Constitution
What are the 1st 10 Amendments to the Constitution known as. These amendments protect US citizens their individual freedoms and liberties.
The Bill of Rights
The term given in the early to mid 1800s that justifies US Expansion "God given right to expand west of the Mississippi River". This created controversial issues such as the expansion of slavery and Native American conflicts.
Manifest Destiny
The bombing of this American naval base in 1941 was the direct cause for the United States entry into WWII.
Pearl Harbor
Nicknamed after a President at the beginning of the Cold War, was originally designed to contain communism by giving aid to Greece and Turkey.
The Truman Doctrine
This Civil Rights activist sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott but practicing Civil Disobedience by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
Rosa Parks
The principle of the Constitution that allows each of the three branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) checks the other to ensure that no one branch has too much power.
Checks and Balances.
1857 Supreme Court decision which ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories and declared all slaves as property, not citizens and thus had no legal rights.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
What was the name of the US project to develop an atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project
Formed in 1949 in order to protect Western Europe from Soviet Union and provide collective security against Communist aggression. (Warsaw Pact was the counter to this organization).
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The 1954 Supreme Court case that required the integration of all public schools in the US. This overturned Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of "separate but equal".
Brown v. Board of Education
This agreement created a bicameral legislature with one house based on population and the other house would have equal representation for all states.
The Great Compromise
Order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared slaves free in the areas still held by the Confederates.
Emancipation Proclamation
A form of American propaganda, what famous poster was used to recruit women into wartime industries?
Rosie the Riveter
Fear of Communists in government, this term refers to the tactics by American Senator from Wisconsin who accused government employees and others of being Communists without solid evidence or proof.
McCarthyism
1957- under court order, nine African American students integrated a High School in Arkansas. The students faced harassment and violence when reporting until President Eisenhower sent the US Army to protect and escort them for the full school year.
Little Rock Nine
What is the principle of the constitution that provides for the division of powers between the national and state governments.
Federalism
Plessy v. Ferguson- 1896
What Supreme Court Case ruled in favor of FDR's decision to place Japanese Americans in internment camps for fear of Japanese Americans being a threat to national security during WWII
Korematsu v. US
In 1962, what event was a reaction to Soviet Union placed nuclear weapons in Cuba. This event almost resulted in nuclear war before Kennedy negotiating the limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty with the Soviet Union.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Black students politely ordered food from a restaurant in North Carolina and were not served. They sat in place for days gathering supporters and spreading their protest to other parts throughout the South.
Greensboro Sit-ins
Powers only granted to the Federal Government by the Constitution EX) Power to declare war, coin money, control interstate commerce.
Delegated Powers
A system of farming most common in Southern states after the Civil War. Most cases former slaves were kept economically dependent on these farms.
Sharecropping
Held to make German leaders accountable for the Holocaust (mass genocide against Jews and other minorities). Established the principle that leaders of a nation may be held accountable for crimes against humanity.
The Nuremberg Trials
Provide the name of 1 of the proxy wars during the Cold War that the United States was involved with in an attempt to contain communism from spreading.
The Korean War (1950-1953); The Vietnam War (1965-1975)
Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, this act eliminated any literacy tests or other means to disenfranchise black voters
Voting Rights Act of 1965