This woman refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
The United States acquired the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico & Cuba in a war with this country in 1898.
What is Spain?
100
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city on August 6, 1945.
What is Hiroshima?
100
1954: Said the segregated schools were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
100
This amendment to the U.S. constitution won women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
This anti-Communist of the post WW2 era was brought down when he investigated the army, whose hearings were on television.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
200
Americans after WW1 reverted back to this traditional American policy as it relates to Europe?
What is Isolationism?
200
This country intervened with hundreds of thousands of troops against the U.S. in the Korean War.
What is China?
200
1896: Legalized the practice of separate but equal: Jim Crow laws?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
Desegregation of schools started in 1957 in this southern city.
What is Little Rock, Arkansas?
300
This president's "New Deal" helped revolutionize the role of the federal government.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
300
This Resolution in 1964 allowed Lyndon Johnson to escalate the war in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
The sinking of US merchant ships by this nation finally brought the United States into World War I.
What is Germany?
300
1973: Legalized abortion
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
Betty Friedan wrote this book, published in 1963 that helped lead to the modern feminist movement.
What is "The Feminine Mystique?"
400
This person wrote the “Gospel of Wealth”, which advocated for laissez-faire capitalism and the duty of the wealthy to give back to the community
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
This policy was developed by Harry Truman after WW2, most notably in the Truman Doctrine, to deal with the
possible spread of communism after the war.
What is containment?
400
The U.S. put these people in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
400
1966: Said the law enforcement had to read you your rights when being arrested
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
400
This Great Society Program provides health care benefits for
the elderly.
What is Medicare?
500
This man was one of the founders, and longtime leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
Who is Samuel Gompers?
500
This was America’s economic aid package to Europe following WW2, in hopes of rebuilding the continent and curbing the appeal of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
Richard Nixon opened up relations with this country in hopes of pressuring North Vietnam into negotiations with the U.S. to end the war in Vietnam.
What is China?
500
1960: The Court ruled that interstate buses & terminals had to be desegregated, leading CORE to organize the Freedom Rides?
What is Boynton v. Virginia?
500
This 19th Century civil rights leader believed in industrial education for blacks to gain economic independence and gradually acquire political and social rights.