Politics & Power
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
The economic system that colonial powers used to create one-sided trade relationships with their colonies.
What is mercantilism?
This late-1800s political philosophy opposed immigration, giving rise to anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant groups like the Know-Nothings.
What is Nativism?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
This 1954 foreign policy theory argued that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This president was known for getting elected due to the expansion of voting rights to all white men after losing his first attempt.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This 1890 anti-monopoly law was initially used by corporations and courts to crack down on labor unions instead of trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The Great Plains tribes' main food source was...
What is Buffalo?
The term for journalists exposing problems in American society.
What is Muckrakers?
This 1904 policy addition to the Monroe Doctrine claimed the U.S. had "international police power" to intervene in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This piece of legislation, passed in response to the September 11th attacks, expanded government surveillance powers.
What is the Patriot Act?
This Henry Clay proposal used federal funds, high tariffs, and a national bank to build integrated infrastructure.
What is the American System?
This 1862 federal law offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers who migrated west and farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1830s intellectual movement, led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, emphasized individualism, self-reliance, and a spiritual connection to nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
This 1899 U.S. foreign policy demanded equal trading access for all global empires inside of China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This 1856 Supreme Court decision ruled that Congress lacked the constitutional authority to ban slavery in federal territories, rendering the Missouri Compromise void.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
Hamilton's Financial Plan led to the creation of ___________ that would handle the new nations currency.
What is the National Bank of the US?
This 1924 federal immigration act used strict nationality quotas to drastically cut Southern and Eastern European immigration.
What is the National Origins Act?
This 1887 federal law attempted to forcibly assimilate Native Americans by dissolving tribal ownership and breaking reservation lands into individual family allotments.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
This 1917 secret diplomatic communication proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico, acting as a major catalyst for the U.S. entry into World War I.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This general led a total war compaign through the state of Georgia and South Carolina. What was his name and what was the campaign known as?
Who was General Sherman, and what was Shermans March to the Sea?
This 1935 New Deal act guaranteed workers the legal right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining.
What is the Wagner Act (or National Labor Relations Act)?
A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in the North and required their return to slaveholders.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on issues like wages and working conditions for skilled workers ONLY. (still in place today!!!)
What is American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This 1795 treaty with Spain granted western American farmers the crucial right of deposit in New Orleans, unlocking trade down the Mississippi River.
What is Pinckney's Treaty?