Progressive Prez. Policies
What is Moral Diplomacy
What is the New Deal?
Main policy used during the Cold War to fight the dirty red communists.
What is containment?
No more beer or liquor, this amendment got repealed because Americans love the booze
What is the 18th amendment?
This court case dealt with the internment of Japanese Americans and their rights being taken away from them.
What is Korematsu vs United States?
This policy is best described as speak softly and fear the U.S. might!
What is Big Stick Policy
The main focus of this policy was to combat the war on poverty and establish Civil Rights for all especially voting rights. The gains from this policy are forgotten due to the war in Vietnam.
What is the Great Society?
This was the policy used by the United States between WW1 and the outbreak of WW2. When prisoners don't behave they get put in this also.
What is isolation?
If you make to much money, this amendment will hurt your check book.
What is the 16th amendment
Free Trade Agreement put in place by Bill Clinton
What is NAFTA?
This policy could best described as substituting dollars for bullets.
Programs included in this policy are the Peace Corp, raising the minimum wage, raising social security benefits, improving education, and providing Medicare. Its founder got shot in Dallas.
What is the New Frontier?
Woodrow Wilson wanted to achieve long lasted peace after WW1 and created this policy for the world to follow. To bad his own nation said no thanks.
What is the 14 points?
What is the 27th amendment?
Lucky because of this New Deal program (acronym), our money is insured in banks. So they'll be no need to run if the stock market crashes.
What is the FDIC?
This region was the basis of the Progressive Presidents foreign policies. Hint: a language and a continent.
What is Latin America.
Initiated by our first African American president, this policy gave all Americans the opportunity to have health insurance. Many business owners weren't happy!
What is the Affordable Health Care Act?
This policy stated that we will hand the war over to the South Vietnamese and let them fight the war. Most Americans supported this policy. Most South Vietnamese did not and once it was implemented the North won.
What is Vietnamization?
These 3 amendments focused on the African Americans and how they had been treated in the past. Southern states implemented laws though to bypass these amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th?
If you get arrested and can't afford an attorney, the ruling in this court case, may just set you free one day.
What is Gideon vs Wainwright
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is rugged individualism?
3 policies leading up to our involvement in WW2. These policies proved that we weren't really isolated and we were already supporting the Allies aka United Kingdom
What is cash/carry, lend/lease, and Atlantic Charter?
This amendment made all the 19 and 20 year olds happy because now they could politically participate.
What is the 26th amendment.
These two Civil Rights Supreme Court Cases are tied together. One overturned the other. Proving that our constitution is a living and breathing document.
What are Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education?