Amendments
This amendment protects freedoms like speech, religion, and the press.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This case established the idea of “separate but equal,” allowing segregation.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The growth of factories and machines replacing hand production.
What is industrialization?
This law gave free land to settlers willing to move west and farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This president led the U.S. through the Great Depression and World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This case declared that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
The separation of people based on race.
What is segregation?
This program provided economic aid to rebuild Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This president dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote after the Civil War.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This case required police to inform suspects of their rights.
What is Miranda v Arizona?
The banning of alcohol in the United States during the 1920s.
What is prohibition?
This set of programs helped Americans during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This president pushed the Great Society programs and civil rights legislation.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This case limited presidential power during the Watergate scandal.
What is United States v Nixon?
A policy where a country extends its power over other lands.
What is imperialism?
This set of programs focused on ending poverty and racial injustice in the 1960s.
What is the Great Society?
This president resigned after the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This amendment limits the president to two terms in office.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This case upheld Japanese American internment during World War II.
What is Korematsu v United States?
A Cold War policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This policy stated the U.S. could intervene in Latin American countries to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This president is associated with conservative policies and the end of the Cold War.
Who is Ronald Reagan?