1865-1898
This amendment to the Constitution granted equal protection under the law, as well as citizenship for natural-born individuals.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The following territories were obtained from Spain following the Spanish-American War: Cuba, Philippines, and ______ ______.
What is Puerto Rico?
This organization was created after World War II, with the hope of preventing another world war from happening in the future.
What is the United Nations?
The term used for Ronald Reagan's economic policies, where cutting taxes for the rich would "trickle down" to the poorer classes.
What is Reaganomics?
This man was the second president and the first vice president.
Who is John Adams?
This approach to business meant that there was little to no government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
Term used for the enormous global economic downturn of the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
The name of the project that developed the first atomic bombs. If you watched Oppenheimer, you may know this already.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The group responsible for the September 11th attacks.
What is al-Qaeda?
This man was president at the outbreak of the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
This man was the founder of Standard Oil and, at one point, the richest American to ever live.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Term used for the period during which alcohol was illegal in the United States.
What is prohibition?
Scandal involving a cover-up of political espionage during Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
What is Watergate?
The year in which the U.S.S.R was dissolved.
What is 1991?
This man was president during America's involvement in World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This American ship was destroyed in Havana's harbor, killing 261 Americans and leading to a war against Spain.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
The surprise attack on this naval base led the United States to declare war on Japan.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Term used for the period of heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
Elected in 2008, he was the first African-American to become president.
Who is Barack Obama?
This man was president during America's involvement in World War II.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at the end of the American Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Message sent from Germany to Mexico, proposing an alliance against the United States. Part of why the United States got involved in World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Term used for the United States' policy of limiting the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
Name of the trade agreement between the US, Mexico, and Canada designed to benefit all countries.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
This man was president during the majority of the 1980s, known for his trickle down economic policies.
Who is Ronald Reagan?