People
Created Hull House settlement in Chicago (Progressive Era)
Who is Jane Addams?
Granted 160 acres of free land to a citizen/head of household in the Great Plains.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Believed in using nonviolence and civil disobedience.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Known for doing "too little, too late" at the start of the Great Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
Due Process of Law, Pleading the 5th and Double Jeopardy
What is the 5th Amendment?
Became the 1st African American woman billionaire in the United States.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Attempted to break up monopolies/trusts in the United States in 1890?
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
Were a form of protest used to fight against segregation; as one or more people occupied an area for a protest (led by students).
What is a sit-in?
Proposed the League of Nations in his Fourteen Points speech.
Limit on Presidential terms (2 terms)
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Anti-feminist who successfully campaigned against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
Federal government jobs were awarded on the basis of merit/and selected through a competitive exam (to end/avoid nepotism).
What is the Pendleton Act/Civil Service Reform Act, (1883)?
A Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Who was Cesar Chavez?
Only U.S. President to have been elected for four terms.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
What is the 24th Amendment?
Became the first female Supreme Court justice appointed to the highest court in the nation in 1981.
Who was Sandra Day O'Conner?
Prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This U.S. Supreme court case overturned the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1954.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas?
Was pardoned by President Gerald Ford.
Who was Richard Nixon?
Presidential Disability Succession
Passed in 2001, to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world.
What is the Patriot Act?
In 1955, after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, this city held a bus boycott for 11 months.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
Brought the leaders of Egypt and Israel together at the Camp David Accords in Maryland to sign off peace agreements in 1978.
Who was Jimmy Carter?
Voting Age (18 years)
What is the 26th Amendment?