This law says "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been dulyl convicted, shall exist within the United States..."
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
This person was a very prominant African American civil rights leader who preached non-violent resistance.
Who is Martin Luther King?
100
This Supreme Court case declared "Separate but Equal" the law.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
100
This is an economic theory during the Industrial Era that suggests the government should keep out of private business.
What is Laissez Faire?
100
This war began, in part, because the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated.
What is World War One?
200
This law give all citizens "equal protection" under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This person created the Great Society and escalated American involvement in Vietnam.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
200
This Supreme Court case ordered the de-segregation of all public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
This is the social theory that the strongest survive and the weak will not.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
America's involvement in this war began as a result of an attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is World War Two?
300
These laws made it legal to separate the races.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
This person wrote the book "The Jungle" about the meatpacking industry during the Progressive Era.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
This Supreme Court decision said it was OK for the government to intern Japanese Americans for the sake of national security.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
300
The theory that native born Americans are the superior race.
What is Nativism?
300
America's involvement in this conflict was escalated by the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
What is Vietnam?
400
This law gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
This person created the New Deal to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
This Supreme Court decision declared that all accused people who cannot afford a lawyer will be given one for free.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
400
Many news media used this to shape peoples opinions to convince them to do something. This helped cause the Spanish American war.
What is yellow Journalism?
400
This war was originally called "The Great War"
What is World War One?
500
This law gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
This person was a Senator from Wisconsin who accused several Americans of being Communists.
Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy?
500
This Supreme Court case declared it was illegal to encourage people to resist the draft because it endangered national security.
What is Schenck v. United States?
500
This means refusing to obey a law because you believe it is unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
500
This war, which cannot actually be called a war because Congress never declared it, resulted in the country being divided along the 38th Parallel.