Important People
1950's: Claimed to hold evidence of communist spies in the US government but never provided any real hard proof of it.
Senator Joseph McCarthy
1862- Granted practically free land to anyone willing to settle in the West and expand US influence there. This law encouraged Westward Expansion.
Homestead Act
Spearheaded by figures like, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcom X, & Justice Thurgood Marshall, this movement sought equality and freedom for everyone in the United States
Civil Rights Movement
Nixon's idea to lower the tensions between the US and our enemies in the Soviet Union & Communist China
Détente
Freedom of the press, assembly, speech, and petition.
1st Amendment
American business man that became president then governor of the new government in Hawai'i after the US overthrow of the native Queen Liliʻuokalani.
Sandford B. Dole
Passed by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, this law forced immigrants and Americans of Japanese descent or heritage to move into internment camps throughout the duration of the war for close monitoring. This law was a result of extreme wartime paranoia and was a violation of the 5th and 14th Amendment.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Susan B. Anthony protested, marched, and was even arrested for attempting to secure the right to vote for women in the United States.
What was the Women's Suffrage Movement?
The Vietnam War, with its conflicting messages from the US government & the national media outlets, created this separation in trust with the American people that has never fully been resolved.
Credibility Gap
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 as a result of the Vietnam War's anti-draft protests.
26th Amendment
This president led the United States through the end of World War II following the death of President Roosevelt. He was responsible for giving the direct order to drop the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He also developed a doctrine with his namesake as a response to Communist expansion in the world in the early years of the Cold War.
President Harry S. Truman
The trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada meant to lower restrictions and tariffs.
NAFTA
Following the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the United States and its allies found themselves entrenched in wars in the Middle East for years in order to rid the world of a new kind of threat.
Global War on Terror
1962, the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. President Kennedy & Soviet Premier Khrushchev held a 13-day standoff in international waters as a result of soviet nuclear placements on the island of Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
These amendments are related; The first one enacted Prohibition upon the United States and the second one abolished prohibition, allowing the sale of alcohol to resume in the country.
18th & 21st Amendments
Known as the "Trustbuster", an American War Hero, and a lover of nature & conservation.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
President Reagan's Economic Policy geared towards fixing the issues of 70's "Stagflation". Involved giving tax cuts and economic breaks to the richest Americans & business owners with the intent that they would use their extra profits to create and expand career opportunities for the working class.
"Reaganomics"/Trickle Down/Supply-Side Economics
In 1918, this was the largest and deadliest battle in American history; The American Expeditionary Force sought to end the war by breaking through the last major line of Germany's defenses.
Battle of the Argonne Forest
President FDR's attempt to add more Justices to the Supreme Court in order to stop the SCOTUS from shooting down all of his New Deal programs.
Court Packing Scheme
Grants US citizens the right to "Equal Protection" under the law & "Birthright Citizenship", anyone physically born in the US will be a citizen regardless of the status of their parents.
14th Amendment
A leading member of the Farmworkers Union, she helped pave the way for better working rights for Mexican Laborers as well as equal rights for women and minorities.
Dolores Huerta
1906- Prohibited the sale of mislabeled food and medicine, or products that have been tampered with to ensure the safety of the American consumers. This also showed how the federal government was given even more powers to begin regulating business.
Pure Food & Drug Act
This court case (1896) established a dangerous precedent upon American society; people could be separated by race so long as the facilities were deemed "equal".
Plessy v. Ferguson
In the progressive era, this power was granted to US citizens as a way to remove any elected official from their office if they are not living up to their promised expectations. This gave way to more direct participation in government and democracy.
the power of Recall
Abolished the barrier of the "poll tax".
24th Amendment