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| 2591795299 | Laws designed to segregate blacks and whites | Jim Crow laws | 0 | |
| 2591796914 | Beginning and ending dates of the Civil War | 1861-1865 | 1 | |
| 2591798763 | Hands off policy of government toward business | laissez faire | 2 | |
| 2591799287 | Late 19th century political party made up mostly of farmers and workers who wanted the government to regulate banks and railroads | Populist Party | 3 | |
| 2591805070 | First immigration restrictions in the United States, forbade Chinese naturalization and suspended Chinese immigration for 19 years. | Chinese Exclusion Act | 4 | |
| 2591812574 | Law that ended tribal ownership of land and tried to force Native Americans to assimilate into white society | Dawes Act | 5 | |
| 2591816719 | Controlled the steel industry through vertical integration, advocated the "Gospel of Wealth" | Andrew Carnegie | 6 | |
| 2591818867 | A response to the problems created by the transformation from a rural society to an urban and industrial society | Progressive Movement | 7 | |
| 2591824023 | Journalists who graphically exposed a variety of social, political, and economic problems and influenced the public to demand change. | Muckrakers | 8 | |
| 2591826831 | A movement among evangelical Christians who wanted to apply the teachings of Jesus to social and industrial problems. | Social Gospel Movement | 9 | |
| 2591831024 | the U.S. central bank established in 1913 in hopes that it would bring stability to the economy and flexibility to the monetary system. | Federal Reserve System | 10 | |
| 2591832486 | amendment that gave women the vote | 19th amendment | 11 | |
| 2591834087 | amendment that provided for the direct election of senators by the people rather than state legislatures | 17th amendment | 12 | |
| 2591836387 | amendment that made the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal | 18th amendment | 13 | |
| 2591837738 | amendment that allowed the federal government to tax a person's income | 16th amendment | 14 | |
| 2591839537 | FDR's plan to bring the U.S. out of the great depression | the New Deal | 15 | |
| 2591842120 | The three focuses (Rs) of Roosevelt's New deal. | Relief for the poor, recovery from the depression, reform of the economic system | 16 | |
| 2591846285 | enacted by Congress in response to business leaders' demands for protection from foreign competition in 1930. It made the depression worse. | Smoot-Hawley Tariff 1930 | 17 | |
| 2591847838 | Offered a safety net for the elderly and disabled persons and their dependents | Social Security Act | 18 | |
| 2591851035 | The U.S. went to war with Spain in 1898 in order to help this country to gain independence. | Cuba | 19 | |
| 2591854910 | The practice of exaggerating or falsifying news stories to gain readers had the effect of turning American public opinion against Spain and helped propel the US into the Spanish-American War in 1898. | Yellow Journalism | 20 | |
| 2591860279 | Expanded the Monroe Doctrine to establish the U.S. as Latin America's "policeman" to intervene in order to "stabilize" the region. | Roosevelt Corollary | 21 | |
| 2591862328 | A policy in which a nations seeks to expand its political, military, economic, and/or cultural influence in other nations. | Imperialism | 22 | |
| 2591865524 | Besides the Zimmermann Telegram, Germany's resumption of ____________ led the U.S. to declare war on Germany in 1917. | unrestricted submarine warfare | 23 | |
| 2591869078 | Woodrow Wilson's plan to eliminate the causes of war through open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, removal of tariff barriers, reducing the size of armies, and granting independence to colonies. | Fourteen Points | 24 | |
| 2591871745 | The treaty that ended the Great War and punished Germany by forcing them to admit "war guilt" and to pay reparations to the Allies. | Treaty of Versailles | 25 | |
| 2591875367 | John Hay's policy that encouraged nation's to give up their "sphere's of influence" so that all could have access to trade in Asia. | Open Door Policy | 26 | |
| 2591877873 | A British passenger liner sunk by a U-boat in 1915 which turned American public opinion against the Germans in WWI. | Lusitania | 27 | |
| 2591879136 | A sense of obligation to take the blessings of civilization to the rest of the world. | White Man's Burden | 28 | |
| 2591881100 | An agreement for the U.S. to lend war material to the Allied in 1941. | Lend-Lease Act | 29 | |
| 2591883440 | This event triggered U.S. entry into WWII. | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 | 30 | |
| 2591889719 | Churchill and Roosevelt's 1941 agreement on a common core of beliefs and provided the moral basis for U.S. support for the Allies in WWII. | Atlantic Charter | 31 | |
| 2591891712 | The Big Three (Allied leaders) for most of WWII | Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt | 32 | |
| 2591894434 | Icon of the American women who worked on home front to produce needed material for the Allies in WWII. | Rosie the Riveter | 33 | |
| 2591899190 | Because food, rubber, fuel, etc. was scarce during WWII, Americans were forced to __________ these items. | Ration | 34 | |
| 2591903272 | The conflict caused by ideological differences between capitalism and communism/ democracy and totaliarianism which lasted 40 years. | The Cold War | 35 | |
| 2591905753 | A program which offered money to Western European nations to help them rebuild after WWII. | The Marshall Plan | 36 | |
| 2591908552 | A military alliance of North Atlantic nations formed in 1949 to oppose Soviet aggression in Europe. | NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization | 37 | |
| 2591993219 | This competition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that began when the Soviets launched the first satellite into space. | The Space Race | 38 | |
