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 under US Imperial Control
Spanish-American War(1898)
The SCOTUS case was overturned in 2022 in the Dobbs v Jackson case, cutting off 40 million women to the Constitutional right to an abortion
*Men's rights don't change when they cross state lines but women's rights do..."*
What is Roe V Wade (1973)?
This Civil Rights leader was given a federal holiday in 1983 after a long campaign by his wife and various Hollywood celebrities and artists
MLK, jr.
Group of early framers who believed that State government should be more powerful than federal government
Anti-Federalists
This compromise ended Reconstruction in the South
Compromise of 1877
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 Reagan's federal government in the 80s
AIDS
Chairman of the Black Panther party murdered in conspiracy set up by FBI and Chicago PD
Who is Fred Hampton?
Who was the most photographed individual of the 19th century who was friends with both Lincoln and John Brown, lived through the Civil War and Reconstruction...dies at 77 in 1895
Who is Frederick Douglass?
In 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt rode in the cockpit with one of these pilots to prove that Black men were just as capable of flying as white men
Who are the Tuskegee Airman(Charles "Chief" Robinson was the pilot)?
Economic theory promoted by Ronald Reagan that falsely claimed that having wealth at the top of society would "trickle down" to the those less wealthy
Trickle down economics/Supply Side Economics
Bill Clinton's free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
American city firebombed from the sky and destroyed due to racism and economic envy in May 1921
What is the Greenwood District/Black Wall Street/Tulsa Oklahoma
Agricultural group that preceded/helped bring about the Populists
Grange
Both amendments that prohibited and allowed alcohol respectively
18th Amendment/21st Amendment
All the President's Men is a famous movie about Woodward and Bernstein, 2 Washington Post journalists that exposed which famous Nixon scandal
What is the Watergate Scandal?
George W. Bush's legislative response after the 9/11 terror attacks
Patriot Act
3 Presidents that have faced impeachment
Who are Johnson, Clinton, Trump(2x)?
Strike against a Carnegie factory, was crushed by Pinkertons
Homestead Strike
Group that opposed American intervention in WW2
America First Committee
In Nov 1978, First openly gay individual elected to public office in San Francisco is shot and killed(along with the Mayor of SF George Moscone) after Dan White acts out in anger
Who is Harvey Milk?
Controversial Election where Bush wins despite losing the popular vote. The SCOTUS ultimately decides who is president after stopping recounts in Florida.
Bush v Gore(2000)
Barack Hussein Obama II was born here in 1961.
What is Honolulu, Hi?