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What 4 innovations in transportation or communication helped link farmers to distant urban markets during the Market Revolution?
Erie Canal, Steamboats, Telegraph, National Road (Cumberland Road)
What 4 specific compromises or debates during the Constitutional Convention defined the new structure of the federal government?
Great Compromise, 3/5ths Compromise, Electoral College, Bill of Rights (Debate)
What 4 legal victories or grassroots protests demonstrated the shift from litigation to direct action in the Civil Rights Movement?
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Greensboro Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, March on Washington
What 4 territorial acquisitions or diplomatic treaties between 1840-1898 best illustrate the era of "Manifest Destiny"?
Louisiana Purchase (Context), Mexican Cession (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo), Oregon Treaty, Gadsden Purchase
What 4 pieces of legislation or turning points regarding the expansion of slavery pushed the U.S. toward the Civil War?
Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's Raid
What 4 terms describe the shift from artisanal home production to the "outwork" or factory systems in the early 1800s?
Lowell System, Spinning Jenny, Interchangable Parts, Division of Labor
What 4 conflicts over constitutional interpretation led to the emergence of the first two-party system (Federalists vs. Republicans)?
Bank of the United States, Whiskey Rebellion, Alien and Sedition Acts, Jay's Treaty
What 4 publications or organizations were used by antislavery activists to shift Northern public opinion against the ""peculiar institution""?
The Liberator (Garrison), The North Star (Douglass), Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), American Anti-Slavery Society
What 4 government incentives or technological tools made large-scale settlement of the Great Plains possible after 1860?
Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act (Transcontinental RR), Sodbusters, Barbed Wire
What 4 economic or political interests drove the United States to abandon its tradition of neutrality and enter World War I?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare (Lusitania), Zimmerman Telegram, Sinking of the Arabic, Loans to Allies
What 4 business strategies or economic theories allowed "Captains of Industry" to consolidate power during the Gilded Age?
Horizontal Integration, Vertical Integration, Social Darwinism, Laissez-faire
What 4 agencies or "Three R" programs under FDR represented the most significant change in the government’s role in the economy?
Social Security Act, WPA (Works Progress Administration), CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), FDIC
What 4 legislative acts or social codes during Reconstruction were designed to define the ""regional identity"" of the post-war South?
13th/14th/15th Amendments, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Plessy v. Ferguson
What 4 ""push and pull"" factors drove the Great Migration of African Americans out of the rural South toward Northern cities?
Jim Crow Laws (Push), Boll Weevil Infestation (Push), WWI Industrial Jobs (Pull), Harlem Renaissance (Cultural Pull)
What 4 foreign aid packages or alliances were created immediately after WWII to ""contain"" the spread of Soviet influence?
Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, NATO, Berlin Airlift
What 4 symbols of 1950s consumerism or middle-class culture were made possible by the era's sustained economic growth?
Levittown, GI Bill, Federal Aid Highway Act, Television
What 4 social issues or "New Right" groups helped build the conservative coalition that led to the election of Ronald Reagan?
Moral Majority, Roe v. Wade (Opposition), Stagflation, Reaganomics
What 4 feminist milestones or pieces of literature challenged the traditional "Cult of Domesticity" in the mid-to-late 20th century?
The Feminine Mystique (Friedan), Title IX, Roe v. Wade, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
What 4 conflicts or treaties between 1763 and 1800 saw American Indians lose land to white settlers in the Ohio River Valley?
Proclamation of 1763, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Treaty of Greenville, Northwest Ordinance
What 4 Cold War "Flashpoints" (conflicts/crises) forced the U.S. to choose between military intervention and diplomatic containment?
Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War (Gulf of Tonkin), Bay of Pigs
What 4 scientific or digital innovations led to the "New Economy" and the rise of globalization at the end of the 20th century?
The Internet, Personal Computers (PC), Silicon Valley, Automation
What 4 demands of the Populist Party (Omaha Platform) were eventually adopted as mainstream political or economic reforms?
Direct Election of Senators (17th Amend), Graduated Income Tax (16th Amend), Secret Ballot, 8-hour workday
What 4 Supreme Court cases or movements from 1960–2000 highlight the debate over ""moral values"" in American law?
Engle v. Vitale (School Prayer), Roe v. Wade, War on Drugs, Christian Coalition
What 4 specific regional differences (New England vs. Chesapeake) were created by different types of trans-Atlantic migration?
Indenture Servitude (Chesapeake), Family Units (New England), Town Meetings (NE) vs. County Gov (Ches), Cash Crops vs. Subsistence Farming
What 4 differences in settlement patterns (trade vs. farming) shaped the way the French and British treated Indigenous peoples?
Fur Trade (French), Intermarriage (French), Permanent Farming/Settlement (British), Expulsion Policy (British)