SCOTUS Cases
Threats (Real or Perceived)
Foreign Leaders
Artistic and Literary Figures or Works
Economics
100
In this case, a mentally disabled woman challenged Virginia's policy of forced sterilization, which arose from the country's eugenics movement.
What is Buck v. Bell?
100
This followed the Russian Revolution of 1917 and was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. When the IWW backed labor protests, the press portrayed them as radical threats to society. The main focus of the second version of this event focused on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both.
What is the Red Scare?
100
Leader of Egypt in the 1950s who overthrew Egypt's King Farouk and installed a representative gov't. He had a vision of a united Arab country that ruled through a representative gov't.
Who is Abdel Gamal Nassar?
100
This man (and his hips) was emblematic of the rise of Rock and Roll.
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
Depression-Era law that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms. This Act was repealed in 1999 under Pres. Clinton.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
200
Landmark ruling in 1954 that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. This decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, which had allowed state-sponsored segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
This philosophy is a reaction to immigration and fear of the other (also an outgrowth of xenophobia). It demanded favored status for certain established inhabitants as compared to newcomers or immigrants.
What is Nativism?
200
This book by Rachel Carson exposed the side effects of DDT.
What is Silent Spring?
200
This is the federal old-age pension system of the New Deal.
What is Social Security?
300
This 1973 case ruled that a right to privacy extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, although it did allow that that the state has two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women's health.
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
This element of the Progressive Era espoused the ideas that either the right people should have babies or the wrong people shouldn't have children.
What is Eugenics?
300
This sociopath was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Who is Josef Stalin?
300
This iconic book by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the effect of turn of the century wealth in society.
What is the Great Gatsby?
300
This currency of the European Union is currently worth 1:1.10$USD.
What is the Euro?
400
This decision confirmed the right of the United States to intern Japanese Americans and other Americans of Asian descent.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
400
This disease of human immune system that caused a health crisis in the 1980s.
What is AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)?
400
Also known as "Il Duce" this fascist leader of Italy was allied with Hitler during in WWII. He was thrown out of power and captured, then hanged publicly.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
400
This book by John Steinbeck showed the struggle of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl through the eyes of a family of Oklahoma migrants.
What is the Grapes of Wrath?
400
This British economist who wrote the "Economic History of the Peace" theorized that the Great Depression occurred because people stopped buying stuff and our economy is based on supply and demand.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
500
This decision said that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. Ends the Missouri Compromise because it states that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
500
This militant Islamist group means "The Base" in Arabic and believes that the Judeo-Christian alliance is conspiring to eliminate Islam.
What is al Qaeda?
500
This Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist served as head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 until his death in 1922.
Who is Lenin?
500
This book was authored by Erich Maria Remarque, who was a German soldier in WWI. The goal of the story was to show the solider’s experience during one of the bloodiest, most traumatic wars in history.
What is All's Quiet on the Western Front?
500
This man was chairman of the Federal Reserve during the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush Administrations. He was believed to be a genius until the economy tanked; now he's apparently an idiot.
Who is Alan Greenspan?
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