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This invention massively increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South.
What was the cotton gin?
This is the transatlantic trade of goods, ideas, and diseases that changed the world after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The belief that white Americans had the divine mission to conquer and colonize North America from "sea to shining sea."
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the post-WWII ideological conflict between the United States and the USSR which dominated the late 20th century.
What was the Cold War?
Women gained the right to vote with the passing of this Amendment.
What was the 19th Amendment?
This was the first failed federal government of the United States which could not levy taxes not create an army.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This political party made up of mostly farmers demanded the regulation of railroads and the monetization of silver.
What was the Populist Party?
The cultivation and trade of this crop allowed for the settlement of pre-Columbian civilizations in North America.
What was maize?
This religious movement in the colonial era led to an establishment of individualism and the challenging of established institutions.
What was the First Great Awakening?
The election of this Republican president in 1980 symbolized the re-emergence of strong conservatist values in society.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
This system was set up by Spanish colonizers in the modern U.S. Southwest to subjugate Native labor and encourage conversion.
What was the encomienda system?
This landmark court case led to the desegregation of public schools throughout the nation.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
The philosophical ideologies on which the American Revolution were based upon took inspiration from this European "intellectual and humanist" movement.
What was the Enlightenment?
The Fugitive Slave Law was added to this agreement to appeased Southern demands.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This was the nickname given to Progressive Era journalists who exposed corruption and unsafe urban conditions.
What were muckrakers?
This was the economic strategy employed by Rockefeller to create his Standard Oil Trust.
What was horizontal integration?
This was the first major organized event set up to discuss and promote female social and economic equality in the 19th century.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This active labor union was notable in the 19th century for admitting unskilled workers, black workers, and female laborers.
What were the Knights of Labor?
This economic model stressed that a colony's main purpose was simply to feed it's mother country with raw goods.
What is mercantilism?
This proclamation forbade colonial settlement past the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
This man-made "water highway" became crucial for the transportation of goods and crops during the Market Revolution.
What was the Eerie Canal?
This legislative agenda set forth by Lyndon Johnson created programs such as Medicare, food stamps, and a "war on poverty."
What was the Great Society?
What was the Ohio River Valley?
These classified documents revealed to the American public that the federal government had been lying to them about the progress of the Vietnam War.
What were the Pentagon Papers?
This ultra-violent conflict in the Pacific was caused due to American imperialism upon a former Spanish-colonized territory.
What was the Philippine-American War?
This was the lessening of tensions between the United States and the USSR during the 1970 as practiced by Richard Nixon.
What was détente?
This term referred to the "hands-off" approach of British governing its American colonies up to the revolution.
What is salutary neglect?
With this agreement, Mexico ceded a vast territory to the United States which now includes several states in the modern Southwest.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This Native American Nation/Tribe dominated the Great Plains up to the late 19th century.
What is the Sioux peoples?
This gave Andrew Jackson the permission to potentially use the army upon the state of South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis.
What was the Force Bill?