Amendments
This amemdment prohibited slavery
What is the 13th?
Established the Supreme Court’s right of judicial review – the right to determine the constitutionality of laws
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Led the nation during the Civil War, preserved the Union; Emancipation Proclamation, ended slavery; assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Caused by secession of South States, slavery, sectionalism and resulted in slavery ended and union remains intact
What is the Civil War?
A written plan of government (1789) developed to replace the weak Articles of Confederation, it established our how our governament operates with 3 branches and its relationship to states, serves as our fundamental law
What is the Constitution?
This amenedment guaranteed freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and the right to petition and protest
What is the 1st?
Upheld Louisiana Law providing for separate but equal facilities, 14th amendment was not intended to enforce “social equality”, Legalized segregations
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Square Deal; a trustbuster, conservationist, reformer who pushed for Pure Food and Drug Act, built the Panama Canal; increased our military role in Latin America
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Belief that it was America’s fate to expand westward that extended the borders of the US from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?
This document (1862) freed all enslaved people living in states that were fighting against the Union during the Civil War elevated the Civil War to focus on ending slavery
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment gave black men the right to vote
What is the 15th?
Established limits on free speech; right is not absolute but dependent on circumstances, defendant’s actions seen as a clear and present danger to security of the nation in wartime
What is Schenck v. U.S.
Successfully kept the country out of entangling alliances that might have threatened the new nation, set precedents like two terms and Farewell Address
Who is George Washington?
The signing of this document in 1776 explained the reasons why the colonists had decided to seek independence from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Set limits on the war-making powers of the President after the Vietnam War
What is the War Powers Act?
This amendment gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th?
Upheld the power of the pres. in wartime to limit a group’s civil liberties, ruled that forcible relocation of Japanese Americans to Internment Camps during WWII was legal.
What is Korematsu v. U.S.
Led nation out of Great Depression through New Deal programs, Led U.S. during WWII, only president elected more than twice
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This attack plus the rise of dictators and the failure of the League of Nations led to the U.S. involvement in WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's book about the injustices of slavery that led to the Civil War
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This amendment required all states to give their citizens, including former enslaved persons, due process of law and equal protection of the law
What is the 14th?
Court overturned Plessy v. Ferguson separate but equal doctrine, ruled that separate facilities are inherently unequal and violate the 14th amendment’s equal protection clause
What is Brown v. Board of Education
Vetoed the rechartering of the Second National Bank; Supported Native American removal policy (Indian Removal Act and Trail of Tears); spoils system
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This war started because of humanitarian concerns in Cuba, Yellow Journalism, economic imperialist interests and the sinking of the Maine
What is the Spanish American War?
Book written by Rachel Carson, Outlines the hazards of agricultural pesticides, Sparks the environmental movement
What is the Silent Spring?