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The president of the U.S. during World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
100
The amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100

This groundbreaking American president was elected in 2008.

Who is Barack Obama?

100

This court case stated that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

100

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

What is the Manhattan Project?

200
He founded the company Microsoft.
Who is Bill Gates?
200

Though it blatantly violated the Constitution, fears of disloyalty justified this policy toward Japanese-Americans during World War II.

What is internment?

200

The name of the day the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, marking the start of the Great Depression.

What is Black Tuesday?

200
This law banned discrimination and segregation in public accommodations, housing, businesses, etc.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
200

The American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon 

What is Apollo 11?

300
The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
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

Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to loan war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."

What is the Lend-Lease Act?

300

A fashionable young woman in the Roaring Twenties intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

What is a Flapper?

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

One of the most important achievements of the New Deal, this Act had three parts: old age pension, unemployment compensation, and aid to low-income families.

What is Social Security?

400

Some of the bravest fighter pilots who fought in World War II, a segregated, all-black squadron known for the "red tails" on their aircraft.

Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?

500

President during the early 1920s whose reputation was tarnished by the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Who is Warren Harding?

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

The year that the Spanish-American War was fought.

What is 1898?

500

A New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads (and some buildings at Ventura High!)

What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

500

The Progressive Era reform that provides a way to remove elected officials from office.

What is the recall?