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| 9493905264 | Gilded Age | 1870-1890. It was time of big businesses. It was time of political corruption. |  | 0 |
| 9493905265 | Laissez-Faire | Hands off. No government intervention in business. | 1 | |
| 9493905266 | Monopoly | A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller. |  | 2 |
| 9493905267 | Andrew Carnegie | Dominated the US steel industry. Made millions with his monopoly in the steel industry. Later in his life he became a philanthropist, and began giving his fortune away to help those less fortunate. |  | 3 |
| 9493905268 | John Rockefeller | Creator of the Standard Oil Company who made a fortune on it and joined with competing companies in trust agreements that in other words made an amazing monopoly. |  | 4 |
| 9493905269 | Robber Baron | a negative term for business leaders that implied they built their fortunes by stealing from the public |  | 5 |
| 9493905270 | American Federation of Labor | A labor union created by Samuel Gompers that was the ONLY labor union that only accepted skilled workers |  | 6 |
| 9493905271 | Homestead Act | 1862 - provided free land (160 acres) in the west as long as the person would settle there and make improvements in five years |  | 7 |
| 9493905272 | Transcontinental Railroad | Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west |  | 8 |
| 9493905273 | Dawes Act | 1887 law which gave all Native American males 160 acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other Americans | 9 | |
| 9493905274 | Farm Issues | Overproduction of goods led to less money for farmers. | 10 | |
| 9493905275 | Populist Party | Led by farmers and advocated the coinage of silver. |  | 11 |
| 9493905276 | William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school |  | 12 |
| 9493905277 | Nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. |  | 13 |
| 9493905278 | Jacob Riis | Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives" exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC |  | 14 |
| 9493905279 | Chinese Exclusion Act | (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. |  | 15 |
| 9493905280 | Social Gospel | A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation. | 16 | |
| 9493905281 | Jane Addams | the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes |  | 17 |
| 9493905282 | Theodore Roosevelt | 26th President of the United States, 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal |  | 18 |
| 9493905283 | Yellow Journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers |  | 19 |
| 9493905284 | 1898 | Spanish-American War |  | 20 |
| 9493905285 | Causes of Spanish American War | Yellow journalism, imperialism, Spain brutality to the Cubans, explosion of the USS Maine. | 21 | |
| 9493905286 | Spanish American War | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence | 22 | |
| 9493905287 | Result of Spanish American War | Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam became territories of the US. US became a World Power | 23 | |
| 9493905288 | Open Door Policy | A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. |  | 24 |
| 9493905289 | Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. |  | 25 |
| 9493905290 | Panama Canal | The United States built (finished) the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. |  | 26 |
| 9493905291 | Progressive Era | time at the turn of the 20th century in which groups sought to reform America economically, socially, and politically |  | 27 |
| 9493905292 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | First United States law to limit trusts and big business. Said that any trust that was purposefully restraining interstate trade was illegal. |  | 28 |
| 9493905293 | Progressive Party | Also known as the "Bull Moose Party," this political party was formed by Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to advance progressive ideas and unseat President William Howard Taft in the election of 1912. |  | 29 |
| 9493905294 | Initiative, Referendum, Recall | Gave people back a voice in government affairs | 30 | |
| 9493905295 | Upton Sinclair | muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. Led to the Pure Food and Drug Act. |  | 31 |
| 9493905296 | Pure Food and Drug Act | the act that prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure of falsely labeled food and drugs |  | 32 |
| 9493905297 | Federal Reserve Act | a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply |  | 33 |
| 9493905298 | 16th Amendment | Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income. |  | 34 |
| 9493905299 | 17th Amendment | Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures. |  | 35 |
| 9493905300 | 18th Amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages |  | 36 |
| 9493905301 | 19th Amendment | Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections. |  | 37 |
| 9493905302 | Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme court case that ruled that separate-but-equal facilities for blacks and whites did not violate the constitution. | 38 | |
| 9493905303 | W.E.B Du Bois | believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediatly; founded the NAACP |  | 39 |
| 9493905304 | 1914-1918 | Date: WWI | 40 | |
| 9493905305 | Lusitania | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war. | 41 | |
| 9493905306 | Selective Service Act | Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft | 42 | |
| 9493905307 | Trench Warfare | Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI. | 43 | |
| 9493905308 | General John J. Pershing | General of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI | 44 | |
| 9493905309 | Battle of Argonne Forest | 1 million American soldiers fought in the final Allied offensive. Heavy German fire killed more than 100,000 Americans, but in the end, the Allies were victorious. | 45 | |
