What religious movement emphasized emotional preaching and individual faith in the 1730s–1740s
Great Awakening
What law banned certain immigration in 1882?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What system of racial segregation was legally upheld in the late 1800s under “separate but equal”?
Jim Crow laws
What major weakness in the 1920s economy contributed to the Great Depression?
Unequal distribution of wealth
What 1848 meeting is considered the first organized women’s rights convention in the U.S.?
Seneca Falls Convention
What political conflict led to the creation of the first party system? 2 things
Debate over federal power and Hamilton’s ideas about a national bank
What political movement represented farmers and supported free silver?
Populist Party
What early U.S. foreign policy aimed to avoid involvement in European conflicts during Washington’s presidency? (it is not isolationism. It has the word proclamation in it)
Neutrality Proclamation
What government action in the late 1800s attempted to break up monopolies but was often used against labor unions instead?
Sherman Antitrust Act
What 1933–1939 set of programs was created to combat the economic problems of the era?
New Deal
What policy warned European nations not to colonize the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
What war marked the beginning of U.S. overseas expansion in 1898?
Spanish-American War
What economic system replaced slavery in the South but still kept many African Americans in poverty?
Sharecropping
What argument was used to justify U.S. involvement in Vietnam based on the spread of communism?
Domino Theory
What 1832 crisis involved South Carolina attempting to nullify a federal tariff?
Nullification Crisis
What president expanded white male suffrage?
Andrew Jackson
What program provided economic aid to rebuild Europe after WWII?
Marshall Plan
What policy promoted tax cuts and deregulation in the 1980s?
Reaganomics
What came after the election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden which led to the removal of federal troops and marked the end of reconstruction?
Compromise of 1877
What 1965 law eliminated national-origin quotas and reshaped U.S. immigration patterns?
Immigration and Nationality Act
What strategy involves controlling all steps of production?
Vertical integration
What program aimed to eliminate poverty in the 1960s?
Great Society
What New Deal program focused specifically on creating jobs through public works projects?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
What 1794 event tested the authority of the new federal government to enforce its laws?
Whiskey Rebellion
What 1831 rebellion led by an enslaved man increased Southern fears and led to stricter slave laws?
Nat Turner’s Rebellion