Acts of Congress
This legislation to promote maternal and infant health was labeled as "communist" by the American Medical Association.
What is the Sheppard Towner Act?
This 1906 novel exposed the appalling conditions in the meat-packing industry and prompted reforms.
What is The Jungle?
This landmark case challenged and changed practices of segregation in schools
What is Brown v Board of Education?
This nurse, midwife, and mother challenged racist eugenics practices of the Indian Health Services in the 1920s.
Who is Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail?
This social settlement started in Chicago in 1889. It housed a nursery, gymnasium, theater, and art gallery, hosted adult education classes and civil rights meetings, and was a site for research on community problems.
What is Hull House?
This 1873 federal law for the suppression of trade in or obscene literature was used to prohibit circulation of literature on contraception.
What is the Comstock Act?
In his book Black Reconstruction this author wrote: "For there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism and a new enslavement of labor."
Who is W. E. B. DuBois?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld states' rights to segregation of public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This woman served as the first director of the U.S. Children's Bureau.
Who is Julie Lathrop?
What is Americanization?
This piece of legislation, passed in 1918, imposed harsh penalties on anyone who "willfully utters or writes any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States."
What is the Sedition Act?
This pamphlet, circulated in 1776 and written by Thomas Pain, called for declaring independence from England and a government by the people.
What is Common Sense?
Soon after this constitutional amendment became law, the US Supreme Court began to use it as a protection for corporations rather than as a protection for African Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This African America journalist was a leader in the turn-of-century anti-lynching campaigns.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This reform movement believed in the possibility to recover from mental illness and fought to improve care and treatment of people in mental hospitals
What is the Mental Hygiene Movement?
This series of Acts, passed in 1935, set up a system of federal responsibility for the well-being of the citizenry. They included Old Age and Survivors Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, and Maternal and Child Welfare program.
What are the Social Security Acts?
In 1848 in his newspaper, The North Star, this abolitionist called the US war against Mexico a cruel act of dominion by a slave-holding president.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This Supreme Court case held that Tribal Nations could not sell their land and instead were considered to have "rights of occupancy".
What is Johnson v. McIntosh?
This civil rights activist was known for her dedication to grassroots organizing, especially of students, and later in her life launched the "Freedom Farm Collective" to support economic independence of Black farmers
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This event in 1921 killed over 300 people and destroyed a thriving area of Black owned businesses significantly impacting generational wealth growth for impacted families
What was the Tulsa Race Massacre?
This piece of legislation passed in 1875 outlawed the the exclusion of African Americans from hotels, theaters, trains, and other public accommodations
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875 (aka the Enforcement Act)?
Johnnie Tillman published her famous article "Welfare is a Women's Issue" in which publication?
What is Ms. Magazine?
This Supreme Court justice wrote the unanimous court opinion in support of the 1917 Espionage Act stating, "the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing panic..."
Who is Oliver Wendell Holmes?
This leading civil rights activist resisted against the portrayal of her as "tired woman" and instead was quoted as saying that the "only tired I was, was tired of giving in"
Who is Rosa Parks?
This radical labor union sought to unite immigrants, women, and black workers into "One Big Union"
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?