Gilded Age and Progressive Era
What is "trust busting"?
Breaking up of monopolies.
What happened during the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Biology teacher put on trial for teaching evolution, which was illegal to teach in the state of Tennessee at the time.
What was the significance of the Zimmerman Telegram?
Correspondence between Germany and Mexico, encouraging Mexico to invade the United States. It led to the United States to declare war on Germany and enter WWI.
Which Senator is associated with the red scare, and held public hearings regarding suspected communists?
Joseph McCarthy
What was detente?
Period in which the United States and Soviet Union brought down Cold War tensions in the 1970s. Began with President Nixon's visits to Moscow and Beijing.
Which three Presidents are known as the "progressive presidents"?
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
What event began the Great Depression?
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Why didn't the United States join the League of Nations?
Congress was weary about giving up its power to declare war.
The domino theory led the United States to enter what war in 1964-65?
Vietnam War
What is stagflation?
High unemployment, coupled with high inflation, which are usually thought to have an inverse relationship.
Which amendment outlawed the sale of alcohol in the United States?
18th Amendment
What was the result of the Dust Bowl?
People in the states that were affected headed west.
What was the purpose of the Committee on Public Information or CPI during WWI?
Propaganda
Why did President Eisenhower push for the Interstate Highway Act of 1956?
In case we needed to have Americans evacuate.
During which President's time in office did the United States see a budget surplus rather than a budget deficit?
Bill Clinton
How did the decimation of the American buffalo affect the Plains Indians?
It hurt their way of life due to their reliance on the animal for food, clothing, and shelter.
Why did President Franklin Roosevelt attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937?
The Supreme Court was striking down some of the major aspects of the New Deal programs that were being implemented.
What was the name of the United States' strategy against Japan in the Pacific during WWII?
Island Hopping
Who assassinated President Kennedy in Dallas in 1963?
Lee Harvey Oswalt
What happened during the 2000 Election?
Results in Florida were extremely close and the State Supreme Court ordered a recount. U.S Supreme Court got involved, stopped the recount, and made George W. Bush President.
Andrew Carnegie was best known for being the monopolist behind which industry?
Steel
Why was Huey Long critical of FDR's New Deal?
He believed that it didn't do enough to lift Americans out of poverty.
What is D-Day?
American forces stormed the beaches at Normandy in German-occupied France to set off an invasion of Germany.
The violence during the March on Selma in 1965 gave President Johnson the political capital to push for what law?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
Reagan Administration scandal in which members of the Administration illegally sold weapons to free American hostages in Iran, and then used that money to fund the contras in Nicaragua.