Units 1 & 2: Independence Movements & Westward Expansion
The acquisition of the territory by the United States from the French in 1803 which doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A breakaway republic of 11 Southern states that seceded to fight the Union in the Civil War
What is the Confederacy?
He created the New Deal to help Americans recover from the Great Depression and lead Americans into World War II
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This refers to a period of strong anti-communist beliefs in the United States leading to widespread accusations
What is the Red Scare?
This Supreme Court case overturned the separate but equal doctrine
What is Brown v Board of Ed?
The United States annexed this state in 1845 leading to conflict with Meixco
What is Texas?
He was Lincoln's Vice President who after the assassination opposed Reconstruction and giving rights to Black Americans
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A severe environmental disaster in the 1930s. Driven by prolonged drought and aggressive, unsustainable farming practices that devastated agriculture, forced mass migrations westward, and deepened the Great Depression.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This was the policy of the United States, built around the idea of keeping Europe out of the Americas
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1969 event jumpstarted the LGBTQ movement of the 1960s and 1970s and is celebrated every year with Pride marches
What are the Stonewall Riots?
This is the name for an unpaid laborer who signed a contract to work for a length of time
What is an indentured servant?
This Amendment gave freed African-Americans citizenship and pushed for equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
These are the 3 Rs for the New Deal
What is Relief, Recovery & Reform?
What are two territories the US annexed after the Spanish-American War?
What are the Philippines, Guam & Puerto Rico?
This Amendment banned poll taxes
What is the 24th Amendment?
The Missouri Compromise divided free and slave territories and states along this line
What is the 36'30" line?
A U.S. federal agency established in 1865 to aid millions of newly emancipated African Americans and impoverished white refugees during the Reconstruction era. It provided food, medical care, education, and helped negotiate labor contracts
What the Freedman's Bureau?
This was the first women's rights convention in US History in 1848
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This organization was created after World War I but not joined by the US, ushering in an era of isolationism
What is the League of Nations?
This book was written by Betty Friedan in 1963, focused on the role of women in society and was a key factor in the Second Wave of Feminism
What is the Feminine Mystique?
The first democratically elected legislative body in British North America, established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This Supreme Court case established the precedent of birthright citizenship
What is Ark vs the United States?
This ship's explosion outside Cuba in 1898 led to the US fighting a war with Spain
What is the USS Maine?
She was the leader of the STOP ERA movement
Who is Phyllis Schlafy?