Early America
This 1794 rebellion demonstrated the federal government’s ability to enforce its laws under the Constitution.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This federal agency provided food, education, and legal assistance to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
“The owner of an alleged fugitive may seize and arrest such fugitive… and take him or her before such judge.”
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
This organization, founded in 1909, used legal challenges to fight racial discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
In this 1954 decision, the Supreme Court declared that segregated public schools were inherently unequal.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This treaty with Great Britain sparked controversy by appearing to favor British interests over French allies.
What is Jay’s Treaty?
This amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.”
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision legalized racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This organization, founded in 1957, emphasized nonviolent protest and church-based activism.
What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
Passed in 1798, these laws restricted civil liberties and heightened partisan conflict.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This term referred to Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction, often to participate in politics or business.
Who are carpetbaggers?
“It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state.”
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
This reformer advocated economic self-sufficiency and vocational education for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This organization formed out of the sit-in movement and emphasized grassroots organizing.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
These resolutions argued that states could judge the constitutionality of federal laws.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
This candidate won the popular vote in the election of 1876.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
“The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community occupying its own territory.”
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This Jamaican-born activist promoted Black nationalism and a “Back to Africa” movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This civil rights leader argued for racial pride and self-defense rather than integration.
Who is Malcolm X?
This foreign policy crisis led to the undeclared naval conflict with France.
What is the XYZ Affair?
Andrew Johnson violated this law, which led to his impeachment.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory.”
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This organization founded by Garvey sought economic independence for African Americans.
What is the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)?
This organization was responsible for the Freedom Rides.
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?