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Foreign
Domestic
People
Acts and Amendments
Wars
100
This is a policy of isolating oneself from other countries.
What is isolationism
100
This was a railroad across the continent
What is transcontinental railroad
100
First black president
What is Barack Obama
100
Provided women's suffrage
What is 19th amendment
100
This is a war in the Middle East that is going on today. It was in response to the actions on 9/11/01
What is the War on Terror
200
This was a policy during the Cold War to ease tension was implemented by Richard Nixon
What is détente
200
Bombs were mailed to political leaders of America and the people thought that the communist were taking over the U.S.
What is the red scare
200
This person has been First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and now running for President.
Who is Hillary Clinton
200
This amendment prohibited the production, sale, and/or transport of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment
200
This war was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It introduced many new machines and techniques such as tanks, blimps, trench warfare, and machine guns.
What is World War I
300
This froze the number of missile launchers and submarines that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. had from 1969-1972
What is Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty (SALT I)
300
Alaska in 1867, Hawaii in 1898, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines in 1898 are all examples of these.
What are territorial acquisitions
300
These were the first African-American students to volunteer to go to a previously all white school.
Who are the Little Rock Nine
300
Passed in 1890, this illegalized Monopolies but was seldom enforced because it was interpreted many ways.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
300
The Gulf of Tonkin Resoltion occurred during this war
What is the Vietnam War or, technically correct as well, the Cold War
400
1896-1899 People rushed from U.S. to Northwest Canada and Alaska
What is Klondike Gold Rush
400
Bloc of Southern Democrats opposed to civil rights and didn't enforce them. Name what this was and two governors associated with it.
What is Status Quo/ George Wallace, governor of Alabama / Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas/ Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia
400
400-500 of these people were recruited to create secret code for the Allies
Who are the Navajo Indians/ Code Talkers
400
27th Amendment keeps members of ______ from setting their ________ until after elections have occurred
What is Congress/ Salary
400
Persian Gulf War. What is the total number of countries that fought in it, which country was invaded that caused it, and which president took us into it.
What is 35 (don't forget the U.S. was also involved, not just the other 34 nations)/ Kuwait was invaded/ George H.W. Bush took us into it.
500
This was a tax in 1930 that was meant to keep business between american farmers and manufacturers and american citizens and push out foreign competition. World trade dropped by 40% after this and a world wide depression commenced.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
500
Executive Order 9066. This affected _________-_________ after the bombing of ______ ______. This called for the internment of 110,000 ________-_________(same as first). $20,000 was given to these peoples families by the ________ administration.
What is Japanese-Americans/ Pearl Harbor/ Japanese-Americans/ Reagan
500
_____ v. Westminister 1946 Allowed Mexicans to integrate into white schools.
What is Mendez
500
In 19__ the __ ________ put the national voting age at __. This was a result of college students being opposed to the Vietnam War and because they could be drafted at the same age as what the voting age became.
What is 71/ 26th Amendment/ 18
500
Double Points (because it is a question that isn't the same topic as the column) Name two strikes or riots and their outcomes
What is great railroad strikes ended in federal troop intervention/ hay market riot, workers protested police brutality and a bomb was thrown and police fired back / homestead strike, a fight between strike breakers and employees, and Pennsylvania national guard stop the fighting./ Pullman strike, a fight between a strike breaker and employees, president Grover Cleveland sent troops, people were killed, and labor day was made.