Branches and Constitution
These three branches make up the federal government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial?
This state seceded from the union first
What is South Carolina?
This movement tried to reform problems caused by industrialization, poverty, and corruption?
What is Progressivism?
This type of music became especially popular in cities during the 1920s
What is Jazz?
This doctrine was aimed at containing the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This branch of government makes the laws.
This event began began the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This is what the Nineteenth Amendment did.
What is gave women the right to vote?
These were secret bars during Prohibition.
What are Speakeasies?
This Supreme Court case ruled that separate public schools were inherently unequal?
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
This is the main purpose of checks and balances.
What is prevent any one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
This is what the Thirteenth Amendment did.
What is abolished slavery in the United States?
A secret German message encouraging Mexico to ally with Germany against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This amendment banned alcohol in the U.S.
What is the 18th amendment?
This is why Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas.
What is to enforce school desegregation and uphold federal law?
This branch interprets laws and decides whether laws are constitutional.
What is the judicial branch?
This is the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This ship was sunk by German U-boats and increased tensions between Germany and the United States
What is the Lusitania?
This raised tariffs and hurt international trade, which worsened the Great Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
A movement based on reckless accusations of communist influence.
What was McCarthyism?
This is why the Founders divided power among the three branches of government.
What is, they wanted to prevent tyranny by making sure power was separated and limited?
This is why many Southern states felt threatened by Lincoln's election in 1860.
What is They feared that Lincoln and the Republican Party would stop the expansion of slavery and threaten the Southern slave system?
This is why the U.S. failed to join the League of Nations.
What is The Senate did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles, partly because many Americans feared being pulled into future foreign wars?
This was the main goal of the New Deal.
What is helping the United States recover from the Great Depression through relief, recovery, and reform.
This war showed that the United States would fight to contain communism even without a formal declaration of war.
What is the Korean war?