Supreme Court
This 1954 Supreme Court decision ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 1854 law let settlers vote on slavery in new territories, leading to “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This forced 1830s removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory caused massive suffering and thousands of deaths.
What is the “Trail of Tears”?
This muckraker’s novel about meatpacking shocked the public and pushed Congress to regulate food and drugs.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This 1920s decade is known for consumer spending, mass culture, and a booming stock market.
What is the Roaring Twenties?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling said Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
This 1777 Patriot victory convinced France to openly support the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This suffrage leader was arrested in 1872 for voting and later became a symbol of the fight for women’s voting rights.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This New Deal program hired young men for conservation jobs like planting trees and building park trails.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This 1980s economic approach emphasized tax cuts and deregulation to spur growth.
What is the Reaganomics (supply-side economics)?
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling upheld “separate but equal” segregation laws.
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
This 1846–1848 conflict led to major U.S. land gains in the Southwest.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This abolitionist published The Liberator and demanded immediate emancipation.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This 1887 law divided tribal lands into individual allotments and sold “surplus” land to white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
These post–World War II proceedings prosecuted leading Nazis for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
This 1944 Supreme Court case upheld the wartime internment of Japanese Americans.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This 1898 conflict helped the U.S. gain overseas territories like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This nickname described some late-1800s business leaders accused of using ruthless tactics to build giant fortunes.
What are the “Robber Barons”?
This early-1900s addition to the Monroe Doctrine claimed the U.S. could intervene in Latin America to prevent European involvement.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Passed in 2001, this law expanded U.S. surveillance and anti-terrorism powers after 9/11.
What is the Patriot Act?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1964 measure gave President Johnson broad power to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This inventor’s cotton gin expanded cotton production and increased the demand for enslaved labor.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This educator urged vocational training and economic self-help in his 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This LBJ domestic program targeted poverty and expanded federal support for education and health care in the 1960s.
What is the Great Society?