SCANDALS
CREEP spearheaded this effort, endorsed by President Richard Nixon, to wiretap the Democratic National Convention phone lines to gain campaign information.
What is Watergate (1972)?
These "3 C's" of Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal sought to make the Presidency a stewardship of reform for the American people.
What are Conservation, Consumer Protection, and Corporate Law?
WCTU is short for this female anti-booze group.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
This Civil Rights activist sparked a yearlong boycott of Montgomery's city buses.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Mark Twain famously coined this phrase to sardonically describe the period of U.S. history in the late 19th century.
What is the "Gilded Age"?
President Bill Clinton and this 22 year-old White House intern, promised immunity from federal investigator Kenneth Starr, were implicated in a scandal in 1998.
Who is Monica Lewinsky?
Who are we? We sought to provide for America's urban poor by creating "settlement houses," which provided education, recreation, and basic necessities.
Who are Lilian Wald and Jane Addams?
This 3-letter organization trained Guatemalan rebels to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in 1954, setting a precedent for U.S. foreign policy in Central America.
What is the CIA?
This presidential proposition unilaterally declared the United States' right to intervene in Latin America whenever and wherever necessary.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This event in 1849 brought millions of Americans to California and spurred westward settlement.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This 7,000 page set of documents was leaked to the American public in 1971, showing the extent of President Johnson's future plans for Vietnam.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
Upton Sinclair, the famous muckraker who wrote "The Jungle," was inspired by his expedition into these facilities in Chicago.
What are meatpacking plants?
This president was the architect behind the "Great Society," and deepened American commitment in the Vietnam War.
Who is LBJ?
Who am I? I may or may not have defeated Samuel Tilden in the 1876 election, but now that I'm president, I have to remove all federal troops from the South and end Reconstruction early.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This policy, famous advanced by William Jennings Bryan, aimed to back the U.S. dollar with both gold and silver.
What is bimetallism?
This president's administration was implicated in the Credit-Mobilier Scandal, where a fraudulent American railroad company overcharged the federal government and bribed U.S. lawmakers.
Who is Grant?
The spoils system was reformed into this type of meritocracy under President Chester A. Arthur, based on applications, interviews, and minimum qualifications.
What is the civil service?
NCLC is short for this organization that sought to outlaw the employment of children in late-19th century sweatshops.
What is the National Child Labor Committee?
This economic policy sought to cut taxes for the wealthy, in hopes that having more money for investments would "trickle down" to the rest of the American economy.
What is Reaganomics?
This president temporarily took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard to reform America's banking system during the Great Depression.
Who is FDR?
This scandal seriously damaged the reputation of Warren G. Harding, after his administration secretly leased naval oil reserves in Wyoming to private companies without open bidding.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This law, passed in 1890, sought to break up trusts---particularly, the one owned by Rockefeller.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
What are CDOs?
What is the Second Red Scare?
John D. Rockefeller created this company, and eventually controlled all aspects of mining, refining, and selling "black gold."
What is Standard Oil?