American Gov
Number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435?
Officially ended World War 1 and largely contributed to conditions that led to Word War 2
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The year the Constitution was officially ratified
What is 1788?
Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, and Upton Sinclair
Who are Muckrakers?
Piece of land bought by the U.S. from Russia
What is Alaska?
The ability of a Federal court to review a lower court's decision
What is appellate jurisdiction?
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Decided the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, declaring all Western territories open to slavery
What is the Dred-Scott Decision?
Methods of ownership used by people such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
What is vertical and horizontal integration?
Widely considered the richest person to ever exist
Who is Mansa Musa I?
Can raise an unlimited amount of money from any donor and spend money on advertisements and other efforts, but cannot directly donate to a candidate or work with their campaign
What is a Super PAC?
The U.S. put missiles in Turkey to threaten the Soviet Union, then the Soviet Union put missiles in Cuba to threaten the U.S.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Describes Monroe's 2nd term as the Federalist Party faded away. From election of 1816 to Panic of 1819
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
British passenger ship sunk by German torpedos that challenged American neutrality in a war
What is the Luisitania?
A way to prevent Black people from voting during reconstruction; says a man is allowed to vote if a certain ancestor was able to vote before reconstruction
What are the Grandfather Clauses?
Guaranteed the right to an attorney for those who cannot afford one per the 6th and 14th amendments
What is Gideon V. Wainwright?
Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal
What are the Gunpowder Empires?
What is Hamilton's Financial Program?
2nd national labor union that began as a secret society. Was loosely organized and membership rapidly declined after Haymarket riots
Who are the Knights of Labor?
Vietnam War, Korean War, Angolan Civil War, Yemeni Civil War, Syrian Civil War, etc.
What are proxy wars?
"The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State."
What is the 11th Constitutional Amendment?
What are Swahili city states?
Affirmed 'nullification theory' by declaring the Tariff of Abominations to be unconstitutional.
What is the Proclamation to the People of South Carolina (South Carolina Nullification Crisis)?
Championed against the Gold Standard and led the Anti-Imperialist League (argued constitutional rights of the U.S. also applied to any territories under U.S. control)
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Split between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church
What is the Great Schism?