Roaring 20's
Civil Rights
Cold war/Progressive Era
Amendments to the Constitution
WWI/WWII
100

Period from 1865 to 1900 where entrepreneurs were able to reap huge profits for themselves. It was a period of new innovations, rise of new industries, and production.

What is Gilded Age?

100

Describe the Domino Theory.

What is belief that if one country fell to communism, many other would follow?

100

U.S. plan to provide economic aid to Western Europe to help rebuild after WWII

What is Marshall Plan?

100

What is the name of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

What is the 26th Amendment?

100
Regulated the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain. During WWII this method was introduced to avoid public anger over shortages and share in the sacrifices of war.
What is rationing?
200
Inventor of the light bulb. The creation of electricity lead to the rise of machines, streetcars and subway trains.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200

Fear of communism spies infiltrating the US government in 1950?

What is Red Scare 2?

200

U.S. President Truman's policy to contain and stop communism

What is Truman Doctrine?
200

The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that repealed the 18th amendment on prohibition (the ban or sale of alcohol)?

What is 21st Amendment?

200
Order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior interment camps away from Western coastal regions. What is the name of the law created by President Roosevelt during WWII?
What is Executive Order 9066?
300

Labor union that was created by Samuel Gompers, was a national federation of Different craft unions of skilled workers.

What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

300
Law that was passed in 1958, in response to the launching of Sputnik by Russia focused on math and science
What is National Defense Education Act (NDEA)?
300

Gave loans to help WWII veterans buy homes and go to college when they return to civilian life?

What is G.I. Bill

300

Amendment that allowed women suffrage?

What is 19th Amendment?

300
British passenger ship that left NY City for Liverpool. A German submarine sank this passenger ship, killing more than 1,000. What is the name of this sink?
What is the Lusitania?
400
First mass for of transportation that was completed in 1869. It made it possible to travel to California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
400
Describe what the Supreme Court Decision in Tinker v. Des Moines?
What is students had the right to wear armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War as freedom of speech under 1st amendment?
400

Treaty between the U.S. and Western Europe, collective security against the USSr

What is NATO?

400

What is the Supreme Court Case that eliminated segregation in schools?

What is Brown V Board of Education?

400

Surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, Japan attacked in response to U.S. oil embargo against Japan

What is Pearl Harbor?

500

What is the name of the event where labor leaders were blamed when a bomb exploded during the demonstration of striking workers at Square in Chicago.

What is Haymrket Affair?

500

USSR's response to NATO

What is Warsaw Pact?

500
What is the name of the group of individuals that examined the rise of industry and examined business practices affecting consumers?
Who are Muckrakers?
500

Can not deny the right to vote based on race

What is 15th Amendment?

500

The final terms that ended up being extremely harsh to Germany and other defeated powers. This was often called the "War Guilt" clause to the agreement that made germany pay for the war.

What is trench Treaty of Versailles?

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