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In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that race-based segregation was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Founding Father who also signed an antislavery petition.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This ship’s sinking led to the breakout of war between the U.S. and Spain in 1898.
What is the USS Maine?
This uprising attempted to unite the lower classes of colonial America against the wealthy elite.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
The end of the Civil War.
What is 1865?
In this case, the Court ruled that a sugar company did not hold an illegal monopoly.
What is U.S. v. E.C. Knight?
This civil rights activist wrote about the notion of the “color line.”
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
The treaty signed in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War that addressed issues between the U.S. and Britain.
What is the Jay Treaty?
The union that was involved in the Haymarket Affair.
What is the Knights of Labor?
The passage of the 19th Amendment.
What is 1920?
In a California Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that interracial couples had the right to marry.
What is Perez v. Sharp?
Abolitionist who led an armed expedition during the Civil War and liberated many from slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
In this affair, the U.S. supplied arms to a country in the Middle East while also funding a counter-revolution in Central America.
What is the Iran-Contra affair?
This book exposed the reality of poverty in America, leading President Johnson to adopt Great Society reforms.
What is The Other America?
The adoption of the U.S. Constitution.
What is 1787?
In this case, the Court ruled that the capture of runaway enslaved people was under federal jurisdiction.
What is Prigg v. Pennsylvania?
This abolitionist/suffragist became the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree, and she refused to change her last name after marriage.
Who is Lucy Stone?
The meeting between the U.S. and Britain that agreed to draw the border at the 49th parallel and jointly occupy Oregon territory for 10 years.
What is the Convention of 1818?
This 3rd party formed in reaction to the Coinage Act of 1873.
What is the Greenback Party?
The end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is 1973?
In this Marshall Court case, the Court ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court had the right to review all lower court decisions.
What is Cohens v. Virginia?
Filipino leader of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee.
Who is Larry Itliong?
This wartime conference marked the first meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt in 1943.
What is the Casablanca Conference?
This strike led the Supreme Court to rule that the sit-down strike was illegal.
What is the General Motors sit-down Strike?
The beginning of the Flushing Remonstrance.
What is 1657?