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100

This Cold War competition pushed the U.S. and Soviet Union to send people into space

Space Race

100

I refused to give up my seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955.

Rosa Parks

100

This president was famous for saying “I am not a crook.”

President Nixon

100

If a source supports government relief programs, bank reform, and job creation during the 1930s, it most likely supports this set of programs.

New Deal

100

This industrialist controlled much of the nation’s oil industry through Standard Oil.

JD Rockefeller

200

This scandal forced President Nixon to resign

Watergate Scandal
200

I invented the light bulb and held over 1,000 patents

Thomas Edison

200

This president was called “Silent Cal” because he rarely talked.

Calvin Coolidge

200

If a speech argues the United States should avoid overseas involvement after World War I, it most likely supports this policy.

Isolationism

200

This steel industrialist believed wealthy Americans should use their money to help society

Andrew Carnegie

300

If a source criticizes monopolies, poor working conditions, and child labor, it most likely comes from this reform era.

Progressive

300

I was intended to preserve peace after World War I, but the United States never joined me

League of Nations

300

This president got shot while giving a speech in 1912 and still finished the speech.

Teddy Roosevelt

300

These two presidents are most connected to the expansion of federal government power during economic crises.

FDR and LBJ

300

This photographer exposed poor living conditions in urban slums with works like How the Other Half Lives.

Jacob Riis

400

This event brought the United States and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.

Cuban Missile Crisis

400

I was the foreign policy that promised U.S. support to nations resisting communism after World War II.

Truman Doctrine

400

This president installed solar panels on the White House during the energy crisis of the 1970s.

Jimmy Carter

400

Both the Interstate Highway System and the Space Race were influenced by fears connected to this global conflict

Cold War
400

This social reformer opened Hull House to help immigrants and the urban poor

Jane Addams

500

This Cold War event involved the Soviet Union blocking access to West Berlin

Berlin Blockade

500

I argued that segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment

Brown vs Board of Education

500

Before becoming president, this leader was a schoolteacher and football coach. 

Dwight Eisenhower
500

Both the Palmer Raids and McCarthyism were fueled by fear of this political ideology.

Communism

500

This senator became famous for accusing Americans of being communists during the Red Scare.

Joseph McCarthy

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