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Unanimous decision declaring "separate but equal" unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
This amendment repealed prohibition.
What is the 21st amendment?
100
This compromise avoided a civil war for 30 years by making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state. Also, no slavery was allowed north of 36 30 in Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820?
100
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
What is social darwinism?
100
This was the first constitution in the New World.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
200
The court legalized abortion by ruling that state laws could not restrict it during the first three months of pregnancy. Based on 4th Amendment rights of a person to be secure in their persons.
What is Roe v. Wade?
200
This amendment allowed women the right to vote in elections.
What is the 19th amendment?
200
This was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It retained the bicameral legislature , along with proportional representation in the lower house, but required the upper house to be weighted equally between the states. Each state would have two representatives in the upper house.
What is the Great Compromise?
200
The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
What is the treaty of Versailles?
200
In his pamphlet Common Sense, this person defended the idea of American independence on the grounds that people should not pledge allegiance to a king and a corrupt government.
Who is Thomas Paine?
300
Legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
This amendment gave all citizens have the right to vote no matter what, color, race, previous condition of servitude. women could still not vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
300
This compromise deemed slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for constitutional purposes. The issue was important, as this population number would then be used to determine the number of seats that the state would have in the United States House of Representatives for the next ten years.
What is the 3-5th compromise?
300
FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
300
Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. Much of the early research was done in New York City by refugee physicists in the United States.
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
The court established its role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws, the principle is known as judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb"
What is the 5th amendment?
400
This compromise was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).
What is the compromise of 1850?
400
Britain was to pay for American ships that were seized in 1793. It said that Americans had to pay British merchants debts owed from before the revolution and Britain had agreed to remove their troops from the Ohio Valley
What is Jay's Treaty?
400
Also known as Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 gave money to veternas to study in colleges, universities, gave medical treatment, loans to buy a house or farm or start a new business.
What is the G.I. Bill of Rights?
500
The Court ruled that states cannot tax the federal government, i.e. the Bank of the United States; the phrase "the power to tax is the power to destroy"; confirmed the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
500
The amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
What is the 24th amendment?
500
This compromise settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
Act that forbade the export of goods from the U.S. in order to hurt the economies of the warring nations of France and Britain. The act slowed the economy of New England and the south. The act was seen as one of many precursors to war.
What is the Embargo Act?
500
An alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries created in 1949.
What is NATO?