Supreme Court Rulings
The power established by Marbury v. Madison (1803) that allows the Supreme Court to strike down unconstitutional laws.
Judicial Review
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
1776
The term for the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights
The cultural movement of the 1950s and 60s that used nonviolent protest to fight racial segregation.
Civil Rights
The network of railroads completed in 1869 that connected the eastern and western United States for the first time.
Transcontinental Railroad
The doctrine upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was later struck down in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Separate but Equal
The year the Civil War ended
1865
The political process by which Congress can remove a sitting president from office.
Impeachment
The 1960s youth movement rejected mainstream American values and embraced peace, free expression, and social change.
Counterculture
The 1930s environmental disaster caused by severe drought and poor farming practices that devastated the Great Plains.
Dust Bowl
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) was used to justify expanding federal power over the states, specifically over what economic activity?
The operations of the National Bank
The year the United States entered World War I.
1917
The constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote in 1920.
19th Amendment
The urban cultural movement of the 1920s that celebrated African American art, literature, and music.
Harlem Renaissance
The landmark 1962 book by Rachel Carson that warned of the dangers of pesticides and helped launch the modern environmental movement.
Silent Spring
What was the ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944) during WWII?
The federal government may discriminate on the basis of race and ethnicity during wartime, as "emergency powers" take precedence.
The year the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1964
The doctrine that expanded presidential power by asserting the right to intervene in Latin American affairs to stabilize economic interests.
Roosevelt Corollary
The social phenomenon describing the mass movement of white middle-class Americans from cities to suburbs following World War II.
"White Flight"
The first national park established by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872 to preserve natural wilderness.
Yellowstone
What Supreme Court ruling uses the civil liberty of "freedom of speech" to protect corporations and unions from being banned from spending unlimited amounts of money on independent political advertising
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
In what year was "Operation Iraqi Freedom" initiated?
2003
This act reformed government/civil service jobs in America at the end of the 19th century, combating corruption and favoritism with a more merit-performance-based metric
Pendleton Act (1883)
The term for the cultural and intellectual movement of the late 19th century that emphasized social reform, science, and the role of environment in shaping human behavior.
Progressive Era
The 1979 nuclear accident in Pennsylvania that raised serious concerns about the safety of nuclear energy in America.
Three Mile Island