Westward Expansion-Progressive Era
Built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Panama Canal
Franklin Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression
The New Deal
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
First black President
Barack Obama
Journalists who expose corruption
muckrakers
Wilson's plan for peace after WWI
14 Points Address
Event that caused the U.S. to enter WWII
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The belief that if one country falls to communism, those around it will fall too
Domino Theory
Ronald Reagan's plan for solving economic problems through cutting taxes
Reaganomics
Formed to help workers fight for better working conditions
Labor Unions
Harlem Renaissance
Provides benefits such as college tuition and low interest loans to veterans
GI Bill/Servicemen's Readjustment Act
Difference between what the government and media were reporting during the Vietnam War
credibility gap
Caused a shortage of gasoline and increase in gas prices
OPEC Oil Embargo
Wrote The Jungle exposing unsanitary conditions in meatpacking factories
Upton Sinclair
Scandal that occurred during Harding's presidency
Teapot Dome Scandal
New Deal program that insures people's deposits in banks
FDIC
Lowered the voting age to 18
26th Amendment
Extensive damage was caused in New Orleans when the levees failed to keep water out during this storm
Hurricane Katrina
Groups of corrupt politicians who used their power for their own benefit
Political Machines
Territories gained by the U.S. in the Spanish American War
Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
Roosevelt issued this to forcefully relocate Japanese Americans during WWII
Executive Order 9066
Law that banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, negotiated by Jimmy Carter
Camp David Accords