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22. In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of spying for...

Soviet Union

3. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882...

banned Chinese already in US from becoming naturalized citizens

4. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, fences for plains farms were usually made from...

barbed wire

17. In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt...

closed all banks for a short period

25. Only weeks after taking office, President Johnson declared war on...

poverty

24. One of the chief obstacles in John Kennedy's presidential bid in 1960 was his...

religion

10. The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of...

social work

7. By the 1890s, more than half of all immigrants to the United States were coming from...

southern and eastern Europe

2. In the 1890s, the journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her work to attacking...

the crime of lynching

9. The Treaty of Paris, which concluded the Spanish-American War...

transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to US among other provisions

14. The Teapot Dome Scandal during the Harding Administration involved...

transfers of national oil reserves

5. The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of...

vertical integration

8. The majority of U.S. soldiers in the Spanish-American War came from...

volunteers

15. In 1932, the unemployment rate in Toledo, Ohio, was one of the worst in the nation, at...

80%

23. The first American to be launched into space, in 1961, was...

Allen Shepard

6. Samuel Gompers was the leader of the...

American federation of labor

11. In 1914, the Triple Entente consisted of...

Britain, France, and Russia

16. In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American population were found in...

California

12. The country that lost the greatest number of lives in World War I was...

Germany

19. The Tripartite Pact was a defensive alliance among...

Japan, Germany, and Italy

20. The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in...

New Mexico

21. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all

13. The National Origins Act of 1924...

entirely banned immigration from east Asia to US

18. The Glass-Stegall Act of 1933 established...

federal deposit insurance corporation

1. The assassination of President Lincoln...

involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration


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