Important People
1950's: Claimed to hold evidence of communist spies in the US government but never provided any real hard proof of it.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
The trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada meant to lower restrictions and tariffs.
What is NAFTA?
Nixon's idea to lower the tensions between the US and our enemies in the Soviet Union & Communist China
What is Détente?
Spearheaded by figures like, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcom X, & Justice Thurgood Marshal, this movement sought equality and freedom for everyone in the United States
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
Freedom of the press, assembly, speech, and petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Known as the "Trustbuster", an American War Hero, and a lover of nature & conservation.
Who is President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
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?
The Vietnam War, with its conflicting messages from the US government & the national media outlets, created this separation in trust that has never fully been resolved.
What is the Credibility Gap?
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?
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 as a result of the Vietnam War's anti-draft protests.
What is the 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.
Who is Harry Truman?
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.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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.
What is the Court Packing Scheme?
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".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
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.
What is the 14th 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.
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.
What is "Reaganomics"/Supply-Side Economics?
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.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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.
What is the Global War on Terror?
Abolished the barrier of the "poll tax".
What is the 24th 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.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
1862- Granted practically free land to anyone willing to settle in the West and expand US influence there. This law encouraged Westward Expansion.
What is the Homestead Act?
What is the power of Recall?
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.
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
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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.
What are the 18th and 21st amendments?