Constitutional Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This movement pushed for the end of alcohol consumption and eventually contributed to Prohibition.
What is the temperance movement?
Which president said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law and citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This event in 1929 helped trigger the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
This convention marked the start of the Women's Suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Which president said “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case declared that enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This attack led the United States to officially enter World War II.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
This protest was originally planned for WWII but was postponed until 1963.
What is the March on Washington?
Which president said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 during the Vietnam era.
What is the 26th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This Cold War event symbolized the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This protest against the Vietnam War ended in the deaths of four college students in Ohio in 1970.
What is the Kent State shootings?
Which president said “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This amendment repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This Supreme Court case protected freedom of the press by allowing newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers.
What is New York Times Co. v. United States?
This 1777 battle convinced France to support the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
These amendments were the crowning achievement of the Progressive Era. (Range of amendments, ex. 101-105).
What are the 16th-19th Amendments?
This president warned Americans about the dangers of the “military-industrial complex” in his farewell address.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?