Court Cases
WWI/WWII
The Cold War
Colonial America
Progressive Era
100

Established judicial review

Marbury vs. Madison 

100

True cause of the US entering WWI

Unrestricted submarine warfare 

100

Early foreign policy of the Cold War

Containment

100
Colony settled by the Quakers 

Pennsylvania 

100

Her work broke up the Standard Oil Monopoly 

Ida Tarbell 

200

Freedom of speech can be limited if it presents a "clear and present danger."

Schenck vs. the US

200

Laws that made it illegal to criticize the government during WWI

Espionage and Sedition Acts

200

Failed Cuban invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs 

200

British policy that allowed the colonies to practice self-government and trade with other nations as long as they provided raw materials to the mother country 

Salutary Neglect

200

Created Settlement Houses to help newly arriving immigrants

Jane Addams

300

Federal government controls interstate trade 

Gibbons vs. Ogden 
300

A law that gave veterans a free college education and money towards buying a house

GI Bill

300
This President created the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
Eisenhower
300
First colony settled by the British - no known survivors 

Roanoke 

300

Book of Jacob Riis that exposed tenement living

How the Other Half Lives 

400

A case in which the Court decided that evidence obtained illegally may not be used against someone in a court of law by the Fourth Amendment.

Mapp vs. Ohio

400

Meeting between FDR and Churchill in 1941 to discuss post war peace plans

Atlantic Charter 

400

First suburb in NY created for WWII veterans and their families

Levittown 
400

First elected legislature in Virginia

House of Burgesses 

400

It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 

500

School sponsored prayer in public schools is unconstitutional 

Engel vs. Vitale 

500

First nuclear bomb tested in 1945

"A" Bomb 

500

Vietnam was divided at this line

17th Parallel 

500

Settled by Dutch traders who settled on Manhattan island

New Amsterdam 

500

Progressive legislation that regulates the money supply

Federal Reserve Act