Gilded Age
Economic plan based on the trickle down side supply economics, reduced taxes, deregulating the government, and increasing military spending
What is Reaganomics?
What is the name of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution, that changed the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.
What is the 26th Amendment?
Regulated the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain. During WWII this method was introduced to avoid public anger over shortages and share in the sacrifices of war.
What is rationing?
He negotiated at the presidential retreat of Camp David peace between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel Menachem Begin
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The period after the Second World War marked by rivalry and tension between the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the communist government of the Soviet Union. It ended when the Soviet government collapsed in 1991.
What is the Cold War?
The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that repealed the 18th amendment on prohibition (the ban or sale of alcohol)?
What is 21st Amendment?
Order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior interment camps away from Western coastal regions. What is the name of the law created by President Roosevelt during WWII?
What is Executive Order 9066?
an organized group of workers who unite to make decisions about conditions affecting their work. They strive to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.
What is labor unions
In 1979, Iranian fundamentalists seized the American embassy in Tehran and held 54 Americans hostage for over a year
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
Event were U.S. and its allies supplied West Berlin. When the Western allies Russia created a blockade between Eastern and Western Berlin.
What is Berlin Airlift?
Amendment that allows for the direct election of senators?
What is 17th Amendment?
British passenger ship that left NY City for Liverpool. A German submarine sank this passenger ship, killing more than 1,000. What is the name of this sink?
What is the Lusitania?
First mass form of transportation that was completed in 1869. It made it possible to travel to California.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
President who passed the No Child Left Behind Act, created the TSA and Homeland Security Department
Who is George W. Bush?
Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP). He believed that African Americans should be aggressive and fight for equal opportunities.
What is W.E.B. DuBois?
What is the purpose of the 16th Amendment?
What is allows for income tax?
the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII
What is the Holocaust?
Corrupt political entities controlled by a boss that wielded enormous influence over the government of urban cities.
Was passed after 9/11 and expanded the U.S. government law enforcement powers greatly to keep Americans safe from terrorist.
What is the Patriot Act?
What is the name of the group of individuals that examined the rise of industry and examined business practices affecting consumers? These people exposed the corruption of the business leaders.
Who are Muckrakers?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The final terms that ended up being extremely harsh to Germany and other defeated powers. This was often called the "War Guilt" clause to the agreement that made Germany pay for the war.
What is trench Treaty of Versailles?