Name BOTH the first English and French settlements in North America
What are Jamestown and Quebec?
100
This 1803 acquisition of territory doubled the size of the United States and led to Westward expansion
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
He was the Robber Baron who founded the Standard Oil Company and made it the first monopoly
Who is John Rockefeller?
100
This organization was central to Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points after World War I
What is the League of Nations?
100
This was the idea to send money to help revive war-torn economies in Europe after World War II
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This was the first legislative body in North America and represented the first form of self-government in the colonies
What is the House of Burgesses?
200
This project revolutionized trade by Midwestern farmers a way to transport goods to the East Coast
What is the Erie Canal?
200
This was the last big armed conflict between troops and Natives and led to the deaths of 300 unarmed Natives
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
200
This was the center of the music industry in New York City during the 1920s
What is Tin Pan Alley?
200
These were the high and low points of the Carter presidency
What are the Camp David Accords and the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
300
This conflict over land ended with a British victory over the French
What is the French and Indian war?
300
This ended Radical Reconstruction and caused many Blacks to lose the political rights they won after the Civil War
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
This is the name of the first union and the man who founded it
What are the American Federation of Labor and Samuel Gompers?
300
This was led by Robert Oppenheimer and was located in Los Alamos, New Mexico
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
This called for tax cuts for the rich and businesses, believing it would lead to investment and the benefits would "trickle down"
What is Reaganomics?
400
Name the author and title of a 1776 pamphlet that called for colonial independence
What are T-Pain and 'Common Sense'?
400
Name the amendments that abolished slavery, provided citizenship to everyone born in America, and said no citizen could be denied the right to vote because of his race
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
400
Give the name of the author and his 1906 book that led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
What are Upton Sinclair and the Jungle?
400
This was FDR's plan to send arms and supplies to 'nations whose defense is vital to the U.S.' and started the United States' unofficial involvement in World War II
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
He founded the United Farm Workers to support the rights of immigrant workers
Who is Cesar Chavez?
500
The Great Compromise at the Constitutional joined ideas from these two plans
What are the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan?
500
This admitted California as a free state and allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide through popular sovereignty whether or not to allow slavery
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling of "Separate but Equal" made segregation legal in the United States.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
These three New Deal programs
(1) Brought electricity to the rural South
(2) Protected and expanded the rights of organized labor
(3) Provided retirement income for folks 65+
What are the (1) TVA, (2) Wagner Act, (3) Social Security Act?
500
Name the author and book that launched BOTH the feminist movement and the environmentalist movement
What are Betty Friedan/Feminine Mystique and Rachel Carson/Silent Spring?