They were investigative journalists who exposed the horrors and abuses of Industrialization
What are Muckrakers?
100
Perhaps the most controversial court case of the past 40 years, it allowed for a woman's right to an abortion
What is Roe v Wade?
100
Third president, purchased Louisiana Territory from Napoleon, strong Anti-Federalist (Democratic-Republican)
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
War between the Union and Confederacy, started over disputes about states rights v federal government control and slavery v abolition, 1861-1865, Union won and country rebuilt
What is the Civil War?
100
Muckraker who wrote "The Jungle"
Who is Upton Sinclair?
200
Group of Americans who consisted mostly of farmers. Their ideas were later adopted by the Democratic Party and William Jennings Bryan
What is the Populist Party?
200
This landmark 1954 case helped spark the Civil Rights Movement when it integrated public schools
What is Brown v Board of Education?
200
7th president, destroyed 2nd national bank, passed Indian Removal Act, "common man", war hero "Old Hickory", involved in Nullification Crisis
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
War with the country on the southern border of the US, fighting over land b/w the two countries, US won with Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
Representative government in colonial Virginia, US gov based on this
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
WWI veterans who marched on Washington seeking money promised to them by the federal government. Hoover used force to get rid of them
What is the Bonus Army?
300
Most influential case of the early SCOTUS, this landmark case gave SCOTUS the power of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v Madison?
300
28th president, during wwi, created 14 points, democrat
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
War with Britain over land, impressment, and respect, under President Madison, US won and nothing changed
What is the War of 1812?
300
Period when whole country was united under one party b/w 1814-1824, Monroe was president, ruined by Jackson
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
400
This unsuccessful labor union had Terrence Powderly as its leader and was crippled by the Haymarket Affair
What is the Knights of Labor?
400
Decided in 1919, this case limited Americans civil liberties during times of war and established the "clear and present danger" doctrine
What is Schenk v US?
400
31st president, republican, president during stock market crash, nationally hated, "rugged individualism"
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
War that was part of the Cold War, the US supported the Democratic South and the USSR supported the Communist North, strengthened Cold War tensions, the "forgotten war"
What is the Korean War?
400
Letter from Germany to Mexico intercepted by the US, Germany would give Mexico land if they helped defeat US in WWI, made US mad
What is the Zimmerman Telegraph?
500
Begun as the Niagara Movement, W.E.B. DuBois helped create this civil rights organization
What is the NAACP?
500
A Progressive party victory under Teddy Roosevelt, this decisions forced the dismantling of a railroad monopoly controlled by J.P. Morgan
What is Northern Securities v US?
500
36th president, took over for assassinated president, democrat, started great society, involvement in Vietnam
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
500
War based on imperialism, US won and claimed many islands, US got involved due to Yellow Journalism
What is the Spanish-American War?
500
Recovery Act of the New Deal, restricted how much farmers could produce to better the economy, SCOTUS declared this unconstitutional