Foundations
This document declared independence from Britain in 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence
Journalists who exposed corruption and problems in society.
What are muckrakers?
A scandal involving illegal oil leasing under President Harding
Teapot Dome Scandal
The surprise attack that brought the U.S. into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor
Supreme Court case that ended school segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education
This amendment ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Steel Monopoly
Andrew Carnegie
Women in the 1920s known for breaking traditional norms.
flappers
African American pilots who served in WWII.
Tuskegee Airmen?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery
Rosa Parks
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South
What are Jim Crow laws?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Movement of African Americans to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration
U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment / Truman Doctrine?
Law that ended segregation in public places (1964).
Civil Rights Act
These are the first 10 amendments that protect individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Supreme Court case allowed “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
Severe drought and poor farming that ruined land in the 1930s.
Dust Bowl
Financial aid program to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan
Policy to turn the Vietnam War over to South Vietnam.
Vietnamization
This group used violence and intimidation to oppose Black rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This policy allowed equal trade access in China.
Open Door Policy
This New Deal program gave jobs building public projects.
WPA
The Allied invasion of France in 1944.
Normandy/D-DAY
Leader of N.Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh