Civil War/Reconstruction/Westward Expansion
What were laws passed in the South to restrict African Americans’ rights called?
Black Codes
What amendment established the federal income tax?
16th Amendment
The U.S. did not want to join this peace keeping organization after WWI.
Four
Which Supreme Court case ruled that the state must provide an attorney if someone cannot afford one?
Gideon v. Wainwright
What was the name for the act that forced relocation of Native Americans to reservations?
What journalist exposed corruption in Standard Oil?
Ida Tarbell
What event drew the U.S. into WWI when they found out that Germany sent this secret message to Mexico?
What was the name of the plan where the U.S. sent money to countries rebuilding after WWII?
Marshall Plan
What major law outlawed segregation in public places in 1964?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
What economic system replaced slavery in the South after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
Jane Addams helped create these types of homes that helped immigrants transition to American life.
Settlement Houses/Hull House
What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt's diplomacy plan for using the military to protect Latin American countries?
Big Stick Diplomacy
The GI Bill was intended to help which group of people earn college degrees and buy homes?
The energy crisis began in the 1970s when this organization placed an embargo on oil.
OPEC
What act gave 160 acres of land to settlers willing to farm it?
Homestead Act
Alexander Graham Bell
Yellow fever and malaria were quite common when these was built from 1904-1914.
Panama Canal
What was the U.S. order relocating Japanese Americans during WWII called?
Executive Order 9066
What two countries did the U.S. host to meet at the Camp David Accords?
Egypt and Israel
What battle marked the end of armed Native American resistance on the Plains?
Massacre at Wounded Knee
William Jennings Bryan won over this political party with his famous "Cross of Gold" speech that supported the use of bi-metalism (using silver and not just gold)
The court case Schneck v. United States limited which amendment in times of war/national security?
1st Amendment
Which president issued the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - stating that the President could enter into war without a formal declaration of war.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was the leader of the USSR that ended in the Cold War and opened up USSR to economic reform?
Mikhail Gorbachev