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"Ask not what your country can do for you but what YOU can do for your country"
What is John F. Kennedy
100
This policy focused on FDR's response to the Great Depression. It revolved around relief, recovery, and reform. Alphabet agencies were created to get people back to work and the nation once again on its feet
What is the New Deal
100
A protester during the Montgomery Bus Boycott who refused to move from her seat in the "whites only section" of the bus
What is Rosa Parks
100
This was a warning to Europe to STAY out of the America's (Western Hemisphere). If Europe did not abide to this warning the U.S would use force to protect its economic interests.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
100
What did George Washington warn the country about in his "Farewell Address" 2 things
What is 1) The danger of Political Parties (divide a nation) 2) Stay out of entangling alliances (could drag and infant nation into war)
200
"John Marshall has made his decision now let him ENFORCE it"
What is Andrew Jackson
200
This Domestic Policy implemented by Lyndon Johnson revolved around a War on Poverty where we see programs such as Project Head Start, Job Corp, VISTA, Medicaid, and Medicare. This policy also had a Civil Rights Agenda leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act 1964
What is Great Society
200
Occurring during JFK's administration these people both white and black boarded buses in the north and ventured deep into the south to support the desegregation of the transportation system. Those who participated in this protest movement were called?
What is Freedom Riders
200
This policy issued by Harry Truman focused on stopping the spread of communism after World War II
What is Containment
200
Paul Revere's famous fabricated engraving of this incident stirred up the colonies in regards to the British Soldiers treatment of "Innocent Colonists"
What is The Boston Massacre
300
"We are all Federalists we are all Republicans"
What is Thomas Jefferson
300
Teddy Roosevelt's Domestic policy that focused on 1) Consumer Protection 2) Trust-Busting 3) Conservation of the Environment 4) Labor Mediation
What is The Square Deal
300
These peaceful sit-ins originated in this city in North Carolina where blacks protested in "white only" areas and quickly spread as a successful method of protest in the 1960's
What is Greensboro
300
This policy issued by Richard Nixon after Vietnam focused on an easing or relaxing of tensions during the cold war
What is Detente
300
The Adams-Onis treaty of 1819 allowed the United States to acquire this from Spain.
What is Florida
400
"The only thing we have to fear...is fear itself"
What is Franklin Roosevelt
400
Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy that focused on tearing down the "triple wall(s) of privilege" Progressive Reform approach in (Banks-Big Business- Tariff's)
What is New Freedom
400
Governor from Arkansas who was heavily against desegregation. His response to the Little Rock Crisis was widely opposed. He attempted to block the integration of the school by using the national guard, leading to a confrontation with president Eisenhower and ultimately integration of the school.
What is Orval Faubus
400
This was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine where Teddy Roosevelt stated that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force. Roosevelt - "Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick"
What is Roosevelt Corollary
400
The caning of this U.S senator revealed that sectional tension between the north and south can lead to Violence on the political stage.
What is Charles Sumner
500
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
What is Teddy Roosevelt
500
JFK's domestic policy that focused on revitalizing the stagnant economy and enact reform legislation in education, health care, and civil rights. After he is assassinated LBJ will take these reform pieces and solidify them
What is New Frontier
500
Who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr?
What is James Earl Ray
500
Statement of U.S. foreign POLICY toward China. Issued by U.S. secretary of state John Hay (1899), the statement reaffirmed the principle that all countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade.
What is Open Door Policy
500
The author of the "Frontier Thesis" in which he feared the American Frontier was closing and once closed would lead to the dissolution of the American Dream
What is Frederick Jackson Turner