Important Figures
This U.S. president was the first to be successfully impeached for defying Congress' Reconstruction plans, but was saved from removal from office by a single vote.
Andrew Johnson
The systemic murder of more that 6 million Jews and other minority groups in Europe.
Holocaust
____ is a political system in which a strong, authoritarian leader controls the government and emphasizes extreme nationalism, strict obedience, and limited individual freedoms.
Fascism
This Constitutional amendment abolished slavery.
14th Amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson
This U.S. president was the architect of the New Deal, which changed the federal government's relationship to the American public and vise versa.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A severe worldwide economic crisis which began in 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s.
Great Depression
___ is a system in which formerly enslaved farmers would pay for land rented from a landowner with a share of their crops.
Sharecropping
A series of laws, federal work programs, public works projects, etc., enacted to combat the Great Depression.
New Deal
This Supreme Court case upheld Japanese internment.
Korematsu vs. United States
This U.S. president oversaw the first usage of atomic bombs on civilian targets at the climax of World War II.
Harry Truman
A war in which the U.S. sought to establish itself as an imperial authority and which resulted in the acquisition of many island territories.
Spanish-American War
The U.S. and European strategy to prevent the spread of Soviet-style communism to the rest of the world is called ____.
Containment
These laws were passed in the wake of the abolishment of slavery in order to restrict the freedoms of the freedmen and revive slavery through legal loopholes.
Jim Crow Laws
This Supreme Court case decided that police must inform suspects of their rights.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
This U.S. Senator was responsible for a second Red Scare that resulted in the firing of hundreds of federal employees and an uptick in discrimination against certain marginalized groups.
Joseph McCarthy
An era of U.S. history marked by the ban of the sale or production of alcohol, as well as the birth of many organized crime elements, namely the mafia.
Prohibition
The European strategy of letting Germany acquire small territorial gains in the hopes that it would sate Adolf Hitler's need for conquest is called ____.
Appeasement
This law split Native American lands into allotments in the hopes of breaking up indigenous tribes and Americanizing indigenous families.
Dawes Act of 1887
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in American schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
These two men were the dictators of fascist regimes and the Allies' opponents in Europe during World War II.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
An armed conflict caused by the U.S. support of a Cuban dictatorship that resulted in a regime change and Cuba embracing communism.
Cuban Revolution
____ is a reform movement that aimed to fix problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and corruption in government during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Progressivism
This law was passed to limit the power of large corporations and monopolies in the United States.
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
The Supreme Court case that ruled free speech could be limited in times of war.
Schenck v. United States (1919)