Period 6
This tycoon used horizontal integration to monopolize the oil industry.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
The leader of the settlement house movement who founded the Hull House which provided services to the urban poor and immigrants
Who is Jane Addams?
Anti-war protests led by college students at this school resulted in 4 student deaths at the hands of the National Guard
Kent State
Agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to eliminate tariffs
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
This US Supreme Court case legalizes the idea of separate but equal.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The idea that the wealthy had earned their money and if someone was poor it was their own fault.
What is social darwinism?
The government program to end the Great Depression which created Social Security, the FDIC, and other programs
What is the New Deal?
LBJ's domestic program that sought to end poverty and discrimination and wanted to fund gov programs like Medicare and Medicaid
What is the Great Society?
Name one of the government sponsored acts/movements during the 1960s-1970s that aimed to protect the American environment.
Earth Day; EPA; Clean Air Act; Clean Water Act; Wilderness Act; Endangered Species Act; Superfund Act
The Supreme Court decision that argued that the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during WWII was justified by national security threats
What is Korematsu v. U.S.?
The term for the industrialization of the South after Reconstruction
What is the New South?
The term coined by TR to describe journalists who exposed the ills of society to push for reform
What is a muckraker?
The event in Arkansas where Eisenhower sent in the National Guard to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision to integrate schools
What is the Little Rock 9 (Crisis)?
The idea that reducing taxes on the wealthy and increasing investment money will stimulate the economy.
Also known as "Reganomics" or "Trickle Down Economics"
What is supply-side economics
This US Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were not citizens and had no standing in court.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
This movement aimed to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice, such as economic inequality, poverty, crime, child labor, etc.
What is the Social Gospel?
The movement of Black people to the North where they were seeking reprieve from Southern racism and better paying jobs in factories
What is the Great Migration?
This was the overarching foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War; Meant to prevent the domino effect.
What is containment?
Act passed by George W. Bush that allows the government to deal with suspected terrorists
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools in 1954.
Brown v Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas)
This law outlawed monopolies and allowed the government to break up companies that restricted free trade; not very successful
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
The proclamation that the United States has the power to act as an international police power in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)?
Political disaster where Jimmy Carter criticized American materialism and urges a communal spirit to help the economy
What is the Malaise Speech?
Cabinet department created following 9/11 that protects the U.S. from terrorist attacks, accidents, and natural disasters.
What is the Department of Homeland Security
This US Supreme Court case established the idea of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?