Domestic Policy
Under this President the Alien and Sedition Acts, raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, authorized the President to deport aliens and permitted their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime.
Who is John Adams
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis, where the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
Who is JFK
This event was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".
Proclaimed the United States' opinion that European powers should no longer colonize the Americas or interfere with the affairs of sovereign nations located in the Americas
What is The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Was president when the Stock Market Crashed
Who is Herbert Hoover
This president signed the writ of habeas corpus between Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to give military authorities the necessary power to silence dissenters and rebels. Under this order, commanders could arrest and detain individuals who were deemed threatening to military operations.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This president signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican American war to grant the U.S. California, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and parts of New Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk
This was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. ... More generally, imperial officials wanted a treaty between the colonies and the Iroquois that would articulate a clear colonial-Indian relations policy.
Under this doctrine, the U.S. was prepared to send any money, equipment, or military force to countries in Europe that were threatened by the communism following World War II.
What is the Truman Doctrine (1947)
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
What President signed the Selective Service Act, to require all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
This President led the U.S. during the Spanish American War. Please explain ONE cause and ONE effect of this war.
Who is William McKinley
This event is commonly thought of as the first armed insurrection by American colonists against Britain and their colonial government. A hundred years before the American Revolution, armed rebels ransacked their colonial capital, threatened its governor and upended Virginia's social order.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
Stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite “foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.”
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
This was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election between Hayes and Tilden. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era.
This President proposed The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, frequently called the "court-packing plan", to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the Court had ruled unconstitutional.
Who is FDR
This president proposed a plan for peace known as the 14 points to achieve lasting peace and a league of nations. However the U.S. Senate rejected the covenant to join the League of Nations due to his inability to compromise.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
This event occurred on May 4, 1886, when a labor protest rally in Chicago turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot
Under this doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)
Under this law the president the power to divide Indian reservations into individual, privately owned plots. The act dictated that men with families would receive 160 acres, single adult men were given 80 acres, and boys received 40 acres. Women received no land.
The Dawes Act
This president founded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 as a response to the rising concern over conservation and pollution. The agency oversaw the passage of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Mammal Marine Protection Act.
Who is Richard Nixon
This President agreed for the U.S. to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Who is Jimmy Carter
The murder of this person brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi. While visiting his relatives in Mississippi, this person went to the Bryant store with his cousins, and may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant.
Who is Emmett Till
Under this doctrine the U.S. provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "roll back" Soviet-backed pro-communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
What is the Reagan Doctrine (1885)
This law outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965