1775-1900
1900-1945
1946-1979
1980-2000
2001-2020
100

Name of the theory according to which the US is destined by God to spread democracy across the North American continent.

Manifest Destiny

100

Nicknames given to the 1920s

the Jazz Age / the Roaring Twenties

100

Name the movement inspired by Malcolm X

Black Power

100

Who first developed the Internet?

the US military

100

When did the attack that started the "war on terror" on the Twin towers happened, and what is this its nickname?

9/11, 2001

200

What is the name under which the 13th Amendment is known and when was it signed?

The Emancipation Proclamation - 1863

200

During which years was alcohol banned in the U.S + name of the period

1920-1933 / Prohibition

200

Name of the Republican senator who started a campaign to find communists + the nickname given his campaign

Senator Joseph McCarthy / Witch hunt

200

Name two black artists of the period

Toni Morrison / Maya Angelou; 

Michel Basquiat / Tyree Guyton

200

In which year did the Black lives matter movement started? Why?

2013, to oppose police brutality to African Americans.

300

Name the event and date that started the War of Independence.

The Boston Tea Party = colonists dumping a tea cargo into the Atlantic - 1773

300

What did General Motors start producing in 1908 and why is it significant?

Model T / beginning of assembly-line production

300

Name the two wars the U.S. fought trying to contain communism

Korea & Vietnam

300

Name of the protagonists of the 1998 scandal

Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky

300

in 2016, who was the first female candidate for presidency?

Hillary Clinton

400

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and when was it adopted?

Thomas Jefferson / July 4, 1776

400

What right gives the 19th amendment and when was it signed?

Women get the right to vote / 1920

400

When was the ruling Brown v. Board of Education issued and what did it bring about

1954 / end of segregation

400

How did Ronald Reagan oppose the principle of the New Deal?

By cutting taxes and services

400

What started the #metoo movement?

Widespread sexual abuse by film producer Harvey Weinstein

500

What is the Indian removal act and when was it implemented?

Native Americans moved to reservations - 1830

500

When was Franklin D. Roosevelt elected and on which programme?

1932 / New Deal social programmes

500

1950s literary movement that rebelled against capitalism, consumer society and Cold War politics

Beat Generation

500

Topics on which Democrats and Republicans have polarized positions

taxation; gun-control; immigration; diversity

500

How and when did the subprime crisis start?

2008 – with the collapse of Lehman Brothers bank