Period 3&4
What was the name and year of the Supreme Court case on 1803.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This compromise admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This president promoted conservative policies and tax cuts in the 1980s.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War and preserved the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1765 tax required stamps on printed materials.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1863 order freed slaves in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1955–1956 protest in Alabama ended with a Supreme Court ruling desegregating public buses and launched a national civil rights leader.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This long conflict began after 9/11 and involved fighting in the Middle East.
What is the War on Terror?
The first African American president of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
What was first U.S. government that was too weak to tax or enforce laws.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1890 law aimed to break up monopolies but was initially used more against labor unions than big business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
First permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the Declaration of Independence with ideas about natural rights and government by consent.
Who is John Locke?
This compromise created a stronger federal government while balancing power between large and small states, replacing the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention (Great Compromise)?
This 1890 event marked the end of major Native American resistance, when U.S. troops killed hundreds of Lakota at a South Dakota camp.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This event President Richard Nixon was involved in a political scandal and cover-up. He resigned, increasing public distrust in government.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This colonial labor system gradually replaced indentured servitude in the Chesapeake because it provided a lifelong workforce.
What is chattel slavery?
This 1944 law provided returning World War II veterans with education funding, low-interest loans, and unemployment benefits, helping fuel postwar economic growth.
What is the GI Bill?
This congressional rule automatically ignored all petitions about slavery, preventing debate and angering abolitionists.
What is the Gag Rule?
This 1877 nationwide labor uprising began after railroad wage cuts and led to violent clashes between workers and federal troops.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
This 1963 Supreme Court case guaranteed the right to an attorney for criminal defendants who cannot afford one, strengthening the Sixth Amendment.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This trade system connected Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This SNCC leader popularized the term “Black Power” in the 1960s and later moved away from nonviolent integrationist strategies.
Who is Stokely Carmichael?