Supreme Court decision denying Congress the right to ban Slavery in the area.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford ?
100
A time period after the Civil War, when the Southern States rejoin the Union.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
100
Promoting the western land by providing free lands to settlers.
What is the a Homestead Act (1862) ?
100
A female cultural icon that represented the American women who worked in factories and other jobs previously worked by men ?
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
100
Practiced civil disobedience by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks ?
200
Supreme Court decision to imprison Japanese Americans in internment camps, because the U.S. Government considered Japanese Americans a national security threat during WW2.
What is Korematsu v. U.S. ?
200
A Supreme Court case that upheld the Jim Crow Laws based on the idea of "separate but equal" for African Americans.
(Jim Crow Laws - an attempt to limit the freedom of African Americans after the Civil war)
What is Plessy v. Ferguson ?
200
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882).
What is the limitation on the amount of Chinese immigrants that could enter the United States ?
200
Manhattan Project.
What is a project by the United States to develop an atomic bomb?
200
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What is a organization that focused on the education, political participation, and continued to support the civil rights movement?
300
United States v. Nixon (1974)
What is a Supreme Court decision that limited the president's power of executive privilege?
300
Laws passed by the Southern States trying to limit the effectiveness of the 14th amendment and the 15th amendment.
What is the Black Codes?
300
Labor unions grew stronger because it legalized collective bargaining. Labor movements grew due to the right to organize was protected by the laws.
What is the National Labor Relations Act? (Wagner Act)
300
A law passed giving war veterans education and housing opportunities.
What is the GI Bill?
300
Male Leader of Civil Rights Movement and believed in civil disobedience and lead the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr. ?
400
a landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the base for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under the Constitution.
What is Marbury v. Madison ?
400
A term used to describe the South's economy changes after the Civil War. Growing new crops were encouraged but overproduction led to lower prices for farm goods, causing economic hardship.
What is New South ?
400
Sherman Antitrust Act.
What is a law passed by congress to limit the power of monopolies ?
400
Nuremberg War Crime trials.
What is holding German leaders accountable for the Holocaust for crimes against humanity?
400
Malcolm X
Who is a civil right leader that advocated black separatism ?
500
Worcester v. Georgia?
What is a Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of the Native Americans who were being forced out of Georgia even though President Andrew Jackson didn't enforced the ruling?
500
Amendments passed during the Reconstruction era and protected the rights of minorities
What is the 13th, 14th and the 15th Amendment?
500
Civil Rights Acts of 1964.
What is a law passed that ended the Jim Crow Laws by an attempt to correct racial and gender discrimination?
500
United States giving Europe economic aid to recover after World War 2.
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
A Supreme Court case that overturned the court decision Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of "separate but equal".