Groups of People
Republican Motherhood and the Cult of Domesticity both argued that a woman’s primary power was located in this. Periods 3 and 4-7
What is the household or family?
The Articles of Confederation and the Confederate States of America both failed largely because they placed too much power in the hands of these entities. Periods 3 and 5
What are the states?
This 1676 uprising of indentured servants and this 1894 strike against a railroad company both saw the government intervene on the side of the wealthy to suppress labor unrest. Periods 2 and 6
What are Bacon’s Rebellion and the Great Railroad or Pullman Strike?
The Alien & Sedition Acts (1798), Espionage & Sedition Acts (1917-1918), and the Patriot Act (2001) saw the government prioritize national security at the expense of this. Periods 3, 7, and 9
What are civil liberties or rights?
The Monroe Doctrine and the Roosevelt Corollary both warned European powers to stay out of this specific region. Periods 4 and 7
What is Latin America or the Western Hemisphere?
These two government actions discriminated against Asian Americans due to nativism and wartime fears. Periods 6 and 7
What are the Chinese Exclusion Act and Executive Order 9066?
The Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions and the Southern Manifesto argued that states could ignore laws based on this. Periods 3 and 8
What is nullification?
The Erie Canal of the 1820s and the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 both received federal support to solve this logistical problem. Periods 4 and 8
What is infrastructure or internal improvements?
The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were both temporary aids meant to stop the spread of this (two answers). Periods 4 and 5
What is sectionalism and slavery?
The Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War were both fueled by this. Periods 5 and 7
What is expansionism or imperialism?
These two Supreme Court decisions are landmark cases creating and overturning the infamous "separate but equal" doctrine. Periods 6 and 8
What is Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education?
Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson were accused of acting like "Kings" because of this action aganist Congress. Periods 4 and 5
What is veto?
This 1600's and late 1800's agricultural system both kept poor whites and Black Americans in a cycle of debt to wealthy landowners. Periods 2 and 6
What are Indentured Servitude and Sharecropping?
These Amendments extended suffrage to Americans due to efforts during Reconstruction, Suffragettes, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War. Periods 5, 6, 7, and 8 Daily Double!
What are the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments?
George Washington’s 1793 Farewell Address and a series of Congressional Acts in the 1930s sought to maintain this. Periods 3 and 7
What is Neutrality or Isolationism?
These three movements of people moved due to push factors: one religious persecution, one Jim Crow laws, and another forced removal to a reservation. Periods 2, 4, and 7 Daily Double!
What is the Great Migration, the Great Migration, and the Trail of Tears?
These two legislative packages dramatically expanded the federal government's role in providing a social safety net. Periods 7 and 8
What are the New Deal and Great Society?
Mass production of goods resulted from four inventions from Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford. Periods 4, 6, and 7
What are interchangeable parts or cotton gin, the Bessemer process, electricity, and the assembly line?
Both the 1920s and the 1950s saw the rise of this due to new media such as newspapers, radio, movies, and TV. Periods 7 and 8
What is pop or mass culture?
Both the War of 1812 and WWI were initially sparked by American outrage over this violation of international law. Periods 4 and 7
What is Freedom of the Seas?
These two federal policies were meant to encourage the assimilation of Native Americans. Periods 6 and 8
What are the Dawes Act and termination?
Before the modern two-party system, there were multiple third parties, name five of these third parties. Periods 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Daily Double!
What are the Free Soil, Know-Nothing, People's/Populist, Progressive, Constitutional Union, American Independent, Greenback, Socialist, Communist, Green, or Libertarian Parties.
These two labor laws showed the government's shifting stance on union power before and after WW2. Periods 7 and 8
What are the Wagner and Taft-Hartley Act?
These two environmental movements sought to protect America’s natural resources. Periods 7 and 8
What is conservation and environmentalism?
Between 1800 and 1898, the US government expanded by annexing multiple territories, name four of these annexations. Periods 4, 5, 6 and 7
Answers can vary: Texas, Florida, Mexican Cession, Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana Purchase, Gadsden Purchase, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Oregon Territory.