This 18th century Virginia justice of the peace is thought to have fathered the mob system of extra-legal punishment.
Who is Charles Lynch
100
Case that helped legalize a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion
What is Roe v. Wade
100
Laws that prohibited anything perverse, pornographic, or repulsive being sent through the United States Postal Service
What are the Comstock Laws
100
Term that has been compared to a racial slur given to slaves.
What is Illegal Alien
200
Lynching was a practice that was most often used to discourage this in Black men
What is their Votes
200
Case which upheld the previous decisions that racial segregation is constitutional under the separate but equal doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
200
This country was said to be the 'Perfect Laboratory' to test the pill on a large population
What is Puerto Rico
200
Group of "white" immigrants (Jews, Italians, Slavic groups, Greeks etc.) considered to be this in post-1890.
What is the Melting Pot
300
This 1915 Silent Movie glorified the Klu Klux Klan and its practice of lynching
What is The Birth of a Nation
300
Case in which the Supreme Court decided that Dred Scott was not a “citizen of the state” so they had no jurisdiction in the matter, but the majority opinion also stated that he was not a free man.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
300
This feminist opened a clinic in downtown New York City to illegally inform women about birth control.
Who is Margaret Sanger
300
In this state, immigrant mothers were told to "learn English or else."
What is Tennessee
400
This 19th century journalist dedicated her life’s work to exposing the injustice of Lynching
Who is Ida B. Wells
400
Case that decided that state laws requiring separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
400
This fertility specialist was funded by Katherine McCormick to develop the pill.
Who is Gregory Pincus
400
This need is a driving force for the wave of immigrants in the U.S.