The 50s
This act created popular sovereignty in the U.S.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This President waged a "War on Poverty" and created his "Great Society".
Who is LBJ?
This Reconstruction amendment allowed African American males to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
This is the name for the mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North.
What is the Great Migration?
The annexation of this state helped start the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
This president fired General Douglas MacArthur in the Korean War.
Who is Harry Truman?
This Civil War general led the Union forces during the latter half of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These laws created in the Reconstruction Era stripped rights away from newly freed slaves.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This president refused to provide bonuses to World War I army veterans and resulted in the Bonus Army march.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This American President decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
Who is Truman?
This popular book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, showed the evils of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was a failed CIA operation to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This Democratic president failed miserably in the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This document started American foreign policy in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctine?
What is the Mexican Cession?
This plan was meant to help Europe rebuild after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This Proclamation from the British stopped the American colonists from moving westward.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This president pardoned Richard Nixon after Nixon resigned from Watergate.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This amendment established Prohibition, a very unsuccessful effort in the 1920s.
What is the 18th amendment?
This decision from FDR created internment camps for Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This Supreme Court Chief Justice ruled that, since Dred Scott was a slave, Scott cannot be seen as a U.S. citizen.
Who is Justice Taney?
This Southern politician was the Confederate President.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The Compromise of 1877 led to the election of this president and the end of Reconstruction.
Who is Ruther B Hayes?
This attorney general went after suspected Communists after World War I.
Who is A Mitchell Palmer?
Who is Zachary Taylor?