Legislation
Supreme Court case that desegregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to help with the Great Depression by creating government jobs.
What is the New Deal?
Natural phenomenon in the 1930's that involved middle America and the drying up of top soil.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Medal of Honor recipient during the Vietnam War
Who is Roy Benavidez?
Name of the ship blown up by the Germans which was a leading reason for U.S. entry into World War I.
What is the Lusitania?
Federal law that prohibited discrimination in public places such as restaurants and motels.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This competition heated in the 1960's with President Kennedy proclaiming that the U.S. would put a man on the moon.
What is the Space Race?
What is the Panama Canal?
First person of Hispanic descent nominated to the Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
What is the Tet Offensive?
Law passed after the attacks on September 11, 2001 in which the federal government has greater control in investigating individuals.
What is the USA Patriot Act?
President Obama's plan to offset rising medical health care costs by providing discounted insurance to American citizens.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Main cause for the flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
What is levee failure?
First president of Hawaii was largely responsible for the removal of Native leadership in that new territory.
Who is Sanford B. Dole?
Country that Iraq invaded for its oil in the Persian Gulf War of 1990.
What is Kuwait?
Federal act that enables Congress to remove troops from a warzone within 60 days regardless of what the president wants to do.
What is the War Powers Act?
President Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Era plan to help fix some of the wrongs of the Gilded Age.
What is the Square Deal?
The movement of people during the 1970's and 80's from the Midwest of America to the South and West for a variety of reasons.
What is the Rust Belt to Sun Belt movement?
Chicana activist and active feminist during the 1960's.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
The reason for the firing of General Douglas MacArthur by President Truman for the Korean War.
What is the escalation of the Korean War into nuclear warfare and/or fighting in China?
This Gilded Age law fought against monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
President Lyndon B. Johnson's plan to fight the war on poverty in the 1960's.
What is the Great Society?
The movement of African-Americans during the 1920's from the south to cities in the Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast.
What is the Great Migration?
Religious leader throughout the 20th century and into the 21st that was highly influential among presidents and the public.
Who was Billy Graham?
Battle which served as the turning point in the fight in the Pacific against Japan during WWII. The U.S. made massive gains after this.
What is the Battle of Midway?