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1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics and growing gap between the rich and poor - ANS-Gilded Age based on steel, railroads, electricity, oil-based products - ANS-Technological (Second Industrial) Revolution He was an American inventor who was responsible for developing the telephone. - ANS-Alexander Graham Bell American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. - ANS-Thomas Edison A device that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell. - ANS-Telephone An economic system in which people are free to operate their businesses as they see fit, with little government interference. - ANS-Free Enterprise System No government intervention in business. - ANS-Laissez-Faire A business that is owned by many investors. - ANS-Corporation A process for making steel more efficiently, patented in 1856. - ANS-Bessemer Process Accepting the risk of starting and running a business. - ANS-Entrepreneurship A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller. - ANS-Monopoly A business man that increased his power through by gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of steel production development. - ANS- Andrew Carnegie John Rockefeller - ANS-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. a negative term for business leaders that implied they built their fortunes by stealing from the public - ANS-Robber Baron
business leader who has a positive impact - ANS-Captain of Industry Giving money to help the poor - ANS-Philanthropy Corrupt organized groups that controlled political parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his party. - ANS-Political Machines representative for or head of the political machine; gained votes for their parties by doing favors for people. - ANS-Political Boss Coming to live permanently in a foreign country - ANS-Immigration The push factor involves a force which acts to drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location. - ANS-Push and Pull Factors U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them - ANS-Nativists immigrants lived here due to cultural similarities, especially in big cities - ANS-Ethnic Ghettos Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and factories. - ANS-Child Labor An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members - ANS-Labor Union times when workers refuse to work until owners improve conditions - ANS-Strikes 1st effort to create National union. Open to everyone but lawyers and bankers. Vague program, no clear goals, weak leadership and organization. Failed - ANS-Knights of Labor Was when there was a peaceful protest at the the Haymarket square and a bomb was thrown at the police and the police started shooting at innocent people - ANS- Haymarket Massacre A labor union created by Samuel Gompers that was the ONLY labor union that only accepted skilled workers - ANS-AFL (American Federation of Labor) He was the creator of the American Federation of Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers - ANS-Samuel Gompers
Made appointments to federal jobs through a merit system based off candidates performance on an exam - ANS-Pendleton Civil Service Act (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. - ANS-Chinese Exclusion Act time at the turn of the 20th century in which groups sought to reform America economically, socially, and politically - ANS-Progressive Era United States lawyer and politician (ran for President) who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school - ANS-William Jennings Bryan third party political movement to address farmers' plight - ANS-Populists Issues surrounding the production of agricultural products. The main issues were the high cost of transportation (caused railroad monopolies), low prices for farm products (caused by overproduction), and mortgaged farms in order to buy seed and supplies. - ANS-Farm Issues A movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation. - ANS-Social Gospel cause to acquire and conform to American characteristics. For Native Americans and Immigrants - ANS-Americanization A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs. - ANS-Assimilation 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
- ANS-Jacob Riis the founder of Hull House, which provided English lessons for immigrants, daycares, and child care classes - ANS-Jane Addams Became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. - ANS-Frances Willard Author who argued in 1890 that the economic future of the United States rested on new overseas markets protected by a larger navy. Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" - ANS-Alfred T. Mahan 1894 wealthy, plantation owner and politician who was named President of New Republic of Hawaii. He asked US to annex Hawaii. - ANS-Sanford B. Dole
