Amendments
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
The 19th Amendment
In the late 1940s, the United States adopted this policy to halt the spread of communism in Europe and Asia.
Containment
This man was asked to lead the struggle for open seating on public transportation and rallied the black community.
Martin Luther King Jr.
These laws made it legal to discriminate against African Americans.
Jim Crow laws
The United States entered into this conflict to in an attempt to contain the spread of communism.
The Korean War
Prohibition of the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
The 18th Amendment
This organization lobbied for legislation guaranteeing equal rights for women.
NOW (National Organization for Women)
This women refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
Rosa Parks
This group formed (along with other terrorist groups) and as a result, racial intimidation and violence increased.
Ku Klux Klan
UFW (United Farm Workers)
This amendment states that the Senate of the United States is composed of 2 senators from each state.
The 17th Amendment
For four years after the end of World War 2, the United States was the worlds only superpower. Which action established the Soviet Union as a second superpower?
It successfully tested an atomic bomb.
This court case involved a Kansas law that permitted cities to segregate their public schools.
Brown v The Board of Education
This supreme court case affirmed the principle of "separate but equal" and enabled racism to become institutionalized in the United States.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Western European and North American nations formed an alliance to defend against possible Soviet Aggression.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
This amendment states that congress has the power to collect taxes on income.
The 16th Amendment
This group worked to improve living conditions on reservations.
AIM (American Indian Movement)
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court overturned this court case in a 9-0 decision.
Plessy v Ferguson
Which provision was found in the Northwest Ordinance and was also later included in the US Constitution?
The prohibition of slavery
A collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and 7 other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.
Warsaw Pact
These 3 amendments are called "The Reconstruction Amendments" or "The Civil War Amendments".
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
The United States provided grants and loans to Western European nations to help them recover from the devastation of World War 2.
The Marshall Plan
A group of 7 blacks and 6 whites who rode on a greyhound bus from Washington DC to New Orleans. They ignored the white and colored signs at each stop in defiance of the federal law.
Freedom Riders
This group was founded in 1909, and its goal was to end racial segregation.
NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Mr. Wipple lives by this.
ELE (Everybody Loves Everybody)