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Progressive Era
Reconstruction
The Constitution
World War II
Cold War
100
The term for a Journalist who exposed corruption and/or social problems during The Industrial Revolution Era
What is A Muckraker?
100

Name one law the South passed to try to restrict blacks from voting

What are the Grandfather Clause, Poll Tax and Literacy Test?

100
Name the 3 branches in "Separation of Powers"
What is the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branch?
100
At the Onset of WWII, the US stuck to this foreign policy
What is The Policy of Neutrality?
100
Who was the Cold War between?
What is The US and the Soviet Union?
200
This President became known as a Trust-Buster, breaking up Trusts like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel...
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
200
What Amendment abolished slavery?
What is The 13th Amendment?
200

Name a way that the President can check on a bill passed by Congress

What is a veto?

200

Supplying our allies eventually drew us into WWII. Name one of these "supply" acts

What is The Cash and Carry Policy, Lend-Lease Act, and/or Destroyer Deal?

200
What was the term for the America's foreign policy during the Cold War?
What is Containment?
300
This book AND author exposed the horrors of Meat Packing Plants
What is The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair?
300
The 14th Amendment did this
What is, gave Equal Protection Under The Law?
300
What was the compromise over representation for big and small states?
What is The Great Compromise?
300
Name something Americans did on the Home front to support the War effort
What is Buying War Bonds, planting Victory Gardens, Rationing, or women working in industry?
300

This foreign policy provided military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey

What is the Truman Doctrine?

400

Name one of the two food related laws that were passed as a result of the Progressive Era

What are The Pure Food & Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act?

400
The South passed these laws to segregate blacks from whites
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
400

The Constitution was created to replace The Articles of Confederation, mostly because the Articles lacked this

What is a strong National/Federal/Central Government/Ability to tax?

400
In this Supreme Court case, The Court said it was OK for Japanese-Americans to be interned during WWII
What is Korematsu v. The US?
400
This policy gave economic aid specifically to Europe after WWII
What is The Marshall Plan?
500
This is the law or act was used by the trust-busting President to break up trusts...
What is The Sherman Anti-Trust Acts?
500

The 14th Amendment was used in both of these Supreme Court cases concerning segregation

What is Plessy v Ferguson (1896) and Brown v BOE (1954)

500

Both of these Amendments concerned voting rights for blacks and women... showing how society's attitudes have changed over time

What are the 15th and 19th Amendment?

500

What was the name of the Project to develop the Atom Bomb and the name of the two bombs dropped on Japan?

What is The Manhattan Project, Fat Man and Little Boy?

500
Which Senator accused Americans of being communist spies and supporters of The Soviet Union?
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?