Policies
An unofficial foreign policy that forbade European colonization within the Americas, North and South.
What is... the Monroe Doctrine
The President that decreased laissez-faire economics in favor of Keyensian economics during war time
The bloodiest attack on voters in Kansas and Nebraska territorial boundaries on whether these new states would become free or slave states. One of the most notorious attacker is John Brown, a intense abolitionist.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A social ideology that characterized women to be tender and self-sacrificing giver to educate and care for her childeren and husband.
What is... the Cult of Domesticity
The economic theory that argued reduced government intervention and increased private ownership
What is laissez-faire economics
A policy that combined the gentle and respectful negotations and immense military strength to rule or enforce economic and government foreign policy during this time as president.
What is Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policy
Increased U.S. territory overnight; sided with the French during his Secretary of State in the Neutrality Act of 1793; advocated for rural and agrarian republic
Who is... Thomas Jefferson
The intense and nationwide strike of railroad workers closed stations, led to increase police suppression, and one of the causes for the great financial bubble in the railroad industry
What is... the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
The investigative journalist who targeted African-American lynchings, advocated for Black female education, and union rights.
Who is ...Ida B Wells
The economic idea that a country should export more than they import to increase wealth versus internal growth.
What is... mercantilism
In this policy, the president proposed the following: Open diplomacy, sea free trade, equal trade, reduced military, adjusting colonial claims, self-determination, redrawing political boundaries, assertion of Turkish and Polish state, and peaceful global police force.
What is...Wilson's 14 Points
Emancipated all enslaved persons through two documents of 13th Amendment and Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
What is the Civil War
The woman who said "remember the ladies," to her husband.
Who is... Abigail Adams
The economic thought that increasing private ownership and reducing the taxes on the businesses and the wealthy would eventually.... what?
What is... trickle-down economics/supply-side economics
The dominating belief in the US Congress that believed if one country fell to Communism, then all its neighboring countries will follow suit.
What is... Domino Theory
The most controversial president election in 1877. Made a deal to become president in exchange of ending Reconstruction in the south.
Who is... Rutherford B Hayes
Urban riots that began with police brutality on African Americans that occurred in three major cities that led to tens of millions in property damage, dozens of lives lost, and spiked the white flight.
What were the... Watts, Newark, and Detroit Race riots of 1965-1967
A famous American poet who wrote George Whitefield's eulogy and was an early advocate of abolitionism based on the religious faith supporting African-Americans freedom.
Who is... Phillis Wheatley
Served as a cornerstone for the financial system and economic policy in the early years of the United States. It aimed to stabilize and improve the nation's credit, provide a uniform currency, and facilitate the collection of taxes.
The following policy allowed for racial profiling, investigating into citizen's private conversations, increased state and federal government to arrest, convict, and prosecute suspected terrorist, and increased aggressive military foreign policy.
What is... George Bush's Patriot Act of 2001
After his predecessor is assassinated, he advocated for the "Great Society" to integrate African-Americans into American economy which he tackled on the issue of poverty, signed into Medicare and Medicaid; he also worsened Civil Rights through the Gulf Tonkin Resolution and Tet Offensive.
Who is... Lyndon B. Johnson
The violent and bloody conflict between Native Americans and the English over the encroachment on indigenous land, failed cooperation, and the execution of three indigenous men by the English.
What was... King Phillip's War
The main advocate for Black art and culture, and began the Black nationalist idea of "Back to Africa" movement to inspire African-Americans to move back to African and assimilate into African countries.
Who is... Marcus Garvey
What was...The Panic of 1871