Culture
The development of this has improved the quality of life in the United States by vastly increasing the ease of obtaining information.
Internet
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Internment camps, rationing, and the use of atomic bombs characterized this 20th century conflict.
World War II
urban poverty
This U.S. president elected in 1920 campaigned on the promise of a return to normalcy, referring to returning to the way the U.S. was prior to World War I and the reforms of the Progressive Era.
Warren G. Harding
This American musical form originated during the Harlem Renaissance.
Jazz music
The Progressive Era creation of initiative, referendum, and recall procedures expanded citizens' __________ ____________ in the democratic process.
direct participation
This American era was characterized by bank failures, bread lines, and FDR's New Deal.
Great Depression
After decades of fighting between these two nations, President Jimmy Carter brokered this peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.
Camp David Accords
This American entrepreneur founded Microsoft, which provides operating software for used by most computers worldwide.
Bill Gates
As a result of this series of acts during the Great Depression, Americans have come to increasingly rely on the federal government during times of economic distress.
New Deal
In this 1954 Supreme Court case, the Warren Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and decided that public schools must be desegregated throughout the United States.
Brown v. Board of Education
Brinksmanship, McCarthyism, and the policy of containment characterized this period of American history.
Early Cold War
Because the U.S. was increasingly seen as an aggressor invading an underdeveloped nation, worldwide reactions to this conflict in Southeast Asia grew increasingly hostile during the 1960s and early 1970s.
Vietnam War
Nominated by Ronald Reagan and confirmed by the Senate, this individual became the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O'Connor
In an effort to increase the amount of money in circulation, this group of westerners campaigned for "free silver."
the Populists
This group led the investigations of the political ideologies and actions of suspected communists throughout the United States, including an emphasis on Hollywood.
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Seen as an over-reach of executive power during the New Deal, this FDR action was his greatest defeat.
Court-Packing Plan
This U.S President visited China in the 1970s thereby opening diplomatic relations between the two countries that later influenced the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Richard Nixon
In the controversial 2000 presidential election, this third party candidate is believed to have taken votes away from the Democratic Party candidate.
Ralph Nader
This act was passed by Congress in an effort to "Americanize," or assimilate, the Native Americans of the Great Plains.
Dawes Act
Political machines expanded in the late nineteenth century largely because the influx of this group made it difficult for local governments to provide basic services during the rapid urbanization of America's cities.
immigrants
The ability to purchase on installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers were characteristics of this American era.
Roaring 1920s
As a result of the U.S.-led Persian Gulf War in 1991, this nation was liberated from an invasion by Iraq.
Kuwait
This Progressive-Era Civil Rights leader promoted vocation (job) training for African Americans as a means of gaining equality.
Booker T. Washington