Politics and Power
This 19th-century political party, formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson, supported federal funding for internal improvements and a strong legislative branch. Snatched
Who were the whigs?
This early 19th-century invention revolutionized cotton production and dramatically increased the demand for slave labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This 1925 trial highlighted the cultural clash between modern science and religious fundamentalism in the American South.
What is the scopes monkey trial?
This 19th-century doctrine asserted U.S. expansion to the Pacific was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
In the 1980s, President Reagan nicknamed this anti-missile defense program after a George Lucas film — hoping it would shield the U.S. from Soviet nukes in space.
What was the Star Wars initiative?
This clause in the U.S. Constitution was often cited in 20th-century civil rights legislation to enforce equal protection under the law and became the backing of many supreme court precedents
What is the Equal Protection Clause (14th Amendment)?
This 1862 law provided free land in the West to settlers willing to farm it, spurring migration and agricultural development.
What is the homestead act?
This 1969 event in upstate New York became a symbol of countercultural music, drug use, hippies,antiwar sentiment, and youth rebellion.
What is Woodstock?
This immigration station, opened in 1892, processed millions of immigrants arriving on the East Coast.
What is Ellis Island?
This bird from the Peanuts comic strip, first appearing in 1967, shares a name with a pivotal 1969 music festival.
Who was woodstock?
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These presidential doctrines justified U.S. intervention in Latin American affairs and asserted dominance in the Western Hemisphere in the early 20th century
This 20th-century economic section of New Deal policy sought to provide people jobs in more rural parts of the United States
What is the TVA?
This social movement of the 1960s and 1970s focused on issues such as workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, and gender equality.
What is the Pink Power movement (or second wave feminism/feminism)
This internal migration of African Americans during both World Wars drastically altered the demographic makeup of Northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
Jay Gatsby’s lavish parties in The Great Gatsby mirror the economic highs and social shifts of this decade right before it all came crashing down.
What are the 1920s (or the Roaring Twenties)?
This controversial 1971 publication revealed government deception in the Vietnam War and led to a major First Amendment court case.
What are the Pentagon Papers?
The rise of this economic theory in the 1980s emphasized deregulation, tax cuts, and supply-side incentives for economic growth.
What is reaganomics?
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This 19th-century movement emphasized individual intuition and a connection to nature as a response to industrialization. Might need to be Thorough
This 19th-century policy sought to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
When Beyoncé sang “Formation” at the Super Bowl wearing a Black Panther-style outfit, she nodded to this 1960s group that advocated for Black power and community defense.
What is the black panther party?
This political party developed out of the early republic in response to federalist dominance, as the first true political party of small government
Who were the democratic republicans?
This early American system brought young women to work in textile mills under strict conditions and moral codes.
What are the lowell mills?
This 19th-century reformer led efforts to improve the treatment of the mentally ill and prison inmates.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
This law, passed in 1882, was the first major federal legislation to restrict immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese exclusion act?
In Call of Duty: Black Ops, players are dropped into Cold War espionage and psychological warfare, echoing the real-life paranoia of this domestic fear campaign led by a Wisconsin senator.
What was McCarthyism