US Amendments
US Presidents
Supreme Court Decisions
Westward Expansion
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The Gilded Age
Progressive Era
100

Name the 5 freedoms guaranteed by the 1st Amendment

1. Speech

2. Religion

3. Press

4. Assembly

5. Petition

100

This US President created the New Deal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

100

This SCOTUS decision ruled that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were "Separate but equal."

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

100

The desire or belief that the US should spread across North America "from sea to shining sea."

Manifest Destiny

100

Name this Key Term: The large growth of cities from rural areas.

Urbanization 

200

This Amendment abolished slavery.

13th Amendment

200

This US President is the only one to ever resign from office.

Richard Nixon

200
What did Brown v. Board of Education (1954) rule?

That segregation of public schools violated the US Constitution

200

In this event, hundreds of thousands of people migrated from the East to "strike it rich" in the West.

The California Gold Rush (1849)

200

This Amendment prohibited the sale and possession of alcohol.

18th Amendment

300

Name the Amendment that gave women the right to vote.

19th Amendment

300

Who carried out the Manhattan Project and dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Harry S Truman

300

This SCOTUS decision ruled that Mexican Americans have equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.

Hernandez v. Texas (1954)

300

What was the law that attempted to assimilate Native Americans by giving them individual plots of land?

The Dawes Act

300

Reporters and writers who exposed government corruption and abuses of big business

Muckrakers

400

This Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms.

2nd Amendment

400

Who was the President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

John F. Kennedy

400
In this court case, students who wore armbands protesting the Vietnam War did not lose their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech when they stepped on school property.

Tinker v. Des Moines (1965)

400

Name Andrew Carnegie's famous essay about the role of industrialists and philanthropy.

The Gospel of Wealth

400

This is the author of the muckraking book How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis

500

This Amendment set the national voting age at 18.

26th Amendment

500

This Progressive President, who was once a Rough Rider, advocated for the creation of the Panama Canal.

Teddy Roosevelt

500

What does the Miranda v. Arizona SCOTUS decision require police to do?

Inform all criminal suspects of their constitutional rights before being arrested.

500

This policy outlawed business monopolies, but was originally only applied to Labor Unions who disrupted free trade.

The Sherman Antitrust Act

500

This author wrote The Jungle, a book that describes the terrible conditions of meat-packing plants and the struggles immigrants faced.

BONUS POINTS: Name the 2 laws that were passed in response to The Jungle's publication.

Upton Sinclair

BONUS POINTS: Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food and Drug Act