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Supreme Court Cases
100
Coined term by Mark Twain; period from 1870s - 1890s, businesses grew at a rapid rate and many problems lied below perceived prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
100
Journalists during the Progressive Era who exposed the evils of industrialization and urbanization. (collective term for them)
Who are the muckrakers?
100

Often called the "forgotten war," this War that the United States fought led to the split of a country into a North and South part.

What is the Korean War


100
President G.W. Bush declared this as a response to 9/11, US would actively fight terrorism throughout the world
What is the war on terror?
100
A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
200
Created in response to the growth of corporate power; called for political reform (election of senators, secret ballot) and increased government involvement in economy, especially in relation to farming.
What is the People's (populist) Party?
200

The act that was overturned because of Chinese and United States cooperation during World War 2

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
This permanent alliance went against everything Washington warned about in his farewell address.
What is NATO?
200
Soviet leader that saw improved relations with Reagan, instituted glasnost and perestroika which helped lead to the downfall of the Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
This Supreme Court Case ruled that first trimester abortions were to be allowed based on a women's right to privacy.
What is Roe v. Wade (1973)?
300
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North. Served as a way for southerners to get around the 13th amendment.
What is sharecropping?
300
Two new Amendments to the Constitution that reflected Social Changes during the 1920's.
What is the 18th & 19th amendments. (18- prohibition (1890), 19- women's suffrage (1920)
300

A series of proposals and policies that expanded Social Security, Medicare, and other social programs by Lyndon B. Johnson

What is the Great Society

300
Reagan pushed through big tax cuts but also increased spending on defense, especially for this high tech anti-missile defense system that was way ahead of its time
What is What is the Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars"
300

Court cases that established the separate but equal clause.

What is Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)

400
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty. (how did people justify only those at the top holding the majority of the wealth?)
What is the Social Gospel and/or Social Darwinism.
400

An act passed after the Great Depression that prevented banks from using your money for speculative investments.

What is The Glass-Steagall Act

400

In 1964, this event led to a full escalation of funding to the Vietnam War.

What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

400
an unspecified large group of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
What is the silent majority?
400
The court ruling that demanded manual recounts of presidential ballots in the 2000 election because inconsistent evaluation standards in different counties violated the equal protection clause. In effect, the ruling meant Bush would win the election.
What is Bush v. Gore (2000)?
500
An example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd.
What is the Haymarket Riot (1886)
500

The president at the beginning of the Great Depression who was blamed for not doing enough to help the people.

Who is Herbert Hoover?

500

Overheating caused by human, design, and mechanical errors caused part of this nuclear power plant's uranium core to melt. Helped raise awareness to environmental issues


What is Three Mile Island

500
This Evangelical leader of the Moral Majority was taken down in disgrace after he was caught in extra-marital affairs with a prostitute.
Who is Jerry Falwell?
500
The court upheld the constitutionality of detention camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II
What is Korematsu v. U. S. (1941)?