Bill of Rights
Freedom of Speech, Religion, and press; right to assemble; right to petition.
What is the 1st Amendment?
President when the Great Depression began
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The period after WWII marked by unusually high birth rates.
What is the Baby Boom?
Civil rights group that used armed resistance to protest and to defend themselves; led by Huey Newton
Who are the Black Panthers?
Right to bear arms
What is the 2nd Amendment?
Term used to describe the area of the Great Plain where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
What is Dust Bowl?
Form of music that became popular in the 1950s.
Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The right to a fast and public trial
What is the 6th Amendment?
Name of the Dam built on the Colorado River to stimulate business and provide jobs
What is Hoover Dam?
Competition between U.S. and U.S.S.R for supremacy in space exploration between 1957-1975.
What is Space Race?
Southern Race Laws that encouraged segregation and discrimination against African American.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Trial by jury
What is the 7th Amendment?
Franklin D Roosevelt implemented this Deal to help with the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
First televised debate between two president candidates.
Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation, instilling the "separate, but equal" facilities was legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
No unlawful search or seizure
What is the 4th Amendment?
Pres. Roosevelt's New Deal Policy legislation brought Reform-for the economy through three measures: 1. helped guarantee bank deposits and protected people's savings; 2. created a government benefits program to help elderly, disabled, and retired; 3. watchdog agency to watch over stock markets and prevent another collapse
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), Social Security Act and SEC (Securities Exchange Commission?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Supreme Court decision that made segregation illegal in public schools.
What is the Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
prohibited the sale, transport, and making of alcohol; increased women's political power by granting them suffrage, or the right to vote.
What is the 18th and 19th amendments?
When a stock becomes worth more than the value;limited government regulation; led to Great Depression
What is Overspeculation?
belief in "domino theory" led to U.S. intervention;hoped to stop the spread of communism(containment)
What is the Vietnam War?
Ended segregation, discrimination and required equal treatment of minorities in the workplace and all public places. In addition, this ended poll taxes and literacy tests set up by Jim Crow laws;supported 15th amendment -African American men;resulted in increased voting by minorities
What is Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Reconstruction Amendments; Abolished slavery; Gave citizenship and equal protection under the law,due process;guarantees that the right to vote cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude, ensuring voting rights for African American men.
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
Response to rejection of some New Deal programs;many disliked because it increased power of president
What is Roosevelt's court packing plan?
decreased voting age to 18;citizens believed if old enough to be drafted into war,then should have right to vote.
What is 26th amendment?
Gov.Orval Faubus challenged the power of the federal government to desegregate schools;Pres. Eisenhower sent National Guard troops to enforce ruling and ensure safety of nine African American high school students.
What is the Little Rock Nine?
gave congress the right to tax your income;direct election of senators;
What are the 16th, 17th, amendments?
Limited a president to serve only two terms;passed in response to President Franklin Roosevelt serving four terms.
What is the 22nd amendment?
allowed a president to take military action wihout a declaration of war from Congress
What is the Tonkin Resolution?
1963 Non-violent protest aimed to improve political rights and economic opportunities for minorities;resulted in new legistlation being passed a year later.
What is March on Washington?