War
U.S. declared war after the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine ("Remember the Maine")?
Spanish American War (1898)
Late 19th century case that established doctrine of "separate but equal" and upheld a long legacy of Jim Crow segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Conservative who was supported by the Moral Majority and was considered an overturn of a period of liberalism?
Ronald Reagan
Offered vocational (skills) training at Tuskegee Institute as solution to progress for African Americans during the Jim Crow era?
Booker T. Washington
Land acquired following a military coup to remove a dynastic leader?
Hawaii
U.S. entered this conflict to "make the world save for democracy" after unrestricted German submarine warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram?
WWI (1917)
WWII era case that upheld Japanese American internment as justified by an abundance for national security?
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
President who made the first diplomatic trip to communist China as part of detente (easing tensions) during the Cold War?
Richard Nixon
Wrote the so- called long telegram explaining to the Truman administration how to respond to threat of the Soviet Union during the Cold War? It became the policy of Containment.
George Kennan
On trial in Tennessee during the 1920s for teaching Darwinism?
Conflict resulting from Iraq's invasion of the oil- rich small country Kuwait?
Persian Gulf War (1991), Operation Desert Storm
The landmark case that overturned 50 years of Jim Crow segregation and ordered schools be desegregated "with all deliberate speed"?
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
President who signed landmark Civil Rights Act 1964 and Voting Rights Act 1965?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Henry Grady
Manhattan Project
Turning point battle in WWII Pacific and resulted in a strategy of Island Hopping to defeat imperial Japan.
Battle of MIDWAY (1942)
WWI era case that determined that freedom of speech was not unlimited in times of war when national security was in question?
Schenck v. United States (1919)
President who supported the pro- business Gold Standard in the 1896 campaign and was the last of the Gilded Age administrations?
William McKinley
Name of policy that supported U.S. action in Afghanistan and Iraq following 9-11?
Bush Doctrine
Leader of the conservative women's movement to OPPOSE the Equal Rights Amendment?
Phyllis Schlafly
Conflict that was called "war" but was actually a UN peacekeeping mission lead by U.S. troops in the name of stopping the spread of communism during the Cold War? It ended in stalemate.
Korean War (1950- 1953)
In this mid- 19th century case Black Americans were determined not to be citizens and upheld slavery as a property right.
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
President during the 1920s who assured the nation that "the business of America is business"?
Calvin Coolidge
Idea of production efficiency that preceded the assembly line?
Taylorism
Before the Hippies, this was a group that challenged the conformity of the 1950s?
Beatniks