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was a leader in the fight against participation in the League of Nations - ANS-Henry Cabot Lodge 26th President of the United States, 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust- busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal - ANS- Theodore Roosevelt Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers - ANS-Yellow Journalism Spanish-American War - ANS- Yellow journalism, imperialism, Spain brutality to the Cubans, explosion of the USS Maine. - ANS-Causes of Spanish American War In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence - ANS-Spanish American War Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam became territories of the US. US became a World Power - ANS-Result of Spanish American War A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China. - ANS-Open Door Policy A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. - ANS-Imperialism a ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914) - ANS-Panama Canal Foreign Policy idea by Taft to make countries dependant on the U.S. by heavily investing in their economies - ANS-Dollar Diplomacy First United States law to limit trusts and big business. Said that any trust that was purposefully restraining interstate trade was illegal. - ANS-Sherman Anti-Trust Act law passed to regulate (by the government) railroad and other interstate businesses. - ANS-Interstate Commerce Act 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. - ANS-Progressive Party Initiative: people have the right to propose a new law. Referendum: a law passed by the legislature can be reference to the people for approval/veto. Recall: the people can petition and vote to have an elected official removed from office. These all made elected
and the conquering of countries in Asia, South America, and Africa 5. The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by the Black Hand - ANS-Causes of WWI Date: WWI - ANS-1914- -1915: Lusitania sunk by Germans (killed 125 Americans) -President Wilson sent ultimatum to Germans (you don't change your ways with subs, we're your enemies) - Germans did change, but reverted back to their ways in 1917 -Zimmerman telegram (created by Germans to provoke a war between Mexico and US to distract them) in 1917 was the trigger, then US declared war on Germany - ANS-US Entry in WWI Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft - ANS-Selective Service Act Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI. - ANS-Trench Warfare General of the American Expeditionary Force in WWI - ANS-General John J. Pershing 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. - ANS-Battle of Argonne Forest Alvin York - ANS-killed 25 machine-gunners and captured 132 German soldiers when his soldiers took cover; won Congressional Medal of Freedom airplanes, poisonous gas, tanks, machine guns, zeppelins, flamethrowers, barbed wire, submarines - ANS-WWI Technology A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. - ANS-Fourteen Points 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 - ANS-Treaty of Versailles 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
- ANS-League of Nations movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 - ANS-Great Migration Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. - ANS-Propaganda 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government - ANS-Sedition Act
Nurses, cooked meals for soldiers, work in factories, made clothes for soldiers, and made hospital supplies - ANS-Women in WWI Isolationism - ANS-A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs A social/political movement designed to prevent a socialist/communist/radical movement in this country by finding "radicals" incarcerating them, deporting them, and subverting their activities - ANS-Red Scare A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities. - ANS-Palmer Raids 19th century of belief that evolutionary ideas theorized by Charles Darwin could be applied to society. - ANS-Social Darwinism Emphasized that human inequalities were inherited and warned against breeding the "inferior" - ANS-Eugenics Migration of African Americans to Northern cities increased racial tensions, which led to violence in many cities. Conditions were no better in the South than in the North. - ANS- Race Riots Stands for Ku Klux Klan and started right after the Civil War in 1866. Revived in the 1920s - ANS-KKK Marcus Garvey - ANS-African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa law granted immediate U.S. citizenship to all Native American Indians born in the United States. - ANS-American Indian Citizenship Act Nickname for the 1920s becasue of the booming economy and fast pace of life during that era - ANS-Roaring Twenties After World War I 1919-20s, when Harding was President, the US and Britain returned to isolationism. The US economy "boomed"; but Europe continued to struggle. It was the calm before the bigger storm hit: World War II - ANS-Return to Normalcy Henry Ford - ANS-American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.
