Famous Court Cases
Famous Indian Conflicts
Famous Women in American History
Dead Political Parties
Melting Pot
100
This 1896 court case established the doctrine of separate but equal.
What is Plessy v. Fergusen
100
This 1832 Indian conflict pitted Sauk Indians v. settlers and militiamen from Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois.
What is the Black Hawk War?
100
This eventual first lady advised her husband to include women when drafting the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Abigail Adams?
100
This was the party of John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.
What is the Federalist Party?
100
This ethnic group starting coming to America in large numbers in the 1840s due to failures of potato crops back home.
Who are the Irish?
200
This court case established the Supreme Court's right to judicial review.
What is Marbury V. Madison?
200
This 1890 battle ended the Ghost Dance movement in the Great Plains.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
200
This teenage woman helped guide Lewis and Clark on their remarkable journey across the continent.
Who is Sacagawea?
200
This 1890s party was dominated by western farmers and preached for railroad regulation and inflationary money policies.
What is the Populist Party?
200
This was a 1840s-1850s nativist political party.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
300
This court cases outlawed race based segregated schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas?
300
This Indian rebellion occurred in Minnesota during the Civil War. Lincoln ordered its ringleaders hanged, but pardoned others involved in the violence.
What is The Great Souix Uprising?
300
This famous first lady championed the rights of the poor and women. She would only hold press conferences with women reporters.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
This group of reformers rallied around Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential campaign.
What is the Progressive Party or Bull Moose Party?
300
This act excluded further immigration from a certain type of immigrant. Their labor no longer needed, the immigrants were feared due to their alien culture and religion.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
The court case forced authorities to read people their constitutional rights if arrested.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
400
At this War of 1812 battle, Tecumseh, the great Indian chief was struck down. Although, his body was never found, Indians confirmed his death.
What is the Battle of the Thames?
400
This was the first woman ever nominated for Vice-President by a major political party.
Who is Geraldine Ferraro?
400
This political party eventually divided on the issue of slavery. Members of this party once included Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Whig Party.
400
In return for halting segregation of California schools and discrimination, this act stopped the influx of Japanese immigrants.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
500
This court case was considered a huge victory for the feminist movement and as women gained more control over reproductive rights.
What is Roe v. Wade?
500
After this battle, Little Turtle sold huge portions of the Ohio River valley to the United States.
What is the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
500
This woman helped launch the feminist movement with her 1963 classic The Feminine Mystique.
Who is Betty Friedan?
500
This party pioneered the idea of a nominating convention to bring politics out into the open, away from secret meetings.
What is the Anti-Masonic Party?
500
This 1920s legislation set up immigration quotas based on the 1890 census. It purposely tried to exclude Eastern and Southern Europeans.
What is the National Origins Act?