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Federal law that offered western land for free if participants agreed to settle and farm the land for several years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The principle of American foreign policy warning European nations against any intervention in the Western hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
President during Black Tuesday
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Indian religious activity that the federal government attempted to stamp out in 1890. If performed, Indian tribes believed the buffalo would return and Americans would leave the West.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This political party, descended from the Federalists, promoted Henry Clay's "American System"
What is the Whig Party?
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Leader of a rebellion that demonstrated the need for a strong federal government including a constitution.
Who is Daniel Shays?
Political party that emerged in the 1890s to express rural grievances and mount major attacks on the Democrats and Republicans.
What is the Populist party?
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine encouraging colonists to fight for independence.
What is Common Sense?
Supreme Court case that integrated schools.
What is Brown v. the Board of Education?
Questionable extension of the Monroe Doctrine that declared an American right to intervene in Latin American nations under certain circumstances.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Supreme Court cases that decided "judicial review."
What is Marbury v. Madison?
American-imposed restriction written into the constitution of Cuba that guaranteed American naval bases on the island and declared that the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba.
What is the Platt Ammendment?
Document produced during the Seneca Falls Convention in the 1840s that highlighted inequal treatment of women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Supreme Court case that legalized segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This colonial region was known for rice cultivation and swampy, humid conditions.
What is the Southern region?
1st battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Speech given by Booker T. Washington in 1895. He argued that African Americans should focus on technical education and adding economic value, not integration and equality.
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
Philanthropist who authored "The Gospel of Wealth"?
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Executive order that mandated Japanese internment camps.
What is 9066?
Agency that assisted newly freed slaves with education, clothing, and "protection."
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?