| 9493905310 | WWI Technology | airplanes, poisonous gas, tanks, machine guns, zeppelins, flamethrowers, barbed wire, submarines | 46 | |
| 9493905311 | Fourteen Points | A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. | 47 | |
| 9493905312 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 48 | |
| 9493905313 | League of Nations | A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946. | 49 | |
| 9493905314 | Great Migration | movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 | 50 | |
| 9493905315 | Sedition Act | 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government. Went against 1st amendment rights. | 51 | |
| 9493905316 | Women in WWI | Nurses, cooked meals for soldiers, work in factories, made clothes for soldiers, and made hospital supplies | 52 | |
| 9493905317 | Isolationism | A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs | 53 | |
| 9493905318 | Red Scare | A period of general fear of communists | 54 | |
| 9493905319 | Social Darwinism | Charles Darwin's ideas applied to humans, "survival of the fittest." Used by wealthy to justify their position in life | 55 | |
| 9493905320 | KKK | Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. Revived in the 1920s |  | 56 |
| 9493905321 | Zimmerman Telegram | A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S. |  | 57 |
| 9493905322 | Roaring Twenties | Nickname for the 1920s becasue of the booming economy and fast pace of life during that era |  | 58 |
| 9493905323 | Henry Ford | American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents. |  | 59 |
| 9493905324 | Assembly Line | In a factory, an arrangement where a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in the making of the product. |  | 60 |
| 9493905325 | Jazz | A style of dance music popular in the 1920s |  | 61 |
| 9493905326 | Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |  | 62 |
| 9493905327 | Prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment |  | 63 |
| 9493905328 | Flapper | carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new |  | 64 |
| 9493905425 | "liberated" woman of the 1920s. |  | 65 | |
| 9493905329 | Scopes Monkey Trial | 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism |  | 66 |
| 9493905330 | Charles Lindbergh | completed the first non- stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from New York to Paris |  | 67 |
| 9493905331 | Causes of Great Depression | Higher US tariffs, Overproduction of food, buying on margin, market speculation, stock market crash, bank failures |  | 68 |
| 9493905332 | Hooverville | Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress |  | 69 |
| 9493905333 | 1929 | Great Depression begins/Stock Market Crash | 70 | |
| 9493905334 | Dust Bowl | Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. |  | 71 |
| 9493905335 | Teapot Dome | Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money |  | 72 |
| 9493905336 | President Warren Harding | This president promised a "return to normalcy" when he was elected. His administration was full of scandal and corruption, including the Teapot Dome scandal. |  | 73 |
| 9493905337 | President Hoover | the president who was in office when the depression started. He believed that if the government got involved it would only make the depression worse. |  | 74 |
| 9493905338 | Franklin Roosevelt | President who served 4 terms, creator of the New Deal, and led the US during WW2. |  | 75 |
| 9493905339 | New Deal | A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression. | 76 | |
| 9493905340 | Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) | serve as a govt watchdog over the nations stock markets | 77 | |
| 9493905341 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | provide govt insurance for bank deposits up to a certain amount | 78 | |
| 9493905342 | Social Security Administration (SSA) | A branch of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services which provides benefits for retirement, survivors. insurance, disability, health insurance, and death. | 79 | |
| 9493905343 | Work Progress Administration (WPA) | Massive work relief program funded projects ranging from construction to acting | 80 | |
| 9493905344 | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | A relief, recovery, and reform effort that gave 2.5 million poor citizens jobs and land. It brought cheap electric power, low-cost housing, cheap nitrates, and the restoration of eroded soil. |  | 81 |
| 9493905345 | Court Packing | Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs. |  | 82 |
| 9493905346 | Lend Lease Act | Law passed after the fall of Britain during WWII; allowed the U.S. to loan munitions to Allies in WWII; kept U.S. boys at home |  | 83 |
| 9493905347 | Pearl Harbor | 7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor |  | 84 |
| 9493905348 | 1939-1945 | The years of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland and ended with the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | 85 | |
| 9493905349 | Victory Gardens | Backyard gardens; Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort |  | 86 |
| 9493905350 | War Bonds | Certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war. |  | 87 |
| 9493905351 | Rosie the Riviter | name given to a fictitious woman who served as a patriotoc woman who helped the war effort by working in factories. |  | 88 |
| 9493905352 | Executive Order 9066 | 112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes and businesses |  | 89 |
| 9493905353 | D-Day | June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. |  | 90 |
| 9493905354 | Dwight Eisenhower | Top Allied commander in Europe supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Later 34th president |  | 91 |
| 9493905355 | George Patton | Allied Commander of the Third Army. Was instrumental in winning the Battle of the Bulge. Considered one of the best military commanders in American history. |  | 92 |
