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What is the Supreme Court case that ruled "separate but equal" was legal.
Plessy v Ferguson
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What is reform that built dams to produce energy and stimulate the economy?
TVA
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What is the international practice of nations giving in to the demands of Hitler out of a desire to stop a potential war - thereby allowing him to grow his military and expand his nation?
Appeasement
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What is the reform that amended the US constitution to allow women to vote for the first time in the 1920 election?
19th Amendment
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Who is president who was NOT impeached but who used illegal methods to get re-elected to office?
Richard Nixon
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What is the legislative act that was designed to reduce the influx of Asian immigrants to the US in the 1880s?What is the practice of industrial developed nations taking economic, political, and "humanitarian" advantage of underdeveloped peoples?
Chinese Exclusion Act
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What is the policy which was designed to temporarily stop people from withdrawing their money from banks?
Bank Holiday
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What is the US policy that attempted to stop the spread of Soviet ideology after WWII?
Containment
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What is the constitutional reform that attempted to prevent the sale and consumption of alcohol, presumably in an effort to support the US war effort?
18th Amendment
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Who is president who escalated the Cold War in an effort to undermine the economy of the Soviet Union in hopes of reducing tensions?
Ronald Reagan
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What is name of the constitutional amendment that attempted to ensure African Americans were treated fully as citizens.
14th Amendment
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What is the reform that offered aid and subsidies to farmers?
AAA
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What is official phrase that references what was often denoted at the Korean War?
Policy Action
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What is legal case that sought to overturn Plessy v Ferguson and to force desegregation of schools?
Brown v Board of Education
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Who is president that successfully negotiated a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt?
Jimmy Carter
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What is the motto that is a reference to Teddy Roosevelt's practice of "bullying" business leaders and even nations to accomplish his goals?
Speak softly but carry a big stick
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What is name of the president at the outset of the Great Depression whose attempts to provide relief did not go far enough, fast enough?
Herbert Hoover
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What is the conflict that the US became entangled in during the early 1990s, which sought to oust Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait and protect the production of oil in the Middle East?
1st Gulf War
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What is common name for the major reform to how medical care is provided, especially to people without insurance, that passed in 2010?
Obama Care
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Who is the president who employed the first nuclear weapons during a war as a means of ending the war and reducing the ongoing bloodshed?
Harry Truman
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What is the practice of industrial developed nations taking economic, political, and "humanitarian" advantage of underdeveloped peoples?
Imperialism
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What is the reference to FDR trying to influence the outcome of Supreme Court cases?
Court packing
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What is the organization that protested the need to "Save our sons, No War!"?
America First Committee
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What is reform that attempted to protect people who needed to take leave for reasons of illness for them or a family member, allowing them to use their own leave or to have unpaid leave without risk of being fired?
FMLA
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Who is president who successfully ran for office on the Republican party ticket but was not considered a traditional Republican, yet managed to win and pull the party increasingly together based on traditionally Republican policies?
Donald Trump
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