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 president during The Great Depression, WWII, and will sign the New Deal
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
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 led to the integration of public schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
This event led to the desegregation of the buses in Alabama.
What is the Montgomery Bus boycott?
This amendment allows for freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
What is the 1st 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?
This group of people settled in the New England Colonies because they were looking religious freedom, although they were not tolerant of any religions outside of the one they practiced.
Who are Puritans?
This Act will end the segregation of all public facilities
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act by Congress allowed the President of 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 and led to citizenship for all persons born in the US
What is the 14th amendment?
This president was known as a Progressive, an imperialist, a trust-buster, a rough rider, and a conservationist, and gave the US police powers in Latin America
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 Act will end literacy test and allow African Americans to fully exercise their rights given by the 15th Amendement
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The policy started during the Cold War to stop the spread of Communism.
What is Containment?