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World War I
Causes of the American Revolution
Causes of the Civil War
World War II
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Stated that segregation was illegal Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson Georgia changed its state flag in 1956 because it was angry at having to enforce this
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
100

President Woodrow Wilson declared this to be the postion of the US at the beginning of the war

What is neutrality?

100
The biggest cause of the American Revolution Britain defeated France...Indians fought on both sides King George III taxed the colonists to pay for this Called the 7 Years War in Europe
What is the French and Indian War?
100
Maintained the balance of slave and free states in Congress Missouri entered as a slave state Maine entered as a free state No slavery allowed above a line at the 36th parallel
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The U.S. declared war on the Axis Powers after this was attacked on December 7, 1941 FDR called it "A Day Which Shall Live in Infamy"
What is Pearl Harbor?
200

1945 Supreme Court decision in King vs. Chapman declared this method of disenfranchising Black voters unconstitutional; Eugene Talmadge ran promising to reinstate it

What is the white primary?

200

Georgia's biggest contribution to WWI; also a big contribution to WWII

What were military training camps?

200
The first direct tax on the colonies It was a tax on all paper products (books, playing cards, and newspapers)
What is the Stamp Act?
200
California entered as free state Slavery was banned in Washington, D.C. The South got the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200

FDR brought this company to Marietta, GA It provided jobs and money to the community They produced the B-29 Bomber

What is Bell Aircraft?

300
Declared the Cherokee were a separate nation and did not have to follow Georgia's rules Chief Justice was John Marshall President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce it
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
300
The sinking of this ship in 1916 angered President Woodrow Wilson
What is the Lusitania?
300
Passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party Soldiers could be quartered or housed by the colonists Boston Harbor was closed until the tea was paid for No public meetings
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
Two states could vote on how they would enter the Union: Free State or Slave State This concept is called Popular Sovereignty This turned into a "bleeding" mess
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
They produced the Liberty Ships, which were cargo ships used in WWII They brought jobs and money to the community Many women took jobs here because the men were at war
What are the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards?
400
Declared that segregation was legal Stated that the races could be separated as long as there were equal facilities for both
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
This was the final straw that led the U.S. to declare war on Germany and enter WWI Germany promised to give back the SW United States to Mexico if they attacked the US
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
400
The document written by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia Declared the colonies would be free of the king Signed by Hall, Gwinnett, and Walton from Georgia
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400

Since the Compromise of 1850 was so unpopular with the south, Henry Clay begged his Georgia friends to help him pass it Georgia signed this statement supporting the Compromise of 1850. It stopped the secession in 1850.

What is the Georgia Platform?

400
Starting in 1940, this program was how FDR got the US into WWII without sending troops It supplied the countries of Great Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
Stated that a Missouri man was not free, even though a lower court had set him free Stated that this man was property and had no right to sue
What is the Dred Scott case?
500
The U.S. joined this alliance, which began with Great Britain, France, and Russia. Italy would also join this alliance
What is the Triple Entente?
500
The document that split up land won from the French in the French and Indian War Colonists could not cross the Appalachian Mountains, which angered them because it stopped them from settling new land and making money
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
500
The word means to choose to ignore a federal law
What is nullification?
500
The mass murder of over 6 million Jews and other "undesirables" by Hitler's Nazis The prisons scattered all over Europe were called concentration camps
What is the Holocaust?