Don't "Act" Up
The first direct tax imposed on the English colonists.
Stamp Act
These fell dramatically on Black Monday in October 1929.
stock prices
In 1763, Pontiac and, later, the Ghost Dance movement both wanted to get rid of this.
The presence or influence of whites.
She famously asked her husband to "remember the ladies" (which he promptly forgot to do).
Abigail Adams
The case that established the power of judicial review.
Marbury v Madison
The Affordable Care Act which addressed national healthcare is commonly known by this nickname.
Obamacare
Built in 1961, its collapse in 1989 symbolized the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Berlin Wall
He led a Pan-Indian resistance movement in the Ohio River Valley until his death in the War of 1812.
Tecumseh
The event seen as the kickoff to the women's rights movement.
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
McCulloch v. Maryland established this regarding the relationship between states and the federal government.
The federal government and its institutions are superior to state governments/laws.
Attempting tp promote popular sovereignty in 1854, it actual led to bloody fighting over slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The belief that if China fell to communism so would Korea, Vietnam and all of Asia.
Domino Theory
In 1973, the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied this location - the site of a infamous massacre in 1890.
Wounded Knee
Amendment granting female suffrage.
19th Amendment
Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that children deserved of “the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment” in this famous 1954 decision.
Board v Board of Education
The first colonial legislature to pass acts/laws.
House of Burgesses
To prevent the British East India Company from falling into bankruptcy, Parliament passed this act hated by the colonists.
Tea Act
This American Indian rebellion successfully (but only temporarily) drove the Spanish out of New Mexico in 1680.
Pueblo Revolt
The book or author which helped jumpstart the feminist and equal rights movements in 1963.
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique.
This 1824 case established Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. (Hint: ferries)
Gibbons v. Ogden
The most controversial law passed in the 1850s which heightened tension dramatically over the issue of slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
Four students were felled by bullets on this campus in 1970 during Vietnam War protests.
Kent State
American Indians occupied this famous prison/island in San Francisco Bay in 1969 in protest of their treatment by the government.
Alcatraz
Adopting methods of the British, she embraced "direct action", including protests in front of the White House, and hunger strikes while in jail to achieve the right to vote.
Alice Paul
Suspects being arrested and interrogated must be given these two rights according to Miranda v. Arizona.
Right to remain
Right to an attorney