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#108 Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

19th

#107 Which amendment allowed the government to tax income?

16th

#106 Which amendment said that freedmen were citizens of the United States (at that anyone born here is a citizen)?

14th

#105 Which amendment guaranteed black men the right to vote?

15th

#104 Which amendment abolished slavery?

13th

#103 Which amendment guarantees freedom of speech?

1st

#102 Which amendment guarantees freedom of religion?

1st

#101 Which amendment is the right to bear arms?

2nd

#100 What was the Cold War?

tensions between U.S. and USSR after WW2

#99 What is an injunction?

a court order that stops a strike

#98 What does the German word "blitzkrieg" mean?

lightning war

#97 What was the Manhattan Project?

the WW2 program to develop an atomic bomb

#96 What country was Benito Mussolini dictator of?

Italy

#95 What is Social Security?

the government program for old-age insurance

#94 What is a recession?

a slump in business or the economy

#93 What was the New Deal?

FDR's plan to get out the Great Depression

#92 What was the Dust Bowl?

drought in the Plains during the Great Depression

#91 Who was Al Capone?

a famous Chicago gangster boss

#90 What is amnesty?

group pardon

#89 What was the 18th Amendment?

the Prohibition Amendment, prohibit alcohol

#88 What was Charles Lindbergh known for?

He made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

#87 What was Henry Ford known for?

the assembly line; Model T Ford

#86 What are reparations?

payments that loser of the war has to make to victor

#85 What was Roe v. Wade about?

abortion

#84 What was the Scopes trial about?

the legality teaching evolution in public schools (1925)

#83 What was the Red Scare?

the general public's fear of Communism in the 1920s

#82 What is the American holiday that celebrates Armistice Day?

Veterans Day

#81 What is November 11, 1918 known as?

Armistice Day

#80 What are doughboys?

American soldiers from WW1

#79 What was the Zimmermann Note?

A telegram from Germany to Mexico during WW1, that promised parts of U.S. land to Mexico, if Mexico would aid the Germans.

#78 What did George W. Bush call the "first war of the twenty-first century"?

the War on Terror

#77 What did the Patriot Act do?

It gave the government more power to fight alleged terrorists in America.

#76 Explain George W. Bush's policy of preemptive strikes.

Strike the terrorists at their bases before they attack.

#75 What happened in Benghazi in 2012?

2 U.S. diplomatic compounds were attacked by terrorists

#74 What position does John G. Roberts Jr. hold?

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

#73 What was the coalition of the willing?

other countries that joined with the U.S. to fight Saddam Hussein

#72 What country is the Taliban in control of?

Afghanistan

#71 What was the idea behind George W. Bush's compassionate conservatism?

to help with social problems, not by giving out government money, but by working with religious organizations

#70 What was controversial about the 2000 presidential election?

George W. Bush had barely more electoral votes than Al Gore. Gore called for Florida's votes to be recounted because of "hanging chads".

#69 What year did Al Gore lose to George W. Bush?

2000

#68 trade agreement between US, Canada, and Mexico

NAFTA

#67 "scholarships" that give parents more choice in education

educational vouchers

#66 proposed presidential power to take specific items out of the budget without Congress' approval

line-item veto

#65 requirements that the government puts on businesses, but the government makes the business pay for them

unfunded federal mandates

#64 name for religious political conservatives

the Religious Right

#63 a group pardon

amnesty

#62 only president that was never elected to office

Gerald Ford

#61 proposed amendment to guarantee equal rights to women

Equal Rights Amendment

#60 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion

Roe v. Wade

#59 first (and only) president to resign

Richard Nixon

#58 forbade segregation in public places and discrimination in business

Civil Rights Act of 1964

#57 situation that was the closest the Cold War ever came to nuclear war

Cuban Missile Crisis

#56 protest in which MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech

March on Washington

#55 phrase that describes the division of free Europe and Communist Europe

Iron Curtain

#54 tensions between the free world and the Communist world after WW2

the Cold War

#53 court order to stop a strike

injunction

#52 racist Southern laws that restricted black Americans

Jim Crow laws

#51 "lightning war"

blitzkrieg

#50 code name for WW2 atomic bomb program

Manhattan Project

#49 dictator of Italy during WW2

Benito Mussolini

#48 general that commanded Allied troops on D-Day

Eisenhower

#47 the government program for old-age insurance

Social Security

#46 a slump in business or the economy

recession

#45 FDR's plan to get the nation out the Great Depression

The New Deal

#44 said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

#43 drought in the Great Plains during the Great Depression

Dust Bowl

#42 famous Chicago gangster boss

Al Capone

#41 Prohibition amendment

#40 highly publicized trial about teaching evolution

Scopes trial

#39 public fear of Communism in the 1920s

Red Scare

#38 Who was the first to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean?

Charles Lindbergh

#37 Who developed the assembly line for his Model T?

Henry Ford

#36 payments the loser of a war make to the winners

reparations

#35 November 11, 1918

Armistice Day

#34 nickname for American soldiers from WW1

doughboys

#33 Germany promised parts of the U.S. to Mexico in this telegram

Zimmerman Note

#32 year WW1 started

1914

#31 his assassination sparked WW1

Archduke Francis Ferdinand (and his wife!)

#30 What scandal tarnished George W. Bush's image at the end of his first term?

Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq

#29 What presidential candidate said, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion War in Iraq before I voted against it?"

John Kerry

#28 What social class were most al Qaeda terrorists from?

Al Qaeda had Muslims from all social classes.

#27 What senator switched from Republican to an independent, giving Democrats control of Senate?

James Jeffords

#26 What did the presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush show about America?

The people were very divided.

#25 By 2000, what was true about the percentage of black Americans and Hispanic Americans?

It was the same.

#24 What did George W. Bush call the war on terror?

"the first war of the twenty-first century"

#23 What act of Congress made it easier for the U.S. government to fight terrorist threats at home in America?

Patriot Act

#22 What religion was George W. Bush?

Christian

#21 What was Bush's policy of dealing with terrorist attacks?

a preemptive strike

#20 What was the main issue in the 2004 presidential election?

national security

#19 leaked National Security Agency information to American citizens

Edward Snowden

#18 liberal Obama Supreme Court nominee

Elena Kagan

#17 common name for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

ObamaCare

#16 place where 2 U.S. diplomatic compounds were attacked by terrorists in 2012

Benghazi, Libya

#15 replaced Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court

Samuel Alito Jr.

#14 most immigrants to the U.S. today are these 2 ethnicities

Hispanic and Asian

#13 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

John G. Roberts Jr.

#12 Bush's secretary of state

Condoleeza Rice

#11 first Hispanic attorney general

Alberto Gonzales

#10 group that attacked Saddam Hussein's forces

coalition of the willing

#9 government department created in response to 9/11

Homeland Security

#8 radical Muslim government of Afghanistan

the Taliban

#7 date of worst attack in American history

September 11, 2001

#6 leader of al Qaeda

Osama bin Laden

#5 terrorist group behind 9/11

al Qaeda

#4 Bush's policy to deal with social problems

compassionate conservatism

#3 deciding state in the 2000 election

Florida

#2 lost the 2004 election

John Kerry

#1 lost the close 2000 election

Al Gore

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