Question 1

Textile

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This industry of making clothing exploded in the U.S. in the late 1800s.

Question 2

Factory

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Most Immigrants that came to the U.S. in the late 1800s found these type of jobs in the Northeastern United States.

Question 3

Immigration

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In the late 1800s, social and political unrest in Europe greatly increased ______ to America.

Question 4

Booker T. Washington

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This African American leader promoted equality through job skills and hard work.

Question 5

Railroad

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This industry helped grow the farming industry in the late 1800s by allowing farmers to get their crops to market.

Question 6

Alexander Graham Bell

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This inventor greatly expanded communication in the U.S. with his invention of the telephone.

Question 7

strikes

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Many workers went on these in the late 1800s with the hopes of getting better pay and safer working conditions

Question 8

Monopolies

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During the Gilded Age, Industrial Capitalists created these, which added to the uneven distribution of wealth in the United States.

Question 9

Grange

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This organization was set up to protect farmers from the abuses and high prices enacted by the Railroads

Question 10

Imperialism

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America greatly expanded its trading partners by using this policy of taking over smaller countries

Question 11

Radio

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During the 1920s, this innovation nationalized the American culture and created a demand for electricity in homes.

Question 12

World War I

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British propaganda, German U-boats, and the Zimmerman Note were causes of this war.

Question 13

Prohibition

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During the 1920s, the passage of the 18th Amendment created an era known as this.

Question 14

Thirty Six

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Tennessee called a special legislative session to vote on the 19th Amendment and would become the final state to form the Perfect _________.

Question 15

Great Depression

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Over-borrowing, Over-production, and an unsupervised stock market led to the

Question 16

Teddy Roosevelt

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This President was concerned that businesses were gaining too much control over the govt and would become known as the Trustbuster.

Question 17

WEB Dubois

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This African American leader was a founder of the NAACP and demanded equality now through higher education and political power.

Question 18

Adolf Hitler

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The failure of the Treaty of Versailles and collapse of Germany's economy allowed him to come to power in the 1930s.

Question 19

Unemployment

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As companies closed their doors in the early 1930s, the greatest concern of the Great Depression became the _______ rate.

Question 20

Fascism

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In the 1930s, this form of govt. with dictators and an extreme form of nationalism became popular in Europe.

Question 21

Great Depression

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In the 1930s, many Americans turned to their religion to help them get through the horrible conditions cause by this twelve year period.

Question 22

Manhattan Project

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Oak Ridge, TN played a major role in this secret plan to build the atomic bomb during W.W. II.

Question 23

Jobs

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The Works Progress Admin. was created during the Great Depression to provide these for American people.

Question 24

Poland

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Britain and France declared war on Germany in 1939 after the invasion of this country

Question 25

Supreme Court

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Congress and the American people felt like FDR was searching for to much power when he tried to pack the _______.

Question 26

Soviet Union

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During World War II, the United States had Communist Allie known as the _________.

Question 27

Stokely Carmichael

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Malcolm X and this African American leader know for Black Power disagreed with the methods of Dr. King.

Question 28

Cuba

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The U.S. took control of this country after the Spanish-American War and it fell to Communism and Fidel Castro in 1959.

Question 29

Interstate Act

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President urged Congress to pass this law which helped the military, the U.S. economy and greatly expanded suburbs across the nation.

Question 30

Brinkmanship

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During the 1950s, many U.S. politicians promoted using the threat of nuclear war to prevent the spread of communism. This policy was known as

Question 31

Al Gore Sr.

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Estes Kefauver and this Tennessee senator were the only two Southern senators that refused to sign the Southern Manifesto

Question 32

Containment

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President John Kennedy continued to use this policy of preventing the expansion of Communism during his reign as President.

Question 33

Sun Records

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The Rock 'N' Roll movement of the 1950s exploded with the discovery of Elvis in this Memphis studio.

Question 34

Sam Walton

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This Wal-Mart innovator believed in high volume sales at very low prices.

Question 35

Korean War

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The U.S. was involved in this war to prevent the spread of Communism from 1950 to 1953.

Question 36

Bill Clinton

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President Reagan and this Centrist President of the 1990s were known for advocating changes in the role played by the federal government.

Question 37

Jeff Bezos

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This innovator started his company as an online bookstore but now it dominates the online shopping industry.

Question 38

Washington Post

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The two reporters that broke the Watergate story worked for this newspaper.

Question 39

Communism

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The U.S. fought in Korea in the 1950s and Vietnam in the 1960s to prevent the expansion of this.

Question 40

Bill Clinton

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This President eliminated deficit spending with the first budget surplus in thirty years.

Question 41

Ray Kroc

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This McDonalds owner greatly expanded the fast-food industry in the United States.

Question 42

Hoovervilles

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During the Great Depression, many Americans were forced out of the homes and lived in these shanty towns named after the President.

Question 43

Indian

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The _____ Reorganization Act allowed Native Americans living on reservations to establish local governments for their tribal groups

Question 44

China

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Chiang Kai Shek fled to Taiwan when this country fell to communism in 1949.

Question 45

Red Scare

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Many families built bomb shelters in their backyards during the ______ of the 1950s.

Question 46

baby boom

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College applications increased dramatically in the 1960s & 1970s due to this population explosion after World War II.

Question 47

Richard Nixon

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He became the only President to resign in 1974 due to the Watergate Scandal.

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