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This battle marked the beginning of the Civil War A 100
What was the Battle at Fort Sumter? A 100
The importance of Appomattox Court House A 200
What is the location where General Lee surrendered to General Grant? A 200
Author of the most powerful attack on slavery ever written, Uncle Tom’s Cabin A 300
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? A 300
During this journey from Atlanta to Savannah, Union troops tried to crush any fighting spirit left in the South A 400
What was Sherman’s March to the Sea? A 400
The rebuilding time for the country following the Civil War A 500
What was Reconstruction? A 500
This event led to the U.S. to enter the World War I B 100
What was the Germans sinking the passenger ship Lusitania? B 100
A cultural movement that used the arts to reflect African American life during the 1920's B 200
What was the Harlem Renaissance? B 200
This completed the peace negotiations between Germany and the Allied Powers B 300
What was the Treaty of Versailles? B 300
Another name for the Jazz Age B 400
What is the “Roaring Twenties”? B 400
This is why Charles Lindberg is remembered today B 500
What is he was the first person to successfully fly non- stop across the Atlantic Ocean? B 500
A period of economic slowdown in the 1920s and 1930s C 100
What was the Great Depression? C 100
This caused severe problems for farmers in the midwest during the Depression years C 200
What was the Dust Bowl? C 200
This created programs to put people back to work during the Great Depression C 300
What was the New Deal? C 300
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This event in 1929 caused thousands of Americans to lose their jobs and everything they owned C 400
What was the Stock Market Crash? C 400
This New Deal program built dams to control flooding and provide cheap electric power to 7 states C 500
What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)? C 500
This prompted the United States to enter World War II D 100
What was the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor? D 100
The Allies invaded France on this day. It was the largest sea invasion in history. D 200
What was D- Day? D 200
The importance of VJ Day D 300
What is Japan surrendered to the Allies? D 300
President Truman decided to do this to end the war and save soldiers’ lives D 400
What is drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? D 400
Maintaining world peace is a major goal of this organization that President Roosevelt helped establish D 500
What is the United Nations? D 500
Imaginary line that separated free Western Europe from communist Eastern Europe E 100
What is the Iron Curtain? E 100
The MAIN factor causing the U.S. to become involved in the Korean War E 200
What was North Korea attacked South Korea to spread communism? E 200
This Supreme Court ruling desegregated schools E 300
What was Brown v. Board of Education? E 300
Three important American leaders who were assassinated in the 1960s E 400
Who were John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy? E 400
The main reason the United States became involved in the Persian Gulf War E 500
What was Iraq invaded Kuwait, creating a conflict with the United States over oil use? E 500
This gave the right to vote to citizens eighteen years of age or older F 100
What was the 26 th Amendment? F 100
This guaranteed that people born in the U.S. were citizens of the U.S. F 200
What was the 14 th Amendment? F 200
The largest lake in California F 300
What is the Salton Sea? F 300
War that divided America during the 1960s and 1970s F 400
What was the Vietnam War? F 400
Country that became the center of global economic activity after World War I F 500
What was the United States? F 500
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