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| 5992511811 | Ida Wells Barnett | called international attention to lynching of blacks through journalism- black newspapers and editorials-in south in the 1890s- against racial discrimination, helped found the NAACP | 0 | |
| 5992511813 | Mary McLeod Bethune | Black woman appointed by FDR to head national youth administration; result: blacks deserted republican party for the democratic party | 1 | |
| 5992511816 | W.E.B. Dubois | Fought for immediate implementation of blacks rights; "Agitate, agitate, agitate", argued that blacks need political rights in order to make economic gains- rejected Booker T Washington's ideas | 2 | |
| 5992511817 | George W. Bush | President who began campaign towards energy self efficiency and war on terrorism in 2001 after 9/11 | 3 | |
| 5992511819 | Rachel Carson | American Conservationist who wrote Silent Spring, sparking an environmental movement, the book was anti DDT and it pushed the president into starting environmental efforts | 4 | |
| 5992511821 | Betty Friedan | Feminist- wrote The Feminist Mystique, started the "second wave" of feminism | 5 | |
| 5992511823 | Marcus Garvey | Leader UNIA, urged blacks to return to Africa because of injustices, originally from Jamaica | 6 | |
| 5992511825 | Lyndon Johnson | Signed Civil rights act, President after Kennedy's assassination, refused to accept nomination for a second term, "War on Poverty"- The Great Society | 7 | |
| 5992511826 | Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's wife, New Deal supporter, supporter of Civil Rights, worked on domestic issues while FDR was away with World War Two, pushed for birth control research and better working conditions for women | 8 | |
| 5992511827 | Richard Nixon | Republican president, watergate scandal, only president to resign from office | 9 | |
| 5992511828 | Franklin Roosevelt | President during the Great Depression, new deal efforts, one of the "big three" during WW2 | 10 | |
| 5992511830 | George Wallace | pro segregation governor of Alabama, ran for president against Nixon but lost the election, "Blow Vietnam back into the stone age" | 11 | |
| 5992511831 | Booker T. Washington | Former Slave, encouraged blacks not to cause an issue, believed a strong economic base was the key to integrating society SLOWLY- more critical than fighting for rights | 12 | |
| 5992511832 | Dawes Act | 1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners | 13 | |
| 5992511833 | Chinese Exclusion Act | Chinese immigrants were no longer permitted into the US because of the amount of recent immigrants- due to rise in nativism | 14 | |
| 5992511834 | Espionage and Sedition Acts | Two acts that imposed penalties on anyone speaking against or interfering with US involvement in WW1 | 15 | |
| 5992511835 | National Origins Act | Federal law that limited the number of immigrants from each country allowed in the United states to 2% of the current amount, based on the Census of 1890, of immigrants from that country living in the US | 16 | |
| 5992511836 | Lend-Lease Act | Law during neutrality of WW2 that said the US could aid any nation the president believed vital to American security- allowed US to supply Great Britain | 17 | |
| 5992511837 | US Immigration and Naturalization Act | abolished the quota system and opened up immigration in the 1960s- led to more diverse population | 18 | |
| 5992511838 | War Powers Act | States that some powers of the government are increased during war time situations | 19 | |
| 5992511839 | Social Security Act | under FDR, in 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65, set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers, children, handicapped, and public health | 20 | |
| 5992511840 | Neutrality Acts | 4 laws passed in the 1930's that were designed to keep the US out of international affairs | 21 | |
| 5992511841 | Federal Reserve Act | 1913, set up system of federal banks- gave the government control of the money supply | 22 | |
| 5992511842 | Homestead Act | 1862, provided free or cheap land in the West to anyone willing to develop it- encouraged Westward migration | 23 | |
| 5992511843 | Wagner/National Labor Relations Act | 1935, guarantees workers rights of collective bargaining and set down rules to protect unions, created National Labor Relations Board | 24 | |
| 5992511844 | Taft-Hartley Act | 1947 forbids closed shop permits states to bar union shop- allowed temporary injunctions of strikes interfering with national welfare | 25 | |
