Amendments R Us
This constitutional amendment was responsible for the split between suffragettes and civil rights activists.
15th Amendment
This 20th-century president favored a small federal government and ran a government surplus while in office.
Bill Clinton
This highly controversial Federalist legislation was arguably the first restriction on immigration in US history.
Alien Act
This muckraker wrote The Jungle and influenced the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Upton Sinclair
This constitutional amendment was a reaction to the quartering act of 1765.
3rd amendment
This was the most widely-cultivated cash crop of the early Chesapeake colonies.
Tobacco
This 1882 legislation marked the first explicit restriction on immigration in US history.
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Flapper Movement
This amendment promised Cuba its independence after the conclusion of the Spanish American War.
Teller Amendment
This unconstitutional New Deal program paid farmers to reduce production in an attempt to raise food prices.
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
The election of this president ended the silver/gold debates that characterized the late 19th century.
William McKinley
This 1921 law restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that country living in the United States as of the 1910 Census.
Emergency Quota Act
This was a largely Protestant response to problems created by rapid urbanization and industrialization in the late nineteenth century. Advocates argued that it was incumbent on all mankind to look after those less fortunate.
Social Gospel
This unsuccessful amendment, which was an attempt to completely restrict the westward expansion of slavery, was countered by the 1820 Missouri Compromise.
Tallmadge Amendment
This was a federal law which promoted westward expansion by allotting 160 acres of free public land to individual settlers. It was passed in 1862.
Homestead Act
This tariff deliberately made farming in Hawaii financially unsustainable for Americans in an effort to encourage annexation.
McKinley Tariff
This president supported an Amnesty Act in the 1980s.
Ronald Reagan
William Jennings Bryan's participation in this sensational court case may have contributed to his death.
Scopes Monkey Trial
This constitutional amendment, largely a response to demands of those drafted for the Vietnam War, lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
26th Amendment
This was the first "national" organization of the farmers, and it led to the creation of the Populist party. It sponsored social gatherings, encouraged activity in politics, organized cooperatives, and fought against the dominance of the railroads and manufacturers.
Farmers' Alliance
He was the last president of the BUS!
This secretive, anti-immigrant political party was also known as the Native American Party and the American Party
Know-nothing Party
During the second half of the 19th century, German influence in this region expanded with plantations of coconut, cacao, and hevea rubber. British challenges to German claims eventually threw the region into crisis.
Samoa