APUSH 1
This crop was the staple crop for producing large population centers in the Americas pre-European contact.
What is corn/maize?
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Eli Whitney invention that increased slavery
cotton gin
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
The event that completed the recovery of the nation from The Great Depression
World War II
This policy, articulated by George F. Kennan, aimed to prevent the spread of Soviet influence abroad.
Containment
This conservative president, elected in 1980, implemented supply-side economics and increased military spending.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The tribes in this region relied heavily on the buffalo, were nomadic, and eventually came to rely on the horse.
What is the Great Plains?
Name of the predominant religious group in MA.
Who are the Puritans?
Head of the Supreme Court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalist policies (strong national government)
Who is John Marshall?
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court Decision determined that slaves were not citizens protected by the Constitution.
This incident in Chicago led to the targeting of anarchists and radicals and the demise of the Knights of Labor. Although there was no evidence linking them to the crime, 4 of the 8 labor leaders arrested were executed.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This massive economic aid package was designed to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II and prevent the appeal of communism.
Marshall Plan
This group was funded by the American government to fight the Soviet Union, but then became the Taliban.
Who are the mujahideen?
What is the Aztec?
Nationality of colonists who looked towards trade and intermarriage in the New World?
Who are the French?
The original governing document of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
The number amendment that guarantees the rights of citizens born in the US.
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Plessy v Ferguson
Two reasons the US entered World War I.
The Sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare) and the Zimmerman Telegram
This 1967 SCOTUS case ruled that laws barring interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
What is Loving v. VA?
This major foreign policy event involved the United States leading a coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion in 1991.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
The economic system that colonial powers used to create one-sided trade relationships with their colonies.
Religion that believed in religious equality, pacifism, and abolition.
Who are the Quakers?
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
The term for journalists exposing problems in American society.
Muckrakers
This muckraking journalist exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
This term for someone who believes in extreme nationalism and aggressive foreign policy. Teddy Roosevelt was a prominent supporter.
What is jingoism?
This piece of legislation, passed in response to the September 11th attacks, expanded government surveillance powers.
What is the Patriot Act?
The Spanish came to the New World seeking this.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What is The French and Indian War/Seven Years War?
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Indian Removal Act? (Trail of Tears)
Created by Henry Clay, these laws were eventually passed separately. They admitted CA as a Free State, allowed for Popular Sovereignty in NM and AZ, and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
Populist movement
This Progressive Era president was known for his "Square Deal" and his efforts at trust-busting and conservation.
Teddy Roosevelt
This law, originally created under JFK, but championed by Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to extend Black Americans' civil rights.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This one-term President had one policy "win", the Camp David Accords.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The name for the system whereby goods and slaves moved between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This conflict took place in southern New England during the 1670s. It led to the destruction of the Wampanoag and other tribes in the area and allowed English colonists to continue to expand.
What is King Phillip's, or Metacom's, War?
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This president was known for getting elected due to the expansion of voting rights to all white men after losing his first attempt.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The name for a person who did not want slavery to expand into the newly acquired territories in the West.
What is a Free Soiler?
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Jane Addams
This intellectual movement challenged traditional Victorian notions of morality and emphasized the role of environment and heredity in shaping human behavior. "Survival of the Fittest" in the social sphere.
Social Darwinism
This act, passed by congress solidified American infrastructure to be reliant on cars, leading to a century of suburbanization and increased car consumerism.
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
This former president was responsible for DOMA and Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The term or name for the three crops that grew well together that provided Native Americans a strong diet.
What is the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, Squash)?
This colonial region was known for cash-crop production, especially tobacco. The depletion of its soil, would lead to the expansion of slavery further into the deep south.
What is the Chesapeake region (MD, VA, NC)?
The name of the compromise that counted part of the slave population towards a state's population for representatives in the Federal Government.
3/5ths Compromise
Nickname for Monroe's presidency that reflected a rising sense of nationalism (1817-1825).
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
The name of the man who was seen as an anti-slavery martyr by the North but a terrorist to slavery in the South.
Who is John Brown?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on "bread and butter" issues like wages and working conditions for skilled workers.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Strategy used by the US to fight Japan in the Pacific Theatre.
Island Hopping
This Eisenhower Policy said that the United States would act with overwhelming force if threatened during the Cold War. Along, with Brinkmanship, this could have led to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).
What is Massive Retaliation?
This economic treaty's purpose was to reduce trade barriers between the US, Mexico, and Canada to promote each country's economy.
The name of the event where a Native American people revolted against the Spanish due to Spanish assimilation practices in the Southwestern United States.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
Name of the VA rebellion that attacked the governor using anti-Native and anti-elite sentiment.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Give two precedents of Washington's farewell address....
Two Terms
Neutrality in Foreign Affairs
Name name for the evolving infrastructure, economy, and industry in the United States during the first half of the 1800s.
The year of the election that would lead to the end of Reconstruction.
What is 1876?
This man ran Tammany Hall, the Democratic Political Machine in NYC.
Who is Boss Tweed?
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
The Great Migration
This embargo in the 70s led to shortages in oil in the American economy and an increase in gas prices.
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
This law allowed a pathway to legal residency for child immigrants.
What is the Dream Act?