Court Cases
Established judicial review
Marbury vs. Madison
True cause of the US entering WWI
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Early foreign policy of the Cold War
Containment
Pennsylvania
Her work broke up the Standard Oil Monopoly
Ida Tarbell
Freedom of speech can be limited if it presents a "clear and present danger."
Schenck vs. the US
Laws that made it illegal to criticize the government during WWI
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Failed Cuban invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
British policy that allowed the colonies to practice self-government and trade with other nations as long as they provided raw materials to the mother country
Salutary Neglect
Created Settlement Houses to help newly arriving immigrants
Jane Addams
Federal government controls interstate trade
A law that gave veterans a free college education and money towards buying a house
GI Bill
Roanoke
Book of Jacob Riis that exposed tenement living
How the Other Half Lives
A case in which the Court decided that evidence obtained illegally may not be used against someone in a court of law by the Fourth Amendment.
Mapp vs. Ohio
Meeting between FDR and Churchill in 1941 to discuss post war peace plans
Atlantic Charter
First suburb in NY created for WWII veterans and their families
First elected legislature in Virginia
House of Burgesses
It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
School sponsored prayer in public schools is unconstitutional
Engel vs. Vitale
First nuclear bomb tested in 1945
"A" Bomb
Vietnam was divided at this line
17th Parallel
Settled by Dutch traders who settled on Manhattan island
New Amsterdam
Progressive legislation that regulates the money supply
Federal Reserve Act