Period 6 1865-1898
Name given by Mark Twain to post Civil War period, implied hidden problems
Gilded Age
War that brought America Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillippines
Spanish-American War
President associated with interstate highway system, growth of suburbs, NDEA
Eisenhower
President for most of the 1980s
RONALD WILSON REAGAN
Most famous political machine
Tammany Hall
Jane Addams is associated with this movement (not Progressivism)
Settlement Houses
Name of LBJ's set of domestic programs
Great Society
Epidemic that was mostly ignored by federal government in the 80s
AIDS
first federal law that (was supposed to) break up monopolies
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Name of time period in the United States where U.S. government targeted potential communist threats under a U.S. senator
McCarthyism
Invention that propelled massive demographic shift from North to South and Southwest
Air conditioning
Bill Clinton's free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
Agricultural group that preceded/helped bring about the Populists
Grange
Act that enforced the 18th Amendment
Volstead Act
Campaign in Vietnam that turned American opinion against the war
Tet Offensive
George W. Bush's legislative response after the 9/11 terror attacks
Patriot Act
An unwritten, informal deal hat settled the intensely disputed 1876 election. Under the election of Rutherford B. Hayes, federal troops would be removed from the South, officially ending the era of Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
President FDR's plan to alllievate economic probelms caused by the Great depression involivng Government intervention
The New Deal
Name of Carter's signature foreign policy achievement
Camp David Accords
Ronald Reagan's election in 1980 ushered in a ______________________ era with emphasis on tax cuts, deregulation, and a more assertive foreign policy.
Conservative