This is the United States president whose obsession with Vietnam led him to crash politically.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
100
This document states that "All men are created equal."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This type of company allowed people to buy shares and invest only a small amount of money in the company.
What is joint-stock?
100
This man set precedents and was viewed as a selfless hero by Americans.
Who is George Washington?
100
This is the short war that resulted in the U.S.'s acquisition of Puerto Rico & the Philippines and Cuba's independence.
What is the Spanish-American War?
200
This man presented the idea of a two ocean navy for the United States.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
200
This was given out by the Virginia Co. in 1618. It promised 50 acres of land to immigrants who brought slaves to the New World.
What is a headright?
200
This is the state of the banking systems in 1815-1820
What is unstable, generous with money, and panicked?
200
These were the candidates in the presidential campaign of 1932.
Who are Roosevelt & Hoover?
200
This was the "proper" sphere for middle-class white women in the 19th century.
What is home and family?
300
This United States president was viewed as the model of the self-made man.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
A) This was a symbolic punishment that threatened to free the southern slaves if the South refused to rejoin the Union.
B) This amendment officially freed the slaves.
What is a) the Emancipation Proclamation & b) the 13th Amendment?
300
This was Ford's key to success in the automobile industry
What is mass production?
300
This corollary was added to the Monroe Doctrine and stated that the United States should be the police of Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
300
This was the movement whose members disliked slavery expansion because the white men didn't want to compete with slaves for jobs.
What is the Free Soil Movement?
400
This man wanted the government to give $200 to people ages 60+ every month. (later develops into social security)
Who is Francis Townsend?
400
This ended the War of 1812
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
400
This was the biggest source of the federal government's revenue in 1890.
What are tariffs?
400
Congress gave this president a blank check after the United States was attacked at the Gulf of Tonkin.
Who is Johnson?
400
This was the first attempt to regulate trade between states.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)?
500
This man was the Secretary of State who promoted the signing arbitration treaties with Latin America.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
This prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico. (did not pass)
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
This was the 1st cut in tariffs in twenty years. (passed in 1913)
What is the Underwood Tariff of 1913?
500
This president served two nonconsecutive terms, cut spending, and created a surplus.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
500
This is why municipal corruption occurred in the late nineteenth century. (3 reasons)
What are growing cities, new technology, more immigrants, and party bosses taking advantage of systems (stuffing ballots)