| 5992511845 | National Defense Education Act | act that was passed in response to sputnik; it provided an opportunity and stimulus for college education for many Americans; allocated funds for upgrading sciences, foreign language, guidance services, and teaching innovation | 26 | |
| 5992511846 | Hawley-Smoot Act | A law enacted in 1930 that established highest protective tariff in US history, worsening the depression in America and abroad | 27 | |
| 5992511847 | Federal Highway Act | appropriating 25 billion for construction of interstate highways over a 20 year period- under Eisenhower | 28 | |
| 5992511848 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 Congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against Vietnam- Johnson could send troops without a congressional order | 29 | |
| 5992511849 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Made monopolies illegal, ineffective- strengthened by Clayton Anti-Trust act | 30 | |
| 5992511850 | Pure Food and Drug Act | Forbade manufacture or sale or mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, Still in existence as the FDA, pushed into the governments view by muckrakers like Upton Sinclair, improved safety of food and drugs in America | 31 | |
| 5992511851 | Plessy v Ferguson, 1896 | Challenged de jure segregation in the south, ended in Supreme Court with segregation upheld because of the "separate but equal" doctrine | 32 | |
| 5992511852 | Scopes Trial, 1925 | "Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution that was in violation of a Tennessee law; pitted the Bible, fundamentalists, William Jennings Bryan against evolution, modernism, and Clarence Darrow | 33 | |
| 5992511853 | Sacco and Vanzetti trial | trial that demonstrated the fear of foreigners during the time of increased immigration, two Italian immigrants arrested for robbery and murder- sentenced to death | 34 | |
| 5992511854 | Korematsu v US, 1944 | citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order- War time policy | 35 | |
| 5992511855 | Brown v Board of Education, 1954 | 1954- Supreme court declared that racially segregated schools and facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools to be desegregated | 36 | |
| 5992511857 | Roe v Wade, 1973 | abortion rights fall within privacy implied in 14th ammendment | 37 | |
| 5992511859 | Open Door | Policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which all nations would have equal trade opportunities in China. | 38 | |
| 5992511860 | Spanish American War | 1898, conflict between the US and Spain in which the US supported Cubans fight for independence, "a splendid little war | 39 | |
| 5992511861 | Ku Klux Klan | White supremacy group that intimidated blacks- and eventually other minorities- out of their new found liberties | 40 | |
| 5992511862 | Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelts addition to the Monroe doctrine, claiming the right of the US to intervene in Latin America | 41 | |
| 5992511863 | Populism | Political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite | 42 | |
| 5992511864 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | 1928 agreement attempting to get all nations to outlaw wars of agression | 43 | |
| 5992511865 | Dawes Plan | Plan to revive German economy, US private investors loaned money to Germany so that they can pay back reparations to England and France who can then pay back reparations to the US. Improved circulation of money. | 44 | |
| 5992511866 | Boxer Rebellion | Rebellion in Beijing that was started by a secret society of chinese that opposed the foreign devils, ended by british troops | 45 | |
| 5992511867 | Great White Fleet | T. Roosevelts world tour of the new naval fleet, wanted to display US Naval assets | 46 | |
| 5992511868 | Progressivism | movement in the late 1800s that wanted to increase democracy in America by curbing the power of the corporation, fought to end corruption in government and business worked to bring equal rights for women and groups left behind in Industrial Revolution | 47 | |
| 5992511869 | Panama Canal | a canal built across central america that would allow quicker passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, The US began after the assistance of the Panamanians in the Panamanian Revolution | 48 | |
| 5992511870 | Jim Crow | Refers to general segregation of society | 49 | |
