Period 1
This exchange brought crops, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Give two precedents of Washington's farewell address....
Two Terms
Neutrality in Foreign Affairs
This Eli Whitney invention that increased slavery
cotton gin
This 1820 agreement balanced free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
This muckraking journalist exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
This policy, first put into place by Harry S Truman, aimed to prevent the spread of Soviet influence abroad.
Containment
This conservative president, elected in 1980, implemented supply-side economics and increased military spending.
Ronald Reagan
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)
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This conflict led to a brief period of nationalistic fervor, and helped the U.S. gain respect abroad.
What is the War of 1812?
The place where Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
Where is Appotomax Court House?
The buying of land shortly following the Mexican-American war that consisted of parts of modern Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
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 term refers to the increased interconnectedness of the world through trade, technology, and cultural exchange.
globalization
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
This 1620 agreement established self-government among Pilgrims in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
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
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
This Progressive Era president was known for his "Square Deal" and his efforts at trust-busting and conservation.
Teddy Roosevelt
This Supreme Court case in 1954 declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown V Board of Education
This major foreign policy event involved the United States leading a coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion in 1991.
Persian Gulf War
Which event resulted in the creation of the Intolerable Acts?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
President who vetoed the national bank, voice of the common man, and pushed through the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Battle of Saratoga?
Nickname for Monroe's presidency that reflected a rising sense of nationalism (1817-1825).
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Two reasons the US entered World War I.
The Sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare) and the Zimmerman Telegram
The event that completed the recovery of the nation from The Great Depression
What is World War II
This event in 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This piece of legislation, passed in response to the September 11th attacks, expanded government surveillance powers.
Patriot Act
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
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?
Head of the supreme court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalists policies (strong national government)
John Marshall
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
This SCOTUS case established the "separate but equal" ruling that would inspire many Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
Populist movement
This movement inspired the doctrine of "survival of the fittest," and was commonly exercised in late-1800s America.
Social Darwinism
This legislative package, championed by Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to create programs addressing poverty, education, and civil rights.
The Great Society
This state decided the winner of the 2000 Election?
What is Florida?