1877 US History

Question 1

What ended the disputed 1876 presidential election?

Answer 1

Compromise of 1877

Question 2

Who was granted the presidency through the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 2

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Removal from the South

Question 4

What laws legalized segregation in public spaces?

Answer 4

Jim Crow Laws

Question 5

What methods disenfranchised African Americans?

Answer 5

Poll taxes and literacy tests

Question 6

What system kept many freed slaves in poverty?

Answer 6

Sharecropping

Question 7

Who participated in the sharecropping system?

Answer 7

Freed slaves and poor whites

Question 8

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Answer 8

Abolished slavery

Question 9

What did the 14th Amendment grant?

Answer 9

Citizenship and equal protection

Question 10

What did the 15th Amendment prohibit?

Answer 10

Denying voting rights based on race

Question 11

Who is associated with steel industry expansion?

Answer 11

Andrew Carnegie

Question 12

Who is associated with the oil industry?

Answer 12

John D. Rockefeller

Question 13

Who is associated with finance expansion?

Answer 13

J.P. Morgan

Question 14

What did the Knights of Labor advocate for?

Answer 14

8-hour workday

Question 15

Who led the AFL?

Answer 15

Samuel Gompers

Question 16

What was the Haymarket Riot?

Answer 16

Violent clash in Chicago

Question 17

What year did the Pullman Strike take place?

Answer 17

1894

Question 18

How many immigrants were processed at Ellis Island?

Answer 18

Over 12 million

Question 19

What issues arose from urbanization?

Answer 19

Overcrowding, crime, sanitation

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 21

What did Jane Addams found?

Answer 21

Hull House

Question 22

What did Upton Sinclair expose in ‘The Jungle’?

Answer 22

Meatpacking abuses

Question 23

What act limited monopolies?

Answer 23

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 24

Which act ensured safe food and medicine?

Answer 24

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 25

What did the Meat Inspection Act set standards for?

Answer 25

Meat production

Question 26

What were Settlement Houses?

Answer 26

Community centers for immigrants

Question 27

What amendment gave women the right to vote?

Answer 27

19th Amendment

Question 28

What event involved German U-boats sinking a ship?

Answer 28

Lusitania

Question 29

What was the Zimmermann Telegram?

Answer 29

Germany encouraged Mexico to attack the U.S.

Question 30

What did propaganda campaigns promote?

Answer 30

War bonds and rationing

Question 31

Who took industrial jobs during the war efforts?

Answer 31

Women and minorities

Question 32

What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany?

Answer 32

Blamed Germany for the war

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Joining the League of Nations

Question 34

What was celebrated during the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 34

African American art, music, and literature

Question 35

Who were key figures in the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 35

Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington

Question 36

What did flappers symbolize?

Answer 36

Women's independence

Question 37

What did the 18th Amendment ban?

Answer 37

Alcohol

Question 38

What was a consequence of Prohibition?

Answer 38

Speakeasies and crime

Question 39

Who is associated with the growth of automobiles?

Answer 39

Henry Ford

Question 40

What triggered the Great Depression?

Answer 40

Stock Market Crash

Question 41

What date is known as 'Black Tuesday'?

Answer 41

October 29, 1929

Question 42

What did the CCC do?

Answer 42

Employed young men

Question 43

What did the WPA support?

Answer 43

Artists and infrastructure

Question 44

What did the Social Security Act establish?

Answer 44

Pensions for the elderly

Question 45

What was D-Day?

Answer 45

Allied invasion of Normandy

Question 46

What was the Battle of Midway?

Answer 46

Turning point in the Pacific

Question 47

How many Japanese Americans were relocated during Japanese Internment?

Answer 47

120000

Question 48

What ended World War II?

Answer 48

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

Question 49

What was established after World War II?

Answer 49

United Nations

Question 50

What did the Truman Doctrine do?

Answer 50

Contained communism

Question 51

What was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 51

Rebuilt Europe post-war

Question 52

What was the Korean War about?

Answer 52

North vs. South Korea

Question 53

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 53

Soviets placed missiles in Cuba

Question 54

When did the Vietnam War end?

Answer 54

1975

Question 55

What significant event started the Space Race?

Answer 55

Soviets launched Sputnik

Question 56

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

Answer 56

1969

Question 57

What did Brown v. Board of Education achieve?

Answer 57

Desegregated schools

Question 58

What sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 58

Rosa Parks' arrest

Question 59

What was significant about the March on Washington?

Answer 59

MLK's 'I Have a Dream'

Question 60

What did the Civil Rights Act (1964) do?

Answer 60

Banned segregation

Question 61

What influenced suburbanization and culture after WWII?

Answer 61

Baby Boom

Question 62

What youth movement rejected traditional values?

Answer 62

Counterculture

Question 63

What book sparked the modern environmental movement?

Answer 63

Silent Spring

Question 64

What demonstrations were significant during the Vietnam War era?

Answer 64

Anti-War Protests

Question 65

What agreement ended the Vietnam War?

Answer 65

Paris Peace Accords

Question 66

When did the fall of Saigon occur?

Answer 66

1975

Question 67

What scandal led to Nixon's resignation?

Answer 67

Watergate

Question 68

What major economic issue occurred during the 1970s?

Answer 68

Stagflation

Question 69

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

Answer 69

Reaganomics

Question 70

What did Reaganomics involve?

Answer 70

Tax cuts and deregulation

Question 71

When did the Cold War officially end?

Answer 71

1989

Question 72

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

Answer 72

Persian Gulf War

Question 73

What significant technological development occurred in the 1990s?

Answer 73

Technology Boom

Question 74

What event led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Answer 74

9/11 Attacks

Question 75

When was marriage equality legalized?

Answer 75

2015

Question 76

What does #MeToo address?

Answer 76

Sexual harassment

Question 77

Name a global agreement on climate change.

Answer 77

Paris Accord