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EOC U.S. History 1

Court cases

Question: Supreme court case that established Judicial Review.
Answer: What was Marbury v Madison?

Question: Supreme Court case that established the reading of rights at the time of arrest.
Answer: What was Miranda v Arizona?

Question: Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal".
Answer: What was Plessy v Ferguson?

Question: Supreme Court case that struck down Plessy decision.
Answer: What was Brown v Board of Ed.?

Question: Court case that said limiting first amendment rights was okay if it protected national security during WWI.
Answer: What was Schenk v U.S.?

Laws

Question: Stated no discrimination based on race, color, or creed from Johnson administration.
Answer: What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Question: Stated that the U.S. government could break up any illegal trust.
Answer: What was the Sherman Anti-trust Act?

Question: Established new taxes on paper documents such as wills and certificates.
Answer: What was the Stamp Act?

Question: Provided 160 acres of free land to people moving west.
Answer: What was the Homestead Act?

Question: Law that created internment camps for Japanese Americans during WWII.
Answer: What was Executive Order 9066?

Social issues

Question: Gave women the right to vote officially in U.S.
Answer: What was the 19th Amendment?

Question: Type of camps that Japanese Americans were placed in during World War II.
Answer: What were Internment Camps?

Question: Policy that forced Native Americans to change most of their culture.
Answer: What was Assimilation?

Question: Movement of people that moved away from the social norms in the 1960's.
Answer: What was the Counterculture movement?

Question: TV show that introduced the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Americans.
Answer: What was the Ed Sullivan show?

Wars

Question: War that lead to the new tax policies that then led to our Independence movement.
Answer: What was the French and Indian or Seven years War?

Question: War that the U.S. entered in 1917.
Answer: What was World War I?

Question: Name the first Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb.
Answer: What was Hiroshima?

Question: War that saw more Americans die from dysentery and was protested by Thoreau and other writers.
Answer: What was the Mexican War?

Question: War fought over Cuba and other islands.
Answer: What was the Spanish American War?

People

Question: Inventor of the light bulb.
Answer: Who was Thomas Edison?

Question: Political philosopher who created ideas used by Thomas Jefferson.
Answer: Who was John Locke?

Question: Only American President to resign from office.
Answer: Who was Richard Nixon?

Question: Former slave and early abolitionist who's autobiography detailed the mistreatment of slaves.
Answer: Who was Frederick Douglass?

Question: Senator who led the Anti-Communist, Red Scare of the 1950's, that searched for commies in our government and military. His last name has become synonymous for any panic driven search for truth.
Answer: Who/What was Joseph McCarthy or McCarthyism?