| 9493905356 | Tuskegee Airmen | all black unit of fighter pilots. trained in Tuskegee Alabama. won many awards for bravery and never lost a single pilot |  | 93 |
| 9493905357 | Flying Tigers | American pilots who volunteered to fight for China |  | 94 |
| 9493905358 | Bataan Death March | Japanese forced about 60,000 of Americans and Filipinos to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way |  | 95 |
| 9493905359 | Battle of Midway | 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific |  | 96 |
| 9493905360 | Island Hopping | A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others |  | 97 |
| 9493905361 | Atomic Bomb | bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying both cities |  | 98 |
| 9493905362 | Manhattan Project | code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II |  | 99 |
| 9493905363 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman |  | 100 |
| 9493905364 | Douglas MacArthur | army commander in Pacific; at Bataan "I shall return" retook Philippines and led rebuilding after WWII |  | 101 |
| 9493905365 | Chester A Nimitz | navy commander (coral sea, Midway, Solomon Island, Philippine Sea) |  | 102 |
| 9493905366 | Navajo Code Talkers | Native Americans from the Navajo tribe used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not decipher |  | 103 |
| 9493905367 | Harry S. Truman | Led the country through the last few months of World War II, and made the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan |  | 104 |
| 9493905368 | Arms Race | Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons |  | 105 |
| 9493905369 | House Un-American Activities Committee | (HUAC) committee formed in the House of Representatives in the 1930s to investigate radical groups in the United States; it later came to focus on the threat of communism in the United States during World War II and the Cold War |  | 106 |
| 9493905370 | McCarthyism | The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee. |  | 107 |
| 9493905371 | Space Race | a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union |  | 108 |
| 9493905372 | Sputnik | Soviet satellite launched in 1957; starts the Space Race |  | 109 |
| 9493905373 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey | 110 | |
| 9493905374 | Marshall Plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | 111 | |
| 9493905375 | Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. |  | 112 |
| 9493905376 | North Atlantic Trade Agreement (NATO) | International Organization set up in 1949 to provide for the defense of western European countries and the United States from the perceived Soviet threat |  | 113 |
| 9493905377 | Korean War | ..., The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. |  | 114 |
| 9493905378 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 115 | |
| 9493905379 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba |  | 116 |
| 9493905380 | GI Bill | law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education |  | 117 |
| 9493905381 | Baby Boom | 30 million war babies were born between 1942 and 1950. |  | 118 |
| 9493905382 | Suburbs | Areas of living outside the cities where middle-class families went to live to escape the city |  | 119 |
| 9493905383 | Beat Generation | Group of writers of the 1950s, led by Kerouac, focusing on alienation, conformity, and materialism. |  | 120 |
| 9493905384 | 13th Amendment | Abolished Slavery |  | 121 |
| 9493905385 | 14th Amendment | Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws |  | 122 |
| 9493905386 | 15th Amendment | Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude |  | 123 |
| 9493905387 | Desegregation of the Armed Forces | President Truman called for black and white soldiers to fight side by side in combat. First time was in Korea. |  | 124 |
| 9493905388 | Hernandez vs. Texas | argued that Pete Hernandez could not get a fair trial because no Mexican Americans were allowed on the jury; supreme court agreed | 125 | |
| 9493905389 | Brown vs. Board of Education | 1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) |  | 126 |
| 9493905390 | 1964 Civil Rights Act | This act prohibited Discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin by employers or labor unions |  | 127 |
| 9493905391 | 24th Amendment | Abolishes poll taxes |  | 128 |
| 9493905392 | 1965 Voting Rights Act | ended literacy tests and poll taxes; allowed officers to register voters |  | 129 |
| 9493905393 | NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |  | 130 |
| 9493905394 | Thurgood Marshall | American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor. |  | 131 |
| 9493905395 | Rosa Parks | United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement |  | 132 |
| 9493905396 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal. |  | 133 |
| 9493905397 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1929-1968. Pivotal leader of the American Civil Rights movement. Non-violent leader, became youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination. Led Montgomery Bus Boycott, helped found Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and led March on Washington in 1963 where he delivered "I have a Dream" speech. |  | 134 |
| 9493905398 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | 1957 group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to fight against segregation using nonviolent means |  | 135 |
| 9493905399 | Orval Faubus | Arkansas governor who called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School under federal court order. |  | 136 |
| 9493905400 | George Wallace | Racist gov. of Alabama in 1962 ("segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"); runs for pres. In 1968 on American Independent Party ticket of racism and law and order, loses to Nixon; runs in 1972 but gets shot |  | 137 |
