SCOTUS
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This secret network of whites and free blacks helped lead hundreds to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Emerson's philosophy that each person has direct communication with God and nature.
What is transcendentalism?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
1607
When was Jamestown, 1st permanent English settlement, is established in VA?
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
Nickname for a fictional character used to represent toughness and grit of female industrial workers during WWII
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
President Johnson's vision for a revitalized and improved country (derailed by the high costs of the Vietnam War)
What is the Great Society?
1619
When did the first enslaved people arrive in VA?
What is Roe v Wade?
Women largely led this anti-alcohol movement in the mid-1800s.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’ .
What is the Missouri Compromise?
19th Century idea used to justify movement west, to control the entire contintent, from sea to shining sea
What is Manifest Destiny?
of Speech, of Religion, from Want, and from Fear ... according to FDR
What are the Four Freedoms?
1754
What is the start of the French and Indian War (Seven Year's War)?
This SCOTUS case limited freedom of speech when that speech could lead to a "clear and present danger" to those around it
What is Schenk v New York
Woman credited with rallying conservative votes against the 1970s Equal Rights Amendment
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
Slave who sued for freedom but was told by the Supreme Court that slaves were property, and therefore could be heard in court
Who is Dred Scott?
African American artistic movement in the 1920s that created art based on the lived experience of being African American in the United States
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Jefferson signed a law outlawing trade with all foreign nations, a move that increased tension with Britain. Name the law.
What was the Embargo Act (1807)?
1950-1953
What is the Korean War?
This SCOTUS case established the "separate but equal" concept that led to a variety of Jim Crow discriminatory laws
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony were leaders of the women's suffrage movement and helped organize this New York meeting in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The value of "other persons" in the Constitution when it came to Congressional representation
What is 3/5?
Economic system where countries tried to increase their wealth through government control of all aspects of trade
What is Mercantilism?
Nickname for Monroe's presidency that reflected a rising sense of nationalism (1817-1825).
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
1846-1848
What is the Mexican American War?