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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
The South passed these laws to try to restrict blacks from voting
What are the 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 Presidential check and Congressional check...
What is a veto and a 2/3 override?
200
Supplying our allies eventually drew us into WWII. Tehse were the "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 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?
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
This Amendment 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?
What is The Manhattan Project?
500
Which Senator accused Americans of being communist spies and supporters of The Soviet Union?
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?