Periods 1 & 2
(1491-1754)
(1491-1754)
Event that marked the first permanent English settlement in North America
Establishment of Jamestown
Thomas Paine published this pamphlet to argue for war against Britain and colonial independence.
Common Sense
Supreme Court Case that upheld Separate but Equal doctrine after the Civil War.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Event believed to have started the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash/Run on Banks (effect)
M.A.D. stands for and describes...?
Mutually Assured Destruction, if nuclear war started, everyone would launch nukes, everyone would die
Corporations that were created with the purpose of sharing risk and discovering the new world.
Joint-Stock Companies
The idea that Americans had the right to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
13- abolish slavery
14- citizenship, equal protection under the law
15- universal male suffrage
This conflict began the period of American Imperialism
The Spanish-American War
Executive Order 9981...
desegregated the U.S. Military (Truman)
Term used to describe the movement of ideas, people, disease, food, and livestock from the old world to the new world.
The Columbian Exchange
Anti-Federalists supported these two ideas surrounding the Articles of Confederation and the New Constitution.
Articles should be amended not dissolved AND any new Constitution should include a Bill of Rights
This conflict in American territories over the legality of slavery (popular sovereignty) caused thousands of people to migrate to protest on both sides.
Bleeding Kansas
The 18th Amendment began a period of ________ in the United States.
Prohibition
What treaty organization was created to contain communism in Asia
SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was for Europe...
Which colony (not region) was known for being tolerant of the Catholics?
Maryland (act of toleration)
This conclusion of this conflict began to increase tensions between the colonies & Great Britain
French & Indian War (increased taxation due to debt, more troops in colonies)
This Supreme Court case that declared slavery effectively legal in US territories, nullified the Missouri Compromise.
Dred Scott v. Standford
Upton Sinclair's (The Jungle) was an example a _____________ who exposed the harsh conditions of the ________________ industry
Muckraker, Meatpacking
These two Soviet Policies were aimed to improve relationships with western countries- what were they and what did they do.
Glasnost- transparency: the government would be less secretive about its dealings and history.
Perestroika- restructuring: The government would start to make changes away from a command economy to a market economy (bad for communists)
Term used to describe the relationship between two countries where one (the mother country) takes advantage of another.
Andrew Jackson's presidency was scarred when South Carolina refused to enforce a federal tariff.
Nullification Crisis
Reason the South was so irritated after the election of 1860
Lincoln won AND he won without a single electoral vote from the Southern States.
These two laws supported Great Britain's war effort against Germany before America joined in 1941.
Cash & Carry, Lend-Lease,
Destroyers for Bases (way to go if you got that one)
These two laws are popularly believed to have marked an end to the long-time efforts of civil rights leaders during the Civil Rights Movement.
Civil Right Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965