Identity
The dominant religious belief system shaping early America.
What is Protestantism? or What is Puritanism?
The religious-political philosophy that drove western expansion in the 1800s.
What is manifest destiny?
These colonies prospered through the growth of cereal crops like wheat and grain.
What were the middle colonies?
This push to reduce alcohol consumption eventually fueled a push for prohibition.
What is the temperance movement?
This nation became a US territory following a coup staged by American fruit companies.
What is Hawaii?
Large scale cultivation of this crop led to soil degradation across the southern colonies.
What is tobacco?
This philosophy is the reason why the founders created three branches of government.
What is balance of powers?
This ruling upheld the internment of Japanese Americans. (name and year)
What is Korematsu v. United States (1945)?
The belief that the United States is special and unique.
What is American Exceptionalism?
The movement of African Americans to northern urban areas during the Jim Crow era.
What is the Great Migration?
This article advocated for the richest Americans to do good by funding philanthropic endeavors. (title and author)
What was the Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie?
This fashion style, which involved short hair and short skirts, was emblematic of early sexual liberation for women.
What is the flapper style?
The sinking of this ship heralded the start of the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
This product/market was highly profitable to the Northern and French Canadian colonies.
What was the fur trade/fur?
This political party only lasted for six years before merging into the Republican Party.
What was the Free Soil party?
This ruling established the concept of judicial review. (Name and decade)
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
What was the War of 1812?
This 1790 law limited citizenship to Western European immigrants who had resided in the United States for at least two years.
What is the Naturalization Act?
This 1911 event shed light on the dangers of and lack of protections for textile factory labor.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This man's work undermined mainstream America's support for the Vietnam War.
Who was Walter Cronkite?
This arms dealing scandal did not significantly hurt Reagan's reputation.
What is Iran-Contra?
This space became the first National Park in 1872.
What is Yellowstone?
These laws were repealed as a result of the Compromise of 1877 ("Corrupt Bargain")?
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
This case established the right to privacy. (Name and year)
What is Roe v. Wade (1973)?
The belief that American women played a pivotal role in educating their children to be future citizens.
What is republican motherhood?
This 1887 act broke up Native American reservations to encourage assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
This union aimed to build an global labor movement transcending borders.
What was the International Workers of the World (or the Wobblies)?
This new medium of communication contributed to shaping opinions about the Civil War.
This escalation of the Vietnam War resulted in a public opinion shift sharing part of its name.
What was the Tet Offensive?
This president signed into law the Environmental Protection Agency.
This legal idea shifted power to the presidency in the years following 9/11.
What is unitary executive theory?
This case established the supremacy of federal law over state law. (Name and decade)
What is McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
This is the idea that the U.S. had moved past its party divides (such as in 2008 with the election of Barack Obama).
What is post-partisanship?
This 1924 act was the first to establish immigration quotas.
What was the Johnson-Reed Act?
These laws restricted luxury consumption to the upper classes.
What were the sumptuary laws?
This 19th-century text directly linked gender relations to economic inequalities. (title and author)
What is "Women in Economics" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
?
This agreement helped relieve tensions between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1794.
What is Jay's Treaty?
Publication of this text in 1962 sparked the modern environmental movement.
What was Silent Spring by Rachel Carson?
This amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The Court in this case sided with Native Americans, but Andrew Jackson famously ignored the decision.
What is Worcester v. Georgia (1832)?