Dates
Jamestown
1607
Desegregated public schools
Brown v. Board of Education
First 10 amendments
Bill of Rights
This document outlines/explains our government
Constitution
Tax on imports
Tariff
French and Indian War
1754
Established segregation; "Separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Women's suffrage
19th
Written by Upton Sinclair; this describes the poor conditions of the meat packing industry
The Jungle
Domestic policy
Civil War
1865
Judicial Review; 1st major case; Supreme Court decides constitutionality
Marbury v. Madison
Voting age: 18
26th
Issued by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, this document declared enslaved people in Confederate-held territories to be free and transformed the war into a struggle for racial equality
Emancipation Proclamation
Used by Nixon, the term means to reduce tension between the U.S. and the Soviet union
Detente
What century is the 20th?
1900s
Slaves are property not citizens even if they travel to a free state
Dred Scott v. Sanford
(Two amendments- must have both right) ___ amendment prohibited alcohol and ___ amendment repealed prohibition of alcohol
18th and 21st
Written by Andrew Carnegie; this outlines how wealthy industrialists should be engaging in philanthropy
Gospel of Wealth
When a country/leader spends a lot of money on social welfare programs we call them...
Socialist
World War II
1945
During World War I, the Court upheld the constitutionality of the Espionage Act, ruling that freedom of speech could be limited if it represented a "clear and present danger" to public safety. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes concluded that utterances that might be tolerable in peacetime could be endured no longer during war
Schenck v. The U.S.
(Three amendments - must have all three right) ___ made all African Americans free ___ made all African Americans citizens ____ gave all African American men the right to vote
13th, 14th, 15th amendment
This foundational foreign policy document declared that the United States would oppose any further European colonization or intervention in the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctrine
When the government is "hands off" of the economy; popular in the Gilded Age and beforehand
Laissez-faire