Unit 4
The 1846–48 conflict adding California and the Southwest to U.S. territory...
What is the Mexican-American War?
1850 law requiring citizens to aid in capturing freedom seekers, intensifying sectional conflict...
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
1882 law banning Chinese labor immigration for 10 years...
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
1904 Roosevelt Corollary asserted U.S. police power in this region...
What is Latin America/the Western Hemisphere?
1970s scandal leading to Nixon’s resignation after White House cover-ups...
What is Watergate?
This 1832 tariff sparked South Carolina’s nullification crisis and Jackson’s Force Bill...
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
Political faction demanding harsh Reconstruction terms and racial equality...
Who were the Radical Republicans?
1896 Supreme Court case allowing 'separate but equal' facilities under the 14th Amendment...
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The 1944 Supreme Court case upholding Japanese American internment as 'military necessity'...
What is Korematsu v. United States?
1961 failed CIA-backed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro...
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This financial panic resulted from state bank speculation and federal specie circular policies...
What is the Panic of 1837?
1864 Union campaign destroying Southern infrastructure and morale under this general...
Who is William T. Sherman?
1890 census report declaring the American frontier 'closed'...
What is the Turner Thesis/Frontier Thesis?
1933 New Deal program paying farmers to reduce crop surplus...
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
1950–53 conflict where Truman fired MacArthur for challenging civilian war authority...
What is the Korean War?
The 1819 Supreme Court case affirming federal supremacy over state laws in banking...
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
The 1875 Supreme Court ruling that weakened federal power to prosecute civil rights violations...
What are the Civil Rights Cases?
The 1892 Populist Party platform demanding this monetary policy to help farmers...
What is free silver/bimetallism?
1941 policy allowing the U.S. to lend war supplies to Allied nations...
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
1968 North Vietnamese/Viet Cong offensive shattering U.S. optimism about Vietnam...
What is the Tet Offensive?
Philosophical movement (1830s–40s) urging self-reliance and civil disobedience, influencing Thoreau...
What is Transcendentalism?
This 1864 bill required 50% loyalty oaths for Confederate states’ readmission—vetoed by Lincoln...
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This 1883 law established merit-based federal hiring to combat patronage...
What is the Pendleton Act?
1920s trial convicting Italian anarchists amid Red Scare nativism, later deemed unfair...
What are the Sacco and Vanzetti trials?
The 1947 labor law restricting union practices like closed shops and political strikes...
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?