Politics
This President declared a "War on Poverty."
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
Interchangeable parts and the cotton gin were developed during this era in American history.
What is the Market Revolution?
The law that ended US neutrality in World War 2 and led to financial support for the Allied
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The Supreme Court case that declared that separate could be equal under the 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This former slave led missions on the Underground Railroad and later served as a spy during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Whig Party was formed in response to Andrew Jackson's decision to...
What is "veto the national bank"?
The French phrase suggesting that the government should stay out of the economy.
What is "laissez faire"?
This Shawnee leader was defeated by William Henry Harrison's Army during the War of 1812.
Who is Tecumseh?
The Supreme Court Chief Justice who asserted that the Federal Government had ultimate authority over American Indian affairs in the case, Worcester v. Georgia.
Who is John Marshall?
The poet and essayist, Ralph Waldo Emerson, led a mid-19th century movement urging individualism and connection with nature.
What is transcendentalism?
Following Harry Truman's decision to integrate the US army, this politician ran against him representing the so called Dixiecrat Party.
Who is Strom Thurmond?
The government program that insures deposits in approved banks up to $250,000.
What is the FDIC?
This President ridiculed the military industrial complex in his Farewell Address.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson asserted states' rights to nullify unjust law. This right is rooted in which amendment?
What is the 10th Amendment?
A plan organized by the Attorney General to deport large numbers of suspected Communists following World War 1.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The document declaring the political goals of the Populist Party.
The Omaha Platform
The group of people in the 1870s who advocated for the loosening of currency so as to assist farmers.
Who are the "Greenbacks"?
The President who signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo...
Who is James K. Polk?
This Supreme Court case ruled the Presidential suspension of Habeas Corpus during the Civil War unconstitutional?
What is ex parte Merryman?
An artistic movement dedicated to displaying the natural beauty of America and the northeast in particular during the early 1800s.
What is the Hudson River School?
This man was once Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President, but broke away to challenge Harry Truman from his left in the 1948 US Presidential Election
Who is Henry Wallace?
The high rates in this tariff bill, passed by William Taft, caused a schism in the Republican Party.
What is the Payne-Aldrich Tariff?
The leader of the Philippine Insurrection against the United States.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
In 2018, this Supreme Court case which asserted the right of the government to intern Japanese citizens during World War 2 was overturned.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
The founder of Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?