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100

Act gave promised 160 acres to any citizen if they farm and improve land to add settlement along the western frontier 

What is the Homestead Act?

100
New and improved weapons caused soldiers to engage in this warfare, causing a stalemate on the western front of the war.
What is trench warfare?
100

The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that involved arms race, space race, and fight to contain communism. 

What is the cold war?

100

The US intervened in Vietnam under this theory, if one country fail to communism the others around it would. 

What is the Domino Theory?

100

African Americans fight for equal rights during the 1960s. 

What is the Civil Rights Movement?

200

Responsible for the growth of cities in the Western region of the US and allowed people to travel to portions of the country that could not be reached by wagon

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

200

At the beginning of the War the United States had a policy to not choose a side. 

What is Neutrality?

200

The United States policy to prevent the spread of communism.

What is the Containment?

200

This allowed the President to escalate the war in Vietnam by sending more troops and more bombings.

What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

200
In 1955, Rosa Parks sat in the white section of the segregated bus which led to this:
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300

The Dawes Act forced Native Americans to adopt the culture of Americans. This is called.. 

What is Assimilation?

300
Wilson envisioned a _____, an international peace keeping organization.
What is League of Nations?
300

The plan was created to provide aid to countries that suffered damage after WWII to prevent them from adopting communism. 

What is the Marshall Plan?

300

The President lied to American people telling them that the US was winning the war. This created a …..

What is a credibility gap?

300
This Act made it illegal for hotels, restaurants, and other businesses to practice racial discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 64?
400

Workers of Asian decent were banned from entering the US. 

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

400
The US entered WWI after Germany resumed this?

Unrestricted submarine warfare

400

The panic created in America after WWII that communist were living in America.

What is the Red Scare?

400

Nixon's plan to remove US troops in Vietnam and allow South Vietnam to take over. 

What is Vietnamization? 

400

This act increased the number of minority voters. This act out lawed the tax poll and literacy test. 

What is the Voting Rights Act?

500

Corrupt city officials who offered immigrants jobs in exchange for votes. 

What is Political Machines?

500
Germany offered to help Mexico regain the American southwest through this.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
500

Committee Created to find Communist in the United States. 

What is the House of Un-American Activities Committee?

500

This made the President inform congress of any war action within 48hrs and if congress did not approve after 60 days the troops would have to evacuate. 

What is the War Powers Resolution?

500
Along with Dolores Huerta, he was a pioneer for the Chicano movement, helping migrant workers in Southwest America.
Who is Cesar Chavez?