Historical Figures
Who is this Historical Figure?
-14th POTUS
-Issued Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
What is this battle/war?
- Fought over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy
War of 1812
What court case is this?
- signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in U.S. public schools
Brown v. Board of Education
What is this foreign policy?
-Created by France, Britain and the U.S. to end WW1
Treaty of Versailles
What was this controversy?
- Advisors of a U.S. president try to bug the Democratic Headquarters to gain information for his next election.
Watergate Scandal- Richard Nixon
Who is this Historical Figure?
-Established the New Deal
Frankin D. Rooseveltl
What is this battle/war?
- Disputed boundary bewtween the U.S. and Texas on the Nueces Strip
Mexican-American War
What is this court case?
- Judicial Review
- set up SCOTUS to interpret constitution
What is this foreign policy?
- Proclaimed that Europe should not interfere within the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
What was this controversy?
- Sexual contact between an intern and POTUS
Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal
Who is this Historical Figure?
-Political Machine
-Steel Company
Andrew Carnegie
What is this battle/war?
- Violent war between pro-slavery and anti- slavery forces
- Invasion of Kansas Territory
Bleeding Kansas
What is this court case?
-Justified the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent
Korematsu v. United States
What is this foreign policy?
- Pledged that the U.S. would no longer interfere with the internal affairs of Latin American countries.
Good Neighbor Policy
What was this controversy?
- Grant places a tax on whiskey, bringing more money towards the government/president’s use
Whiskey Ring
Who is this Historical Figure?
- Did favors for immigrant workers in exchange for their vote
- Convicted of stealing $25-45 million from NYC taxpayers
William M. Tweed (Boss Tweed)
What is this battle/war?
- Turning Point in Revolutionary War
- Guaranteed French Involvement
Battle of Saratoga
What is this court case?
- states cannot outlaw abortion
- used the 4th amendment
Roe v. Wade
What is this foreign policy?
- An alliance made to defend one another if attack were to occur.
- US,England, France, Canada, Western European Countries
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
What was this controversy?
- illegal sale of arms and money sent to Iraq
Iran-Contra Affair
Who is this Historical Figure?
- Great Awakening
-Spread the message of democratic religion amongst commoners
George Whitefield
What is this battle/war?
- “shot heard ‘round the world”
Battles of Lexington and Concord
What is this court case?
- Court ruled that states did not have to enforce the return of fugitive slaves
- 1842
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
What is this foreign policy?
- Treaty between U.S. and Spain for the right to transport goods on the Mississippi River and to store goods in the Spanish port of New Orleans
Pickney Treaty
What was this controversy?
-involved: national security, big oil companies, bribery, and corruption within the U.S. government
Teapot Dome Scandal