Colonial Roots and Mercantilism
Cause: Wealthy investors wanted to find a way to make profit in the colonies
Effect: ________________ was founded in Virginia in 1607.
Cause: The ________________________ War
Effect: Britain was in a lot of Debt
French and Indian War
Cause: Early American leaders feared a national government that was too strong.
Effect: They created a very weak first government under the ________________.
Articles of Confederation
Cause: Thomas Jefferson bought _________________ from France
Effect: Doubled the size of the United States
Louisiana Purchase
Cause: Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
Effect: Southern states began to ________________ because they feared he would end slavery.
Secede (leave)
Cause: The government followed a "laissez-faire" policy toward business.
Effect: ________________ and trusts grew rapidly and often treated workers poorly.
Monopolies
Cause: America won the Spanish American War
Effect: We gained new territory in ___________
Guam
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Cause: Germany used "unrestricted submarine warfare" and _________________.
Effect: The United States ended its policy of neutrality and joined World War I.
Sank the Lusitania
Cause: Credit Cards were given to the American public with no limits
Effects: Many Americans went into __________ trying to buy everything
Debt
Cause: Many people bought risky stocks "on margin" (using credit) during the 1920s.
Effect: When the ________________ crashed in 1929, many people lost their entire life savings.
Stock Market
Cause: Virginia had fertile soil perfect for planting _____________.
Effect: __________ were brought to the Americas to provide labor.
Tobacco
Slaves
Cause: Conflict between Colonists and Native Americans in the new land won from the French and Indian War
Effect: Britain used the Proclamation Line of 1763 to make sure colonists ______________________.
Stayed out of the new land
Cause: Anti-Federalists feared the new government would abuse people's civil liberties.
Effect: They demanded that a ________________ be added to the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Cause: Many Americans believed God gave them the right to expand to the Pacific.
Effect: This idea, called ________________, was used to justify taking land from others.
Manifest Destiny
Cause: The Civil War ended and slavery was abolished.
Effect: The _________ amendment was passed.
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Cause: ___________ like Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose unsanitary conditions in meatpacking.
Effect: Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act. Answer: Meat Inspection Act
Muckrackers
Cause: The U.S. won the Spanish-American War and gained control of new territories.
Effect: The United States emerged as a ________________.
World Power
Cause: In the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that speech could be limited if it created a "clear and present danger."
Effect: This decision limited ________________ during wartime.
Free Speech
Cause: Many men were abusing their wives because they were _______________
Effect: This led to the _________________ movement and the 18th Amendment.
Drinking Alcohol
Prohibition
Cause: A severe drought combined with poor farming methods occurred in the Great Plains.
Effect: This environmental disaster, known as the ________________, forced many farmers to flee to California.
Dust Bowl
Cause: The Mayflower Compact in Plymouth and the House of Burgesses in Jamestown
Effect: This led to ____________________ in the colonies
Representative/Self Government
Cause: Britain was in debt due to the French and Indian War
Effect: Taxes like ________________ were passed to pay for the war.
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Townshend Acts
Intolerable Acts
Cause: The Framers wanted to prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
Effect: They included a system of ________________.
Checks and balances
Cause: The United States defeated Mexico in the Mexican American War
Effect: The United States gained __________________ as states
California
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Cause: The _____________ Line was drawn
Effect: Slavery was allowed underneath the line and prohibited above the line
Missouri Compromise
Cause: Working conditions were dangerous and pay was very low.
Effect: Workers formed ________________ to unite and fight for more power.
Labor unions
Cause: European nations were dividing China into "spheres of influence," potentially shutting out American trade.
Effect: The U.S. proposed the ________________ Policy to guarantee equal trading rights in China.
Open Door Policy
Cause: President Woodrow Wilson wanted to prevent future world wars after WW1.
Effect: He proposed his "Fourteen Points," which included the creation of the ________________.
Leauge of Nations
Cause: There was a "Great Migration" of African Americans from the South (where there were Jim Crow Laws) to the North
Effects: ______________________ took place in New York
Harlem Renaissance
Cause: The Stock Market crashed and people went to the banks to take out their money
Effects: There were ____________ that caused many banks to shut down because they ran out of _____________.
Bank Runs
Money
Cause: Conflict between Colonists and ___________
Effect: King ____________ War
Native Americans
Philip's
Cause: Colonists were upset about all of the taxes
Effect: __________________ and _______________ were forms of protests to show their anger.
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Cause: George Washington Wrote a Farewell Address saying his goals for the country
Effect: Americans were warned against _________________
Getting Involved In War
Having too much debt
No Political Parties
Cause: In 1849 ________ was found in California.
Effect: __________________________
Gold
California Gold Rush
Cause: Abraham Lincoln issued the ___________ ___________
Effect: Slaves were freed in Confederate-held Territory
Slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person in the population count for house of representatives
Cause: Muckrakers like Jacob Riis exposed the poverty of urban immigrants.
Effect: Social reformers like Jane Addams opened ________________ to help the poor.
Settlement Houses
Cause: _________________ published exaggerated stories about Spanish cruelty in Cuba and the sinking of the USS Maine.
Effect: The United States declared war on Spain, starting the Spanish American War
Yellow Journalists
Cause: The Zimmerman Telegram had ___________ trying to have _______________ invade the US to distract them from WW1.
Effects: America joined WW1
Germany
Mexico
Cause: The Women's _____________ Movement
Effect: Women recieved the right to vote
The Suffrage Movement
Cause: Banks closed and stock markets crashed
Effects: People lost ______________
Jobs
Homes
Cause: Different colonies had different climate and geography.
Effects: Different economies developed. Northern colonies were based on ______________ and Southern colonies were based on _______________.
Manufacturing
Agriculture
Cause: Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense" to speak against Monarchies.
Effect: Thomas Jefferson wrote ________________ against England
The Declaration of Independence
Cause: Hamilton wanted a bank to help the economy, but Jefferson said it wasn't in the Constitution.
Effect: Hamilton's "loose constructionist" view won and the ________________ was created.
National Bank
Cause: Andrew Jackson pursued a policy of "Indian removal."
Effect: Native Americans were forced to relocate west on the ________________.
Trail of Tears
Cause: The Supreme Court upheld separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Effect: Southern states continued to use ________________ to separate public facilities.
Jim Crow Laws
Cause: Workers faced unfair treatment such as _____________________________
Effects: They went on ________.
Low wages, long hours, unsafe working conditions
Strike
Cause: President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a faster way for the Navy to move between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Effect: The United States built the ________________ in Central America.
Panama Canal
Cause: America was sending weapons to ___________
Effect: Lusitania was sank because it was suspected of having weapons.
Britain
Cause: There was a significant increase in nativism and a "Red Scare" during the 1920s.
Effect: The government passed the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 to set ________________ on the number of immigrants allowed in.
Quotas
(Limits)
Cause: President Herbert Hoover thought that ____________________ should help Americans through the depression
Effect: People needed more support so they elected Franklin D. Roosevelt who thought the ______________ should help the people.
The people themselves
The government