Mr. President
Events
Laws
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Hodgepodge
100
This man made the decision to drop the atomic bomb in WWII.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
This action by Germany ended US neutrality during WWI.
What is the sinking of American merchant ships?
100
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is 19th Amendment?
100
Truman's doctrine to prevent communism from spreading.
What is containment?
100
Shady characters in the South after the Civil War.
Who were KKK, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers?
200
This US president spoke out for human rights for peoples throughout the world.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
200
The early court case that dealt with teaching evolution in public schools.
What is the Scopes trial?
200
Prohibited discrimination in public places based on race, religion, national origin and gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200
The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrated many Americans distrust of these.
What is immigrants?
200
This Amendment began Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
This president escalated involvement in the Vietnam War.
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
300
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday (stock market crash)?
300
This Supreme Court case dealt with the right of someone being arrested to be notified of their legal rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
300
Wilson's idea to prevent further world wars that the US congress never ratified.
What is the League of Nations?
300
Programs that make a special effort to include minority groups in hiring, enrollment, etc.
What is affirmative action?
400
This president believed in protecting business to encourage economic growth during the 1920's.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
400
This was an artistic/literary movement led by black American during the 1920's.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This Supreme Court decision reversed the court's earlier Plessy v. Fergusson decision.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
400
Beyond Civil Rights, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society declared this.
What is the War on Poverty?
400
This was created to investigate JFK's assassination.
What is the Warren Commission?
500
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This occurred after officials secretly allowed oil companies to lease government land.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
500
The collective laws passed by FDR to try to prevent the national economy from total collapse.
What was the new deal?
500
JFK's "quarantine" of Cuba leading to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
The biggest success of the Native American movement.
What was Alcatraz or Wounded Knee?
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