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100
This period focused on ensuring African-Americans had equal rights, and drew inspiration from the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
100
I was a US President who saw the beginning of the Great Depression but didn't feel the government should be involved in fixing the economy.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
This is considered to be a major cause in the passage of the 19th amendment.
What is women's participation in factories and other places during WWI.
100
A belief in individualism, competition, and hard work to promote economic and societal success.
What is capitalism?
100
The decision in this court case overturned the idea of "separate but equal" and spurred the push to change race relations across society.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
200
This period in the 1920s celebrated African-American culture, through literature, music, art, and dance.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
I am a US President who eventually supported women's suffrage and got the US involved in World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
After suffering under Herbert Hoover's laissez-faire policies during the beginning of the Great Depression, what ideas did Franklin D. Roosevelt promote that caused people to vote for him?
What is having the federal government become involved in the economy and help people with direct aid?
200
The belief in using tactics such as boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and other protests to promote change.
What is non-violent protest?
200
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
300
During this period, there was a lot of tension between the US and USSR (Soviet Union), with a lot of smaller proxy wars and intense fear of nuclear war.
What is the Cold War?
300
I am a US President who led the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
A dramatic increase in population following WWII.
What is the baby boom?
300
This intellectual movement focused on logic and reason, rather than religion, and was largely the basis for the idea of natural rights included in the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
This attack on a US naval base prompted the US entry into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
400
During this time period, urbanization increased greatly as people moved to the cities to work in factories, but many questioned the formation of huge trusts and monopolies under "robber barons" such as Carnegie and Rockefeller.
What is Industrialization?
400
I am a US President who preceded Herbert Hoover and also believed in his laissez-faire approach to handling the economy--but everything went so well under me in the 1920s!
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
400
During the 1950s, teenagers grew as an age group and were primarily considered to be this.
What are consumers?
400
People with this belief feared the immense amount of migration occurring at the end of the 19th century, largely because they were afraid they would not assimilate (join into) American society.
What is nativism?
400
This law caused a big increase in organized crime, as the mafia were the biggest suppliers of illegal alcohol. Extra 100: Name the act.
What is Prohibition? Extra Credit: Volstead Act.
500
The period which saw the rise of teenagers, the suburbs, and "American" culture focused on materialism.
What is the 1950s?
500
I was a US President in the early 1900s who was assassinated.
Who is William McKinley.
500
Taking place during the Cold War, started by the US decision to drop two atomic bombs, this was a competition between the US and Soviet Union to have more and more weapons. Bonus (100 points each): What are the two cities that the US dropped the bombs on?
What is the arms race? Bonus: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
500
This was a common belief during industrialization used to justify company control of their workers, stating that the rich were more highly evolved and needed to protect those below them.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
The passage of a series of increased taxes, the Boston massacre, and suspension of self-government were all contributors to this decision.
What is the colonies declaring independence from Great Britain?