RUSH SG2

Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, public education, high schools, Tuskegee Institute, Niagara Movement, poll tax, segregation, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, department stores, chain stores, advertising, Progressives, prohibition, muckraker, 16th,17th,18th,19th Amendments, initiative, referendum, recall, The Jungle, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, conservation, NAACP, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve System, Hawaii, Imperialism, Alaska, Cuba, yellow journalism, U.S.S. Maine, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Teddy Roosevelt, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary, nationalism, Allied Powers, Central Powers, trench warfare, Lusitania, Zimmerman note, Selective Service Act, Espionage and Sedition Act, Great Migration, 14 Points, League of Nations, Treaty of Versailles, isolationism, KKK, the quota system, Warren Harding, Teapot Doom scandal, Calvin Coolidge, installment plans, Prohibition, Scopes trial, speculation, buying on credit, Dust Bowl, Herbert Hoover, FDR, Glass-Steagle Act, AAA, CCC, NIRA, deficit spending, Eleanor Roosevelt, WPA, Wagner Act, Social Security Act, FDIC, SEC, NLRB, TVA, John F. Kennedy, M.L. King, Lyndon Johnson, Fidel Castro, Peace Corps, Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, Warren Court, Ho Chi Minh, Vietcong, domino theory, draft, New Left, dove, hawk, Tet Offensive, Robert Kennedy, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Vietnamization, Pentagon Papers, POW’s, AIM, Cesar Chavez, NOW, counter culture, Woodstock, OPEC, détente, Yom Kippur War, SALT I Treaty, Watergate scandal, Nixon’s resignation, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Nixon’s pardon, human rights, Camp David Accords, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ronald Reagan, New Right, entitlement programs, Moral Majority, supply-side economics, Sandra Day O’Connor, Geraldine Ferraro, AIDS, Gay Rights, George H.W. Bush, Operation Desert Storm, Bill Clinton, Clinton’s impeachment, George W. Bush, 9/11/2001, Iraq/Afghanistan War, Barack Obama, Hurricane Katrina

Final Exam - ESSAY - Who was the best president in the 20^th Century? Give at least two reasons for your choice.

YOU WILL WRITE ON 8 OF THE 12 TERMS THAT ARE BOLD AND UNDERLINED ABOVE. YOU MUST DESCRIBE THE PERSON/EVENT AND TELL HOW AND WHY IT WAS IMPORTANT TO U.S. HISTORY.