| 9493905401 | Malcolm X | Black Muslim leader who said Blacks needed to have separate society from whites, but later changed his views. He was assassinated in 1965. |  | 138 |
| 9493905402 | Black Panthers | A black political organization that was against peaceful protest and for violence if needed. The organization marked a shift in policy of the black movement, favoring militant ideals rather than peaceful protest. |  | 139 |
| 9493905403 | Assassination of MLK | April 4, 1968 - MLK shot by James Earl Ray on hotel balcony in Memphis -- rocked nonviolent campaign, resulted in violent riots | 140 | |
| 9493905404 | League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) | Fought to desegregated schools, public facilities, and housing in Southern California and the Southwest; fought for Hispanic rights | 141 | |
| 9493905405 | Cesar Chavez | 1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers. |  | 142 |
| 9493905406 | Dolores Huerta | taught farmworkers how to become citizens and how to vote; earned more money to buy food and clothing for them; worked with Cesar Chavez to form the National Farm Workers Association |  | 143 |
| 9493905407 | Chicano Mural Movement | Began in the 1960s in Mexican-American barrios throughout the Southwest. Artists began using the walls of city buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American culture. |  | 144 |
| 9493905408 | Betty Friedan | 1921-2006. American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique" |  | 145 |
| 9493905409 | National Organization for Women (NOW) | Founded in 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) called for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women. |  | 146 |
| 9493905410 | American Indian Movement (AIM) | led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means; purpose was to obtain equal rights for Native Americans; protested at the site of the Wounded Knee massacre |  | 147 |
| 9493905411 | Great Society | President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. | 148 | |
| 9493905412 | Affirmative Action | A policy in educational admissions or job hiring that gives special attention or compensatory treatment to traditionally disadvantaged groups in an effort to overcome present effects of past discrimination. |  | 149 |
| 9493905413 | Title IX | -Provision of the Educational Amendments of 1972 that bars educational institutions recieving federal funds from disciminating against female student |  | 150 |
| 9493905414 | Tinker vs. Des Moines | Supreme Court case that stated that students do not lose their freedom of speech rights in high school. Mary Beth tinker wore black arm bands to protest the Vietnam War. |  | 151 |
| 9493905415 | Wisconsin vs. Yoder | Court decided that Amish families are required to send their kids to school. |  | 152 |
| 9493905416 | Domino Theory | A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. |  | 153 |
| 9493905417 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | The resolution passed by Congress in 1964 giving President Lyndon Johnson board powers to expand the U.S. role in Vietnam. |  | 154 |
| 9493905418 | Tet Offensive | 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment |  | 155 |
| 9493905419 | Fall of Saigon | Marked the end of the Vietnam War in April, 1975 when North Vietnamese invaded South Vietnam, forcing all Americans left to flee in disarray as the capitol was taken |  | 156 |
| 9493905420 | 26th Amendment | Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 |  | 157 |
| 9493905421 | 1969 Moon Landing | Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. |  | 158 |
| 9493905422 | Detente | A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon. |  | 159 |
| 9493905423 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. |  | 160 |
| 9493905424 | Ronald Reagan | 1980 and 1984; Republican; reduce reliance on government; Reagonomics: supply-side, laissez-faire, send troops to Grenada, escalated the Cold War: "rollback" of communism, Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars); War on Drugs, Iran-Contra affair, second term-ended cold war (tear down this wall" (Berlin Wall)) |  | 161 |
| 9494930294 | George H. Bush | 1989-1993. Republican president His administration ended the Cold War. He ordered military operation in Persian Gulf. He signed the Americans with Disabilities Act |  | 162 |
| 9494989708 | Bill Clinton | 1993-2001. Democrat president. He attempted to reform health care. There was peace and prosperity in the USA. The budget was a surplus and crime was declining. he was the second president to be impeached. |  | 163 |
| 9495044057 | North American Free Trade Agreement | It eliminates trade barriers between Mexico, Canada, and USA. |  | 164 |
| 9495093951 | George W. Bush | 2001-2009 Republican president. The Financial crisis in 2008. 2000 was unique in Florida (they recounted the votes between Al Gore and Bush) World Trade Terrorist Attack and Hurricane Katrina |  | 165 |
| 9495123608 | Hurricane Katrina | On August 29, 2005, it was a natural disaster that affected Morgan City, Louisiana, Biloxi, and Alabama | 166 | |
| 9495176648 | No Child Left Behind | It was a law that took place in 2002 by George W. Bush. It had an affect the US public school classroom. It affected what students were taught, the test they took, and the teacher training |  | 167 |
| 9495235915 | US Patriot Act | is to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States. |  | 168 |
| 9495326303 | Emergency Economic Stabilization Act | signed by George W. Bush. It gave billions of dollars to prevent banks and businesses from failing. | 169 | |
| 9495338579 | Barack Obama | 2009-2017 Democratic president. He implemented the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Gave economic stimulus). He was the first African American president 2008, Affordable Care Act. |  | 170 |
