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An American writer in the 1920's who wrote The Great Gatsby
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald ?
100
It was originally meant to help build a railroad with an ending point in Chicago, but instead it destroy the Whig party, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and ignited a territorial civil war between pro- and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.
What is Nebraska-Nebraska(1954)?
100
A time where women wore flappers, no corsets, makeup, smoked, drank...
What is the twenties?
100
This double the size of the USA and is considered to be Jefferson's greatest achievement?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
A book that argued that the wealthy have an obligation to give something back to society.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
200
He appointed by President Eisenhower and wrote the landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
Who is Earl Warren?
200
the first mercantilist law in the American colonies that was passed by England with the intention of establishing and solidifying a monopoly on trade with the colonies.
What is the Navigation Acts?
200
A case in 1954 that declared segregation unconstitutional and ordered the integration of institutions.
What is the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education?
200
This war resulted in the reversal of roles by the two major political parties and it convinced many Republicans that a a national bank and army was necessary.
What is the War of 1812?
200
Tent cities constructed near railroads, abandoned buildings, and dumps during the Great Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
A puritan who believed that the true covenant was between God and the individual and started a permanent settlement in Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
300
It requires a president to inform Congress within forty-eight hours if American troops were sent into action abroad and to withdraw the troops after sixty days, unless Congress approves their stay.
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
300
The first president to challenged the long-standing myth of America's having inexhaustible natural resources and help create five new national parks.
Who is President T. Roosevelt?
300
A political scandal that occur in 1986, when it was revealed that the U.S. had been selling weapons to Iran in exchange for the possible release of American hostages
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
300
A meeting between Federalists in New England who opposed the war with Great Britain, and it basically destroyed the federalist party
What is the Hartford Convention?
400
He was a minister whose sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) symbolizes the ideas and oratory of the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
400
Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
400
An activist group whose members were mostly young, affluent college students strongly against U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Students for a Democratic Society?
400
A term that describes the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1970s.
What is Detente?
400
It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, and is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War.
What is Battle of Antietam (1862)?
500
An English philosopher that had a tremendous Influenced on the attitudes and the course of events in the colonies. Ex: The Declaration of Independence
Who is John Locke? Philosophy *all people are born with certain natural rights to life, liberty, and property *gov. is obligated to protect these rights and if it fails to do so the people have the right to overthrow it and create a new gov.
500
Harsh Parliamentary measures that forced quartering in private homes and set up a military government.
What is the Coercive Acts?
500
The first state to grant full suffrage to women?
What is Wyoming?
500
Top-secret document that were created because of the discovery that the Soviet Union had atomic weapons, and called for rebuilding America’s conventional military forces to provide opposition other than nuclear war.
What is the NSC-68?
500
A state that was labeled the burned-over district because of its intense levels of evangelical activity.
What is New York?