Politics & Power
The first attempt at self-government in the English colonies was this 1620 agreement signed aboard the Mayflower.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This labor system replaced slavery in much of the South after the Civil War and often kept African American farmers in debt.
What is Sharecropping?
This cultural movement of the 1920s celebrated African American literature, music, and art in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people between Europe and the Americas dramatically changed migration and settlement patterns after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This 1823 policy warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Before European contact, Native American groups in the Southwest adapted to their dry environment by developing these systems to support agriculture.
What is irrigation?
This amendment, ratified after the Civil War, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This 1787 compromise created a bicameral Congress with equal representation in the Senate and population-based representation in the House.
What is the Great Compromise?
This 19th-century economic shift moved many Americans from producing goods at home to producing goods in factories.
What is the Market Revolution?
This religious movement of the early 1800s emphasized emotional worship and led to increased church membership and reform movements.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
This 1862 law encouraged western settlement by granting 160 acres of land to settlers willing to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1898 conflict marked the United States’ emergence as an imperial power overseas.
What was the Spanish American War?
This system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the exchange of goods, enslaved people, and raw materials during the colonial era.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This 1848 meeting in New York produced the “Declaration of Sentiments,” which argued that American democratic ideals should apply to women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This political party, founded in the 1850s, was created largely in opposition to the expansion of slavery into western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
This 1914 invention by Henry Ford helped make automobiles affordable for many Americans through mass production.
What is the assembly line?
This 1925 trial highlighted tensions between modern science and traditional religious beliefs over the teaching of evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
In this year, John Sullivan coined the term Manifest Destiny.
What is 1844?
This Cold War policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
In the late 1800s, this federal policy attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual family farms.
What is the Dawes Act?
After the American Revolution, this idea encouraged women to raise children who would become informed and virtuous citizens for the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon led to the first resignation of a U.S. president.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
This 1944 legislation provided returning World War II veterans with benefits including college tuition assistance and low-interest home loans.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
This feminist author wrote The Feminine Mystique, helping inspire the modern women’s rights movement in the 1960s.
Who was Betty Friedan?
This 1882 federal law was the first major U.S. immigration restriction aimed at a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This 1919 treaty officially ended World War I, but the United States never ratified it, reflecting a return to isolationism.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This New Deal program built dams throughout the South to provide electricity and flood control while transforming the regional environment and economy.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott?
This 1973 law was passed by Congress to limit the president’s ability to commit U.S. forces to combat without congressional approval.
What is the War Powers Act?
During the 1970s, the United States faced this economic condition marked by high inflation, high unemployment, and slow economic growth.
What is stagflation?
Written by the group Students for a Democratic Society in 1962, this statement called for greater political activism and participatory democracy among young Americans.
What is the Port Huron Statement?
During the 1930s, thousands of farmers and migrants from Oklahoma and surrounding states moved west to California because of this environmental and economic disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This 1970s foreign policy strategy, associated with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, involved easing tensions with both China and the Soviet Union.
What is detente?
Published in 1962 by Rachel Carson, this book warned Americans about the dangers of pesticides and helped inspire the modern environmental movement.
What is Silent Spring?
Opponents of immigration in the 1840s and 1850s formed this political party, which argued that native-born Americans should receive preferential treatment.
What is the Know Nothing Party?