Cuban Revolutionary who organized a rebellion against Spanish Rule in Cuba while he was living in exile in the U.S.
Who is Jose Marti
100
Idea of popular sovereignty where people in a territory would decide if slavery would be allowed.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
100
1st group of black students who were able to attend an all white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Who were the Little Rock "9"
100
Returning soldiers had expected to take their old places. But those jobs weren't there.
What is Labor stuggles
100
Government provided health insurance for Americans age 65 and older
What it Medicare
200
Famous trumpet player and master of Jazz
Who is Louis Armstrong
200
1973 law that limits the president's power to send troops into conflict, result of the Vietnam War
What is the War Powers Act
200
Protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch countries and refused to leave until served.
What is Lunch counter sit-ins
200
Causes nativism; fear of communism and anarchism; revival of the kkk
What is limiting immigration
200
Short lived attempt to buy Cuba from Spain
What is the Ostend Manifesto
300
Women's rights activist who spread awareness of birth control methods.
Who is Margaret Sanger
300
law created to enforce Prohibition
What is the Volstead Act
300
In August of this year, 200,000 demonstrators converged on the Lincoln memorial to hear Dr. King's speech and to celebrate Kennedy's support for the civil rights movement
What was the March on Washington, 1963
300
Young Americans authors and artists who were scarred emotionally by WWI and became disillusioned with the modern consumerism of the roaring 20s
What is the Lost Generation
300
The authority of a state to govern itself or another state
What is sovereignty
400
The first person ever to set foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong
400
Law passed by Congress in 1941 providing that any country whose security was vital to U.S. interests could receive arms and equipment from the U.S.
What was the Lend-Lease Act
400
1955 after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin Luther King led this of city buses.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
400
belief that it was the United States divine destiny to expand westward from coast to coast (mid-1800s)
What is Manifest Destiny
400
The world's first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957
What is Sputnik
500
33rd President. His policy of communist containment started the Cold War and he initiated U.S. involvement in the Korean War.
Who is President Harry Truman
500
1924 law; 2% of each country living in the US in 1890s
What is the National Origins Act?
500
1929-1968 Political Leader of the American Civil Rights movement. He was a non-violent leader and became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
500
Fear of communism swept the nation when a U.S. Senator suggested communists had infiltrated the federal government
What is McCarthyism
500
US foreign policy after WWII where the US provided aid to free nations resisting a communist take over