Period 6
This is the term for government non-interference in the economy.
What is laissez-faire
The final year Native Americans lived undisturbed in the Americas before European arrival.
What is 1491?
Sensationalized news reporting that contributed to public support for the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
This term refers to the belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, urged colonists to declare independence.
What is Common Sense?
This political party was formed by farmers and advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver.
What is the Populist Party?
The year Jamestown, VA colony was established.
What is 1607?
Two territories gained by the U.S. as a result of the Spanish-American War.
What are the Philippines and Puerto Rico?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was the first attempt at a national government for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This labor union, founded by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
The term for the exchange of crops and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Two acts aimed at regulating food and drugs.
What are the 1906 Meat Inspection Act and 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act?
This idea allowed people in a territory to decide whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This event highlighted the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This system of agriculture dominated the post-Civil War South, trapping many freed blacks in a cycle of poverty
What is sharecropping?
An example of something brought from the New World to Europe.
What are potato, squash, pumpkin, maize, tobacco, or quinine?
Shantytowns built by unemployed people during the Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
This political party opposed the expansion of slavery due to economic reasons.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This compromise resolved the issue of how enslaved people would be counted for representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This connected the East and West coasts, revolutionizing trade and transportation but also negatively impacted Native Americans.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This type of farming involved planting corn, beans and squash all together.
What is Three Sister Farming?
FDR's programs to combat the Great Depression.
What is the CCC?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were not citizens and could not sue for their freedom.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
These were opponents of the Constitution, who feared a strong central government.
What are the Anti-Federalists?