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Question 1 What did the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan lead to? U.S. boycott of 1980 Olympics in Moscow
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Question 2 What did Ronald Reagan do to spur economic growth? Relaxed regulations on businesses
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Question 3 What president integrated the military? Truman
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Question 4 What did Southern democrats do in response to Truman integrating the military? Defected and started the Dixie Crats or state rights party
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Question 5 What group of people did John T. Scopes upset when he taught evolution? Fundamentalists
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Question 6 What ended the Cuban Missile Crisis? Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba
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Question 7 Who did the Embargo of 1807 hurt? American merchants and seaman
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Question 8 Why was the Embargo Act of 1807 passed? Wanted Britain to stop the impressment of U.S. sailors
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Question 9 What does the Graying of America mean? Elder care for Americans
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Question 10 Who was Langston Hughes? Writer during the Harlem Renaissance
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Question 11 What did the Kansas- Nebraska Act allow? Allowed popular sovereignty for the people to decide if slavery would be in a territory, led to fighting in the territory
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Question 12 Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 passed? Counter black codes in the South
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Question 13 What president is associated with the Peace Corps? John Kennedy
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Question 14 What does Title IX require? Equal funding for male and female sports
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Question 15 What did the bombings in Cambodia lead to in America during the Vietnam War? More protests
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Question 16 What was the ruling in Bakke v CA? Could not use racial quotas
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Question 17 What helped the farmers in the West sell beef? Refrigerated rail cars
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Question 18 What was one belief during the Second Great Awakening? Morality of slavery is wrong
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Question 19 What did political machines want in exchange for raising the standard of living? Votes
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Question 20 How did OPEC cause an energy crisis in the 1970s? Placed an oil embargo on countries that supported Israel
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Question 21 What decade had inflation and stagflation? 1970s
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Question 22 What kept Cuba tied to the U.S. after the Spanish American War? Platt Amendment
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Question 23 What did Daniel Webster and Robert Kayne debate before the Civil War? State’s Rights
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Question 24 What established Lincoln as a strong Republican candidate? Lincoln-Douglas Debate
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Question 25 Who did the Homestead Act benefit? Farmers
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Question 26 What did immigration in the late 1800s produce for the U.S.? Cheap Labor
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Question 27 Why did workers join unions in the late 1800s? Better working conditions & better pay
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Question 28 Why did the U.S. government support a Panamian Revolt against Columbia? U.S. wanted to build a canal
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Question 29 What was one thing W.E.B. Du Bois wanted? Immediate end to segregation
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Question 30 What did the G.I. Bill do? Help pay for college, low interest loans for homes, and loans to start businesses
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Question 31 Why were the South Vietnamese refugees fleeing the country? To get away from Communism
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Question 32 What was the purpose of the Alliance for Progress? Set of cooperation projects with Latin American Countries so they will not fall to Communism
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Question 33 Why was affirmative action used? To make a more diverse workplace
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Question 34 Why was the U.S. in Vietnam? Containment
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Question 35 What is Henry Ford famous for? The moving assembly line
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Question 36 How did the Watergate affect the executive office? Weakened executive privilege
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Question 37 What helps people transform through the light? Transcendentalism
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