Amendments
This Amendment to the US constitution outlaws the institution of slavery.
What is the 13th amendment
This monopolist from the American Industrial age owned standard oil.
Who is John Rockefeller?
The Zimmerman Telegram and sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare) caused the United States to enter this major conflict.
What is World War I
This Supreme Court Decision decided that "Separate but Equal" was legal
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
This was the name for LBJ's program to eliminate poverty, similar to FDR's New Deal.
What is the Great Society?
This Amendment outlaws the production, sale, and distribution of Alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th amendment?
This monopolist from the American Industrial age owned a steel monopoly and practiced horizontal and vertical integration.
Who Andrew Carnegie?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor caused the United States to become involved in this major conflict.
What is World War II
This SCOTUS decision claimed that slaves were not citizens nor people, but property and that Congress couldn't limit slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott Decision?
Union and immigrants rights activist who pressed for the Labor Rights of Migrant Farm Workers in the 1960s and 70s.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
This amendment provides for Women's Suffrage in the United States
What is the 19th amendment?
This person was a democrat, supported by the populist movement, campaigned for Bi-metal-ism, prosecuted John Scopes, and ran for president three times
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Rampant over-production, over-consumption led to purchasing on credit and other economic imbalances that led to this major economic event.
What is the Great Depression?
This case legalized abortions on the grounds of a woman's right to privacy.
What is Roe v Wade?
This event led to the desegregation of the buses in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus boycott?
This amendment allows for the direct election of Senators by the people.
What is the 17th Amendment?
He was the president at the outbreak of World War One, he pushed for the federal reserve, and proposed the 14 Points for Peace plan.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Yellow journalism, the De Lome Letter, and the sinking of the USS Maine all led to President McKinnley beginning this Splendid Little War.
What is the Spanish American War?
This WWII-era case legalized Japanese internment camps in the US during the war a military necessity.
what is Korematsu v US?
This resolution allowed the US to escalate the Vietnam War in 1964.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This amendment forbids states from denying its citizens their constitutional rights without due process of law.
What is the 14th amendment?
This president was known as a Progressive, an imperialist, a trust-buster, a rough rider, and a conservationist.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This was the first man made object launched into Earth's orbit and ignited the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.
What is Sputnik?
This case made it law that the police read you your constitutional rights upon arrest.
What is Mirands v Arizona?
The Nixon-era policy of easing Cold War tensions between us and China and the USSR.
What is detente?