SCOTUS
This man, appointed by John Adams is the longest serving Chief Justice in American history and was vital in shaping the SCOTUS into what it is today.
Who is John Marshall?
In this year, Wilson successfully won his first term due to infighting within the Republican Party.
What is 1912?
In 1901, following the assassination of this man, Roosevelt becomes the 26th President. At least Spain got the last laugh.
Who is William McKinley?
Carrie Amelia Nation was famous for attacking saloons and taverns with a hatchet as a radical member of this movement.
What is the Temperance Movement?
1850: This Compromise creator and Speaker of the House.
Who is Henry Clay?
The 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson used this precedent to justify segregation in public facilities.
What is “separate but equal?”
What is the Great War?
TR resigned as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to lead this alliterative group of cavalrymen during the Battle of San Juan Hill.
What are the Rough Riders?
This alliterative reformer worked tirelessly to fix America’s broken asylum system.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
1852: Harriet Beacher Stowe writes this book.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The pivotal 1819 decision in McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that this entity could not be taxed by the state govt. Hint: its last president was Nicholas Biddle.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
Wilson’s 14 Points emphasized freedom of the seas and this, the right of people to create and lead their own nations.
what is National Self Determination?
TR and Taft were certainly at odds over Richards Ballinger’s sacking of this Roosevelt anointed director of the US Forest Service.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped publish this document during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
1854: Stephen Douglass helps pass this controversial bill into law.
What is The Kansas Nebraska Act?
Korematsu v. US upheld the forced internment of Japanese Americans under this four digit executive order.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Wilson vehemently refused to compromise with a caucus of Republican senators led by this man, leading to the US not ratifying the Versailles Treaty.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
An avid naturalist, Roosevelt signed this 1902 act commissioning irrigation projects for arid western land into law.
What is The Newlands Reclamation Act?
Fervent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison was editor of this famous Boston newspaper.
What is the Liberator?
1856: This man receives gold coated canes from his state of South Carolina after breaking his over Charles Sumner’s head.
Who is Preston Brooks?
Joe Biden earned significant backlash over his treatment of Anita Hill during the 1991 SCOTUS confirmation debacle of this appointee.
Who is Clarence Thomas?
Wilson was infamous for screening DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in the White House, a film about this group’s revival.
What is the KKK?
Nicknamed the trust buster, TR is said to have eliminated over 40 trusts including this railroad monopoly owned by JP Morgan.
What is the Northern Securities Company?
Members of the ACS, short for this tried unsuccessfully to send recently emancipated slaves to Liberia.
What is the American Colonization Society?
1859: This man, a colonel at the time led a force of US Marines to take back Harper’s Ferry from John Brown’s marauders. He and Grant would meet six years later at Appomattox.
Who is Robert E Lee?