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What is a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
Chinese Exclusion Act
100
What is a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. Historians do not fully agree on the dates, but 1947–91 is common.
Cold War
100
the system that made American Indians kept their citizenship in their sovereign tribes, but life was harder than it had been.
What is Reservation System
100
the person who wrote The Souls of Black Folk
What is W.E.B. Du Bois
100
a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
What is Trench Warfare
200
authorized by the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.
What is Selective Service Act
200
the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is 15th Amendment
200
the name applied to an outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. 
What is Anaconda Plan
200
became a leader in the black nationalist movement by applying the economic ideas of Pan-Africanists to the immense resources available in urban centers.
What is Marcus Garvey
200
the name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s
What is Harlem Renaissance
300
What is laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies.
Neutrality Act
300
a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.
What is Korean War
300
a group of merchant vessels sailing together
What is convoy System
300
was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil.
What is Henry Flagler
300
Who is a Cuban politician and a revolutionary
What is Fidel Castro
400
the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
What is Lend-Lease Act
400
the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." 
What is 13th Amendment
400
proposed by the Dawes Committee, chaired by Charles G. Dawes
What is Dawes Plan
400
the 35th U.S. president
What is John F. Kennedy
400
the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.
What is Red Scare
500
paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land
What is Homestead Act
500
known as the Second Indochina War
What is Vietnam War
500
an arrangement for payment by installments.
What is Installment Plan
500
Who put themselves through school and became a teacher
What is Booker T. Washington
500
known historically as yellow jack, yellow plague, or bronze john, is an acute viral disease.
What is Yellow Fever