Early American Government
This document formed the United States of America
What is the Declaration of Independence
During the Gilded Age, this form of transportation helped connect the East Coast of the United States to the Pacific Ocean, allowing for faster travel and shipping times.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
The New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
A young woman who challenged women's traditional roles by expressing herself differently by going out in public, drinking, smoking, and wearing new fashions and hairstyles was known as...
What is a flapper
The court's decision in this case allowed for the 'separate but equal' doctrine in the South
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
The U.S. motto E Pluribus Unum means...
Out of many, One
These were formed by workers as a response to low wages, unsafe working conditions, long working hours
What are labor unions
Iran-Contra Affair
Who is Ronald Reagan
The fear of communism which caused Attorney General Mitchell Palmer to conduct mass raids and deportations on suspected communists
What is the Red Scare of the 1920's
In this decision, the Supreme Court established those being arrested must be read their rights
What is Miranda v. Arizona
This document lists how our government functions. It includes the powers of each branch of government. It is the law of the land.
The United States Constitution
This law was intended to assimilate Native Americans into white society
What is the Dawes Act
Fourteen Points
Who is Woodrow Wilson
The era of Prohibition began with this amendment due to the woman's temperance movement
What is the 18th amendment
The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas, whose president was Theophilus Painter, on the grounds that the Texas State Constitution prohibited integrated education. The Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to deny him the right to attend the school.
What is Sweatt v. Painter
This term refers to the first ten amendments to the Constitution, ratified in 1791, to guarantee specific rights and freedoms to the American people and to reserve some powers to the states.
What is the Bill of Rights
These were corrupt groups led by a political boss who made improvements to infrastructure and provided basic services to immigrants in exchange for votes
What are political machines
Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt
This African American cultural revival took place in New York City, producing all sorts of advances in music such as Jazz, literature, and the arts
What is the Harlem Renaissance
In this case, the Supreme Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and called for the desegregation/integration of all public facilities
What is Brown v. Board of Education
The idea that Americans are self-reliant and do not depend on others.
What is individualism
This law was passed in 1890 to try to prevent monopolies
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Millions of African Americans migrated from the rural south to the urban northeast, Midwest, and west in search of jobs in what is known as
What is the Great Migration
Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school suspended the group. The Supreme Court ruled the school could not limit their freedom of speech.
Tinker v. Des Moines