Law and Order
These 2 Amendments are best described as the suffrage amendments...
What are the 13th and 19th amendments?
We threw rocks and snowballs, you shot people dead...
You can see a shift in many colonists' feelings regarding independence after this event.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Red Scare of the 1950s allowed groups like HUAC and this man to terrify many Americans...
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Big businesses largely got away with whatever they want due to this type of economic approach by the US government
What is laissez-faire economics?
The Hartford Convention will deal a death blow to this political party, which already lacked the leadership of early greats like John Adams.
Who were the Whigs?
Henry David Thoreau would pen "Civil Disobedience" after being jailed for not paying his taxes during the Mexican American War. He argued it went back to the logic of Thomas Paine. Besides that, he's known as one of the greatest writers of this literary movement.
What is transcendentalism?
Shay's Rebellion showed me a federal government much be strong enough to handle internal conflict. I will personally lead an army to put down the Whiskey Rebellion (and by personally I mean show up but have Alexander Hamilton do most of the work).
Who is George Washington?
If the Trail of Tears wasn't enough, and if it isn't I have new moral concerns about you, he also used the veto more than all of his predecessors combined. He shut down the country's national bank and told the Supreme Court that they could shove it...
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What is the political machine?
I could be mean and mention his biggest scandal, but I want to point out this dude refused to wear makeup before a big debate and everyone who saw him on tv assumed he was sick and lost the debate to a much more vibrant John F. Kennedy.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Marbury v. Madison was one of the country's first major court cases. By the end, the Supreme Court had the ability to shut down laws they deemed unconstitutional, a term we call this...
What is Judicial Review?
Popular Sovereignty is great; I'm a big fan. But it didn't go well in the 1850s as people both pro and anti slavery swarmed into this state, leading to violence.
What is Kansas?
It's not that I want to hit him specifically, but this President got the job specifically after the Republican and Democratic Parties make a deal to end military occupation in the South, and the Black Codes that follow make me want to hit a lot of people with a shovel.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
Everyone remembers my book and how disgusting the meat industry was, but I was trying to argue for better treatment of factory workers too...
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Hey Germany... maybe don't send a message to Mexico asking them to go to war with the USA unless you know the US won't get access to this now famous note.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Before becoming the first African American to sit on the bench for the Supreme Court, he first won the Brown v. Board of Education case overturning Plessy v. Ferguson
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Following the Spanish American War, this now country's insurrection against the US would be incredibly violent and did not immediately cause independence.
What are the Philippines?
Bull Connor, as Commissioner of Public Safety of this town, turned dogs and fire hoses on people during sit ins, boycotts and strikes. He literally shut down parks rather than integrate. Martin Luther King Jr. called the town the most segregated town in America, strong words given that they jailed him.
What is Birmingham?
A lesser talked about part of the Gilded Age, The Dawes Act of 1887 and forced assimilation through racist and often violent schools made life much more difficult for this group of people...
Who are Native Americans?
Ida Tarbell, a famous muckraker, wrote a book that helped showed how his business actions were illegal and often harmful to the country. Maybe he shouldn't have ruined her father's business in making Standard Oil...
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
What is the internment of Japanese Americans?
Vietnam was a bad time for everyone involved, which had the US shifting some of its foreign policy away from brinksmanship. Following US withdrawal, President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev ease tensions with the first SALT Treaty in a time period given this French name.
What is détente?
This South Carolina Senator used a cane on Charles Sumner just a few years prior to the Civil War during a session in Congress. You could say our country was spiraling towards the Civil War fairly quickly by this point.
Who is Preston Brooks?
Who is Jane Addams?
Who is Henry Clay?