Exam Study Guide
Important Supreme Court Cases
- Marbury v Madison (1803)
- McCullough v Maryland (1819)
- Gibbons v Ogden (1824)
- Dredd Scott v Sandford (1857)
- Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
- Standard Oil of NJ v United States (1911)
- Korematsu v United States (1943)
- Brown v Board of Education (1954)
- Roe v Wade (1973)
- US v Richard Nixon (1976)
Important Constitutional Amendments
- 1st
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 4th
- 5th
- 6th
- 7th
- 8th
- 9th
- 10th
- 13th
- 14th
- 15th
- 16th
- 17th
- 18th
- 19th
- 21st
Important Presidents
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- Andrew Jackson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Harry Truman
- Dwight Eisenhower
- John F Kennedy
- Lyndon Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Ronald Reagan
- Bill Clinton
- George W Bush
- Barack Obama
Important People (non-Presidents)
- John Smith
- John Winthrop
- John Locke
- Jonathan Edwards
- Patrick Henry
- Thomas Paine
- Alexander Hamilton
- Henry Clay
- John C Calhoun
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Nat Turner
- Harriet Tubman
- Jefferson Davis
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Susan B Anthony
- Jane Addams
- John D Rockefeller
- Andrew Carnegie
- Booker T Washington
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Malcolm X
- Senator Joseph McCarthy
- Cesar Chavez
- Betty Friedan
- Newt Gingrich
Important Laws & Acts
- Mayflower Compact (1620)
- Navigation Acts (mid 1650’s)
- Proclamation of 1763 (1763)
- Sugar, Stamp, & Tea Acts (1760s-70s)
- Intolerable Acts (1774)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Articles of Confederation (1777)
- Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Virginia Plan (1787)
- Connecticut Compromise (1787)
- Three-Fifths Compromise (1787)
- Bill of Rights (1789)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Monroe Doctrine (1823)
- Indian Removal Act (1830)
- Texas Annexation (1845)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Compromise of 1850 (1850)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)
- Reconstruction Acts of 1867 (1867)
- Civil Rights Act of 1875 (1875)
- Compromise of 1877 (1877)
- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
- Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
- Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
- Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
- Hawaii Annexation (1898)
- Open Door Policy (1899)
- Platt Amendment (1901)
- Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
- Pure Food & Drug Act; Meat Inspection Act (1906)
- Federal Trade Commission (1914)
- Espionage Act (1917)
- National Origins Act (1924)
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (1933)
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) (1933)
- Works Progress Administration (1935)
- Social Security Act (1935)
- Neutrality Acts (1935, 1937)
- G.I. Bill (1944)
- Federal Highway Act of 1956 (1956)
- Civil Rights Acts of 1964 (1964)
- Immigration Act of 1965 (1965)
- Social Security Act (1965)
- Fair Housing Act (1968)
- NAFTA (1994)
- PATRIOT Act (2001)
- Affordable Care Act (2010)