Who Am I/What Am I?
It was the US response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Congress took this action to help protect native plants and animals from extinction.
What is the Endangered Species Act
Officially set the guideline that separate but equal was legal and acceptable.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Due to this, there was a decline in workers aged 10-14 in the US during the period of 1870-1930. (It's a general answer)
What was the effect of a progressive movement that worked to stop the use of child labor in the U.S?
In my book, I mentioned the importance of a strong navy if our country was to engage in imperialism.
Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?
It was the ship that was sank off the coast of Ireland and helped shift US public opinion against Germany.
What was the Lusitania?
Suffrage for African American men, women, and 18 year old was obtained due to these amendments.
What are the 15th, 19th, and 26th amendments?
Desegregation of public schools
What was the decision in Brown v Board?
Developments such as skyscrapers, suspension bridges...
What was an effect of the invention of a new process of manufacturing steel?
"segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
Hint: Alabama university
Who was Governor Wallace?
Photographs from the Carlisle Indian School that show before and after photos of Native Americans represent this.
What was the attempt to force assimilation of American Indians into US culture?
Due to increased nativism and job competition (especially in the gold mining industry) this was passed to ban immigration of a certain nationality.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
An act that enforced the Sherman Antitrust Act
What was the Clayton Antitrust Act?
The Civilian Conservation Corps
"We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them — this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved goodbye, and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God."
Who was Ronald Reagan?
I am the Populist party candidate who gave the Cross of Gold Speech and supported bimetallism.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
This protects savings of bank customers during an economic crisis.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
In a unanimous decision, the court held that the Equal Protection Clause required a young man to be admitted to a law university in Texas.
What is Sweatt v Painter?
President Nixon met with Mao Zedong in 1971 with the goal of relaxing tensions between the US and China in mind.
What is detente?
"The future rewards those who press on"
Who was Barack Obama?
I founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, established a weekly newspaper for people of African descent, and supported a back to Africa movement.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
Congress wanted to limit the president's power to send troops into armed conflicts with this
What is the War Powers Resolution?
Your first amendment rights are not absolute
Schenk v. US
Educational benefits included in this act helped provide training to military veterans.
What is the GI Bill, or the Servicemen's Readjustment Act?
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause..."
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?