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3. Man who served as commander-in-chief of the colonial forces during the American Revolution

4. Who is George Washington?

5. The man who is considered the author of the following words in the Declaration of Independence “…all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable rights…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

6. Who is Thomas Jefferson?

7. The man who led the hearings during the 1950 Cold War era to find Communists.

8. Who is Joseph McCarthy?

9. The man responsible for the founding and early thinking of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

10. Who is William E.B. Du Bois?

11. The name for the FDR’s plan to bring about recovery from the Depression

12. What is the New Deal?

13. The economic system characterized by free markets, a goal of profit, and private ownership

14. What is Capitalism?

15. The 1935 act passed during the Depression that was to serve as an insurance program to help the unemployed and elderly

16. What is the Social Security Act?

17. Decline in world trade, the Stock Market crash, and massive bank failures

18. What are events or signals at the beginning of the Great Depression?

19. An effect on trade from the building of such canals as the Erie or the Panama

20. What is to speed up trade due to the canal significantly shortening the travel distance by connecting waterways?

21. The geographic effect of waves of immigration from the world to the U.S.

22. What is the development of ethnic areas in large cities such as Chinatown in San Francisco or Little Italy in New York?

23. Two geographic features of Russia that both Hitler and Napoleon ignored in their attempts to invade

24. What are the size of Russia and the long, often brutal winter weather?

25. The geographic nickname of the Great Plains, identifying the effect of drought and poor agricultural practices prevalent in the 1930’s during the Depression

26. What is the Dust Bowl?

27. Group in the late 19th century that wanted free, unlimited coinage of silver; a graduated income tax; direct election of senators; government ownership of the telephone, telegraph, and railroad systems

28. Who are the Populists?

29. The woman who is given credit for leading the movement to get women the right to vote

30. Who is Susan B. Anthony?

31. Connection between the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, sit-ins, and the March from Selma

32. What are examples of the non-violent civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.?

33. Daily Double

34. The man who is given credit for improving the working conditions of migrant farm workers

35. Who is Cesar Chavez?

36. Connection between the telegraph, telephone, computer, and the Internet

37. What is improved and faster means of communication?

38. The first industry to utilize the assembly-line production

39. What is the automobile industry?

40. Used to transport communication prior to the advent of the telegraph

41. What is the Pony Express?

42. Scientist whose work led to the development of the atomic bomb

43. Who is Albert Einstein?

44. The major reason the United States never ratified the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I

45. What is the desire to stay out of European affairs possible with membership in the League of Nations?

46. The 1832 crisis in South Carolina over the tariff they declared “null and void” as well as threatening to secede if enforced

47. What is the Nullification Crisis?

48. A major provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

49. What is to end segregation of all public facilities across the United States?

50. The Supreme Court case that ended the segregation or “separate but equal” policy in public schools