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100
This government organization was established to provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
100
Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on a theme of a "return to _______."
What is "normalcy"?
100
Teenager killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Who was Emmitt Till?
100
Word used to describe investigative journalists in the Gilded Age.
What are muckrakers?
100
FDR's alphabet soup program that was created to employ most of the unemployed people on relief until the economy recovered.
What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
200
Legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the produce.
What is sharecropping?
200
Small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains formed this political party in the 1890s.
What is the People’s Party (also known as the Populists)?
200
Name one of four tactics used to disenfranchise black voters.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, or violence and intimidation?
200
Legal principle enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is "separate but equal"?
200
Britain and France declared war on Germany after the invasion of what country?
What is Poland?
300
"... nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..."
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
He attacked the Gold Standard, wanting to increase inflation to lower the burden of farmers debts.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
300
Theory depicted in movies like Gone with the Wind, presenting a glorification of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South with benevolent masters and happy slaves.
What is the Lost Cause?
300
Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trustbuster by attacking which monopoly in 1902?
What is Northern Securities?
300
German word for heavy artillery fire.
What is blitz?
400
"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged. . ."
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
400
Pseudoscientific theory that attempted to apply biological concept of survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics.
What is Social Darwinism?
400
"_________ Christianity” sought to stiffen young men’s’ backbones by putting them in touch with their primal manliness, leading to the creation of the YMCA.
What is "muscular"?
400
Unsafe working conditions led to a tragic fire at this factory in 1911.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
400
American citizens forced into interment camps during World War II.
Who were Japanese Americans?
500
Laws passed by Southern state legislatures after the Civil War that aimed to restrict the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
500
This 1862 Act granted title to 160 acre plots of land after five years of settlement.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
An 1899 call for all western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets.
What was the Open Door Policy?
500
African American leader who controversially advocated for racial accommodationism.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
500
First military action taken by the United States against international communism.
What was the Korean War?
600
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime..."
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
600
The United States demanded that this tribe settle on government reservations, leading to the Red River War.
Who are the Comanche?
600
An anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
600
The Triple Entente Great Britain, France, and _____.
What is Russia?
600
Post World War II plan to create new markets for American goods and generate support for capitalist democracies.
What was the Marshall Plan?
700
The Compromise of 1877 resolved the disputed 1876 presidential election between Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden this Republican candidate.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
700
Trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in southern Texas and ended at Kansas rail stops.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
700
President McKinley said the United States received the territory after the Spanish American War as if it were a gift from the gods.
What are the Philippines?
700
This was the particular spark that ignited World War I.
What was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Sophie?
700
This famous general was removed from command for publicly insubordinate to the Commander in Chief.
Who was Gen. Douglas MacArthur?
800
Extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group, founded in 1865 during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
800
In the late nineteenth century, this American city had the largest meat processing industry.
What is Chicago?
800
This modification of the Monroe Doctrine declared that the U.S. had the right to to exercise military force in Latin American countries to keep European countries out.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
800
Source of communication that offered to help Mexico recover land lost in the Mexican-American War.
What was the Zimmermann telegram?
800
NATO stands for ______.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
900
Disease that proved most deadly during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I.
What was influenza?
900
Organization created by a U.S. President but Congress refused to join.
What was the League of Nations?
900
"_____ Summer refers to racial violence in twenty-five American cities in 1919.
What is Red?
900
________________, wrote an influential book, Southern Horrors and helped inspire the anti-lynching movement.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
900
Supreme Court case that overturned the legal logic of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
1000
This man created a movement encouraging black Americans to migrate to Africa on shipping company called the Black Star Line.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
1000
A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to make an early payment on bonuses scheduled to be released in 1945.
What was the Bonus Army?
1000
His and J. P. Morgan's steel corporation merged, the largest of its time, and became the basis of the U.S. Steel Corporation.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
1000
Roosevelt tried to create relief for American farmers through the AAA, which stood for _____.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
1000
Plains farmers plowing up natural ground cover that had taken ages to form over the surface of the dry Plains states led to this environmental disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
