6746349406 | Storm waters flooded the city after the levees broke. | How did Hurricane Katrina affect New Orleans? | 0 | |
6746349407 | Entrepreneur who designed personal computers and their operating software. | What impact did Bill Gates have on business and technology? | 1 | |
6746349408 | People grew their own fruits & vegetables at home to conserve food production during war. | What were Victory Gardens? | 2 | |
6746349409 | 19th Amendment | Women, such as the Union for Women's Suffrage, fought for the ratification of what amendment? | 3 | |
6746349410 | Desegregation (or integration) of public schools. | What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education? | 4 | |
6746349411 | 1920s | What decade was characterized by installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers? | 5 | |
6746349412 | Broke the stalemate created by trench warfare. | How did tanks affect the course of World War 1? | 6 | |
6746349413 | First female Supreme Court Justice. | Why was the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court important? | 7 | |
6746349414 | 1941 | What year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Habor, causing the U.S. to enter World War 2? | 8 | |
6746349415 | 1929 | What year did the stock market crash, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression? | 9 | |
6746349416 | 1898 | What year did the U.S. fight the Spanish-American War, allowing it to move into the position of a world power? | 10 | |
6746349417 | Cold War | Which era was defined by conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, as well as dealt with the U.S. attempting to contain communism due to tense relations with the Soviet Union? | 11 | |
6746349418 | Roaring 1920s | Which era was characterized by consumerism, jazz, speakeasies, and a fear of communists AND immigrants | 12 | |
6746349419 | Gilded Age | Which era was characterized by industrialization, urbanization, increases in wealth for businesses, and the formation of labor unions? | 13 | |
6746349420 | Progressive Era | Which era was defined by reforms as people tried to return political power to the people, restore opportunities, and combat the injustices of the Gilded Age? | 14 | |
6746349421 | Declaration of Independence | Which document begins with the words "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal"? | 15 | |
6746349422 | Poor farming techniques and drought | What human and physical factors caused the Dust Bowl in the 1930s? | 16 | |
6746349423 | 15th Amendment | What post-Civil War amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote? | 17 | |
6746349424 | 14th Amendment | What post-Civil War amendment defined citizenship and was later violated by the internment of the Japanese? | 18 | |
6746349425 | 18th Amendment | What amendment banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol? | 19 | |
6746349426 | Expanded voting rights | What is the connection between the 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments? | 20 | |
6746349427 | 17th Amendment | Which Progressive Era amendment allowed for the direct election of senators, leading to an increase in direct democracy? | 21 | |
6746349428 | New technology, westward expansion, new labor & business practices. | Which factors allow for the rapid industrialization of the U.S. after the Civil War? | 22 | |
6746349429 | Poor working conditions, long hours, low wages | Why did labor unions form in the late 1800s? | 23 | |
6746349430 | Pure Food & Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act | What laws did Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel, The Jungle, help to pass? | 24 | |
6746349431 | Strong navy | According to imperialist Alfred Thayer Mahan, what did the U.S. need to build in order to become a world power? | 25 | |
6746349432 | Eliminated competition | Why were monopolies and trusts declared illegal under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? | 26 | |
6746349433 | Factory jobs in North | Why did African Americans migrate north during and after World War 1 in the Great Migration? | 27 | |
6746349434 | Maintain defense production levels. | Why did women go to work in factories in World War 2? | 28 | |
6746349435 | Civil disobedience | What method did Rosa Parks and the Greensboro 4 use when they refused to leave their seats on the bus or lunch counters? | 29 | |
6746349436 | Mistrust in government | What effect did the Teapot Dome, Watergate, and Clinton scandals have on citizens of the U.S.? | 30 | |
6746349437 | Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt | What were the Camp David Accords? | 31 | |
6746349438 | Faster shipping routes between Atlantic & Pacific oceans | Why did imperialists believe it was important for the U.S. to build a canal through Panama? | 32 | |
