U.S. History Franklinville

Impt documents

100

Pamphlet that urged Americans to declare independence from Great Britain

Common Sense

200

Written essays persuading ratification of the Constitution

Federalists Papers

300

Document that freed the slaves only in the Confederate States of America

Emancipation Proclamation

400

Created the League of Nations

Treaty of Versailles

500

Supreme Law of the Land

The Constitution

Supreme Court

100

Madison v Marbury

Judicial Review

200

Schenck v United States

"Clear and Present danger" test to limit freedom of Speech during wartime

300

Plessy v. Ferguson

"Separate but equal" Clause

400

Korematsu v. United States

Upheld Japanese-Internment during WWII

500

racial segregation in schools in unconstitutional

Brown v. Board of Education

Misc.

100

Marshall Plan

Contain the spread of Communism

200

The right to vote

Suffrage

300

Make all laws "necessary and proper"

Elastic Clause

400

Resolved the conflict between large and small states  over representation in Congress

Great Compromise

500

Established a two-term limit for presidency

22nd Amendment

Who did it?

100

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

200

Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln

300

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

400

Louisiana Purchase

Thomas Jefferson

500

"Big Stick Policy"; Speak softly but carry a big stick

Theodore Roosevelt

Misc. 2

100

The Jungle

Exposed the Meatpacking industry

200

What was one thing Washington warned the U.S. in his farewell address

Stay out of European Affairs; No political parties

300

The New Deal...Who?

Franklin D Roosevelt

400

Prevents any one branch from having too much power

Checks and Balances

500

The Americas are no longer open to European colonization; 1823

Monroe Doctrine