Acts/Tariffs
The act regarding slaves in the compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The countries that were part of the Axis Powers. (during World War II)
What are Germany, Japan, and Italy?
The first hispanic female member of the Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
This court case that stated that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka
The U.S. president that got himself stuck in the White House bathtub and had to call help to get himself out.
Who is William Howard Taft?
The tariff that raised the average duty on imports to almost 50% (1890)
What was the Mickinley Tariff?
The sinking of this ship by German U-boats prompted the U.S. to join the first World War.
What is the Lusitania?
The shortest and tallest presidents.
Who are James Madison and Abraham Lincoln?
The Supreme Court Case that ruled that apprehended criminals must be briefed of their constitutional rights addressed in the 6th Amendment.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
The amendment that stated that no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
What is the 22nd amendment?
The two acts that followed the publishing of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
What are the Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts?
The battle which consisted of simultaneous attacks on U.S. troops by some 85,000 troops under the direction of the North Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War. (hint: this battle resulted in a major decline in public support for the Vietnam War)
What is the Tet Offensive?
The person that attacked his fellow Senator Charles Sumner on the Congress floor.
Who was Preston Brooks?
A set of laws designed to restrict certain activities on Sundays (or other specific days) for religious reasons to observe a day of worship or rest. These laws were passed across the colonies, particularly in Puritan New England and Quaker Pennsylvania.
What are the Blue Laws?
The Executive Order that authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. (World War II)
What is Executive Order 9066?
The president that issued the Underwood tariff which reduced average rates from 40 percent to 25 percent.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The battle in which the first shot was fired upon the Lakota because they were performing the ghost dance.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
The four presidnets that got assisnated during their presidency.
Who are Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy?
The court case that freed all navigation of monopoly control.
What is Gibbons vs Ogden?
The last state to ratify the constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed these Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
The bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history (civil war)
What was the battle of Antietam?
American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement as well as one of the founders of the NAACP. (1862-1931)
Who was Ida B. Wells?
The year in which the Dred Scott v. Stanford decision happened.
What is 1857?
The two people that wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
Who were James Madison and Thomas Jefferson?