The Court-packing Plan
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Abstract
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's “Court-packing plan”—officially titled the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937—was an attempt to alter the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court after it held key provisions of his “New Deal” legislation to be unconstitutional. The main provision of the plan was to allow Roosevelt to appoint a new justice to the Court, up to a total of six, for every sitting justice who declined to retire upon reaching the age of seventy and who had ten years of service.
Contents
- Unit 1:: Industrialization
- The Labor Question
- John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil
- Henry Ford's Assembly Line
- The Bonsack Cigarette Rolling Machine
- The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
- Haymarket Riot
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Industrialization - Review
- Unit 2:: Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific
- Ellis Island
- The Gentlemen's Agreement
- The Literacy Test
- Immigration: Atlantic and Pacific - Review
- Unit 3:: The Growth of Cities and Social Reform
- Louis Sullivan
- The Electric Streetcar
- Sewer Socialists
- The Growth of Cities and Social Reform - Review
- Unit 4:: American Empire
- Westward Expansion
- The Refrigerated Railway Car
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
- Wounded Knee
- American Empire - Review
- Unit 5:: Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives
- Granger Laws
- “Free Silver”
- Robert La Follette
- Political and Business Reform: Populists and Progressives - Review
- Unit 6:: The United States and World War I
- The Sinking of the Lusitania
- Trench Warfare
- The Committee on Public Information
- The United States and World War I - Review
- Unit 7:: The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward
- The Volstead Act
- The Florida Land Boom
- Charles Lindbergh
- The 1920s: Looking Forward, Looking Backward - Review
- Unit 8:: The Great Depression
- Bonus March
- “Free Silver”
- The Dust Bowl
- The Great Depression - Review
- Unit 9:: The New Deal
- The Court-packing Plan
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
- The New Deal - Review
- Unit 10:: The United States and World War II
- The Manhattan Project
- Henry J. Kaiser
- The Battle of the Bulge
- The United States and World War II - Review
- Unit 11:: The United States and the Cold War
- The “Iron Curtain”
- The “Kitchen” Debate
- The Berlin Wall
- The United States and the Cold War - Review
- Unit 12:: Civil Rights in the United States
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Myers Family of Levittown, Pennsylvania
- Voting Rights Act
- Civil Rights in the United States - Review
- Unit 13:: The Counterculture
- The Vietnam War
- Timothy Leary
- Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
- Woodstock
- The Counterculture - Review
- Unit 14:: Conservatism and Reaganism
- The John Birch Society
- Anita Bryant
- The Moral Majority
- Conservatism and Reaganism - Review
- Unit 15:: Clinton, Bush, Obama, and the Age of Terror