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2. What was the importance of Marbury v. Madison?

3. This ruling gave the Supreme Court “judicial review.”

4. What was the Supreme Court case that upheld the “Jim Crow” laws?

5. Plessy v. Ferguson

6. Who was the first woman Supreme Court justice?

7. Sandra Day O’Connor

8. What Virginia case merged with Brown v. Board of Education?

9. Davis v. Board of Education in Prince Edward County

10. When did John Marshall state “The power to tax is the power to destroy”?

11. In his ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland

12. Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

13. John Glenn

14. Where were the first slaves brought in America?

15. Jamestown in 1619

16. What was the only state that did not send a representative to the First Continental Congress?

17. Georgia

18. What was the first war America fought after gaining its independence?

19. War of 1812 – sometimes called the Second War for Independence!

20. What was the significance of the First Continental Congress?

21. This was the first time that the colonies acted together.

22. What are the first ten amendments known as?

23. The Bill of Rights

24. What did the 17th amendment change?

25. It allowed the direct election of senators.

26. Which amendment gave voting rights regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude?”

27. 15th Amendment

28. What amendment was promoted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

29. 19th Amendment – voting rights for women

30. Which amendment did Brown v
Which amendment did Brown v. Board of Education base their decision upon?

31. 14th Amendment – equal rights for any American

32. Who was a symbol for women in the workforce during World War II?

33. “Rosie the Riveter”

34. Who was the first female astronaut?

35. Sally Ride

36. Who are two of the leading women in the women’s suffrage movement?

37. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony

38. What did the Seneca Falls Declaration call for?

39. Equal treatment for men and women

40. What is the perception that career advancement for women is not equal to men?

41. The “glass ceiling”

42. What was the Great Compromise?

43. A bicameral Congress was formed Senate – equal representation
House – representation by population

44. What was the 3/5 Compromise?

45. Slaves would count as 3/5 a person when calculating population.

46. What state entered as a free state in the Compromise of 1850?

47. California

48. What compromise allowed popular sovereignty to decide the slavery issue?

49. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

50. Why were the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 made?

51. To preserve the balance between free and slave states