Constitutional Amendments
Supreme Court Cases
Turning Points in U.S. History
Reform & Protest
Presidential Quotes
200

This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

What is the 13th Amendment?

200

This Supreme Court case established judicial review.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

200

This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

200

This movement pushed for the end of alcohol consumption and eventually contributed to Prohibition.

What is the temperance movement?

200

Which president said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” 

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

400

This amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law and citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

What is the 14th Amendment?

400

This Supreme Court case ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

400

This event in 1929 helped trigger the Great Depression.

What is the stock market crash?

400

This convention marked the start of the Women's Suffrage movement.

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

400

Which president said “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

600

This amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide.

What is the 19th Amendment?

600

This Supreme Court case declared that enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

600

This attack led the United States to officially enter World War II.

What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?

600

This protest was originally planned for WWII but was postponed until 1963. 

What is the March on Washington?

600

Which president said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

Who is Ronald Reagan?

800

This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 during the Vietnam era.

What is the 26th Amendment?

800

This Supreme Court case upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

What is Korematsu v. United States?

800

This Cold War event symbolized the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.

What is the Berlin Wall?

800

This protest against the Vietnam War ended in the deaths of four college students in Ohio in 1970.

What is the Kent State shootings?

800

Which president said “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

Who is John F. Kennedy?

1000

This amendment repealed Prohibition.

What is the 21st Amendment?

1000

This Supreme Court case protected freedom of the press by allowing newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers.

What is New York Times Co. v. United States?

1000

This 1777 battle convinced France to support the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.

What is the Battle of Saratoga?

1000

These amendments were the crowning achievement of the Progressive Era. (Range of amendments, ex. 101-105).

What are the 16th-19th Amendments?

1000

This president warned Americans about the dangers of the “military-industrial complex” in his farewell address.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?