Vocab
Supreme Court Cases
Wars
Foreign Policy
Famous Americans
100
This means to peacefully disobey the government through sit-ins typically. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi both used this strategy to make a point.
What is civil disobedience?
100
This case created Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
This war was between the United States colonies and Great Britain in 1775.
What is the American Revolution?
100
This foreign policy involved Jimmy Carter meeting the leaders of Egypt and Israel for peace talks between Egypt and Israel. Egypt had to recognize Israel as a country and Israel had to return the Sinai Peninsula.
What is the Camp David Accords?
100
This President freed the slaves and ended the Civil War.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This means to agree with/pass a bill.
What is ratify/ratification?
200
This case created "Miranda Rights". "You have a right to remain silent... anything you say can and will be used against you in court"
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
200
This war was between the North and the South over slavery.
What is the Civil War?
200
This policy was created to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
200
This President created the Great Society and declared a War on Poverty.
What is LBJ/ Lyndon B Johnson?
300
This happens when a stronger nation takes over a weaker nation.
What is imperialism?
300
This court case made it so that the Federal government controls what is sold between states.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
300
This war helped the United States gain Texas and was started when the USS Maine blew up.
What is the Spanish- American war?
300
This foreign policy wanted peace, a League of Nations, Self determination, and a reduction in the military forces of other countries. The United States did not pass this foreign policy.
What is Wilson's Fourteen Points?
300
This President ended the Great Depression, ran for 3 terms, and entered the US in World War II.
What is Franklin Roosevelt/ FDR.
400
Strong patriotism/ pride in one's country. Usually unifies countries.
What is nationalism?
400
This court case kept Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II
What is Korematsu v. US?
400
The United States entered this war when Germany bombed the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note.
What is World War I?
400
This foreign policy supported US intervention in Latin America. Latin America was expected to maintain a stable government and Europe was expected to stay out of Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
400
This President created many conservation programs like state parks, entered the US into the Spanish American War, and promoted US intervention in Latin America.
What is Teddy Roosevelt?
500
This is an economic system where the colony benefits the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
500
This court case ruled that African Americans were property and not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500
The United States entered this war with the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What is World War II?
500
This plan gave 13 billion for European countries to rebuild after WWII and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
This President dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan and ended WWII for America.
What is Harry Truman?