Supreme Court Cases
This 1896 case legalized segregation in the United States
Plessy v. Ferguson
Washington issued this foreign policy in his Farewell Address
Proclamation of Neutrality
Led by Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for suffrage in 1848
Seneca Falls Convention
This President doubled the size of the nation when he purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803
Thomas Jefferson
This 1862 law restricted Chinese laborers from immigrating to America for 10 years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This 1919 case established the “Clear and present danger” rule
Schenck v. United States
1823 warning to Europe not to interfere with the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
Founded by W.E.B.DuBois and Ida B. Wells in 1909 to promote equality for African Americans
NAACP
This president issued the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
This 1862 act encouraged westward expansion to the Great Plains by offering cheap land for settlement
Homestead Act
This 1954 case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by outlawing segregation in the U.S.
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas
Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan were examples of this Cold War foreign policy
Containment
Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens exposed problems caused by Industrialization
Muckrakers
This president used federal troops to drive the Bonus Army (WWI Veterans denied their bonus) out of protest encampments
Herbert Hoover
This 1942 policy led to the internment of Japanese - Americans living on the west coast.
Executive Order 9066
This 1969 case protected students’ first amendment right to free speech (not an interruption to learning) in school
Tinker v. Des Moines
Following the Spanish - American War, the US issued this policy which allowed the US to “police” European wrongdoings in Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary AKA Big Stick Policy
This group formed in 1968 to address issues of poverty and discrimination against Native Americans
AIM
This president decided to use the atomic bomb in order to bring WWII to a quick end in August, 1945.
Harry Truman
California entered the Union as a free state, Washington, D.C. abolished slave trade, and the Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened under this policy
Compromise of 1850
Marbury v. Madison 1803
McCulloch v. Maryland 1819
And
Ogden v. Gibbons 1824 were similar in that they
Expanded the power of the federal government
The Senate rejected this policy in order to return to neutrality following WWI
Wilson’s Fourteen Points (League of Nations -Point 14)
Cesar Chavez founded this organization in 1962 to gain higher wages and improve working conditions for migrant farm workers
UFW
This president’s famous speech included, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Ronald Reagan
Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 policy expanded social welfare to lower national poverty rate
War on Poverty