Becoming a World Power
Following victory in this 1898 war, the U.S. acquired island territories in the Caribbean and Pacific, including Guam and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1929 event exposed fundamental economic weaknesses and led to a sharp contraction in consumer spending and banking.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
Following the attack on this location, the U.S. mobilized its "Arsenal of Democracy" to engage in a two-front war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This foreign policy strategy focused on preventing the global spread of communism through massive federal and military spending.
What is Containment?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that "separate but equal" centers of education were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This group of reformers, often middle-class women, sought to use government power to regulate the economy and provide social justice in cities.
Who are the Progressives?
This environmental catastrophe in the Great Plains forced many "Okies" to migrate westward toward California.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This top-secret scientific mobilization led to the development of the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This senator’s name is synonymous with the mid-century "Red Scare" and the hunt for alleged communists within the government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This 1965 act targeted discriminatory practices, like literacy tests, that had prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
What is the Voting Rights Act?
This term describes the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities starting during World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
FDR’s administration aimed to transform the government's role through these "Three Rs."
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This post-war legislation provided veterans with low-interest mortgages and grants for college education.
What is the GI Bill?
This 1956 act authorized the largest public works project in U.S. history, facilitating suburban growth and automobile culture.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This 1972 federal law promoted educational and athletic opportunities for women by banning gender discrimination in schools.
What is Title IX?
Although President Wilson helped negotiate the Treaty of Versailles, this U.S. legislative body famously refused to ratify it or join the League of Nations.
What is the Senate?
This New Deal program was designed to raise food prices by paying farmers to limit their production.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This massive aid package was designed to help rebuild war-torn Europe and ensure those nations remained tied to the American commercial system.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This "Great Society" program was created under LBJ to provide health insurance for the elderly and impoverished.
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta co-founded this organization to advocate for the rights of Latino agricultural workers.
What is the UFW (United Farm Workers)?
During the 1920s, nativist sentiment led to the passage of these, which strictly limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What are Quotas (or the Immigration Act of 1924)?
These two financial regulatory agencies were created to restore public confidence in the banking and stock markets.
What are the FDIC and SEC?
While the war created jobs for women and minorities, it also led to this policy of forced relocation for over 120,000 Japanese Americans.
What is Internment (or Executive Order 9066)?
Following the Vietnam War, this 1973 act was passed to limit the President's power to engage in military action without Congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Act?
This region of the U.S. saw a massive population surge in the 1970s as people fled the declining "Rust Belt" industries.
What is the Sunbelt?