WORDS AND TERMS
FDR created the New Deal in 1933 to combat the Great Depression that Hoover neglected to address. The Civilian Conversation Corps (CCC) was created to help the people in the Great Plains that were affected by the harsh weather conditions otherwise known as the
The Dust Bowl
The War Powers Act signed by President Nixon was created to limit the power of the President to enter in wars without Congressional approval. Which event caused this act?
Vietnam War
What event in 1989 is the symbolic end to the Cold War?
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The 1924 Quota Act was created to stop the number of ____________ entering the country
immigrants
After Brown vs Board of Ed, states had to enforce this law but President Eisenhower sent troops to Arkansas to help students called the
Little Rock 9
Why did the US Senate vote down the League of Nations by Wilson after WW1?
The American people wanted to be neutral
Poet Langston Hughes and musician Duke Ellington gave African Americans pride in the 1920's. This era was called
Harlem Renaissance
This plan was created during the start of the COLD WAR to help out European nations with supplies and money AND to contain the spread of communism.
MARSHALL PLAN
This Act was created to give land called "reservations" to Native Americans across the nation
Dawes Act
FDR created an executive order as WW2 started to put all Japanese Americans in ________________ on the west coast of the US
Internment camps
This act signed into law by LBJ in 1965 guaranteed rights previously held in the 15th amendment
The Voting Rights Act
This was the plan that Reagan put out to get the Soviet Union to spend billions
SDI or Star Wars
The elections of 1876, 2000, and 2016 have this in common.
The winner of the popular vote lost in the electoral college.
In 1940 during WW2, FDR wanted to stay neutral but gave England money, weapons, and military equipment instead. What was the name of the Act to help our allies?
Lend Lease Act
President Clinton wanted to send troops to Somalia and Bosnia as a part of defending human rights around the world. Americans questioned it due to which unpopular war earlier on in our country's history.
Vietnam War
Name 3 events during the modern Civil Rights movement that gave more rights to African Americans in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to fight discrimination
Jackie Robinson
Brown Vs Board of Ed
Rosa Parks
Little rock 9
Sit in movement
Freedom riders
1963 MLK and march on washington
FDR created so many New Deal programs using federal money that some were deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Which constitutional principle is described?
Checks and balances