Revolution and New Nation
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson?
The battle that was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The idea that Americans were destined by god to expand West to the Pacific Ocean. This allowed the passage of the Homestead Act and completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The rebirth of African American culture among writers, actors and musicians.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The two countries that emerged as SuperPowers after WWII.
The result of the French and Indian War that led directly to the American Revolution.
What is England began to tax the colonists?
What is to keep the union together?
This group believed that society was a competition in which the fittest came out on top, justifying the socioeconomic inequality during the Gilded Age.
What is Social Darwinists?
The two reasons the United States entered World War I.
What is the Zimmerman Note and unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
The conflict at Little Rock’s Central High School was a reaction to
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is the first Continental Congress?
The law passed that allowed the president to deport foreigners who might endanger public safety.
What is Alien Act?
This president was known for their promise to provide the American people with a “Square Deal.”
What is Teddy Roosevelt?
This New Deal program was created to correct abuses in the Stock Market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan represented attempts by the United States to deal with the
What is the spread of communism?
The first two political parties of the United States were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The political parties formed due to disagreements about...
What is distribution of power between the federal and state governments?
President Thomas Jefferson passed this act in 1807 to cut off trade with Britain and to negotiate peace with America.
What is the Embargo Act?
The major reason the United States placed few restrictions on immigration during the 1800’s
What is the growing economy needed a steady supply of cheap labor?
President Harry Truman justified using atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 on the grounds that the
What is early ending of the war would save many lives?
The ratification of the 26th amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was a result of the
What is the participation of the United States in the Vietnam War?
The reason the authors of the Articles of Confederation established a weak central government.
What is prevent the abuses of power that had existed under British rule?
The reason for the Monroe Doctrine.
What is prevent further European colonization in the Caribbean region?
The 3 different areas of business that allowed Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and J.D. Rockefeller to become extremely successful and rich.
Vanderbilt- Railroads
Carnegie- Steel
Rockefeller- Oil
The United States' foreign policy during the 1920s and 30s.
What is isolationist?
The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960’s was to
What is end segregation based on race?