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This senator from Kentucky persuaded Congress to accept the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Maine into the Union as a free state, and Missouri as a slave state
Who is Henry Clay?
This war was fought over slavery between 1861-1865
What is the Civil War?
This term refers to restraining the drinking of alcohol.
What is temperance?
This compromise was an agreement between the North and South stating that Maine would be admitted into the union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
What is the Missouri compromise?
Part of the New Deal, this act signed by President Roosevelt created social insurance program designed to pay retired workers aged 65 and older a continuing income after retirement
What is the Social Security Act?
This American slave sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the Missouri Compromise. Led to the declaration of Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional
Who is Dred Scott?
This telegram put the U.S. into the First Great War after an interception from the British
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
God-Given belief that Americans were destined to expand westward
What is Manifest Destiny?
This compromise stated that 3/5 of the slave population would be counted towards House Representation and taxation
What is the 3/5 compromise?
This United States lawyer and poet wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812. The poem later became the Star-Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
This figure had a monopoly over the steel industry in the second industrial revolution
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This deadly riot occurred on March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts between colonists and British soldiers
What is the Boston Massacre?
The practice of extending a country's influence and power through diplomatic or military force in the search of more political and economic power
What is imperialism?
Also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, this treaty between the United States and Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.
What is the Adams-onis treaty?
This British joint-stock company which was based primarily in East India sold a variety of products, mainly tea
What is the East India Company?
This Slave from VA led a group of slaves to kill their slaveholders and families which led to the slave state's stricter control on the slave population.
Who is Nat Turner?
This series of violent civil confrontations were between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Named after an American senator, this practice of making accusations of subversion or treason, especially when related to communism became widespread during the Second Red Scare.
What is McCarthyism?
This agreement between the United States and Mexico gave California and New Mexico to the U.S. in return for the Rio Grand being the boundary of Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This set of domestic programs launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson were aimed to fight racial injustice as well as eliminate poverty.
What is the Great Society?
This leading female progressivist later won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on internationalism and peace.
Who is Jane Adams
This major political scandal involving the Nixon Administration
What is the Watergate scandal?
Written by Andrew Carnegie, this set of principles and book states that the rich have an obligation to aid the poor
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This treaty stated that Britain was to pay for American ships that were seized in 1793 and in return, Americans had to pay British merchant debts
What is Jay's treaty?
This short-lived political party was mainly focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, merged into the Republican party in 1854
What is the Free Soil Party?