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100
The first female Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor? 
100
This president was impeached in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice.
Who is Bill Clinton?
100
The period following the Civil War (1865-1877) during which the United States attempted to reintegrate the former Confederate states into the Union and address the legacy of slavery.
What is Reconstruction?
100
Location where the first transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10, 1869.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
100
Negotiating as a group for higher pay and better working conditions is called.
What is collective bargaining?
200
In 1903, Lizzie Magie created a game to help explain what happens when one company is the only manufacturer of a product.
What is Monopoly?
200
American stage actor who assassinated a President of the United States.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
200
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
A long fight that took place in a country in Southeast Asia, from 1954 to 1975.
What is the Vietnam War?
200
Number amendment that defines US citizenship, guaranteeing that anyone born or naturalized in the United States is a citizen, including formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
Number Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote in 1920 after a long fight by the suffragettes.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
Nickname for President Reagan's plan to make the economy better. It focused on cutting taxes, especially for businesses, and reducing government spending to encourage businesses to grow and create more jobs.
What is Reaganomics?
300
time in UT.S. history, roughly from the 1890s to the 1920s, when people worked hard to make society better by fixing problems like poverty, unsafe workplaces, and corruption in government.
What is the Progressive Era?
300
A scary moment during the Cold War, a time of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union over missiles in this country.
What is Cuba?
300
Supreme Court case in 1896 that said it was okay for states to have separate facilities for Black people and white people, as long as they were considered "equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
She refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
Doctrine was a US policy after World War II that pledged to help countries threatened by communism was named for this president.
Who is Truman?
400
The United States' extension of political, military, and economic control over weaker territories, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is Imperialism?
400
Name one of two cities where the United States dropped a bomb in Japan at the end of World War II.
What is Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
400
In MAIN, the acronym for the causes of World War I, the M stands for?
What is MILITARISM?
500
Famous baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
500
This was America's longest serving president.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
500
The stock market crash, struggling farmers, debt, oversupply, banks, and world trade decline caused this period in the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
500
Country where angry students took over the U.S. embassy and held 52 Americans hostage for over a year.
What is Iran?
500
In MAIN, the acronym for the causes of World War I, the N stands for?
What is NATIONALISM?
600
Admirers would call them Captains of Industry. Critics call them _______.
What are Robber Barons?
600
Scandal where a group of people got caught trying to secretly spy on their opponents. The investigation revealed that the President and his team were involved.
What is Watergate?
600
This technological revolution caused people to move from the country into the cities.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
600
Imaginary line on a map that divides Korea into two countries, North Korea and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
600
This 1919 peace agreement ended World War I. It blamed Germany for the war and also made Germany pay a lot of money.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
700
The first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
700
A set of programs created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s to help the US recover from the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
700
A coded message sent to the Mexican ambassadors to forge an alliance with Germany during World War I.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
700
A large movement of Black people from the Southern United States to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
700
A special court that tries people accused of breaking the rules of war, like killing prisoners or hurting civilians.
What is a tribunal?
800
This former president passed away December 29, 2024 at the age of 100.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
800
Reagan's missile defense, formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was nicknamed after this famous movie series.
What is Star Wars?
800
A period in the United States when it was illegal to make, sell, or drink alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
800
The fall of the wall in this city signaled the end of the Cold War.
What is Berlin?
800
After World War II, the U.S. strategy against communism was known as _______.
What is containment?