United States History

Reconstruction to the Present

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  1. Where was the transcontinental railroad completed in 1869?
  2. Which inventors made the first successful powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903?
  3. In which year did the United States enter World War I?
  4. Which 1920 amendment gave American women the right to vote?
  5. What event in 1929 marked the start of the Great Depression in the United States?
  6. What was the New Deal?
  7. On what date did Japan attack the American naval base at Pearl Harbor?
  8. What was D-Day, 6 June 1944?
  9. What was the Marshall Plan?
  10. Which president faced the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962?
  11. What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?
  12. What did Rosa Parks do in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955?
  13. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit?
  14. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
  15. Which president resigned in 1974 because of the Watergate scandal?
  16. What did the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 symbolize?
  17. Which attack on 11 September 2001 led the United States to launch the war in Afghanistan?
  18. In which year was Barack Obama elected as the first African American president of the United States?
  19. Which 1919 treaty ended World War I but was rejected by the United States Senate?
  20. Which 1964 resolution gave President Johnson authority to expand the war in Vietnam?
  21. What was the Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s?
  22. Which 1862 act made the paper United States Notes, known as greenbacks, legal tender?
  23. Which conflict was fought in Korea from 1950 to 1953, with American troops serving under United Nations command?
  24. Which Roaring Twenties law banned the sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920?
  25. Which 1803 case established the power of judicial review?

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