Feeling Presidential
This U.S. President's Policies aided in pulling us out of The Great Depression and created programs like the Works Progress Administration (WPA), The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The passing of this amendment led to the rise of organized crime in cities like Chicago and New York city over bootlegging.
The 18th Amendment or Prohibition
This Program insured people's bank deposits so they felt confident putting money in banks again and the SEC regulated the Stock Market.
The FDIC
For the first time in American History, the President communicated to the American people on a weekly basis via radio. This decision increased his support ten-fold and these were nicknamed...
The Fireside Chats
With White Families fleeing from the cities into the suburbs, African Americans began this process of moving affectionally known as this moment in history
The Great Migration
This President created the G.I. Bill which provided veterans of World War II the opportunity to get cheap home loans and free college. He was also president during the Red Scare.
Harry Truman
Executive Order 9066 allowed the Government to move Japanese Americans to Internment Camps - This Supreme Court Case supported that law saying that National Safety is more important than Civil Rights.
Korematsu V. U.S.
These three policies were passed by FDR to get around the Neutrality Acts to support our allies before the U.S. got involved in the Second World War.
Cash and Carry, Destroyers For Bases, and The Lend Lease Program
This event ended the Second World War but launched us into a terrible new age in our planets history.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
With World War II in full swing, the passing of Executive Order 8802 allowed these two peoples to enter the workforce and banned their discrimination in the workplace.
Women and African Americans
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This Supreme Court Case declares that the Separate but Equal Clause in Plessy V. Ferguson is unconstitutional, leading to the desegregation of schools
Brown V. Board of Education
This Plan was created to fund the rebuild of the war-torn nations of Europe and Japan following the Second World War and was a part of our Foreign Policy of Containment.
The Marshall Plan
These students attempted to desegregate a high school but the Governor of the state responded with the National Guard to keep them out. President Eisenhower reacted immediately with sending the Army to protect these students as they went to school.
The Little Rock Nine
The American Government created several of these across the country following World War II to investigate this "scary" new political idea in Government but also on the city and county levels. These creations all reported to this committee, with a name like a duck call.
This President didn't want to look soft on Communism so he entangles us in Vietnam. Also oversaw the Warren Court as Civil Rights becomes a major event in his presidency. (Hint: He's not my favorite)
Lyndon B. Johnson
This Supreme Court case made Abortion legal by utilizing the 14th Amendments Right to Privacy. The rights provided by this case were recently overturned by the Courts.
Roe V. Wade
During Nixon's Presidency, this term was coined to define when the prices of goods and living were going up while jobs and wages froze.
Stagflation
This scandal at a certain hotel put a President, who was already losing in Vietnam, on the backfoot and led to his Impeachment.
This was the nickname given to the Supreme Court at this time as it tackled and ruled on many landmark cases such as:
The Civil Rights Act (1964), The Voting Rights Act (1965), The Fair Housing Act (1968), Affirmative Action and many others.
The Warren Court
This President passed the No Child Left Behind Act and is credited with crushing Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.
George W. Bush
This Act prevents Americans from being discriminated against because of disability or any kind of imparity.
Americans With Disabilities Act
This President's economic policies will be named after him. These include reduced government spending, supply side economics, reducing government regulations, tightening up the money supply, and reducing social programs. Many consider this policy to have been a major mistake.
Reaganomics
While we had been at war with the Soviets, in the Middle East, and in Southeast Asia, a new war was waged here in the U.S. which launched new programs targeted at kids with this catchy slogan.
The War On Drugs and Just Say No!
This epidemic took the entire world by storm but hit especially hard here in the United States. Millions were impacted and billions of dollars was spent towards research with little to show for it.
The AIDS Epidemic