Supreme Court
This decision said that school segregation was not constitutional and so reversed Plessy v Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas?
What is the Civil Rights Act (1964)?
Despite a letter asking for friendship, the U.S. got involved in this country's civil war.
What is Vietnam?
This structure of our government is meant to make sure that the President does not ever become too powerful.
What is "checks and balances" / "three branches?"
This French term let's business do what they want without government interference.
What is "laissez-faire?"
This decision established the Supreme Court's ability to do "judicial review."
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
President Abe Lincoln issued this statement, which freed the slaves only in the states that seceded.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The U.S. gave money to Western European countries after WWII in this program to contain Communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The 14th Amendment established these two important civic principles.
What are birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law?
This Federal program included such agencies as the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
What is the New Deal?
A justice on the Supreme Court can serve on the court for this many year maximum.
What is your entire life?
President Andrew Jackson supported giving this group of people the right to vote.
White men who did not own land.
This war was instigated by "yellow journalism" and led to the U.S. taking over Puerto Rico, the Philipines, and sort of Cuba.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The Schenck v. U.S. Supreme Court case established this standard for determining whether a person's speech is protected under the First Amendment.
What is "clear and present danger?"
This Act offered 160 acres of public land to any family willing to move West to cultivate it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
This decisions said that former slaves can never be free, which nullified the Missouri Compromise.
What is Dred Scott (1857)?
President Lyndon Johnson created this set of liberal programs in the 1960s to further the Federal government's role in supporting poor people, including Medicaid?
What is the Great Society?
This presidential statement in 1823 established U.S. dominance in Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This Constitutional principle is enshrined in the 10th Amendment and gives more power and flexibility to making laws.
What is Federalism?
This law limited the ability of big business to operate as monopolies.
What are the Sherman anti-Trust Act (1890) / the Clayton Anti-Trust Acts? (1914)
This decision nullified President Jackson's Indian Indian Removal Act, since states cannot enforce laws on sovereign native land.
What is Worcester v Georgia (1832)?
Ronald Reagan told the Soviet Union's leader to "tear down" this.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This body of the Federal government has the power to create treaties with other countries and to declare war.
What is Congress?
This Congressional Compromise repealed the Missouri Compromise and established "popular sovereignty" as the basis for deciding if a state will be free or slave.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)?
This act, enacted by President Jefferson, prohibited U.S. ships from trading in foreign ports.
What is the Embargo Act (1807)?