Historical Evaluations of U.S. Presidents

Vocabulary-style flashcards covering critical evaluations and historical facts regarding the presidencies of Carter, Obama, LBJ, Wilson, Bush, and Trump based on lecture notes.

Stagflation

Economic condition during the Carter administration characterized by high inflation ($14\,\%$), economic stagnation, and high unemployment rates.

Iran Hostage Crisis

A foreign policy crisis resulting from the fall of the Shah of Iran and the subsequent Iranian revolution during Jimmy Carter's presidency.

Yasur Arafat

A terrorist for whom Jimmy Carter wrote speeches and claimed that Hamas's election was legitimate.

Barack Hussein Obama's Racial Polarization Data

Polling data showing whites' perception of good race relations dropped from $72\,\%$ in $2013$ to $45\,\%$ by $2015$, while black perception dropped from $66\,\%$ to $51\,\%$.

Obamacare Cost Estimation

Initially estimated by the CBO to cost $940\,\text{billion dollars}$, later estimated to cost $1.7\,\text{trillion dollars}$.

Iran Nuclear Deal

A deal brokered by the Obama administration that sent plane loads of cash to the Iranian regime to discourage nuclear weapon pursuit.

Great Society Project

A program under Lyndon Baines Johnson that spent an estimated $13\,\text{trillion dollars}$ between $1963$ and $2010$ in a failed attempt to fight the war on poverty.

Black Single Motherhood Rate

A demographic statistic that rose from $20\,\%$ in $1960$ to over $70\,\%$ following the implementation of Great Society welfare programs.

The Age of Entitlement

A book by Christopher Caldwell arguing that the changes of the $1960s$ created a rival constitution incompatible with the original one.

Woodrow Wilson's Executive View

The belief that the president is at liberty to be 'as big a man as he can' and that the executive branch should react more quickly than constitutional checks and balances allow.

Compusaltury Sterilization Bill

Legislation signed by Woodrow Wilson in $1911$ as Governor of New Jersey, following his $1907$ push for sterilization of people with Down syndrome.

Sedition Act

A law under Woodrow Wilson that made it a crime to print or publish 'false, scandalous, and malicious writing' about the government.

Birth of a Nation

A racist film shown at the White House by Woodrow Wilson, which he described as 'writing history with lightning.'

Edith Wilson

The wife of Woodrow Wilson who governed the country during the final years of his administration due to his non-functional cognitive state.

Subprime Mortgages

Financial instruments the Clinton Administration allegedly forced onto banks, cited as the actual cause of the $2007$-$2008$ economic crisis.

Abraham Accords

Foreign policy achievements under Donald Trump that helped make peace in the Middle East.