A Spanish priest during the Age of Exploration who criticized Spanish explorers treatment of Native Americans.
Who is Bartolome de Las Casas?
100
A religious revival that contributed to the era of reform in the 1820s and 1830s.
What is the second great awakening?
100
N. Korea backed by Communist China vs. S. Korea backed by UN led by U.S.; ended when Ike threatened the use of nukes (Armistice); --> Cold War economy, "freeze" in relations w/ China, escalated McCarthyism, MacArthur fired by Truman
What is the Korean War?
100
The rebellion exposed tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry.
The rebellion prompted the tidewater gentry to reevaluate their commitment to the system of indentured servants.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
100
She wrote "Silent Spring."
Who is Rachel Carson?
200
________was the major cause of the decline of Native populations after 1492.
What is disease?
200
A religious text used to defend slavery during the antebellum era
What is the Bible?
200
A 1920 operation coordinated by Attorney General Mitchel Palmer in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization in 32 cities
What is the Palmer Raids?
200
It was organized and led by slaves living south of Charleston, South Carolina. The slaves tried unsuccessfully to flee to Spanish Florida, where they hoped to gain their freedom.
What is Stono's Rebellion?
200
A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches.
What is transcendentalism?
300
The climate was perfect for cash crops such as tobacco, rice, sugar, and indigo.
What is the southern colonies?
300
A christian separatist movement during the second great awakening started by Joseph Smith.
What is Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints)?
300
Murder trial in Massachusetts (1920-1927); two anarchist Italian immigrants are put on trial for the robbery and murder of a paymaster and a guard at a shoe factory, found guilty, and sentenced to death after attempts at retrial failed.
Who is Sacco and Vanzetti?
300
Spanish system of enslaving Native Americans
What is the encomienda system?
300
made up of farmers, greenbacks, laborers, grangers
Omaha Platform 1892 =
- government ownership of rails and telephone
- unlimited coinage of silver
- graduated income tax on wealth
What is the People's Party/Populism?
400
Colonies with lumber/shipbuilding/fishing/rum manufacturing industries.
What is the New England colonies?
400
A resurgent Protestant evangelical fervor in the Post-World War II Era.
What is fourth great awakening?
400
Truman's Federal Employee Loyalty Program fueled hysteria & intolerance towards communist sympathizers; McCarthyism
What is the second red scare?
400
A democratic-republican who served as minister of France and an agrarian vision for the nation.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Was elected at the age of 26 to be the pastor to lead African Americans. He was to negotiate with city leaders for an end to segregation. He was a powerful speaker and had a Ph.D. in theology. He believed the only moral way to end segregation and racism was through nonviolent passive resistance.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
500
A system used in Virginia to attract a larger labor force.
What is the headright system?
500
A neo-conservative movement upset with the civil rights movement protests, anti-Vietnam war protests, and perceived immorality of the nation.
What is new right?
500
Conflict between the US and Mexico that after the US annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its own; US troops fought primarily on foreign soil; covered by mass-circulation newspapers; Whigs opposed
What is the Mexican-American War?
500
This early political party opposed the Federalists.
What is the Democratic-Republicans?
500
Minister of the Nation of Islam, urged blacks to claim their rights by any means necessary, more radical than other civil rights leaders of the time.