Unit 2
A revolutionary war general and the 1st president of the United States. Chief of continental army and led key victories at Saratoga and Yorktown.
What is George Washington
The first 10 amendments which guaranteed fundamental individual rights and liberties such as freedom of speech and religion.
What is Bill of Rights
The railroad that connects the U.S's eastern and western regions together.
What is Trans-Continental Railroad
Reporters at the turn of the twentieth century who won this unfavorable moniker from Theodore Roosevelt but boosted the circulations of their magazines by writing exposés of widespread corruption in American society.
What is Muckrakers
The fifteen-state crescent through the American South and Southwest that experienced terrific population and productivity expansion during World War II and particularly in the decades after the war, eclipsing the old industrial Northeast (the “Frostbelt”).
What is Sun Belt
An economic theory that closely linked a nation's political and military power to its bullion reserves. These people favored protectionism and colonial acquisition as means to increase exports.
What is Mercantilism
The 3rd president of the U.S and a principal author of the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
The idea that America had a god given right to take over all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny
A period of intense anticommunism. The “Palmer raids” of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer resulted in about six thousand deportations of people suspected of “subversive” activities.
What is Red Scare
A tawdry affair involving the illegal lease of priceless naval oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California. The scandal, which implicated President Harding’s secretary of the interior, was one of several that gave his administration a reputation for corruption.
Formal pronouncement of independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson and approved by Congress. This served as an inspiration for later revolutionary movements worldwide.
What is Declaration of Independence
An agreement at the constitutional convention that combined the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan to create a bicameral legislative.
What is The Great Compromise
Antislavery party in the 1848 election that opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, arguing that the presence of slavery would limit opportunities of free laborers.
What is Free Soil Party
A creative outpouring among African American writers, jazz musicians, and social thinkers, centered around Harlem in the 1920s, that celebrated black culture and advocated for a “New Negro” in American social, political, and intellectual life.
What is Harlem Renaissance
From July 17 to August 2, 1945, President Harry S. Truman met with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British leaders Winston Churchill and later Clement Attlee (when the Labour party defeated Churchill’s Conservative party) near Berlin to deliver an ultimatum to Japan: surrender or be destroyed.
A series of punitive measures passed in retaliation for the Boston tea party, closing the port of Boston, revoking rights, and expanding the quartering act.
What is Intolerable Acts
An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts by farmers who were protesting high taxes and debt. They highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion
These amendments abolished slavery, defined national citizenship, and guaranteed equal protection and due process. Also known as the reconstruction amendments.
What is Civil War Amendments
A proviso to President William McKinley’s war plans that proclaimed to the world that when the United States had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom. The amendment testified to the ostensibly “anti-imperialist” designs of the initial war plans.
What is Teller Amendment
An economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes, holding that central banks should adjust interest rates and governments should use deficit spending and tax policies to increase purchasing power and hence prosperity.
What is Keynesianism
Washington's surprise capture of German Hessians that raised the morals of his fallen army and set the stage for his victory at Princeton a week later.
What is Battle of Trenton
A seris of laws aimed at strenghtening national security and suppressing dissent amid fears of foreign influence and domestic unrest.
What is Alien and Sedition Acts
The South's political and social system which was dominated by a small, wealthy planter aristocracy that owned the majority of slaves and controlled the government.
What is Southern Oligarchy
A setback for labor reformers, this Supreme Court decision invalidated a state law establishing a ten-hour day for bakers. It held that the “right to free contract” was implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Lochner V. New York
Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, it authorized the secretary of war to designate military zones from which certain categories of people could be excluded.
What is Executive Order 9066