Period 1/2/3
This political party was headed by John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
The Federalists
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’
Missouri Compromise
These numbered Amendments were known as the Reconstruction Amendments, and accomplished what, respectively?
What is the 13th (Abolition) 14th (Citizenship) and 15th (Voting rights) Amendments?
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
The term for journalists exposing problems in American society.
Muckrakers
What is the (first and second) Great Migration?
This Anti-Federalist victory ensured the protection of individual liberties, while also ensuring ratification of the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
President who vetoed the national bank
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This Supreme Court Decision determined that slaves were not citizens protected by the Constitution, AND that Congress had no authority to limit the expansion of slavery
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This SCOTUS case established the "separate but equal" ruling that would inspire many Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
Populist movement
This economic approach/policy was practiced by Presidents Hoover and Coolidge. emphasizing little to no government intervention in the economy
What is Laissez-faire economics
This is the section of the Declaration of Independence that takes up the majority of space (hint: there are 27 of them).
What is the listing of grievances?
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 is the doctrine that allowed new territories in the West to determine for themselves whether or not slavery should exist in the territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The name of the Political Machine run by Boss Tweed, located in New York City
What is Tammany Hall?
In what years was World War 1 fought?
What is 1914-1918?
People of this political persuasion opposed some of the New Deal Policies as government overreach.
Who are conservatives/republicans?
The name of the large civilization in Mexico that would be conquered by the Spanish Conquistador Cortez.
What is the Aztec?
Nickname for Monroe's presidency that reflected a rising sense of nationalism (1817-1825).
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
The name for a person who did not want slavery to expand into the newly acquired territories in the West.
What is a Free Soiler?
Located off the coast of California, this was the major immigration processing center of the West
What is Angel Island?
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Jane Addams
This Pro-Segregationist Governor of Arkansas tried to stop the Little Rock Nine from integrating Public Schools in 1957 (He was foiled by President Eisenhower)
Who is Orval Faubus?
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Name name for the evolving infrastructure, economy, and industry in the United States during the first half of the 1800s.
Massachusetts-born abolitionist who famously declared the Constitution to be a "covenant with death, and an agreement with hell."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This Act, passed in 1862, allowed for cheap land grants to be given to people willing to cultivate land in the West.
What is the Homestead Act
This Act, ostensibly passed to break up monopolies, was used more often to break up Labor Unions
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This New Deal Policy effectively created the government sponsored retirement accounts
What is the Social Security Act?
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
The first commercially successful version of this invention, named the Clermont was constructed in 1806, and revolutionized travel and trade.
What is the Steamboat
Vice-President and long time Senator from South Carolina, known as the "voice of the South" for his defense of Slavery and States Rights
Who is John C. Calhoun
This company, started by John Rockefeller, was known for monopolization through Vertical Integration (Controlling every step of the production process)
What is Standard Oil?
Name the three "progressive" presidents
Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
This Trinidadian-Born Civil Rights Activist was a member of the SNCC before becoming a prominent member of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states when it came to forming a National bank.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
The nickname of Andrew Jackson's Protege
Who is Young Hickory (or Manifest Destiny President), James K Polk.
The Republican Party, formed in 1854, absorbed members of what political parties? (name two)
Northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free-Soilers, Liberty Party
This feat of contemporary transportation technology was completed in 1869, and was only made possible by extensive subsidies by the federal government
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This voting regulation measure was an attempt to limit the influence of political machines.
What is the Secret Ballot?
This New Deal Program provided funding for the construction of dams and bridges in the American Southwest
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
These colonial institutions, spearheaded by the Sons of Liberty, became key communications systems during the early years of the American Revolution. Men on these committees wrote to each other to express ideas, to confirm mutual assistance, and to debate and coordinate resistance to British imperial policy.
What are Committees of correspondence?
The cultural movement emphasizing intuition and individuality, led by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, was seen as a direct response to the Market Revolution
What is Transcendentalism?
The year of the election, and its "winner" that would lead to the end of Reconstruction.
What is the election of 1876 and Rutherford Hayes?
This famous Battle, fought in 1876 as part of the Sioux Wars, led to the mythologization of the American General who died "heroically"
What is Little Big Horn/ Custer's Last Stand?
This 17th Amendment of the Constitution expands voter influence and participation.
What is the Direct Election of Senators?
This organization, a continuity of the CPI (committee on Public Information), was responsible for drumming up support for the war effort through the use of propaganda during in ww2
What is the Office on War Information (OWI)