Policies/Acts
Allowed the government to prohibit trusts and terminate them.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Uprising of poor farmers upset with their governor for not helping their economic situation; killed many Native Americans
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Forced the Indians out of their homelands and made them walk the "Trail of Tears."
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Referred to as the "Father of the Constitution."
Who is James Madison?
Held that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
Required railroads to publish their rates publicly and forbade discrimination against shippers; ICC was set up as a result.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Uprising of enslaved African Americans in Virginia; at least 50 white Virginians were killed; led to stricter rules against slaves.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Leaked secrets about nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union; later executed by the United States.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Who is President Harding?
Held that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs Board of Education?
Established a good relationship with Latin America and declared that the United States would not intervene.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
Armed uprising of Revolutionary War veterans against mortgage foreclosures and tax delinquencies; led to a strong federal government and the Constitution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Began COINTELPRO; abused his privileges as head of the FBI; attempted to undermine the Civil Rights Movement, especially Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
Authorized the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who is President Truman?
Held that African Americans were not American citizens and told Congress that they could not legally ban slavery.
What is Dred Scott vs Sandford?
Required unions to be liable for any damage they cause and required the union leaders to take a non-communist oath.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
Tribes attempting to push Britain out of Ohio Country attacked Fort Detroit.
Assassinated President Lincoln at the theater and yelled "Sic semper tyrannis, the South is avenged."
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Used the phrase "it's morning again in America."
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Held that Congress has the ability to create a national bank as said in the Constitution.
What is McCulloch vs Maryland?
Gave laborers back the right to self organize and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act?
Protest against the requirement to be enlisted in the military and against the rich being able to pay for substitutions or exemption.
What were the New York Draft Riots?
Attacked Senator Charles Sumner because he was offended by his anti-slavery speech.
Who is Senator Preston Brooks?
Annexed the Philippines in 1898.
Who is President McKinley?
Held that Japanese relocation was constitutional.
What is Korematsu vs United States?