Began in 1754 and lasted until 1763
What is the French and Indian War?
Ohio's statehood and this momentous land deal both happened in 1803
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Pro-Expansion President that oversaw the war with Mexico
Who is Polk?
Steel baron that implemented vertical integration
Who is Carnegie?
Epicenter of black culture in the 1920's and 30's. Popular destination for many African Americans during the Great Migration
What is Harlem?
Laws that enforced mercantilism and required colonists to only purchase goods from British Merchants
What are the Navigation Acts?
Name for the period of time where there was only one legitimate political party (mostly during James Monroe's presidency)
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
Political party that opposed slavery for economic reasons... Wanted the west to be for free white laborers. This group would eventually be absorbed by the Republican Party
What is the Free Soil Party?
Political party that favored bimetallism, railroad regulations and William Jennings Bryan
Who are the Populists?
Long telegram, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan and Korean War all have this common theme
What is Containment?
Occurred in 1676 and led to greater usage of African slaves
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Name two provisions of the Missouri Compromise (AKA Compromise of 1820)
What are:
-Missouri enters as a slave state
-No slavery above the 36'30 line
-Maine enters as a free state
Idea coined in the Kansas-Nebraska act that sought to solve the issue of slavery in the territories. (Championed by lawmakers like Stephen Douglas)
What is popular sovereignty?
Enormous land giveaway by the federal government. Law signed by Lincoln in 1862. Settlers could get 150 acres of land for roughly $10 so long as they lived on the land for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
Bar that was raided in 1969 that led to significant protests and became the defining moment for the LGBTQ movement
What is the Stonewall Inn?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Seen as the greatest calamity in seventeenth-century New England and is considered by many to be the deadliest war in Colonial American history. In the space of little more than a year, 12 of the region's towns were destroyed and many more were damaged, the economy of Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies was all but ruined and their population was decimated, losing one-tenth of all men available for military service.
Three examples of Antebellum reform movements
What are:
-Abolition
-Women's Rights
-Second Great Awakening
-Education
-Temperance
-Transcendentalism
Three provisions of the Compromise of 1850
What are:
-Stricter fugitive slave laws
-DC bans slavery
-California admitted as free state
-Divided up Mexican Cession (Popular sovereignty)
Founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and favored accommodation as it related to civil rights
Provide two examples of détente during the Cold War
What are:
-Nixon visiting China
-SALT treaties
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
This was plan proposed in 1754 as an attempt to unite the colonies under a more centralized government (Engraving made by Ben Franklin)
What is the Albany Plan?
Nativist political party that actually won the state of Maryland in the 1856 election
What is the Know-Nothing party?
Delivered the majority opinion in the Dred Scott Decision
Who is Roger Taney?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Event in Chicago in 1886 that became a defining moment in the labor movement. A bomb was thrown at a labor demonstration killing several cops. Anarchists were blamed and 4 were sentenced to death.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson launched this movement in the 1960's-70's
What is the environmentalist movement?