Supreme Court Cases
This 1803 case established judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
This 1867 act divided the South into military districts
Reconstruction Act
This doctrine pledged U.S. aid to nations resisting communism
Truman Doctrine
This 1929 event triggered the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash
This case outlawed segregation in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
This 1896 case legalized “separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
This amendment granted equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
This CIA program ran covert propaganda and operations worldwide
Operation Mockingbird
This New Deal act created Social Security
Social Security Act
This law banned discrimination in housing
Fair Housing Act
This 1919 case created the “clear and present danger” test
Schenck v. United States
This group used terror to undermine Black political power
Ku Klux Klan
This war began after a misleading Gulf of Tonkin incident
Vietnam War
This 1935 law protected labor unions
Wagner Act
This group pushed Black nationalism in the 1960s
Black Panther Party
This 1944 case upheld Japanese-American internment
Korematsu v. United States
This 1877 deal ended federal Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
This 1954 Supreme Court case hurt McCarthyism
Watkins v. United States
This 1971 policy ended the gold standard
Nixon Shock
This FBI program targeted MLK and civil rights groups
COINTELPRO
This 2010 case ruled that corporate political spending is protected speech
Citizens United v. FEC
This Mississippi plan legally suppressed Black voters
Mississippi Plan
This policy sought to limit nuclear weapons without eliminating them
arms control
This 2008 act bailed out U.S. banks
TARP
This 1965 law enforced Black voting rights
Voting Rights Act