Presidents
Who was Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)?
This movemement spread from Europe and inspired ideas of natural rights and questioning authority that eventually led to the American Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
This was the exchange of goods between the Americanc colonies, Europe and Africa that involved commerce of slaves, agricultural goods, and natural resources?
What is the Transatlantic Trade (or Triangular Trade)?
This political party was compromised of Whigs and Free Soilers who split from other parties over the issue of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This constitutional amendment guarentees equal protection of the law, and is frequently used to justify civil rights laws.
What is the 14th amendment?
This President was known for being an "imperial president" and for removing Indians from Georgia.
What is the canal?
What was the German subs sinking the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman Note?
The New Deal Coalition strenghtened this political party by uniting labor unions, blue collar workers, farmers, and African Americans.
What is the Democratic Party?
This case called into question the constitutionality of Japanese internment camps during WWII.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
President Johnosn was the first to send U.S. Combat Troops into Vietnam and to institute a draft. What was his domestic policy called?
What was "The Great Society"?
This compromise settled the early debate about slavery in new territories, but later this compromise fell apart.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the U.S. policy regarding communism during most of the cold war.
What is containment?
Members of this political part ythat emerged shortly after the revoluationary war , led by Thomas Jefferson, supported state's rights, agrarian values, and opposed tariffs.
What are the Democratic-Republicans?
The case Brown v. Board of education ruled segregation unconstitutional, and reversed this earlier decision that permitted "separate but equal" facilities.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This president was an imperialists and expanded the U.S. by waging war with Mexico.
Who was President Polk?
This was passed during the New Deal to give retired people and those with disabilities a guaranteed income.
What is Social Security?
This treaty ended WWI. It required Germany to take blame for the war and to pay reparations to the Allies. It's punishing terms are blamed for the emergence of Hitler in the 1930s.
Who was President Nixon?
This event marked the beginning of the public movement for LGBTQ rights.
What is the Stonewall Riot?
This Republican president was elected due to a compriomise that settled the 1876 election by ending Reconstruction.
This law explained the process for southern states to rejoin the Union after the Civil War and required military oversight in the south to enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
After WWII, the U.S. formed this military alliance, in which an attack against one would be seen as an attack against all.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
This party emerged in the 1880s to addressed the grievances of farmers in the South and Midwest. Avocated for reforms including government regulation of railroads and banks, a graduated income tax, and direct election of senators.
What is the Populist Party (or People's Party)?
This civil rights leader fought for rights for farm works, most of whom were of Hispanic descent.
Who is Caesar Chavez or Dolores Huerta?