President Andrew Johnson's refusal to enforce many laws passed during Reconstruction led Congress to take this action.
What is try and impeach him?
100
This act passed in 1887, required Native Americans to change their lifestyles to assimilate into mainstream American society.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
Secret illegal clubs that sold alcohol during prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
100
Note from Germany to Mexico wanting them to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
100
President Eisenhower championed the formation of this network in order to connect the country.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
200
This organization, set up immediately after the Civil War, provided food, shelter, and educational opportunities for former slaves and their families.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
This woman founded Hull House (settlement house) to help immigrant women and children.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
This term refers to the acquisition of stocks without actually having the money to purchase them.
What is buying on margin?
200
This U.S. law was used to draft men for the military in both world wars.
What is the Selective Service Act?
200
When the Soviets blockaded Berlin, the U.S. used this to help the people of West Berlin get food and supplies.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
This Supreme Court decision declared that slaves were not citizens and therefore did not have the right to sue in court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300
This law gave people 160 acres of land to settle the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
This law limited the number of immigrants who could enter the U.S. to 350,000. It assigned maximum quotas based on 3% of the number of immigrants from that nationality who were already in the country.
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
300
This was the British liner that was sunk in 1915, which was one of the reasons the U.S. became involved in World War I.
What is the Lusitania?
300
This rebel group in South Vietnam was helping North Vietnam defeat U.S. soldiers.
Who are the Vietcong?
400
This Union General's "March to the Sea" created havoc. His troops looted and burned everything in their path including the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
Who is General William Sherman?
400
The explosion of this ship in 1898 triggered a war between the US and Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
400
This high school science teacher was arrested for teaching evolution.
Who is John Scopes?
400
In this case about the Espionage Act, the Supreme Court decided that it was acceptable to limit free speech if it creates a 'clear and present danger'.
What is Schenck vs. USA?
400
Launched by the Soviets in 1957, it began the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik?
500
This battle which the Union won divided the Mississippi River in half. General Grant made a siege and starved the people.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
This man said, "You supply the pictures, I'll furnish the war."
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
500
This group of writers in the 1920s were critical of the values of postwar American society.
What is the Lost Generation?
500
Who were the Axis Powers?
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?
500
The Soviet invasion of this country eventually led the U.S. to support the Mujahedeen freedom fighters, who included a young Osama bin Laden.