What were the 3 G’s that led the Spanish to colonize?
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
What belief claimed the United States was destined to expand across North America?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What war led to the US becoming a world power?
What is the Spanish-American War?
What event brings the US into World War II?
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What court case ruled that segregation was unconstitutional?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What idea states that people are born with rights that the government must protect?
What are natural rights / unalienable rights?
How did Westward expansion contribute to growing sectional tensions?
What is the debate over slavery in new territories?
What organizations controlled local politics by using jobs and favors to gain support during the Gilded Age?
What are political machines?
What type of policy did the US utilize during the Cold War?
What is the Containment policy?
What event begins the War on Terror?
What are the September 11th Attacks / 9/11?
What dynamic led the Colonies to feel more increased independence from Britain?
What is Salutary/Benign Neglect?
What stipulations were created in the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
What is the 36°30’ line? How is Maine admitted as a free state and Missouri as a slave state?
Name one problem that muckrakers tried to expose.
Unsafe working conditions, business corruption, lynchings, unsanitary living conditions, poor food regulation
What are the two ideologies that were at the center of the Cold War?
What is Democracy and Communism?
How did the Vietnam war change citizen’s view of the government?
What is a decrease in trust in the government?
What was the first set of laws created to rule the US?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What three amendments were passed during reconstruction?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Which amendment was passed that granted women the right to vote?
What is the 19th Amendment?
What program provided economic relief to Europe after World War II?
What is the Marshall Plan?
What set of programs did Lyndon B. Johnson want to pass to reduce poverty and expand rights?
What is the Great Society?
How did the French & Indian War / Seven Years War contribute to the Revolution
What are increased taxes from Britain?
Describe the rights granted in the Reconstruction Amendments.
What is the end of slavery, citizenship/equal protection, and universal male suffrage/voting rights?
What program is passed to help respond to the Great Depression? Which President helps pass this?
What is the New Deal? Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What event was the closest the Soviet Union and the US ever came to nuclear war?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What President was elected in 1980 that signaled the return of Conservatism?
Who is Ronald Reagan?