Colonies & Revolution
This 18th-century war between Britain and France helped create the colonial tensions that eventually led to the American Revolution.
What is The French and Indian War?
This was America's first national government and gave most power to the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This organization was created by Congress to assist formerly enslaved people during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This economic crisis began in 1929 and resulted in widespread unemployment, bank failures, and a dramatic expansion of the federal government's role under FDR.
What is the Great Depression?
This British policy angered colonists because they believed Parliament had no right to tax them without their representatives.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
The Constitutional principal that divides power between the national government and state governments is called this.
What is federalism?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This system allowed Southern landowners to maintain control over agricultural workers, many of whom became trapped in cycles of debt.
What is sharecropping?
This FDR program provided jobs and economic relief during the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Name 3 Acts England put in place that angered the colonies, leading to revolution.
Possible Answers: Sugar Act, Currency Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Quartering Act, Navigation Act, Coercive ("Intolerable") Acts, Declaratory Act.
This Supreme Court case established the principle that the judiciary can declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The conflict over this institution's expansion into western territories became the central sectional issue leading to the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Industrialization created enormous fortunes for people like Carnegie and Rockefeller, while many workers faced low wages and poor working conditions during this era.
What is the Gilded Age?
After WWII, tension between these two superpowers developed into a global struggle involving competing ideologies, alliances, nuclear weapons, and proxy conflicts. (Hint: name the battling superpowers and what the conflict is called)
What is the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?
Unlike the Southern Colonies, these three colonies developed economies based more heavily on commerce, shipbuilding, and small farms. (Hint: the names of the three New England Colonies)
What are the New England (North), Middle Colonies, and Southern/British West Indies regions?
Jefferson's purchase of this enormous territory in 1803 dramatically expanded the United States, despite questions about whether the Constitution explicitly authorized the purchase.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Name three Amendments or Acts that expanded voting rights in the United States.
15th Amendment (Black men gain the right to vote), 19th Amendment (women gain voting rights), Voting Rights Act ( outlawed racial discrimination in voting), 26th Amendment (lowered voting age to 18)
Unlike many earlier reform movements, Progressives often believed government should actively intervene to address problems created by industrialization, urbanization, and political corruption.
FDR's New Deal attempted to address the Great Depression through three broad goals; name 1 of them.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
When England wanted to establish colonies on the North American continent, it made plans to entice settlers to travel there with these two incentives.
What are royal proprietorships and joint-stock companies?
Hamilton's and Jefferson's disagreement over the national bank helped create America's first political parties, which eventually became these two groups.
What are the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
Although Lincoln initially emphasized preserving the Union, this wartime proclamation transformed the Civil War's purpose by declaring enslaved people in rebellious areas free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These journalists investigated corruption and social problems, helping build public support for progressive reforms.
Who are the muckrakers?
This president's rise represented a major conservative shift, emphasizing tax cuts, deregulation, increased military spending, and a more confrontational approach toward the Soviet Union.
Who is Ronald Reagan?