WWI Medal of Honor recipient
Alvin York
"Separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Passed the Emancipation Proclamation and delivered the Gettysburg Address.
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
Pushed by groups like the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Prohibition
European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Senator that debated Lincoln about the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Stephen A. Douglas
established Judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
President that ended Cold War tensions with China and was involved in the Watergate Scandal.
Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
Movement during colonial times that emphasized reason over tradition.
Enlightenment
Required colonists to pay a tax on all stamps, papers, and legal documents.
Stamp Act
First settler to successfully cultivate tobacco in Virginia.
John Rolfe
Brown v. Board of Education
Passed the Sherman Antitrust Act and the McKinley Tariff.
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
African-American struggle for social justice in the 1950s and 1960s.
Civil Rights
What was the US's first Constitution called?
The Articles of Confederation
Founded the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers
Said enslaved people were not considered U.S. citizens and there for could not bring legal actions in a court.
Succeeded President Garfield after his assassination and passed the Pendleton Civil Service Act.
Chester Arthur (1881-1885)
Religious movement during the Gilded Age.
Social Gospel
Year-long mission of flying food and supplies to blockaded West Berliners, whom the Soviet Union cut off from access to the West in the first major crisis of the Cold War.
Berlin Airlift
Established Miranda Rights (an officer of the law is required to inform suspects of their right to remain silent and their right to an attorney)
Miranda v. Arizona
President that negotiated the Camp David Accords and the Panama Canal Treaties.
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
Philosophy from the 1830s and 1840s that says everybody has a direct communication with God and Nature, meaning there is no need for organized churches.
Transcendentalism
American forces would assist any nation in the middle east resisting communism.
Eisenhower Doctrine