Politics
This political group formed in the 1850s has grown significantly over the last 50 years due to a rise in conservatism in the late 1900s.
What is the Republican Party?
This Atlanta preacher was an advocate of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience until his assassination in April, 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Similar to xenophobia, this term means that people prefer native-born Americans to immigrants, and often give them preferential treatment.
What is nativism?
Who are the Allies/Allied Powers?
This president believed that the best way to encourage economic growth was by cutting taxes for businesses so that they could reinvest their profits in their company.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Bill Clinton and Donald Trump have this in common.
What is impeachment?
The 19th amendment extended suffrage to this group, largely due to individuals like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and their contributions during World War I.
What are women?
Many immigrants during the early 1900s came to the United States seeking these.
What are (industrial/factory) jobs?
These conflicts between two nations results in extremely high tensions, but no direct fighting between them.
What is a "cold" war?
This gives people the ability to buy a good now and pay for it later. Major cause of the Great Depression.
What is credit?
This political scandal resulted in the resignation of Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
This event empowered many groups to push for social change, including civil rights, lowering the voting age, and increased environmental protections.
What is the Vietnam War?
What is oil?
This was the main reason that the United States became involved in conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Guatemala, and others.
What is (the containment of) communism?
This economic system is rooted in supply & demand. It encourages competition among businesses and is the opposite of communism.
What is capitalism?
FDR's opponents accused him of this when he tried to add more justices to the Supreme Court that would support his New Deal policies.
What is court packing?
What are grapes?
This period of time after World War I was highlighted by a distrust of foreign immigrants and paranoia about communist influence in the United States.
What is the Red Scare?
What is the White Man's Burden?
One of FDR's New Deal Relief programs that provided financial aid for the elderly, poor, and disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
After the Civil War, many Southern states instituted these to prevent black men from voting.
What are poll taxes OR grandfather clauses OR literacy tests?
This photographer published a book that used pictures to expose brutal living conditions in New York City slums.
After World War II, many people moved to these cookie-cutter areas due to affordable housing costs and increased automobile ownership.
What are suburbs?
This coded message from Germany to Mexico in 1917 stated that Germany was planning to resume submarine attacks and promised them land if they would invade the US.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
Populist supporters of bimetallism wanted US currency to be backed by this material in addition to gold.
What is silver?