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Presidents
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Headline used to rally Americans to support the war against Spain
What is "Remember the Maine"
100
This growth of African American artists, writers, intellectuals, and social leaders is responsible for the birth of jazz
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
100
A political ideology of individual liberty, private property, a competitive market economy, free trade, and limited government
What is classical liberalism?
100
The reason the US declared war against Japan, entering WW2
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
This president ordered two atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Who is Truman?
200
President Wilson's principles for a new world order (open diplomacy, free trade, arms reduction, national self-determination, etc.)
What are the Fourteen Points?
200
The trial of a biology teacher who taught evolution against the Tennessee state ban
What is the Scopes trial?
200
A major cause of westward migration away from the Great Plains states from 1930 to 1941
What is the dust bowl?
200
The secret project to develop an atomic bomb hidden
What is the Manhattan Project?
200
This president served longer than any other and dramatically reshaped the American economy despite being paralyzed by polio
Who is FDR?
300
It ended WW1 assigning full responsibility for the war to Germany
What is Treaty of Versailles?
300
Established by the 18th Amendment and repealed in 1933
What is prohibition?
300
An industrial democracy that adopts various government-guaranteed social welfare programs
What is a welfare state?
300
The system of government that grew rapidly between the world wars and most prominently took hold in Spain, Italy, Germany, and Japan
What is fascism?
300
This president's neglect of growing poverty and a rapidly declining economy led people to live in shanty towns nicknamed after him
Who is Hoover?
400
A major cause for US entry into WW1 thats publication in newspapers garnered support for the war
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
400
A group of veterans who camped out near the Capitol and demanded immediate payment of pensions due in 1945
What is the Bonus Army?
400
New Deal program that regulated the stock market to prevent further damage to the economy
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
400
The invasion that opened second front against the Germans and pushed the Allies toward victory
What is D-Day (invasion of northern France)?
400
This president ran for reelection with the slogan "He kept us out of war" and then did exactly the opposite
Who is Wilson?
500
The assertion that the US would act as a "policeman" in the Caribbean region and protect US interests in Latin America
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
The scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land
What is Teapot Dome?
500
This New Deal legislation created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
500
This law gave President Roosevelt control over all aspects of the war effort in WW2
What is the War Powers Act?
500
This president is famous for his environmental conservation and is known as the trust buster
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?