Politics
This progressive-era amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This 1930s set of programs and reforms aimed to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This canal, completed in 1914, significantly shortened maritime travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1954 case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This policy, announced in 1947, aimed to contain the spread of communism globally.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This agreement, implemented in 1994, created a trade bloc between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
This U.S. region experienced major population growth after World War II due to air conditioning, defense spending, and job opportunities.
What is the Sun Belt?
This 1950s government action/unofficial policy investigated suspected communists in Hollywood, the government, and other institutions, often leading to blacklisting.
What is McCarthyism or the Red Scare Trials?
This set of protections in the Bill of Rights was selectively applied to the states during the 20th century through Supreme Court interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
What is incorporation (selective incorporation doctrine)?
This scandal during the Nixon administration led to the president’s resignation in 1974.
What is Watergate?
This period in the 1970s combined high inflation with high unemployment, challenging traditional economic policies.
What is stagflation?
This line of latitude became a symbol of division during the Korean War.
What is the 38th parallel?
This 1960s youth movement rejected mainstream consumer culture and authority, often expressing opposition to the Vietnam War and traditional social norms.
What is the counterculture movement?
This era of the Supreme Court expanded criminal defendants’ rights, especially in policing and due process protections.
What is the Warren Court expansion of criminal rights?
This 1980s scandal involved the secret sale of arms to Iran, with profits illegally funneled to support rebels in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
This 2008 financial crisis was triggered largely by the collapse of what type of risky home loans?
What are subprime mortgages?
This 1956 law funded the construction of a nationwide highway system, transforming transportation and suburban growth.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This 1969 event in New York is often considered the turning point for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
This federal law passed during the New Deal era significantly expanded government power over the economy and was upheld by the Supreme Court after earlier resistance to federal regulation.
What is the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)?
This 2001 law expanded government surveillance powers in response to the September 11 attacks.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
This Federal Reserve policy involves buying and selling government securities to influence the money supply and interest rates.
What are open market operations?
This region of Southeast Asia became a major focus of U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War.
What is Indochina?
This 1960s feminist book by Betty Friedan criticized the limited roles of women and helped spark second-wave feminism.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
This 1935 New Deal law was struck down in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States because the Court ruled it gave the president too much legislative power.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?