Amendments
This Constitutional Amendment gave women the right to Vote
This Supreme Court case, decided by Roger Taney in 1857, was a push toward the Civil War. It declared that people of color, free or enslaved, were not citizens and NOT entitled to any rights under the Constitution.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
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What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
He was the entrepreneur who monopolized 90% of the oil in the United States.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He helped develop Florida's East Coast by building railroads and luxury hotels - co-founded Standard Oil.
To pardon or forgive.
What is Amnesty?
This 1823 policy told European powers to state out of the Western Hemisphere. Influenced many presidents and their foreign policy when dealing with other Latin and South American countries.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
13th - Freed the slaves
14th - Citizenship, due process
15th - Right to vote cannot be denied based on RACE
This Supreme Court case was an UNANIMOUS decision during the Warren Court. It decided segregation in Public Schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
He was the entrepreneur who used the Bessemer Process to create a stronger, cheaper, more efficient way of producing steel. Led the way for the creation of skyscrapers.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This environmentalist's book The Everglades: River of Grass helped preserve the Florida's wetlands. School in Parkland, Florida is named after her...
Who is Marjory Stoneman Douglass?
Using information to sway public opinion
What is Propaganda?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required that escaped enslaved people be returned to their owners, even from FREE states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was a Progressive Era Amendment - it created the Federal Income Tax, negating the need for high tariffs on imported goods.
What is the 16th Amendment?
The 1971 case upheld busing as a tool to integrate PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg (1971)?
Term used against businessmen who used corrupt or ruthless business practices to get rich.
What is a Robber Baron?
Known as one of the first self-made female millionaires in America. She built a haircare empire for Black women.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
The term refers to a cease fire among waring nations.
What is an Armistice?
Signed by Andrew JACKSON, this law forced Native American tribes off their lands East of the Mississippi River and into reservations out West. Led to the Trail of Tears.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This Amendment dropped the voting age from 21 to 18 during the Vietnam War. "Old enough to fight; old enough to vote."
What is the 26th Amendment?
In this 1978 case, the Court ruled race can be a factor in college admissions but struck down strict racial quotas. Did not have a majority opinion!
What is Regents of the University of California v. Bakke?
A business model where a large corporation is absorbing smaller, weaker businesses to take over an industry.
What is Horizontal Integration?
Her book A Century of Dishonor exposed the mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. Government leading to a policy of Assimilation of Native Americans including the Dawes Act and the Bording Schools... oops
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
Term for a nation that is at war.
What is Beligerant?
These state and local laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction and lasted into the 20th century until the Civil Rights Movement.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
This Amendment was a Civil Rights Amendment. It took away the practice of POLL TAXES, or having to pay to vote.
What is the 24th Amendment?
This controversial 1944 decision upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII as a matter of National Security.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
What is a HOLDING COMPANY!
This muckraker exposed the ruthless tactics of Standard Oil in her influential series of investigative articles.
Who is Ida Tarbell!?
Another term for a monopoly. Rockefeller was the first to create this to maneuver around anti-monopoly laws within states.
What is a TRUST?
Passed during World War I, these laws used to silence anti-war protestors and led to the arrest of socialist leader Eugene V. Debs.
What is the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918?
This amendment was not ratified by its required deadline, therefore, it was not added as a constitutional amendment. Phylis Schlafly, a conservative, fought against its passage.
This Supreme Court decision, decided during the 2000 election, did not extend the deadline for a recount in Florida and solidified who would become president.
What is Bush v. Gore (2000)?
This is the first regulatory agency created by the Federal Government to regulate railroads crossing state lines.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
This educator and civil rights leader founded a school for African American girls in Florida and advised President FDR and the United Nations.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
What is the Generation Gap!
This law allowed settlers to decide on slavery, using Popular Sovereignty, in new territories, sparking "Bleeding Kansas."