U.S. Supreme Court Cases
World War I
Causes of the American Revolution
Causes of the Civil War
World War II
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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. Women entered the work force.

What is Bell bomber Aircraft Plant?

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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

Georgia signers of the Declaration of Independence?

Who are Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, and George Walton?

300

Election of 1860

Who is Abraham Lincoln? His election leads southern states to secede from the Union.

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 sent a telegram and 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 this. 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 with war materials.

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 Allied Powers?

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.

What is the Holocaust?

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