United States History A Flashcards

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896; established segregation

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

1954; outlawed segregation in public schools

Guinn v. United States

1915; grandfather clauses unconstitutional

Dred Scott Decision

1857; showed Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional

Civil Rights Act

1964; unlawful to discriminate based on characteristic

Voting Rights Act

1965; unlawful to racially discriminate in voting

Interstate Commerce Act

1887; granted Congress right to regulate railroad industry

Booker T. Washington

Progressive Era reformer and principal of Tuskegee Institute (Afr. Amer.)

W.E.B. Du Bois

founded the Niagara Movement to fight for equality of African Americans (Afr. Amer.)

Ida B Wells

investigative journalist; reported on lynchings ; part of NAACP

Thirteenth Amendment

1865; abolished slavery

Fourteenth Amendment

1868; citizenship to all born in the US and equal protection

Fifteenth Amendment

1870; allowed blacks to vote

Sixteenth Amendment

1913; established a federal tax on income

Seventeenth Amendment

1913; established direct election of senators

Eighteenth Amendment

1920; prohibited transportation sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages (repealed by 21st Amen.)

Nineteenth Amendment

1920; women got the right to vote

Cornelius Vanderbilt

1860s; created an interconnected transportation network of railroads

Andrew Carnagie

1870s; adopted the Bessemer process

John D. Rockefeller

1880s; bought oil refineries; kerosine refined from crude oil; built trusts

J.P. Morgan

1900s; managed money for others