Great Depression begins/Stock Market Crash - ANS- Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages. - ANS-Dust Bowl President Harding - ANS-This president promised a "return to normalcy" when he was elected. His administration was full of scandal and corruption, including the Teapot Dome scandal. Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money - ANS-Teapot Dome He became president after Harding died in office. He fired those involved in the scandals; increased government support of business and encouraged a continuation and expansion of Harding's policies. - ANS-President Coolidge 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. - ANS-President Hoover Established the civilian conservation Corps, which employed more than 175,000 men to plant trees, make paths and roads in national parks and forests, build dams to control flooding, and perform other activities to protect natural resources. - ANS-Franklin Roosevelt A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression. - ANS-New Deal serve as a govt watchdog over the nations stock markets - ANS-Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) provide govt insurance for bank deposits up to a certain amount - ANS-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) A branch of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services which provides benefits for retirement, survivors. insurance, disability, health insurance, and death. - ANS-Social Security Administration (SSA) Work Progress Administration (WPA) - ANS-Massive work relief program funded projects ranging from construction to acting 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. - ANS-Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Attempt by Roosevelt to appoint one new Supreme Court justice for every sitting justice over the age of 70 who had been there for at least 10 years. Wanted to prevent justices from dismantling the new deal. Plan died in congress and made opponents of New Deal inflamed. - ANS-Court Packing FDR's wife. Traveled, spoke and wrote for new deal; reshaped First Lady's role. Also fought for civil rights - ANS-Eleanor Roosevelt Hideki Tojo - ANS-Invaded China in 1937. He gave his approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor Fascist dictator of Italy. He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia and joined Germany in World War II. - ANS-Benito Mussolini Austrian born Dictator of Germany, invaded Rhineland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. led during WWII and instituted the final solution (holocaust) - ANS-Adolf Hitler British policy that granted Hitler everything he could reasonably want (and more) in order to avoid war. - ANS-Appeasement 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 - ANS-Lend Lease Act 7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor - ANS-Pearl Harbor 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. - ANS-1939- established by the government to promote patriotism and help keep Americans united behind the war effort. - ANS-Office of War Information Backyard gardens; Americans were encouraged to grow their own vegetables to support the war effort - ANS-Victory Gardens Certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war. - ANS-War Bonds name given to a fictitious woman who served as a patriotoc woman who helped the war effort by working in factories. - ANS-Rosie the Riviter 112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes and businesses
- ANS-Executive Order 9066 The non-aggression pact was an agreement between Hitler and Stalin not to attack each other. This allowed for German victories in the west without worries of the east - ANS-German-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others - ANS-Island Hopping Kamikaze - ANS-Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships. bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying both cities - ANS-Atomic Bomb code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II - ANS-Manhattan Project Hiroshima and Nagasaki - ANS-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 Douglas MacArthur - ANS-army commander in Pacific; at Bataan "I shall return" retook Philippines and led rebuilding after WWII navy commander (coral sea, Midway, Solomon Island, Philippine Sea) - ANS-Chester A Nimitz Native Americans from the Navajo tribe used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not desipher - ANS-Navajo Code Talkers Succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon his death. Led the country through the last few months of World War II, and made the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan - ANS-Harry S. Truman The final wartime meeting of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. - ANS-Potsdam Conference Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons - ANS-Arms Race a revolution led by Mao Zedong and the Red Guards whose focus was to establish a society in which all people were equal, also called the Cultural Revolution - ANS- Communist Revolution in China Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - ANS-Arrested in the Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Revealed the identities of several American spies - ANS-Venona Papers
(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 - ANS-House Un-American Activities Committee 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. - ANS-McCarthyism a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union - ANS- Space Race Sputnik launched; starts the Space Race - ANS- President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey - ANS-Truman Doctrine 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. - ANS-Marshall Plan Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. - ANS-Berlin Airlift International Organization set up in 1949 to provide for the defense of western European countries and the United States from the perceived Soviet threat - ANS-North Atlantic Trade Agreement (NATO) ..., The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. - ANS-Korean War American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world - ANS- Containment A war fought to achieve a limited objective, such as containing communism - ANS- Limited War an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. When the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the U.S. demands a week later. - ANS-Cuban Missile Crisis law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations
Segregated law school in Texas was held to be an illegal violation of civil rights, leading to open enrollment. - ANS-Sweatt vs. Painter argued that Pete Hernandez could not get a fair trial because no Mexican Americans were allowed on the jury; supreme court agreed - ANS-Hernandez vs. Texas 1954- court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - ANS-Brown vs. Board of Education A bipartisan commission established by IKE to investigate if certain citizens were being deprived the right to vote - ANS-1957 Civil Rights Act This act prohibited Discrimination because of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin by employers or labor unions - ANS-1964 Civil Rights Act Abolishes poll taxes - ANS-24th Amendment ended literacy tests and poll taxes; allowed officers to register voters - ANS-1965 Voting Rights Act National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - ANS-NAACP 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. - ANS- Thurgood Marshall 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 - ANS- Rosa Parks 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. - ANS-Montgomery Bus Boycott 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. - ANS-Martin Luther King, Jr. 1957 group founded by Martin Luther King Jr. to fight against segregation using nonviolent means - ANS-Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally - ANS- March on Washington
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. - ANS-Orval Faubus 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 - ANS-George Wallace This racist restaurant owner closed his restaurant rather than integrate. He eventually became governor and hired more blacks to office than all prior governors combined. - ANS-Lester Maddox Black Muslim leader who said Blacks needed to have separate society from whites, but later changed his views. He was assassinated in 1965. - ANS-Malcolm X 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. - ANS-Black Panthers April 4, 1968 - MLK shot by James Earl Ray on hotel balcony in Memphis -- rocked nonviolent campaign, resulted in violent riots - ANS-Assassination of MLK League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) - ANS-Fought to desegregae schools, public facilities, and housing in Southern California and the Southwest; fought for Hispanic rights founded the American GI Forum to help minority veterans obtain the same benefits other veterans recieved - ANS-Hector P. Garcia historically established the inequity found in the money available to local schools in Texas - ANS-Edgewood ISD vs. Kirby 1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers. - ANS-Cesar Chavez 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 - ANS-Dolores Huerta 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. - ANS-Chicano Mural Movement
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 - ANS-Fall of Saigon Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 - ANS-26th Amendment Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon. - ANS-1969 Moon Landing A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon. - ANS-Detente The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment, Ford becomes President - ANS-Watergate Cold War - ANS-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. Economic crisis of 1973 that occurred when OPEC nations refused to export oil to Western nations - ANS-Oil Crisis An independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment - ANS-EPA the most successful discount retailer and the founder of Wal-Mart - ANS-Sam Walton American beautician and business woman who began her cosmetics business with a face cream designed by her uncle, and then got her products into all leading department stores - ANS-Estee Lauder 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)) - ANS-Ronald Reagan conservative american think tank in washington D.C to promote conservative public policies. based the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional american values and a strong national defense. - ANS-Heritage Foundation (b. 1930) Arizona state senator from 1969 to 1974, appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979. Reagan appointed her to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first female Justice of the Supreme Court. - ANS-Sandra Day O'Connor
She is known for her opposition to feministic ideas and for her ongoing campaign against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.She believed the Equal Rights Amendment was bad because there were obvious differences between men and women that should be recognized. - ANS-Phylis Schlafly These policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth. - ANS-Reaganomics Iran-Contra Affair - ANS-This involved high officials in the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran (in return for the release of Western hostages in the Middle East) and illegally using the proceeds to finance the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. the last General secretary of the Soviet Union. He brought about massive economic, social, and political changes and helped bring an end to both the Soviet Union and the Cold War. His reforms included giving citizens the ability to freely voice their opinions (glasnost) and entirely restructuring the Soviet Union's economy (Perestroika). - ANS- Mikhail Gorbachev (1990 - 1991) Conflict between Iraq and a coalition of countries led by the United States to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait which they had invaded in hopes of controlling their oil supply. A very one sided war with the United States; coalition emerging victorious. - ANS-Persian Gulf War 9/11 - ANS-terrorist attacks that occurred on Sep. 11, 2001, in which 19 militant Islamist men hijacked and crashed 4 commercial aircraft. Two planes hit the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing them to collapse. One plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and the fourth, overtaken by passengers, crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the worst case of domestic terrorism in American history. Patriot Act - ANS-This law passed after 9/11 expanded the tools used to fight terrorism and improved communication between law enforcement and intelligence agencies Afghanistan War - ANS-(2001-Present) to find/kill Osama Bin Laden, destroy Al Qaeda, remove the Taliban from power and; help build a nation better for its citizens than what we found Iraq War - ANS-An armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. an invasion force led by the United States and a phase of fighting, in which an insurgency emerged to oppose coallition forces Bush vs. Clinton vs. Perot; focus on stagnancy of economy and problems of middle class (Clinton) - ANS-1992 Election
