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Court Cases 1801-1920
Gilded Age
Progressive Movement
Reconstruction
20th-21st Century
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This was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
This was a sarcastic name given to the three-decade-long post-Civil War era by Mark Twain in 1873.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
What is the social gospel?
100
This was to provide food, clothing, medical care, and education both to freedmen and white refugees. It was headed by Oliver O. Howard.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
On this day, terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center towers.
What is September 11, 2001?
200
This was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court,[2][3] and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
This court case validated the South's segregationist social order. It ruled that "separate but equal" was constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
Reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting. Worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption
Who are muckrakers?
200
These were Southerners who were Reconstruction or Union sympathizers. These were Northerners who came South to seek personal power and profit.
Who are scalawags and carpetbaggers?
200
Fear-mongering anticommunism associated with the career of a Senator. High-ranking government officials and other Americans (especially in Hollywood), were accused of conspiracy with Communism.
What is McCarthyism?
300
This was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
300
Legal codes of segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
These three political reforms were instituted by progressives as a means of putting political power back into the hands of the people. All have to do with voting, legislation, and elected officials.
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
300
Lincoln proposed this in 1863. It decreed that a state could rejoin the Union when 10% of its voters in the presidential election of 1860 had taken an oath of allegiance to the US and pledged to abide by emancipation.
What is the 10% Reconstruction Plan?
300
US-led multi-country military engagement in 1991 that drove Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army out of Kuwait.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
400
This case established two important principles in constitutional law. First, the Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government. Second, state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
400
A political group that essentially controlled New York City in the 1870s using embezzlement, bribery, and kickbacks to siphon massive chunks of New York's budget.
What is the Tweed Ring?
400
A militant, antiliquor organization who would fall to their knees in prayer on saloon floors.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Movement?
400
This bill required that 50% of the states' voters take the oath of allegiance and demanded stronger safeguards for emancipation.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
400
Written by Betty Friedan, it gave focus to the boredom of suburban housewifery.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
500
This was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917.
What is Debs v. United States?
500
This was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879, and even longer in some countries.Post-war inflation, rampant speculative investments (overwhelmingly in railroads), a large trade deficit, ripples from economic dislocation in Europe resulting from the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), property losses in the Chicago (1871) and Boston (1872) fires, and other factors put a massive strain on bank reserves, which plummeted in New York City during September and October 1873 from $50 million to $17 million.
What is the panic of 1873?
500
A term for Teddy Roosevelt's program of control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources.
What is the "Square Deal"?
500
This happened due to the President violating the Tenure of Office Act.
What is the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
500
This was a top-secret Pentagon study that documented the blunders and deceptions of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, especially referring to the Vietnam War.
What are the Pentagon Papers?