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The ban on the making and selling of alcoholic drinks.
What is prohibition?
100
A share of ownership in a company
What is stock?
100
President from 1901-1909, he was a leading progressive noted for his contributions in his regulations of trusts and conversation efforts.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
100
The result of the Korean War resulted in this type of zone between North Korea and South Korea?
What is a demilitarized zone?
100
The advantages of the South at the beginning of the Civil War.
What were better military leadership, fighting on its home soil, fighting a defensive war, and the export of cotton?
200
A community at the edge of a city.
What is a suburb?
200
On this date, the Allies began its invasion of France to retake Western Europe from Adolph Hitler and Germany.
What was D-Day, June 6, 1944?
200
A leading industrialist who founded the Standard Oil Company.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
200
Three reasons the United States engaged in imperialism.
What are expand foreign markets for American products, find new sources of raw materials, invest surplus capital, defend foreign markets using military troops, extend democracy to foreign lands, and to improve the lives of inferior people with American way of life, values, and Christianity?
200
This New Deal program provided jobs, such as planting trees and building small dams, for young men from need families.
What was the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC?
300
The period of tension after World War Ii between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What was the Cold War?
300
Public land set aside for special use, as for Native Americans.
What was a reservation?
300
As a Republican senator from Missouri, he was the leader of the Red Scare in America in the 1950s.
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy?
300
What were three arguments against the United States engaging in imperialism.
What were the U.S. government was taking advantage of foreign peoples, increased potential of military engagements, rivalries with other countries over colonies, expense to maintain and defend colonies, few businesses would profit from trade and investment, violation of democratic principles by ruling other countries, resentment of native population.
300
The term used to describe the violence in this territory to determine whether it would be a free or slave state.
What is "Bleeding Kansas?'
400
A writer who brings attention to problems in society.
Who is a muckraker?
400
The process of charging a high public official, such as the president, with a crime.
What is impeachment?
400
The United States plan to rebuild the economies of Europe after World War II.
What was the Marshall Plan?
400
The major reason the United States entered World War I.
What was unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany, resulting in loss of life and property for the United States?
400
This New Deal Program paid farmers not to grow crops so that farm prices would rise.
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of AAA?
500
Feelings against people because of their ethnic background or skin color.
What is racism?
500
A person who wants to improve society.
What is a reformer?
500
A muckraker who wrote article highly critical of the Standard Oil Company.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
500
Three advantages of the North at the beginning of the Civil War
What were a larger population, more industry, better transportation, and the leadership of Abraham Lincoln?
500
This New Deal program protected people's savings in banks.
What was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or FDIC?