Supreme Court Cases
Created the ruling that school segregation was unconstitutional, as segregation could not be equal. Led to integration movements all across the country.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to fix the issues of the Great Depression through federal programs promising relief, recovery and reform for the neediest in society.
What is the New Deal?
What is slavery?
The US began to get involved in WWII by selling weapons to our Allies
What is Lend-Lease?
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What is Cash and Carry?
The movement to end slavery that existed in America primarily between the 1830s and 1865.
What is Abolition?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
When the government has a "hands-off" approach to the economy. America had this system for most of the 1800s, hitting its height in the Gilded Age.
What is Laissez-Faire?
America got involved in WWI because of the boat and the note. This was the name of the boat and that was the name of the note
What is the Lusitania and Zimmerman Note?
This was where women first organized to fight for their suffrage (right to vote)
What is Seneca Falls, NY?
This Supreme Court Case determined that Jim Crow Laws were constitutional, so long as they created segregation that was "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
President Lincoln led the move to pass this amendment at the End of Civil War a few years after creating the Emancipation Proclamation. It passed, despite having half the country disagree with the change it brought.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The act of buying products by borrowing money to do so. One of the primary causes of the Great Depression.
What is Credit Spending?
This organization was created following World War II in order to preserve world peace. America was a founding member.
What is the United Nations?
This muckraking book was created to expose the issues with the meatpacking industry and its unsanitary conditions. Its publication led to the creation of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is The Jungle?
This Supreme Court case ruled that the federal government has the power to remove rights from the people in times of crisis when a Japanese citizen challenged the constitutionality of Japanese internment.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
The name for the forced migration of Native Americans from US land in the 1830s. Caused by Andrew Jackson's passage of the Indian Removal Act.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This law was created at the height of the Gilded Age to decrease the power of monopolies like Carnegie Steel and Standard Oil, which had taken control of the US economy.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
President Theodore Roosevelt created this piece of infrastructure in order to connect the American Pacific Empire to the American Caribbean Empire. Its construction greatly angered the country of Colombia, who saw it as a violation of their sovereignty.
What is the Panama Canal?
This movement was created in the early 1900s in order to create more equality for common Americans by limiting the power of businesses. Theodore Roosevelt and Muckrakers became the primary leaders of this movement.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This Supreme Court Case established the "clear and present danger" test. This case affirmed that the restrictions of the 1st amendment by the espionage and seditions acts did not violate the constitution due to the nation being at war.
Schenk v. United States
This president beat an assassin with a cane after the assassin's gun misfired not once but twice.
This institution was created by Woodrow Wilson during the Progressive Era to act as the nation's bank to print the country's money, control inflation, and make sure that the federal government had enough money to pay for its progressive programs.
What is the Federal Reserve?
This war gained America control of Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines, and is often seen as America's first venture into overseas imperialism.
What is the Spanish American War?
This act was created by LBJ following a movement to end segregation through a series of sit-ins, boycotts, marches, and other forms of non-violent protest.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?