| 5992511871 | Bonus Army | WW1 Veterans tied to pressure Congress to pay their retirement bonus bills early because of the depression, when denied- Angry Veterans marched on Washington and Hoover called in the Army to remove them | 50 | |
| 5992511872 | Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | Poland was invaded and USSR wouldn't oppose a German invasion like Britain did with France | 51 | |
| 5992511873 | lend-lease | law that authorized the president to aid any nation who's defense was believed vital to American Security- during WW2 | 52 | |
| 5992511874 | Iron curtain | Churchills metaphor for the division in Europe post WW2 | 53 | |
| 5992511875 | Marshall Plan | US program of economic aid to reconstruct Europe Post-WW2 | 54 | |
| 5992511876 | Berlin Airlift | 1st direct confrontation between US and USSR during the Cold War | 55 | |
| 5992511877 | Cold War | Conflict between US and USSR, never direct fights on a battlefield, war of technology, nuclear threats, included arms and space race | 56 | |
| 5992511878 | White flight/suburbia | Working class and middle class white families moved from the inner city neighborhoods-leaving the racial minorities-to mostly white suburbs on the outside of the city | 57 | |
| 5992511879 | NATO | Alliance between allied powers of WW2, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, pact to defend one another in case of attack | 58 | |
| 5992511880 | Warsaw Pact | Alliance between Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries in response to NATO | 59 | |
| 5992511881 | Peace Corps | JFK, volunteers who help third world countries and prevent spread of communism by getting rid of poverty- Africa, Asia, Latin America | 60 | |
| 5992511882 | Tet Offensive | Massive attack by Vietcong on south Vietnamese towns and cities in 1968 | 61 | |
| 5992511883 | Kent State | Ohio University where anti war protest became a massacre, national guard called in | 62 | |
| 5992511884 | Vietnamization | Strategy that called for dramatic reduction of US troops in Vietnam and increased amount of south Vietnamese men in their place | 63 | |
| 5992511885 | 20s | Female liberation, new found mobility, the flapper, laissez faire, economic high point because of WW1, end in Stock Market Crash | 64 | |
| 5992511886 | 30s | Great Depression, FDR, New Deal, dust bowl, gangsters, mafia | 65 | |
| 5992511887 | 40s | World War 2, beginning of Civil Rights, start of Cold War, division of Germany | 66 | |
| 5992511888 | 50s | Korean War, economic boom because of WW2, baby boom, suburbs, civil rights movement growth | 67 | |
| 5992511889 | 60s | Anti War Protests, sex, drugs, Rock and Roll, JFK assassination | 68 | |
| 5992511890 | 70s | Watergate scandal, detente, Camp David Accords, Iran hostage crisis, Kent State, end of Vietnam involvement | 69 | |
| 5992511891 | 80s | Reaganomics, Reagan Revolution, Iran a Contra Affair, AIDS epidemic, personal computers | 70 | |
| 5992511892 | 90s | Monica lewinsky, Persian gulf war, operation desert storm, N | 71 | |
| 5992511894 | acquit | to find not guilty of a fault or crime | 72 | |
| 5992511895 | liberal | Tolerant and broad minded- | 73 | |
| 5992511896 | amend | to change or add to- as in the constitution | 74 | |
| 5992511897 | moderate | Someone who's views are in between conservative and liberal- may include beliefs of both | 75 | |
| 5992511898 | assess | act of evaluation | 76 | |
| 5992511899 | political | Of or pertaining to politics | 77 | |
| 5992511900 | conservative | someone who is averse to change and sticks to traditional values, typically used in reference to politics | 78 | |
| 5992511901 | ratify | To approve | 79 | |
| 5992511902 | convict | a final judgement of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed | 80 | |
| 5992511903 | refute | To disapprove | 81 | |
| 5992511904 | defend | person or party accused of an offense- to prove innocence | 82 | |
| 5992511905 | repeal | To "cancel" a law | 83 | |
| 5992511906 | domestic | having to do with the home | 84 | |
| 5992511907 | social | Of or pertaining to society and the interactions of people | 85 | |
| 5992511908 | economic | management of money- or any scarce resource in society | 86 | |
| 5992511909 | validity | Accuracy, trustworthiness | 87 | |
| 5992511910 | foreign | nations way of associating with other nations | 88 | |
| 5992511911 | jurisdiction | Area of authority or control, judge has ____ over a court | 89 |
