This piece of legislation passed in 1972 required equality in sports for women.
What is Title IX?
100
This 1964 event enabled President Lyndon Johnson to receive a "blank check" in fighting the North Vietnamese.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
100
Watergate
Who is Nixon?
100
This movement saw a wave of religious fervor spread through a series of camp revivals.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
These perceived radical women rebelled against the transitioning Victorian to Modern Era of the 1920s by wearing shorter dresses and more makeup.
Who are flappers?
200
Rachel Carson published this scathing expose on the harmful effects of DDT in 1962.
What is Silent Spring?
200
President Adams was horrified to learn that Foreign Minister Talleyrand had demanded a bribe from the US diplomats in Paris during this tense foreign relations blunder.
What is the XYZ Affair?
200
My Lai
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
200
Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that a slave did not have the right of citizenship, in this landmark case many say contributed to the Civil War.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
200
Dr. Spock, helped this social phenomenon deal with all the pressures of child rearing in 1950s America.
What is the Baby Boom?
300
After their dismissal at the London Abolitionist conference, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott led this conference where they declared the rights of equality for all women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
300
After accusations of antinomian teaching, she was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
300
Teapot Dome
Who is Warren Harding?
300
John Calhoun left President Jackson's Administration and wrote this vitriolic piece slamming the Tariff of Abominations.
What is the South Carolina Exposition.
300
As television became a mainstay in most American homes, so did the perception of most Americans views on the presidency. This was shown most significantly in the debate between these two presidential candidates.
Who are Nixon and Kennedy?
400
According to this theory, a woman's role in marriage was to maintain the home for her husband and to raise the children.
What is the "Cult of Domesticity"?
400
The radioactive leak at this facility caused the government to place a freeze on future nuclear facilities construction.
What is Three Mile Island?
400
Monica Lewinsky
Who is Bill Clinton?
400
This leader of the Mormons in Utah, was never able to see his territory gain state status due to polygamy practices.
Who is Brigham Young?
400
Beginning with the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, this movement gained supporters through the women's liberation, anti-materialism, and opposition of the Vietnam War.
What is the Counterculture Movement?
500
This leader took over for Stanton and Anthony in finally achieving the 19th Amendment for women.
Who is Carrie Chapman Catt?
500
In 1956, President Eisenhower pulled the plug on oil to Britain and France over this crisis with Egypt and the Soviet Union.
What is the Suez Canal Crisis?
500
Whiskey Ring
Who is Ulysses Grant?
500
President Jackson easily beat out John Quincy Adams in 1828 due to this newly passed right.
What is Universal Male Suffrage?
500
President Franklin Roosevelt revolutionized the banking industry by signing into law this act which created the FDIC.