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100
The amendment passed during Reconstruction that was supposed to guarantee equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
Type of business that sold stock to encourage investment during the Gilded Age.
What is a corporation?
100
Ship that was sunk by a German torpedo in 1915, killing 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
100
He was President when the stock market crashed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
U.S. foreign policy to contain communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
The government organization that provided relief, education, and employment services to freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
Legislation that divided Native American reservations into independent family plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
200
Woodrow Wilson's plan for restructuring the world after WWII.
What were the Fourteen Points?
200
Name for FDR's plan to fix the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
200
Massive aid plan to Western Europe after World War II, partially intended to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
The laws passed in the South during Reconstruction in an attempt to return blacks to a condition similar to slavery.
What are black codes?
300
American foreign policy that encouraged free trade in China.
What was the Open Door Policy?
300
Type of government in Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Franco's Spain.
What is fascism?
300
What is the name for the economic theory that advising deficit spending to recover from the Depression?
What is Keynesian economics?
300
Landmark Supreme Court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown vs. Board of Ed. of Topeka?
400
The Reconstruction plan that aimed to fundamentally transform the status of freed slaves.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
400
The idea that developed countries should take over developing countries in order to bring them civilization.
What is the "white man's burden?"
400
The policy pursued by the Allies against Hitler before he invaded Poland in 1939.
What is appeasement?
400
The person who criticized FDR's plan for not doing enough to help the poor.
Who is Huey Long?
400
The person who delivered the "iron" curtain speech.
Who is Winston Churchill?
500
The temporary promise to freed slaves, made by General Sherman, of 40 acres and a mule.
What is Special Field Order No. 15?
500
The idea, expressed by Andrew Carnegie, that the rich should use their wealth to help improve society as a whole.
What was the Gospel of Wealth?
500
The Germans' final counteroffensive during World War II.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
500
The period when most of FDR's bills to help the Depression were passed.
What is the First Hundred Days?
500
The person who made this statement, "We did not land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!"
Who is Malcolm X?