The Vietnam War
President who increased American troop presence in Vietnam during the 1960s
President Lyndon Baines Johnson
President immediately prior to Jimmy Carter
President Gerald Ford
Jefferson's faction/political party
Anti-Federalists/Democratic-Republicans
1863 Proclamation by which Lincoln decreed that slaves in the states in rebellion were free
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Compromise of 1850
Resolution (law) to limit Presidential powers to conduct wars without Congressional authorization
War Powers Act (1973)
1978 Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel brokered by President Carter
Camp David Accords
Document authored by Jefferson that states "All Men are created equal"
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
Lincoln's opponent for the Illinois senate seat in 1858 and (one of his opponents) for the Presidency in 1860
Stephen Douglas
Large Southwestern territory/republic that was annexed and became a U.S. state in 1845
Texas
President Nixon's policy of turning over responsibility for control and conduct of Vietnam War to South Vietnam
Vietnamization
Country in the Middle East that took 36 Americans hostage in 1979
Iran
Name of Jefferson's Virginia plantation
Monticello
Popular name of Lincoln's 1858 speech where he asserted that the U.S. must be all free states or all slave states
The House Divided Speech
Author of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)
Frederick Jackson Turner
France
Nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania that had a partial meltdown in 1979
Three Mile Island
Jefferson's and Madison's "resolutions" critical of the Alien and Sedition Acts
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Ten Percent Plan
Editor and columnist who coined the term "Manifest Destiny"
John O'Sullivan
Massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians by U.S. Troops in 1968
Mai Lai Massacre
Subject matter/theme(s) of Carter's Malaise/Crisis of Confidence Speech in 1979
American materialism, self-indulgence, "[American's] mistaken idea of freedom"
Jefferson's cabinet position during George Washington's Presidency
Secretary of State
Name of the theater in Washington, D.C. where Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865
Ford's Theater
Name of the 1876 battle between U.S. and alliance of Lakota and Cheyenne Indians at which General Custer was killed
The Battle of Little Bighorn