| 2591999139 | This organization was established under the National Security Act to engage in covert operations in other nations. | Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) | 39 | |
| 2592001150 | This post war event saw the birth of 50 million babies between 1945 and 1960. | The Baby Boom | 40 | |
| 2592002774 | This theory was used to justify U.S. involvement in conflict in Vietnam. | Domino Theory | 41 | |
| 2592010804 | Which U.S. president used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to escalate the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam? | Lyndon Baines Johnson | 42 | |
| 2592013052 | Which Republican became president in 1968? | Richard Nixon | 43 | |
| 2592015889 | Nixon's policy to turn the war back over to South Vietnamese troops and to pull back U.S. troops is called what? | Vietnamization | 44 | |
| 2592021288 | What law drastically changed who could immigrate to the U.S. by allowing family members of those already living in the U.S. to come? | Immigration Act of 1965 | 45 | |
| 2592025104 | Nixon's policy of relaxing tensions with the USSR | Detente | 46 | |
| 2592028959 | In this 1962 event, the world came very close to nuclear war over Soviet missiles placed in Cuba. | Cuban Missile Crisis | 47 | |
| 2592036203 | LBJ's program to end poverty by expanding the role of government and included changes in civil rights, health care, education, the environment, housing, and immigration. | The Great Society | 48 | |
| 2592039291 | The Supreme Court under this chief justice shifted the emphasis from protecting private property to expanding personal rights. | Earl Warren | 49 | |
| 2592040449 | Who was the first U.S. president to visit China? | Richard Nixon | 50 | |
| 2592043944 | OPEC's reduction of the oil supply to the U.S. led to this 1970s crisis in the U.S. | Energy Crisis | 51 | |
| 2592048640 | When Iranian fundamentalists seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding 53 Americans hostage for more than a year, they sparked the _________ Crisis. | Iran Hostage Crisis | 52 | |
| 2592052634 | Jerry Falwell's organization made up of conservative Christian political action committees. | Moral Majority | 53 | |
| 2592057344 | Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of more openness with western nations and a relaxing of restraints on the Soviet people. | Glasnost | 54 | |
| 2592065748 | A big scandal under the Reagan administration in which the U.S. government sold weapons to Iran in exchange for helping to get hostages released in Lebanon and then used the profits to help the Contras fight the communist government in Nicaragua. | Iran-Contra Scandal | 55 | |
| 2592069382 | Nicknamed "Star Wars," this program would have built a space shield to protect the U.S. from incoming nuclear missiles, but it never was finished. | Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) | 56 | |
| 2592073242 | A law requiring employers and public facilities to make "reasonable accomodations" for people with disabilities. | Americans with Disabilities Act | 57 | |
| 2592075137 | A process of closer integration and exchange between different countries and peoples worldwide. | Globalization | 58 | |
| 2592078223 | A federal agency established by President Bush in 2001 to develop and implement a national strategy to make the United States safe from terrorist threats or attacks. | Department of Homeland Security | 59 | |
| 2592083032 | This law passed in 2001 grants broad police authority to the government to find and convict suspected terrorists by monitoring email and Internet traffic. | USA Patriot Act | 60 | |
| 2592085902 | The first female Supreme Court Justice, appointed by Ronald Reagan. | Sandra Day O'Connor | 61 | |
| 2592089692 | The policy adopted by the Bush Administration in 2001 asserting that the U.S. has the right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction which could be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad. | The Bush Doctrine | 62 | |
| 2592091693 | An agreement between the U.S.A., Mexico, and Canada to allow goods to move across borders free of tariffs. | NAFTA or North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement | 63 | |
| 2592095901 | Who won the 2000 presidential election even though he failed to win the popular vote and the outcome was eventually decided when the Supreme Court ordered Florida to discontinue its vote recounts? | George W. Bush | 64 | |
| 2592100728 | A controversial bill with the goal of expanding health care coverage for all Americans, passed under the administration of Barack Obama. | Affordable Care Act or Obamacare | 65 | |
| 2592108684 | A network of Islamic terror organizations, led by Osama bin Laden, that carried out the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001. | Al Qaeda | 66 | |
| 2592113040 | Head of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991, whose liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe. | Mikhail Gorbachev | 67 | |
| 2592182403 | An American political philosophy that favors small government, laissez faire capitalism, tough stance with the Soviet Union, personal responsibility, and "family values." | Neoconservatism | 68 | |
| 2592239527 | Under this president the U.S. had its longest period of strong and sustained economic growth in its history. | Bill Clinton | 69 | |
| 2592244974 | A term to refer to the set of significant changes brought about by computers and other digital devices during the second half of the 20th century and helped expand the U.S. economy during the 1990s. | Digital Revolution | 70 | |
| 2592247586 | Which U.S. president brokered a peace deal between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Camp David in 1978? | Jimmy Carter | 71 |
