Which Supreme Court ruling prevented some students from being bused to other schools?
What is Miliken v. Bradley
100
A glut of wheat on the world market led to
What is falling wheat prices paid to farmers.
100
On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced that American spy planes had taken aerial photographs showing that the Soviet Union had placed long-range missiles in
What is Cuba.
100
What were two jobs that women performed in the armed services during World War I?
What is nursing and clerical work
100
In the late 1940s, President Truman saw the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan as essential for
What is containment.
200
When was the Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress?
What is 1972
200
The wave of immigrants that arrived in the late nineteenth century changed American society by
What is changing the face and size of American cities.
200
Which of the following laws authorized the use of federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects?
What is the Newlands Reclamation Act
200
President Hoover wanted state and city governments rather than the federal government to provide money directly to impoverished families, known as
What is relief.
200
How did the demobilization following World War I affect the U.S. economy?
What is Rapid inflation increased the cost of living for workers.
300
Which of the following African American leaders was particularly concerned with protecting and exercising voting rights?
What is W.E.B. Du Bois
300
The “Big Four” who attended the peace conference at the end of World War I were the leaders from the United States, Britain, France, and
What is Italy.
300
United Nations troops in Korea were driven back across the 38th parallel in an attack by
What is China.
300
In public schools, immigrant children learned English and were taught about American history and culture, a process known as
What is Americanization.
300
In response to economic problems faced by farmers, Grangers created cooperatives that were intended to
What is raise the prices of crops.
400
Roosevelt and Churchill met near Newfoundland in 1941 and agreed on the text of the
What is Atlantic Charter.
400
President Roosevelt thought that large business organizations were part of the reason for American prosperity, but he also believed that
What is the monopoly power of some trusts hurt the public interest.
400
Wisconsin became known as “the laboratory of democracy” because of its
What is support for direct primaries.
400
The Great Northern became the most successful transcontinental railroad in part because of
What is its founder’s good decisions and honest business practices.
400
Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
What is Marcus Garvey
500
In order to exterminate Jews more quickly, the Nazis built extermination facilities in a number of concentration camps, mostly in
What is Poland.
500
Why did the Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles?
What is to keep the United States free from foreign entanglements
500
Congress authorized the Farm Credit Administration to help farmers
What is refinance their mortgages.
500
Political machines provided city dwellers with many necessities, but many machine politicians grew rich as the result of