Made Northerners aware of the abuse of the peculiar institution, which fed abolitionist fervor, as well as Southerners defense of their culture.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
100
Defines the relationship between the English and the American colonies that allows self-government and self rule to develop, as well as laissez faire economics.
What is salutary neglects
100
Southern tactics to weaken African American political and economic power after the passage of the 14th Amendment.
What is Jim Crow laws, black codes, lynching, White Men's League, Redeemers, Compromise 1877, poll taxes, & literacy test.
100
Allowed for the coinage of silver during the early 1890s, but was revoked in 1893 in response to economic downturn and shortage in U.S. gold reserve under Grover Cleveland's administration.
What is Sherman Silver Purchase Act
100
Fought for and gained U.S. citizenship for Native Americans by arguing for assimilation.
What is Helen Hunt Jackson
200
This was the immediate cause of Southern secession.
What is Election of 1860 or Lincoln's election as President of the United States
200
Interfered with American colonists' belief in opportunity by denying their right to trade with the West Indies and France.
What is Navigation Acts
200
Argued that African Americans needed to use their economic and political power to insure their equality.
What is Black Power Movement or Stokley Carmichael
200
A farmer's political movement that sought the free coinage of silver and greater regulation of the U.S. economy, but lost momentum with the failure of William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
What is Populist Movement
200
A major contributing factor for the rise of the Cult of Domesticity during the 1950s.
What is Baby Boom
300
He maybe the single cause of the growth of sectionalism, because his invention caused the economic division at the turn of the 1800s.
What is Eli Whitney - Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts
300
Reinforced American colonists' desire to stay loyal to England while exerting their rights as Englishmen after the passage of the Intolerable Acts.
What is Olive Branch Petition
300
Established a basis that segregation was not legal, but still left it to the state to enforce.
What is Brown v. Board I and II
300
Restored the U.S. gold standard by the redemption of previously un-backed U.S. notes in 1875.
What is Resumption Act or Specie Resumption Act
300
Influenced women's equality in the 1960's with her book The Feminist Mystique, and the founding of NOW.
What is Betty Friedan
400
The Great Pacifier's plan to settle sectional tension in 1820, by maintaining the balance between free and slave states, but was later ruled unconstitutional.
What is Missouri Compromise
400
Demonstrates that the ideas and values of the American identity does not apply to all during the creation of the Constitution.
What is 3/5th or Commerce Compromise
400
Demonstrates the need for more federal government intervention to help African Americans gain equality despite the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voter Rights Act of 1965.
What is Watts and L.A. Riots or Kerner Commission
400
Helped to stabilize U.S. currency under Wilson's administration.
What is Federal Reserve Act
400
He argued that African Americans had to work for their opportunity to gain equality in America and established the Tuskegee Institute to help.
What is Booker T. Washington
500
Major contributing factor for growing sectional differences during the 1840s.
What is Manifest Destiny or Western Expansion
500
First major battle over the interpretation of the Constitution dealing with the powers of the federal versus state government.
What is Hamilton debt finance plan
500
Claimed that use of race as the only basis for college admissions was unconstitutional shedding light on the growing concern for the limited welfare state.
What is Bakke v. University of California at Regent
500
Shored up banking in the United States after the bank runs during the early 1930s.
What is Glass Stegall Act or FDIC
500
This dissenter ideas were rooted in Antinomianism (literally: anti-law) by challenging the orthodox puritan doctrine of salvation by works, emphasizing the direct experience of a relationship with God, and focusing on salvation by grace.