The Gilded Age
This is where immigrants adopt American culture and integrate culture from their home country, to form a new identity.
What is the melting pot?
His diplomacy was summed up in the phrase "Speak softly, and carry a big stick."
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
He enacted massive government spending programs, collectively known as The New Deal.
Who was FDR?
This case said that Blacks were not citizens and therefore had no legal standing, in the United States.
What is Dred Scott or Scott v, Sanford?
This was the "day that will live in infamy."
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
These were investigative journalists of the late 19th and early 20th century who exposed social and political corruption
Who were Muckrakers?
This was a failed attempt to overthrow the Communist Government in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
As president, he committed us to the Space Race and had to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was Kennedy?
This case said that segregation was legal as long as all facilities were "separate, but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This event, widely regarded at the start of the Great Depression, was largely caused by buying on credit.
What is the Stock Market crash of 1929?
This "Splendid Little War" resulted in the U.S. acquiring Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is the "Spanish-American War?"
This was the movement of Blacks out of the South to factory jobs in urban centers in the North.
What was the Great Migration?
He became president following Kennedy's assassination and is know for The Civil Rights Act.
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
This case overturned Plessy, ruling that separate was not equal. It mandated integrated schools across the country.
What is Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka?
The first atomic bombs were dropped on these two cities.
What are Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
These industrialists provided new goods and services while underpaying their laborers.
Who were Robber Barons?
This was the policy of working against the spread of Communism.
What is Containment?
His response to the Great Depression was to wait for the economy to fix itself.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This case ruled that you have rights, even if yo don't know they exist and resulted in police officers having to read you your rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
This Allowed the United States to lend or lease war supplies to friendly nations
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
This is the process where a company expands to control all aspects of its supply chain.
What is Vertical Integration?
This was the name for United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union, in World War II.
What are the Allied Powers?
He resigned after impeachment proceedings started, stemming from the break-in at the Watergate Hotel.
Who was Nixon?
This case was overturned by the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.
What is Scott v. Sanford?
He is known as the President that ended the Cold War.
Who is Ronald Reagan?