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U.S. Supreme Court Cases
World War I
Personal Finance
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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

A charge that the bank pays you to use your money OR Its the money a bank or credit card charges you to use their money

What is interest?

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

The Voting Age in the U.S.

What is 18?

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
Declared unconstitutional in 1962 It violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment It had given the rural areas more power than the urban areas in elections
What is the county unit system?
200

Spending money in the hope of earning more money than is spent The Stock Market is a good example

What is investing?

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

The type of election where the candidates narrow down the challengers to one from each political party to run in the general election?

What is a primary election?

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

This is a card that you can use that spends someone else's money. You pay them back later with interest.

What a credit card?

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 things that will not allow you to vote

What is being found guilty of a felony and being declared mentally incompetent?

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

A person who assumes all the risk in starting a new company or business

What is an entrepreneur?

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

The type of election where the top Democrat faces the top Republican in a November election in even numbered years. Third party candidates and independents can also run in this type of election

What is the general election?

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 amount of money left over after a company pays their bills is called this.

What is profit?

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 month in which general elections occur.

What is November?

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?