Stated that segregation was illegal
Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson
Georgia changed its state flag in 1956 because it was angry at having to enforce this
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
100
His assassination by a Serbian terrorist in 1914 was considered the spark that ignited WWI
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
The biggest cause of the American Revolution
Britain defeated France...Indians fought on both sides
King George III taxed the colonists to pay for this
Called the 7 Years War in Europe
What is the French and Indian War?
100
Maintained the balance of slave and free states in Congress
Missouri entered as a slave state
Maine entered as a free state
No slavery allowed above a line at the 36th parallel
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The U.S. declared war on the Axis Powers after this was attacked on December 7, 1941
FDR called it "A Day Which Shall Live in Infamy"
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
Declared unconstitutional in 1962
It violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
It had given the rural areas more power than the urban areas in elections
What is the county unit system?
200
Georgia's biggest contribution to WWI
What were military training camps?
200
The first direct tax on the colonies
It was a tax on all paper products (books, playing cards, and newspapers)
What is the Stamp Act?
200
California entered as free state
Slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.
The South got the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
FDR brought this company to Marietta, GA
It provided jobs and money to the community
They produced the B-29 Bomber
What is Bell Aircraft?
300
Declared the Cherokee were a separate nation and did not have to follow Georgia's rules
Chief Justice was John Marshall
President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce it
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
300
The sinking of this ship in 1916 angered President Woodrow Wilson
What is the Lusitania?
300
Passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party
Soldiers could be quartered or housed by the colonists
Boston Harbor was closed until the tea was paid for
No public meetings
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
Two states could vote on how they would enter the Union: Free State or Slave State
This concept is called Popular Sovereignty
This turned into a "bleeding" mess
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
They produced the Liberty Ships, which were cargo ships used in WWII
They brought jobs and money to the community
Many women took jobs here because the men were at war
What are the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards?
400
Declared that segregation was legal
Stated that the races could be separated as long as there were equal facilities for both
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
This was the final straw that led the U.S. to declare war on Germany and enter WWI
Germany promised to give back the SW United States to Mexico if they attacked the US
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
400
The document written by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia
Declared the colonies would be free of the king
Signed by Hall, Gwinnett, and Walton from Georgia
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
Since the Compromise of 1850 was so unpopular with the south, Henry Clay begged his Georgia friends to help him pass it
Georgia signed this statement supporting the Compromise of 1850. It stopped the Civil War from starting in 1850
What is the Georgia Platform?
400
Starting in 1940, this program was how FDR got the US into WWII without sending troops
It supplied the countries of Great Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
Stated that a Missouri man was not free, even though a lower court had set him free
Stated that this man was property and had no right to sue
What is the Dred Scott case?
500
The U.S. joined this alliance, which began with Great Britain, France, and Russia. Italy would also join this alliance
What is the Triple Entente?
500
The document that split up land won from the French in the French and Indian War
Colonists could not cross the Appalachian Mountains, which angered them because it stopped them from settling new land and making money
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
The word means to choose to ignore a federal law
What is nullification?
500
The mass murder of over 6 million Jews and other "undesirables" by Hitler's Nazis
The prisons scattered all over Europe were called concentration camps