Presidents
Started the race to put a man on the moon.
John F. Kennedy
The 3 amendments that began the era of reconstruction.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
The Supreme Court decision that established "separate but equal" as constitutional.
What is the Plessey V. Ferguson case?
A time of economic and manufacturing growth where people were able to buy on credit without many restrictions.
What is the Roaring 20's?
2 leaders of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.
Who is: (many possible)...
This president was responsible for desegregation of the military
Harry S. Truman
Laws that were established to reinforce white supremacy and develop segregation apartheid.
What were Jim Crow laws?
The movement in society to pass laws that would help poor people and establish a middle class, attempting to make life better for more people.
What are Stock Market Crash of 1929, People not being able to pay off loans, Banks closing, Depressions in Europe, Dust Bowl...
The Supreme Court Case that overturned "separate but equal" and ended legal segregation in schools.
What is Brown V. Board of Education (Topeka Kansas)
His presidency was known for its aggressive trust-busting policies, as he sought to regulate big businesses and protect consumers.
Theodore Roosevelt
The belief among many white Americans that the United States is ordained by God to take over the continents of America. This feeling led to other feelings of American exceptionalism.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The term for journalists who exposed corruption and exploitation during the early 1900s.
What is Muckrakers?
The political and social feeling that caused many Americans to be against joining The Great War.
What is Isolationism?
The 2 presidents during the escalation and peak of the Vietnam War.
Lindon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon
Created plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression, known as The New Deal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The political party that started by working for farmers rights and eventually changed the Democratic party platform.
What was the Populist Party?
The war that established the era of imperialism, following the Open Door Policy and the invasion of Hawaii, and leading to the annexation of the Philippines and the Roosevelt Corollary.
What is the Spanish-American War?
What are depressions across the world, fascism in Europe, Imperialism in Japan, the failure of the League of Nations, the punishment of Germany (Treaty of Versailles), and a couple other options...
The most famous march that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (the whole name).
What is the March from Selma to Montgomery?
Proposed a peace plan after WW1 called the 14 points wanting the United Stated to join the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson
(any 3)
Use of Silver currency, secret ballots, higher wages, graduated income tax, government control of transportation, direct election of senators by the people
The term for breaking apart monopolies and trusts to limit their power and control.
Two of the following: An Artist, A Poet, A Novelist, and An Actor, A Leader ... from the Harlem Renaissance...
This event signified the end of the Cold War even though it occurred before the Soviet Union was dissolved.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall?