A law that divided up reservations, trying to force Indians to assimilate to white culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
100
This World War II general who directed the D-Day attack later became president of the United States.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
This leader of the Civil Rights Movement founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
100
The U.S. invaded this country soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
What is Afghanistan?
200
An organization that controlled voting in a city (usually by buying immigrants' votes) in order to put corrupt officials in power. (Example: Tammany Hall)
What is a political machine?
200
This muckraking book pushed the U.S. to pass new laws protecting consumers from bad food.
What is "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair?
200
This was the scandal during the Harding administration in which officials in the government were taking bribes.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
200
This term describes the phenomenon of high unemployment coupled with high inflation and a slow economy.
What is stagflation?
200
This was the Republican platform in 1994, in which Newt Gingrich and other congressional leaders promised to cut welfare programs.
What is the Contract with America?
300
These were poor, overcrowded houses in cities where many immigrants frequently lived in the late 1800s.
What are tenements?
300
Two amendments to the Constitution were passed in the years immediately following World War I. What were they and what did they do?
18th - prohibition
19th - woman suffrage
300
This New Deal Agency still exists today and regulates the stock market to ensure a crash like the one in 1929 doesn't take place again.
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?
300
This program, which began during World War II and continued into the 1960s, brought over a million guest workers to the US from Mexico.
What is the Bracero program?
300
This president promoted the Strategic Defense Initiative, an expensive failed program for missile defense.