Amendments
What is income taxes?
16th Amendment
Gave Plots of land to individuals native farmers to assimilate American Society
Dawes General Allotment Act
Theodore Roosevelt
Big Stick Diplomacy (Used Strong US Military to achieve diplomatic goals).
Founded teaching evolution to be unconstitutional.
Scopes v. The state of Tennessee.
SEPERATE BUT EQUAL DOCTRINE
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
Alcoholic Prohibition
18th Amendment
Travel east to west to get more goods and food from coast to coast.
Transcontinential Railroad
William Taft
Dollar Diplomacy (Invested in Foreign Economies to Increase US Influence )
Camps Created Japanese Americans was considered military necessity for national security.
Korematsu v. The United States
Segregation in schools was unconstitutional.
1954 Brown v. Board of Education
Topeka Kansas
Freedom of religion , assembly, petition, press and speech.
1st amendment
Banned chinese people because they added to overproduction - working for low wages.
Chinese exclusion Act
Woodrow Wilson
Moral Diplomacy (Promoted Human Rights- National intergrity and Opportunity).
Court forces president to give up tape recordings.
US v. Richard Nixon
Camps for Japanese Americans was military necessity.
1944 Korematsu v. The United States
No poll tax
24th Amendment
An attempt to ban monopolies during the Populist Movement .
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Harry S. Truman
Saved the American lives by forcing the Japanese surrender
Ruled that seperate but equal .
Plessy v. Ferugson
Made the right to have abortion costitutional.
1973 Roe v. Wade
Equal Protection Under Law
14th Amendement
Required Info and Safety labels for food and drugs.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Richard Nixon
Put in a resignation letter after being caught for placing recorders in the white house illegally.
Upheld the Espionage Act of 1917-1st Amendment right to express freedom of speech.
Schenck v. United States.
Founded evolution to be unconstitutional wakes scopes pay a fine.
1925 Scopes v. The State of Tennessee