Reconstruction
This president proposed a reconstruction plan that allowed Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10% of their male population took loyalty oaths, and the states recognized the permanent freedom of formerly enslaved people.
Abraham Lincoln
In 1899, this U.S. foreign policy called for a system of equal trade and investment in China, among the Great Powers.
The Open Door Policy
This slogan represented the African-American communities' fight for justice and equality both, inside abroad and in the United States.
The Double V Campaign
This 1954 Supreme Court decision found that the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was unconstitutional; thus, this case overturned the doctrine of "separate-but-equal."
Brown v. Board of Education
Name all U.S. presidents that have been impeached.
Andrew Johnson (1868), William Clinton (1998), and Donald Trump (2019, 2021)
This group of Congressmen wanted to:
1. Disenfranchise former Confederate leaders
2. Legally abolish slavery
3. Redistribute confiscated land to former slaves
4. Guarantee civil liberties to former slaves
5. Provide citizenship to former slaves
6. Extend political power (voting) to former slaves
The Radical Republicans
This domestic policy by President Theodore Roosevelt called for:
1. Legislating corporations
2. Extending consumer protection
3. Conservation of natural resources
The Square Deal
This event ended America's Great Depression.
World War II
This event, convinced American decision makers of the validity of National Security Council Paper (NSC-68); which concluded that containing communism could be achieved purely through a military approach.
The Korean Conflict
In reference to this event, President Reagan stated, "A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not."
The Iran-Contra Scandal
Collectively, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were known as:
The Reconstruction Amendments
This term described young, American women in the 1920s that publicly consumed alcohol, smoked, wore their short hair, and dressed salaciously.
Flappers
This U.S. economic program was designed to rehabilitate the economies of post-WWII countries. It was offered to all European countries, including the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe.
The Economic Recovery Act of 1948, or The Marshall Plan
This event convinced many Americans to oppose the war in Vietnam and it influenced President Johnson not to seek reelection in 1968.
The Tet Offensive
Mikhail Gorbachev identified this event as a turning point in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Chernobyl disaster
This term referred to laws passed in the Southern states between 1865 and 1866 that aimed to restrict the rights of newly emancipated persons and limit their ability to work as anything other than field laborers.
Black Codes
After the Great War, isolationists U.S. Senators objected to Article X of The Treaty of Versailles, which established:
The League of Nations
This political system advocated that the government should own the means of production, for example if the United States owned Standard Oil.
Socialism or Communism
In June 1971, President Nixon inaugurated this domestic policy to disrupt the anti-war and African-American communities through increased prison sentences.
The "War on Drugs"
Beginning in 1994, this economic plan created a free-trade zone among Canada, the United States, and Mexico by eliminating tariffs and other trade barriers among the three countries.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
The Compromise of 1877, which is considered to have marked the official end of Reconstruction, granted this candidate the presidency.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
This term described the legal and cultural milieu in the southern U.S. states that enforced racial segregation.
Jim Crow
This speech, by Winston Churchill in 1946, is considered the ideological start of the Cold War, since he described the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate spheres.
The "Iron Curtain" speech or The Fulton Speech
This U.S. action in April 1961, propelled Cuba to request nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union in the summer of 1962.
The Bay of Pigs invasion
The codename for this operation that produced an invasion of Panama to execute an American arrest warrant on President Manuel Antonio Noriega.
"Operation Just Cause"