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Name_____________________________________________Date________________Block___________
Flashcard Quiz #s 1-60 (Spring 2013)
1. Who started Amazon?________________________________________________
2. Which president was involved in the Watergate scandal?___________________________
3. Who was theWhite House staff member that testified against Nixon at the Watergate
hearing?______________________________________________
4. Who were the two Washington Post reporters that helped cracked the case on
Watergate?__________________________________________________________________________
5. Which president was the strong conservative that that increased defense spending during his “Peace
through Strength” campaign?
6. Who was the WWI hero from TN that won the Congressional Medal of
Honor?_______________________________________________________
7. Who made his fortune in oil?____________________________________________
8. Who made his fortune in steel?___________________________________________
9. Who made their fortune in railroad shipping and has a University named after him in
Nashville?_______________________________________________________________
10. Who created airbrakes for trains?______________________________________________
11. What is the belief that the government should be “hands off” or have limited
involvement?____________________________________________________________
12. Who was the first president to be impeached? ____________________________________
13. Which term means an extreme dislike of immigrants/ foreigners by native-born
people?_____________________________________________
14. What was the name of the deal between Theodore Roosevelt and Japan that limited Japanese
immigration to the United States?_____________________________________________________
15. What was the name of the political boss of Tammany Hall in NYC?__________________________
16. Who was the president during World War I?____________________________________________
17. Who was the president during the Women’s Suffrage movement?
18. Who was the African-American graduate from Harvard who disagreed with Booker T. Washington’s
approaches to achieving equality?______________________________________________

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19. Which agency helped freed slaves and other southerners immediately after the Civil
War?______________________________________________________
20. Which senator hunted for Communists in
government?______________________________________________________
21. Who was the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?________________________________
22. Which president replaced FDR during WWII and was strong anti-
Communist?__________________________________________________
23. Which president issued an Executive Order in 1947 to desegregate the
military?___________________________________________________
24. Which president helped pass the Federal HWY
Act?___________________________________________
25. This was created by Jane Addams to help immigrants_________________________________
26. This person was famous for taking pictures during the Gilded Age and the Great
Depression________________________________________________
27. Who invented the telephone?______________________________________________
28. Who was the founder of the Standard Oil Company?__________________________________
29. Which court case determined that separate was indeed
equal?_________________________________________________________________
30. What was the name of the exaggerated form of reporting
news?____________________________________________________________