Periods 1/2
This economic system used by European nations involved controlling colonies to gain wealth, especially by exporting more goods than were imported.
What is mercantilism?
This 1770 event in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people, became a powerful piece of Patriot propaganda against British rule.
What is the Boston Massacre?
In this 1857 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott?
This major economic crisis that began with the stock market crash of 1929 led to widespread unemployment and poverty across the United States.
What is the the Great Depression?
In 1989, this major event symbolized the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe and marked a turning point toward the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
The 1676 uprising in colonial Virginia involved frontier settlers rebelling against the governor over conflicts with Native Americans and political power.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
The first plan of government for the United States, adopted during the American Revolution, created a weak central government with most power given to the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1846–1848 war between the United States and Mexico resulted in the U.S. gaining large territories in the Southwest, including present-day California and Texas.
In this 1954 Supreme Court case, the Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, overturning the “separate but equal” doctrine from Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Passed shortly after the September 11 attacks, this 2001 law expanded government surveillance powers to combat terrorism, raising concerns about civil liberties.
What is the Patriot Act?
This 18th-century religious revival in the American colonies, led by preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, emphasized emotional sermons and a personal connection to God.
What is the Great Awakening?
Written by Thomas Paine in 1776, this pamphlet argued that the American colonies should break away from British rule and become independent.
What is Common Sense?
Passed in 1882, this U.S. law banned immigration from China and was the first major law to restrict immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Passed in 1887, this U.S. law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots, often resulting in the loss of Native land to white settlers.
What is the Dawes Act?
Associated with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, this economic policy promoted tax cuts, reduced government spending, and deregulation to stimulate economic growth.
What is Reaganomics?
After the voyages of Christopher Columbus, this process involved the exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Bonus: Name a good that went from Europe to the Americas.
Name a good that went from the Americas to Europe.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The 1786–1787 uprising of Massachusetts farmers protested high taxes and debt, revealing the weaknesses of the national government under the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays Rebellion?
Founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington, this Alabama school focused on vocational training and economic self-reliance for African Americans after Reconstruction.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
During World War II, this U.S. policy forced over 100,000 Japanese Americans into relocation camps based largely on fear and prejudice.
What is Japanese Internment?
These two U.S.-led conflicts in the Middle East, one launched after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, and another in 2003 aimed at removing him from power, shaped U.S. foreign policy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
What are the Gulf Wars?
Criticized by figures like Bartolomé de las Casas and partially targeted by the New Laws of 1542, this Spanish colonial institution tied forced Indigenous labor and tribute to the supposed goal of Christianization, while reinforcing a rigid racial hierarchy in the Americas.
What is the encomienda system?
Announced by James Monroe in 1823 and shaped by John Quincy Adams, this foreign policy declared the Western Hemisphere closed to new European colonization while asserting U.S. influence in the region.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
In this 1896 Supreme Court case, the Court upheld state laws requiring racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal,” reinforcing Jim Crow laws across the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Centered in New York City during the 1920s, this cultural movement saw writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston use art and literature to challenge racism and redefine African American identity during the post–World War I era.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
In this 2000 Supreme Court case, the Court halted a Florida vote recount, effectively deciding the presidential election in favor of this President?.
Who is George Bush?