U.S. History
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Pre-Colonial and Colonial Life
- Native American Life
- Early Passage to America
- Early Settlers and Daily Life
- The French and Indian War
- The 13 Colonies
- Leading up to the Revolution
- Revolutionary Battles
- Declaration of Independence
- Federalists and Anti-Federalists
- The Constitution and Founding Fathers
- Trail of Tears and Native American Experience
- Exploration: Lewis and Clark to Manifest Destiny
- The Slave Trade, The South, and Plantations
- Leading to the Civil War and Lincoln
- Emancipation Proclamation
- The Civil War
- Sharecropping and Reconstruction
- Native Americans in Modern America
- Immigrants in America
- Populism and Middle America
- The Spanish-American War
- The Industrial Revolution and Urbanization
- Worker Exploitation in America
- Progressive Social Reformers
- Corruption in America
- Women and the Suffrage Movement
- The Roaring 20s and Prohibition
- The Great Depression
- FDR and His Legacy
- America and World War I
- America and World War II
- The Cold War and the Space Race
- Vietnam War
- Korean War
- Social Movements in America
- African American History and Movements
- American Culture
- Recent Social Movements
- America’s Future
- Question #38a5a
- Why was slavery used in the United States?
- What was the "Era of Good Feelings"?
- How are people protected under the 6th Amendment?
- What was the last country to challenge the United States' control of Oregon?
- What factors prompted many African Americans to move to northern cities?
- Who was president when the United States entered World War II?
- In the 1940's, Truman saw the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan essential for what?
- With what action did the Korean War begin?
- U.S. policy towards the Soviets was influenced by a series of crises that erupted in the spring and summer of 1946, beginning where?
- Which famous incident directly lead to the creation of the U.S. Constitution?
- What industrial weakness signaled a declining economy in the 1920s?
- What was the main concern of the environmental movement during the Progressive Era?
- Why did Pittsburgh become an industrial center?
- How did the attack on Pearl Harbor change the political divisions between the isolationists and interventionists?
- Why did many Americans not support joining World War II when it began in 1939?
- How did newspapers and political cartoons portray Spain and the Spanish government in the 1890s?
- According to Hamilton, what are implied powers?
- Why was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor surprising?
- What can the elections of 2004 and 2008 tell us about Americans at the time?
- Who was president during the Iran-Contra scandal?
- How did the Cherokee use the courts to resist removal from their lands? What was the outcome of their legal challenge?
- How did Indian groups in the Midwest and Southeast resist removal?
- Why did U.S. officials support an Indian removal policy?
- What did the Supreme Court decision in MuCulloch v. Maryland result in?
- Which U.S. president sent Merriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory?
- Which Allied Country was the last to join WWII?
- How have the beliefs and principles contained in the Constitution shaped our national identity?
- In what year did the American colonists declare their independence from England?
- How did organized crime profit from bootleggers and speakeasies during Prohibition?
- Approximately how many Americans died during the Vietnam War?
- What did labor unions at the turn of the 20th century try to do for workers?
- What was added to the Constitution that listed rights not already in the Constitution?
- What does the Constitution say is the 'supreme law of the land'?
- What role did public spaces play in late nineteenth-century popular culture?
- What led Mark Twain to label the late nineteenth century the "Gilded Age"?
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- Question #87afa
- Who were the Malcontents?
- What was the effect of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
- Who was President of the United States when the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam?
- What was the original intent of the war in Vietnam?
- Why did imperialists support the Spanish-American War?
- Why did the United States want to gain control of Cuba?
- How did demonstrations throughout the South reflect King's approach?
- What measure was passed in 1882 to restrict Chinese immigration?
- What effect did World War I have on the suffragist movement?
- How much did the United States pay for New Mexico and California?
- According to the Mexican government, where was the border between Texas and Mexico?
- What was the purpose of the Brady Bill passed during the presidency of William Clinton?
- How long after the 2000 presidential election was the winner declared?
- Why is the journey of the Cherokees called the "Trail of Tears"?
- Why did Andrew Jackson support the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
- How did Jackson and the Democrats change the process of appointing government officials?
- What was the result of the presidential election of 1824?
- How was the conflict surrounding the election of 1824 finally settled?
- How did the Missouri Compromise affect the spread of slavery?
- Who fought on the side of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?
- Why did Lindbergh become an American idol?
- What was the appeal of movies and radio during the Depression?
- How did the New Deal provide help to different groups of Americans?
- What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and what did it do?
- What new American subculture helped define the 1950s?
- What was President Hoover's philosophy of government and how did it hinder the recovery?
- What did the FDR administration create to help regulate the stock market?
- Why did President Hoover oppose direct federal relief to the unemployed?
- Under President Ronald Reagan, the United States had the largest peacetime military buildup in history. How was this a challenge to the Soviet Union?
- What was it called when 1.5 million African-Americans moved form the south to the north?
- What were some reasons that abolitionists opposed slavery?
- What was the name of the economic recovery plan administered by the United States after World War II?
- What was Thomas Edison's first job? How old was he when began working?
- Which technology played an integral role in the 1960 election?
- Which president issued an executive order in 1948 that required the integration of the U.S. armed forces?
- What brought American settlers into conflict with the Mexican government?
- Who did John F. Kennedy run against in the 1960 presidential election?
- Why did Americans want to settle in Texas?
- Why were some people, especially from within the Democratic Party, worried that Kennedy was a risky option for president?
- What was the name of the case from the 1800s that established the policy of "separate but equal"?
- Why did Mexico want Americans to settle in Texas?
- Did most wealthy immigrants go to Ellis Island?
- Why were people concerned about Kennedy being Catholic?
- What did the United States do as a result of the Roosevelt Corollary?
- How did the Second Industrial Revolution affect the United States?
- What effect did World War II have on our foreign policy?
- How did the Second Industrial Revolution influence women's roles in society?
- Why is increasing trade a goal of United States foreign policy?
- Why did members of the women's rights movement believe that suffrage was the key to improving the position of women in society?
- What effect did Commodore Matthew C. Perry have on Japan?
- Why did the United States decide to enter the war and fight on the side of the Allies?
- Which country did Roosevelt want to impress when he sent the Great White Fleet around the world in the early 1900s?
- What person has been called the Father of the American Industrial Revolution?
- From which country did most pre-Civil War immigrants come?
- How did the cotton gin affect the price of clothing? Why?
- What was cotton's chief competitor as a Southern cash crop?
- What was the purpose of the American Colonization Society?
- Why did southern whites feel threatened by the Missouri Compromise?
- How did factory owners benefit from industrialization?
- How was the nullification crisis in 1833 resolved?
- How did "Freeborn John" contribute to the American Bill of Rights?
- What was the Panic of 1837? Who was president?