Progressive Era Reforms
Upton Sinclair's novel exposed the horrific conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry, leading to reform.
What is The Jungle?
The term for the intense period of anti-communist fear and suspicion in the U.S. during the late 1940s and 1950s, often associated with a Wisconsin senator.
What is McCarthyism (or the Second Red Scare)?
A flourishing of African American art, literature, and music centered in New York City during the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The 1896 case that upheld racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The disputed presidential election of 1876 allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president, but a compromise ended this post-Civil War policy in the South
What is Reconstruction?
Lyndon B. Johnson's ambitious set of domestic programs aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice.
What was the Great Society?
This Constitutional amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people.
What is the 17th Amendment?
What is Sputnik?
The term for young, modern women in the 1920s who challenged traditional norms with new fashions and social behaviors.
Who were Flappers?
This landmark 1954 decision unanimously overturned Plessy in the context of public education, declaring state-sponsored segregation unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
This massive North Vietnamese and Viet Cong offensive in early 1968 dramatically shifted American public opinion against the Vietnam War.
What was the Tet Offensive?
Richard Nixon's foreign policy initiative aimed at easing Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and China
What is Détente?
Muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell wrote a scathing exposé on the monopolistic practices of the Standard Oil Company, owned by this man.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
In an attempt to prevent the spread of supposedly subversive and pro-communist sentiment, this purge of homosexuals in the U.S. government began in 1950.
What was the Lavender Scare?
The rise of illegal activity centered around prohibition led to the expansion of this government agency's power and reach.
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
The right to an abortion, later struck down in 2022, was upheld in this landmark 1973 Supreme Court Case.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This 1786-1787 uprising of indebted Massachusetts farmers highlighted the severe weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
The economic theory heavily promoted in the 1980s, emphasizing tax cuts, deregulation, and reduced government spending.
What is Reaganomics (or Trickle-Down or Supply-Side Economics)?
This 1914 legislation strengthened federal protections against trusts and monopolies, and specifically exempted labor unions from prosecution.
What was the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This was a period of cooling tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, particularly during the administration of Richard Nixon
What is Detente?
The most famous scandal of the Harding administration, involving illegal leasing of government oil reserves.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This transcendent 1824 case Gibbons v. Ogden established significant powers of the federal government over this type of commerce.
What is interstate commerce?
In 1932, thousands of WWI veterans calling themselves this marched on Washington demanding early payment of promised compensation; Hoover ordered the army to disperse them.
Who was the Bonus Army?
President Chester Arthur signed this 1882 legislation into law, which marked the first mass restrictions on immigration in United States' history
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
President Taft's alliterative foreign policy approach that emphasized using American economic power and investment abroad.
What was Dollar Diplomacy?
In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned against the growing influence of this intertwined entity.
What is the Military-Industrial Complex?
This famous 1925 trial pitted religious fundamentalism against modern science over the teaching of evolution in Tennessee.
What was the Scopes Trial (or Scopes Monkey Trial)?
The 1832 Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia affirmed the sovereignty of the Cherokee nation, but the ruling was ignored by this president.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
May 10, 1869: The completion of this massive project, which cost millions of dollars and thousands of lives, brought the frontier of the United States closer than ever to the metropolitan and industrialized East.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This 1904 addendum to the Monroe Doctrine established the right of the United States to intervene militarily if Latin American nations were threatened by European encroachment
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?