Lincoln’s Vice President; became President after Lincoln’s assassination
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
Prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol within the United States.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
100
Successful Union general who eventually became the leader of the Union army (Later elected President of the United States)
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Multistory building divided into apartments to squeeze in as many families as possible
What is a tenement?
100
Followers believed ?a territory’s voters should decide themselves whether to allow slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty?
200
Mississippi senator who became president of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
Guarantees equality under the law for all citizens
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
200
Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post-Reconstruction era which was characterized by a façade of prosperity
What is the Gilded Age?
200
Ideal or typical household with a father, mother, and children
What is the nuclear family?
200
An economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income
What is socialism?
300
The Republican candidate for president in 1896, who followed a traditional strategy of letting party workers campaign for him (Also won election due to huge campaign contributions from big business entrepreneurs)
Who is William McKinley?
300
Forbids any state to deny the right to vote on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
300
The controversial Supreme Court case that legalized abortion
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
Expansion of cities accompanied by an increase in the number of people living in them
What is urbanization?
300
Flexible diplomacy adopted by Richard Nixon to ease tensions between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People’s Republic of China
What is détente?
400
Governor of the Philippines in 1901, later president of the United States
Who is William Howard Taft?
400
Abolishes slavery, and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
The Democratic nominee for president in 1896, who supported many Populist principles including silver coinage, and who toured the country to speak directly to voters
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
400
November 9, 1938 – night of organized violence in which Jews were arrested and killed and synagogues and Jewish businesses destroyed
What is Kristallnacht?
400
A policy which allowed businesses to operate under minimal government regulation
What is laissez faire?
500
Became President after Kennedy’s assassination
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
Repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibits the transportation or importation into the United States of alcohol for delivery or use in violation of applicable laws.
What is the Twenty-first Amendment?
500
Permits Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census.
What is the Sixteenth Amendment?
500
Constitutional amendment that banned the poll tax as a voting requirement