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Established that the U.S. would provide political, military & economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian forces.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage.
What is the 19th amendment?
100
the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
What is McCarthyism?
100
a series of attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by white American servicemen stationed in Southern California against Mexican American youths and other minorities who were residents of the city.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
200
known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".[1
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
What is brinkmanship?
200
The popular name of a group of African-American military pilots who fought in World War II.
What is the Tuskegee Airman?
300
He called for black progress through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to challenge directly the Jim Crow segregation and the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th amendment?
300
The Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's interests in regulating abortions: protecting women's health and protecting the potentiality of human life
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites on a neighboring island; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
A cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
400
racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.
What is Jim Crow?
400
prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th amendment?
400
concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.
What is Korematsu v. The United States
400
This gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty".
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines.
What is a muckraker?
500
insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
500
prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
What is the 15th amendment?
500
Denied citizenship to African American slaves.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500
A move by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court and then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the Court.
What is FDR's Supreme Court Packing Plan?
500
was organized to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processers, corporations, and the politicians in league with such interests.
What is the Populist Party?