US History

Amendments

100

This amendment protects from illegal search and seizure 

4th Amendment 

200

This amendment prohibited the sale of alcohol 

18th amendment 

300

This amendment repealed prohibition 

21st Amendment 

400

This amendment limited the president to 2 terms 

22nd amendment 

500

This amendment set the order of presidential succession 

25th amendment 

Vietnam War

100

Term for difference of what was being reported by government and what was actually happening in the Vietnam War  

Credibility Gap 

200

The 26th amendment was passed to lower the voting age to 18 using the argument if you were old enough to do what, you were old enough to vote 

fight in the war 

300

In Tinker v. Des Moines students were expelled for wearing armbands protesting the Vietnam War. The court ruled in favor of the students citing what amendment

1st Amendment 

400

What was reason for the US joining the Vietnam War

Prevent spread of communism 

500

This overruled the powers granted to the president by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

War Powers Resolution 

Progressive Era

100

The Jungle led to the passage of which act 

Pure Food & Drug Act or Meat Inspection Act 

200

The nickname given to investigative journalists during the Progressive Era 

Muckrakers 

300

At the Seneca Falls Convention met to fuel support for women gaining what? 

Women's suffrage 

400

He was a co-founder of NAACP as well as fought for equality for African Americans 

WEB DuBois 

500

She was the founder of Hull House starting a settlement house movement to assist immigrants 

Jan Addams 

Civil Righs

100

This case stated schools could be segregated due to "separate but equal"

Plessy v. Ferguson 

200

This court case overruled Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education 

300

What type of protesting did MLK Jr support 

civil disobedience 

400

What was the name given to the laws that encouraged discriminatory practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests? 

Jim Crow Laws 

500

After Rosa parks was arrested on the bus this protest occured 

Montgomery Bus Boycotts 

WWI/ WWII

100

Who worked in factories during the war 

Women and minorities 

200

In both WWI & WWII the US started out with what approach to involvment in the war 

Neutrality 

300

This caused the US to enter WWII?

Bombing or Pearl Harbor 

400

What caused Japan to surrender in WWII 

Nuclear bombs by US to Nagasaki & Hiroshima 

500

Reasons for US joining WWI 

Lusitania/ German U boat aggression 

Zimmerman Telegrams