Period 5
Set high penalties for anyone who aide escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement to participate in retrieving runaways.
What is Fugitive Slave Law (1850)?
First federal law that specifically banned a certain nationality of people (Chinese).
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
When Japan attacked a naval base in Hawaii were Japanese were sent on succeeded mission in planes to bring glory to the Japanese Empire.
What is Pearl Habor?
Program of manned space flights run by NASA.
What is Apollo?
Free trade encompassing Mexico, Canada, and U.S. Increased the U.S. involvement in the global market especially with countries close to them.
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
Law promised blacks equal access to public accommodation and banned racism in jury selection.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Passed by the newly elected Republican Congress, disenfranchised former Confederates and required that Southern states both ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Reconstruction Act (1867)
Gave women the rights to vote over seventy years after first organized calls for woman's suffrage in Seneca Falls.
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is Roe V. Wade?
An organized attack by a terrorist organization that hijacked planes and flew them into important U.S. structures.
What is 9/11?
Admitted Califronia as a free state, opened New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty.
What is Compromise of 1850?
Created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
A financial panic that gripped the U.S. triggering widespread bankruptcies and causing the stock market to lose half of its value.
What is Panic of 1907?
Federal law banned racial discrimination in public facilities and allowed equal hiring practice to ensure fair employment of everyone.
What is Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The practice of using race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or religion to gain political support.
What is identity politics?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A May Day rally that turned violent when someone threw a bomb into the middle of the meeting, killing several dozen people.
What is Haymarket Riot?
Law protected the right of labor to organize in unions and bargain collectively with employers and established the National Labor Relations Board.
What is Wagner Act?
Failed effort by the CIO after WWII to unionize southern workers, especially in textile factories.
What is Operation Dixie?
Political action committee that promoted traditional Christian values and oppose feminism, abortion, and gay rights.
What is Moral Majority
Ended Japan's two-hundred-year period of economic isolation.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
A historically Black institution that was founded by Booker T. Washington and focused on educating African Americans.
What is Tuskegee Institute?
Court case in which crusading attorney Louis D. Brandeis persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of limiting the hours of women workers.
What is Muller v. Oregon?
Political party organized by civil rights activist, they claimed they represented the true voice of Mississippi.
What is Mississippi Freedom Democratic party?
A political scandal of Ronald Reagan in which he was selling guns to Iran and in return using that money to support the contras in Nicaragua.
What is Iran-Contra Affair?