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What ended the disputed 1876 presidential election?

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Compromise of 1877

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Who was granted the presidency through the Compromise of 1877?

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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What did the Compromise of 1877 result in regarding federal troops?

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Removal from the South

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4
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What laws legalized segregation in public spaces?

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Jim Crow Laws

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5
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What methods disenfranchised African Americans?

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Poll taxes and literacy tests

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6
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What system kept many freed slaves in poverty?

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Sharecropping

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Who participated in the sharecropping system?

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Freed slaves and poor whites

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8
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What did the 13th Amendment do?

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Abolished slavery

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What did the 14th Amendment grant?

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Citizenship and equal protection

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What did the 15th Amendment prohibit?

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Denying voting rights based on race

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Who is associated with steel industry expansion?

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Andrew Carnegie

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Who is associated with the oil industry?

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John D. Rockefeller

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Who is associated with finance expansion?

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J.P. Morgan

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What did the Knights of Labor advocate for?

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8-hour workday

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Who led the AFL?

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Samuel Gompers

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16
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What was the Haymarket Riot?

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Violent clash in Chicago

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17
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What year did the Pullman Strike take place?

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1894

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18
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How many immigrants were processed at Ellis Island?

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Over 12 million

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19
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What issues arose from urbanization?

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Overcrowding, crime, sanitation

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Who was known for trust-busting and conservation during the Progressive Era?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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21
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What did Jane Addams found?

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Hull House

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22
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What did Upton Sinclair expose in ‘The Jungle’?

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Meatpacking abuses

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23
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What act limited monopolies?

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Sherman Antitrust Act

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24
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Which act ensured safe food and medicine?

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Pure Food and Drug Act

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25
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What did the Meat Inspection Act set standards for?

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Meat production

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26
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What were Settlement Houses?

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Community centers for immigrants

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27
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What amendment gave women the right to vote?

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19th Amendment

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28
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What event involved German U-boats sinking a ship?

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Lusitania

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29
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What was the Zimmermann Telegram?

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Germany encouraged Mexico to attack the U.S.

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30
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What did propaganda campaigns promote?

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War bonds and rationing

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31
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Who took industrial jobs during the war efforts?

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Women and minorities

32
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What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany?

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Blamed Germany for the war

33
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What did the U.S. reject post-WWI?

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Joining the League of Nations

34
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What was celebrated during the Harlem Renaissance?

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African American art, music, and literature

35
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Who were key figures in the Harlem Renaissance?

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Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington

36
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What did flappers symbolize?

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Women’s independence

37
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What did the 18th Amendment ban?

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Alcohol

38
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What was a consequence of Prohibition?

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Speakeasies and crime

39
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Who is associated with the growth of automobiles?

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Henry Ford

40
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What triggered the Great Depression?

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Stock Market Crash

41
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What date is known as ‘Black Tuesday’?

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October 29, 1929

42
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What did the CCC do?

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Employed young men

43
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What did the WPA support?

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Artists and infrastructure

44
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What did the Social Security Act establish?

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Pensions for the elderly

45
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What was D-Day?

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Allied invasion of Normandy

46
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What was the Battle of Midway?

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Turning point in the Pacific

47
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How many Japanese Americans were relocated during Japanese Internment?

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120000

48
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What ended World War II?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

49
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What was established after World War II?

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United Nations

50
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What did the Truman Doctrine do?

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Contained communism

51
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What was the Marshall Plan?

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Rebuilt Europe post-war

52
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What was the Korean War about?

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North vs. South Korea

53
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Soviets placed missiles in Cuba

54
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When did the Vietnam War end?

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1975

55
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What significant event started the Space Race?

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Soviets launched Sputnik

56
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When did the U.S. land on the moon?

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1969

57
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What did Brown v. Board of Education achieve?

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Desegregated schools

58
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What sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

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Rosa Parks’ arrest

59
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What was significant about the March on Washington?

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MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’

60
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What did the Civil Rights Act (1964) do?

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Banned segregation

61
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What influenced suburbanization and culture after WWII?

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Baby Boom

62
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What youth movement rejected traditional values?

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Counterculture

63
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What book sparked the modern environmental movement?

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Silent Spring

64
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What demonstrations were significant during the Vietnam War era?

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Anti-War Protests

65
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What agreement ended the Vietnam War?

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Paris Peace Accords

66
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When did the fall of Saigon occur?

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1975

67
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What scandal led to Nixon’s resignation?

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Watergate

68
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What major economic issue occurred during the 1970s?

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Stagflation

69
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What economic policy is associated with the 1980s Conservative Resurgence?

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Reaganomics

70
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What did Reaganomics involve?

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Tax cuts and deregulation

71
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When did the Cold War officially end?

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1989

72
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What key event happened during the Post-Cold War Era?

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Persian Gulf War

73
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What significant technological development occurred in the 1990s?

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Technology Boom

74
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What event led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

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9/11 Attacks

75
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When was marriage equality legalized?

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2015

76
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What does #MeToo address?

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Sexual harassment

77
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Name a global agreement on climate change.

A

Paris Accord

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