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100
Abraham Lincoln was succeeded by this president.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
This battle annihilated George Custer's army in 1876.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
100
This is the transition from an economy based on agriculture and handmade products to an economy based on mass production.
What is industrialization?
100
This is the belief that people from Northern Europe and their descendants in the United States are better than anyone else.
What is Anglo-Saxonism?
100
This is a term which means that every aspect of the economy and society is devoted to the war effort.
What is total war?
200
This amendment gave citizenship to African-Americans and introduced the "equal protection clause."
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
200
This book highlighted the plight of Native Americans.
What is A Century of Dishonor?
200
This term means that the government should not interfere in the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
200
This law protected consumers from tainted food.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
200
The Triple Alliance consisted of these nations.
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
300
This faction in Congress wanted to punish the South and treat it as a conquered country.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
300
This was the last battle of the Indian Wars in 1890.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
300
This act made most government positions subject to a civil service exam.
What is the Pendleton Act?
300
As a result of the Treaty of Paris, the US gained these territories
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
300
During the 1920s, American demographics, living patterns, and dating changed because of this invention.
What is the automobile?
400
This is the term for northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
What is a carpetbagger?
400
This law restricted Chinese immigration in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
This political party supported a direct election of senators, a graduated income tax, and a money system based mainly on silver.
What is the People's Party, or Populists?
400
These are journalists who exposed political corruption and dangerous working conditions in factories.
What are muckrakers?
400
Woodrow Wilson wanted the US to enter World War I for this reason.
What is to make the world safe for democracy?
500
This compromise allowed Rutherford Hayes to become President in exchange for withdrawing the last remaining federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
This is the idea that the uniqueness of American culture comes from the experience of westward expansion.
What is the Frontier Thesis?
500
He gave a famous speech against the gold standard, known as the "Cross of Gold" speech.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
This is a French term meaning reconciliation, and refers to the settling of disputes between the United States and Great Britain during the 1890s.
What is rapprochement?
500
This was a political scandal that involved members of Warren G. Harding's cabinet.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?