Period 3
The debt incurred from this event led to increased taxes on American colonists.
What is the French and Indian (or Seven Years' War)?
This 1803 acquisition doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This nineteenth-century philosophy argued that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1882 law was the first to stop immigration to the United States on the basis of race.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
During this movement reformers and journalists addressed a host of issues associated with the growth of an industrial society.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This group opposed ratification of the Constitution without a Bill of Rights and feared a strong central government.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This movement supported a complete, immediate, and uncompensated end to slavery.
What is the abolition movement?
These laws denied most legal rights to newly freed slaves following the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This 1890 law was designed to prevent monopolies and promote competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Following this event, women were given suffrage with the nineteenth amendment.
What is World War I?
This pamphlet, by Thomas Paine, helped encourage colonists to call for their independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This idea, that women should keep proper Christian homes because the public sphere was for men would be popular with trad wives today.
What is cult of domesticity?
This treaty formally ended the Mexican-American War, providing the United States with the territories that would eventually become California, Nevada, Utah, parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This influential steel magnate was known for his philosophy of philanthropy, termed the "Gospel of Wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
During the depths of the 1930s Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed for this series of reforms, setting a precedent for the federal government to play a more active role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.
What is the New Deal?
This rebellion by mostly Massachusetts farmers over tax and debt relief led to a call for a stronger federal government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This doctrine sought to limit the influence of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This man was known as the "Great Compromiser" for his role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of "separate but equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The publication of this book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is the Jungle (by Upton Sinclair)?
This Native American uprising over the Ohio Territory led to the Proclamation of 1763.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling prevented Black Americans from suing in court regardless of slavery status because they were not considered citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This political party was able to harness growing discontent following the Panic of 1893 and gave a voice to a radical program for change that included increased democracy, a graduated income tax, regulation of the railroads, and currency reform.
What is the Populist Party?
This Supreme Court case upheld the legality of Japanese internment during World War II.
What is Korematsu v. United States?