
Martin Luther King, Jr. insisted that only this type of protest could successfully be used to win civil rights for African Americans.
What is non-violence?
100
This gave the President a "blank check" regarding military action in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
200
It let women vote.
What is the 20th Amendment?
200
This Supreme Court decision made separation of the races legal.
What is "Plessy v. Ferguson?"
200
Many consider it the turning point of the war in Europe.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
200
Her arrest started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
200
These were South Vietnamese who fought for the Communists.
Who were the Viet Cong?
300
This set up the first national banking system since 1836.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
300
Named after a minstrel show character, these laws enforced segregation.
What is Jim Crow?
300
The Japanese hoped to finish here what they'd started at Pearl Harbor, but were surprised by the U.S. Navy instead.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
This organization led the Freedom Rides.
What is CORE?
300
You could be deferred from the draft if you stayed here long enough.
What is college?
400
Today, they would be investigative reporters.
Who were the Muckrakers?
400
Along with several white people (including some Jews) he founded the NAACP.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
400
These two cities demonstrated what atomic bombs could do.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
400
This Supreme Court decision outlawed segregation in public schools.
What is "Brown v. Board of Education"?
400
Anti-war protesters gathered here to protest the nomination of Hubert Humphrey as the Democratic candidate in 1968.
What is Chicago?
500
The descriptions in this book resulted in the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.
What is "The Jungle"?
500
He was the first African American to be invited to the White House (by President Theodore Roosevelt).
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
When Hitler invaded this country, England and France declared war.
What is Poland?
500
He was the first African American to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
500
He kept reassuring the American people that there was "light at the end of the tunnel."
Who was William Westmoreland?
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