Amendments
Economics
Laws
Events
Themes and Values
100

The right to petition is provided by this amendment

1st Amendment

100

The Idea that government should have a hands off approach to the economy.

what is laissez faire?

100

This law was the first to restrict immigration to the United States

The Chinese Exclusion Act

100

This coordinated attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in human history

September 11th Terrorist Attacks

100

This is the process of people adopting American values

Americanization (assimilation)

200

Women were guaranteed the right to vote as a result of this amendment

19th Amendment

200

This Progressive Era policy targeted monopolies by allowing the federal government to break up businesses that unfairly limited competition.

What is trust-busting?

200

The government passed this law to encourage more people to move out west during the 1800's

The Homestead Act

200

Scandal that resulted in distrust of the government and the first resignation of a president

The Watergate Scandal

200

The process of cities becoming the primary places of residence and economic activity

Urbanization

300

This is the only amendment to have another amendment repealing it

18th Amendment

300

This New Deal program provided jobs through government-funded public works projects during the Great Depression.

What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

300

This act required that livestock be slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions

The Meat Inspection Act

300

This event was the beginning of Allied operations in mainland Europe during World War II

D-Day or Operation Overlord

300

An approach where there is little to no government involvement

Laissez-Faire

400

This amendment was used as the basis for the majority of legislation and court decisions in the Civil Right Movement

14th Amendment

400

This 1980s economic approach argued that lowering taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals would encourage investment and stimulate economic growth.

What is Reaganomics?

400

A lack of men joining the military is the reason this law was created

The Selective Service Act

400

Event in Havana Harbor that resulted in the beginning of the Spanish American War

The Sinking of the USS Maine

400

System that focuses on the collective as opposed to the individual

Communism

500

This amendment gives the federal government the power to collect income taxes

16th Amendment

500

This set of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs expanded the role of the federal government in the economy during the Great Depression.
 

What is the New Deal?

500

All places in society were desegregated by this law

The Civil Rights of 1964

500

this event led to the United States joining WW1.

Sinking of the Lusitania/ Zimmerman Telegram

500

Extreme pride in one's country or culture, often advocating for self-determination or a nation-state

Nationalism