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100

Which application of a new technology can be attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?

What is the light bulb

100

What was one economic effect of the Spanish–American War?

What is direct access to natural resources and overseas markets

100
This event happened in 2008.
What is the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama?
100

This was one factor that helped turn the Great Plains into the Dust Bowl in the 1930s?

What is drought

100

How did Bill Gates earn the title “World’s Richest Man”?

What is creating the Microsoft operating system

200

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the —

What is the increased need to protect worker interests  

200
The amendment that lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
200
The year that the Spanish-American War was fought.
What is 1898?
200

In the World War II era, what was the major reason for Jewish immigration to the United States?

What is the Holocaust

200

This agreement calls for free trade between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?

300

The amendment that gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment

300
The amendment that made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
This battle was a turning point in the Pacific for the U.S. during World War II.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300

The name of the program during World War II that developed the atomic bomb.

What is Manhattan Project

300

It was a plan put together by Republican candidates for the House of Representatives in 1994 in order to convince voters to elect them instead of Democrats.

What is the Contract with America?

400
The two lawyers involved in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Who are William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow?
400
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were enacted to give rights to this group.
What is former slaves (African Americans)?
400
The strategy of providing billions of dollars in financial aid to Europe after World War II to help rebuild countries' economies and keep them from becoming Communist.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
The Supreme Court decision that stated that students do not lose their 1st Amendment rights in school, and that schools must prove conduct must “materially and substantially interfere” with the operation of the school before it can be banned.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
400

Which action caused the United States to engage in a “police action” on the Korean Peninsula in 1950?

What is North Korea's invasion of the south

500
The first female member of the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O' Connor?
500
The amendment that has been used to apply the Bill of Rights to the states and has been used to ensure that state do not violate people's rights and provides for due process.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
In 1979, over 40 Americans were taken hostage in the U.S. Embassy in this country.
What is Iran?
500
The name of the law that guarantees women equal access to various opportunities (especially sports) in schools and colleges.
What is Title IX?
500

The name of the program during World War II that developed the atomic bomb.

What is the Manhattan Project?