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Key Events and People

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  1. What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
  2. What was the New Deal?
  3. Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
  4. Which crisis of 1962 brought the world close to nuclear war?
  5. Which law of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin?
  6. What was the Cold War?
  7. What did the Bill of Rights guarantee?
  8. What did the Louisiana Purchase do for the United States?
  9. Which battle was the turning point of the Civil War in 1863?
  10. What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
  11. On the U.S. civics test, what was the Underground Railroad?
  12. What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?
  13. What was the Boston Tea Party?
  14. What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
  15. What was Reconstruction?
  16. On the U.S. civics test, what was the Great Depression?
  17. Which president was assassinated in 1963?
  18. Which war divided Korea in the 1950s with the United States involved?
  19. Who led the Union army at the end of the Civil War?
  20. What was the Trail of Tears?
  21. Which president resigned from office in 1974?
  22. What was the Gold Rush?
  23. Who was president when the United States purchased Alaska?

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