American Race Relations
This part of the Triangle Trade in which Africans were brought to the New World as slaves was infamous for its brutality and ultimately lasted for over 300 years.
What is the Middle Passage?
This 1823 foreign policy declared that America would not tolerate any further colonization of the western hemisphere and that in exchange for this America would not involve themselves in the affairs of European nations.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The name of the invasion of Normandy in which well over 100,000 allied soldiers crossed the English Channel to liberate France from their German occupiers.
What is D-Day?
This war began and ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel diving the country into northern and southern halves.
What is the Korean War?
Who is Thomas Paine?
This woman's refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and led to the integration of public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The process for which President Andrew Jackson chose his Cabinet members and other government positions based largely on his political friends and allies instead of their job qualifications.
What is the spoils system?
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
This quote refers to what event?
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave the president nearly unlimited power to wage war in this southeast Asian nation without an actual declaration of war, and was later admittedly based on reports of a false incident.
What is Vietnam?
This document was written to officially separate the Colonies from England and lists both the basic rights of mankind while borrowing language from John Locke, and the ways that England has infringed on those rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This court case upheld the notion of "separate but equal" and led to a huge increase in Jim Crow laws especially in former confederate states.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The first televised presidential debate in American history gave Kennedy an advantage because he looked calmer and more collected than which other future American president?
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
General MacArthur developed this strategy used in the Pacific Theater to capture key bases and leap across the Pacific in order to close in on the Japanese homeland.
What is Island Hopping?
This is the name of the policy which offered billions of dollars of loans to war torn Europe to help boost their economies and resist the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments mimicked the Declaration of Independence, and was read aloud at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848, to argue for voting rights for this group of people?
What are women?
This court case denied slaves the right to use the federal court system and declared that African Americans were never intended to be treated as equals under the law and that slaves were property and not people.
What is Scott v Sanford?
This president was the first to be impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
On the homefront, this was implemented to restrict the use of certain valuable resources to make sure the military had enough supplies.
What is rationing?
This doctrine stated that the United States would not hesitate to help any nation actively resist the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This is the list of 10 amendments limiting the federal governments power to influence people which were promised to secure the necessary votes of key Anti-federalists in ratifying the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Media coverage of protests in Birmingham, Alabama which showed German Shepherds and fire hoses being used against peaceful protestors led to the passage of this law in 1964.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
After the supreme court blocked certain New Deal legislation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt threatened to this to the courts, potentially adding 6 new justices which he would get to pick.
What is pack the courts?
The only two nuclear weapons ever used in combat were dropped on these two Japanese centers of trade and industry.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
American spy plane images of missile site construction, led to the quarantine of this island nation and a stand-off between the two world super-powers of the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is Cuba?
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Ole Tommy J?