6746349439 | Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare | Why did the U.S. enter World War 1? | 33 | |
6746349440 | FDR's Relief, Recovery, Reform programs to end Great Depression | What was the New Deal? | 34 | |
6746349441 | Overseas territories | What did the U.S. acquire as a result of the Spanish-American War that allowed the U.S. to move into a position of world power? | 35 | |
6746349442 | Sent them to internment camps. | Why did Executive Order 9066 violate the rights of Japanese-Americans during World War 2? | 36 | |
6746349443 | Space Race & creation of NASA | What was a direct result of the Soviets launch of Sputnik in 1957? | 37 | |
6746349444 | Poverty, War, Economy Opportunity, Freedom | What are push and pull factors for immigration in the late 1800s? | 38 | |
6746349445 | Increased political participation of minorities | What was the impact of the 24th Amendment and the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965? | 39 | |
6746349446 | Intervention in countries is necessary to prevent others from falling to communism. | What was the belief of Domino Theory, which was the basis for involvement in Korea & Vietnam Wars? | 40 | |
6746357102 | Greed for gold, treasures, and natural resources | What was a motive for the European exploration and colonization of the New World? | 41 | |
6746364391 | Portugal | Which was the first European nation of sponsor a transatlantic voyage of exploration? | 42 | |
6746369511 | Sophisticated weapons | Why were the Europeans able to swiftly conquer the Native American tribes? | 43 | |
6746373502 | Fur trade | What was the primary French activity in North America during the 16th century? | 44 | |
6746380282 | Intertribal peacekeeping organization | What was the Iroquois Confederacy? | 45 | |
6746385530 | Virginia | What was the first North American colony claimed by Great Britain? | 46 | |
6746389172 | hostility | Relations between the Indians and the early Spanish were characterized by | 47 | |
6746393652 | Theocracy in New England ended | What was an important effect of the Salem Witch Trials of 1690s? | 48 | |
6746400121 | Unofficial church leader who spoke out against establishment & advocated for education of women | Anne Hutchinson is a significant figure in early colonial history because | 49 | |
6746406438 | Turned plantation elite away from indentured servants | What was the significance of Bacon's Rebellion | 50 | |
6746416235 | a refuge for Catholics | The colony of Maryland was originally founded as | 51 | |
6746424367 | Ignored them & continued smuggling | How did the colonists react to the Navigation Acts of the mid-1600s? | 52 | |
6746432303 | Worldviews were irreconcilable. | Why did the Indian tribes & European settlers never assimilate into one society? | 53 | |
6746439788 | Transport of African slaves to North America to be sold | What is the middle passage? | 54 | |
6746446653 | Restrict trade between British colonies & other nations. | What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts of the mid-17th century? | 55 | |
6746450984 | Revival of Protestant religious fever | What was the Great Awakening of the mid-18th century? | 56 | |
6746466296 | territorial expansion | The French and Indian War came about because of a dispute over | 57 | |
6746469312 | Loose association for mutual security of colonies | What was the Albany Plan of Union? | 58 | |
6746475878 | Fought for their benefit. | Why did Britain decide that the colonies must assume a share of the British War debt? | 59 | |
6746491059 | Proclamation Line of 1763 | Which law did colonists oppose after the French and Indian War that restricted their westward migration? | 60 | |
6746497720 | Installation of troops in peacetime. | What was the Boston Massacre a direct result of? | 61 | |
6746509631 | Intolerable Acts | When British colonists dumped chests of East India tea onto Boston Harbor, what did Parliament pass in response? | 62 | |
6746518245 | Social Contract | The belief that government is derived by the consent of the governed is what theory? | 63 | |
6746524709 | Quartering Act | Which 1774 Act started that colonists must allow redcoats to lodge in their houses, when requested to by the army? | 64 | |
6746543210 | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | Which policy, under the Articles of Confederation, settled, organized, and decided the future statehood of the Northwest Territory? | 65 | |
6746696805 | Articles of Confederation | What was the early form of U.S. government that required unanimous consent to pass laws, lacked an executive branch, and failed to give the federal government the power to tax? | 66 |
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