Heroic Reform
First black students to attend integrated high school in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
Compromise at constitutional convention deciding how enslaved people would be counted for taxes and representation.
What is 3/5 Compromise?
Greatest fear during cold war, which prevented US & USSR from directly fighting.
What is nuclear war?
Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, and Selma March.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
Supreme Court cases that was overruled in Brown v. Board of Education?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
President who integrated the American military.
Who is Harry Truman?
Period of intense fighting over slavery in the Great Plains before the Civil War.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Agreed to support US intervention in Korea because the USSR was boycotting and couldn’t veto.
What is the United Nations?
Opponents of the Vietnam War who were very unreliable.
Who were the hippies?
Supreme Court case that established the power of judicial review?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Brief period of major change in South after Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
Overturned the Missouri Compromise and ruled African Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dredd Scott v. Sandford?
1857
Foreign policy strategy to stop spread of communism by giving aid and military support.
What is containment?
Law that banned segregation and protected against discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Supreme Court Chief Justice most known for actively using power of the court to protect individual rights.
Who was Earl Warren?
Brown, Miranda, Gideon, TLO, Tinker, Griswold
Activists who wanted feds to bust trusts, strengthen democracy, and help the poor in late 1800s.
Who were the Progressives?
Also: muckrakers
Most infamous part of Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Fear communism would spread from country to country.
What is domino theory?
President who escalated the Vietnam War by bombing all of Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
Who is Richard Nixon?
Supreme Court decided 4th Amendment didn't protect students as long as teacher has a "reasonable suspicion."
What is TLO v. New Jersey?
Lawyer who won the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Admitted two new states (Maine and Missouri) and banned slavery in northern territories.
What is Missouri Compromise?
Cold War hot spot in East Germany with a blockade, airlift, and wall.
What is Berlin?
Minor incident used by LBJ to justify full invasion of Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
1964
Part of Constitution cited by the Supreme Court when it wants to stretch meaning to decide a law is constitutional.
What is the elastic clause?
(Necessary and proper clause)