Amendments
WAR!!!
People
WW's
Era's
100
Abolished slavery
What is 13th Amendment?
100
US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set up a blockade in 1948
What is Berlin Airlift?
100
Early civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP. Du Bois demanded equality for African-Americans
What is WEB DuBois?
100
A 1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits
What is GI Bill?
100
The rise of a manufacturing economy and decline of an agriculture economy
What is Industrialization?
200
Rights reserved to the people
What is 9th Amendment?
200
US General in Europe during WWII. He was in charge of the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day). Cold War President
What is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
200
President 1980-88
What is Ronald Reagan?
200
1914 - 1918
What is World War I
200
Growth of cities. Large range of urban problems including sanitation, transportation, and crowded living conditions.
What is Urbanization?
300
The right to vote for women
What is 19thAmendment?
300
US warship blown up in Havana Harbor off the coast of Cuba. The Spanish were blamed and war was declared
What is U.S.S. Maine?
300
Revolutionary era British pampleteer. Wrote Common Sense
What is Thomas Paine?
300
Opposing side's attack from the ditches instead of an open battlefield
What is Trench Warfare?
300
Period after the Civil War in the US when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
400
Gave all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law regardless of color
What is 14th Amendment?
400
1898 war with Spain. Acquired Spanish colonies in Caribbean and Pacific
What is Spanish-American War?
400
Progressive era President. Pro-imperialist
What is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
The turning point in the pacific war
What is Battle of Midway?
400
Depression-era shantytowns on the outskirts of the cities of homeless and unemployed people.
What is Hoovervilles?
500
No unlawful search and seizure
What is 4th Amendment?
500
A U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was captured
What is U-2 Incident?
500
Black Muslim who argued for separation, not integration. He changed his views, but was assassinated in 1965
What is Malcolm X?
500
The period from the end of WW II through the mid-1960's marked by unusually high birth rates
What is The Baby Boom?
500
Alternate term for 1920's.
What is The Jazz Age?
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