Time Period 5 (1848-1877)
the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole North America and to extend and enhance its political, social and economic influences
What is Manifest Destiny
Group of people who began to organize and fight for better conditions in Industrial cities
Who is labor/ factory workers
Fear of foreigners, an example of this would be the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
What is xenophobia
African American seamstress who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggering a boycott of the bus system that sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks
The 9/11 attacks were carried out by this alledged terrorist regime
Who is Al-Qaeda
This document declared "that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are and henceforward shall be free"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This caused farmers to go in debt and led to overproduction and falling prices
What is new technology or industrialization
Plan made by Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief after the Great Depression
What is The New Deal
The generation that caused a sudden increase in the birth rate that occurred in the United States after World War II and lasted roughly until 1964.
Who is Baby Boomers
famous court cause that legalized abortion
What is Roe vs Wade
A white supremacy force created by Confederate veterans which results in the creation of the Justice Department
What is the Ku Klux Klan
The system of labor that dominated the South despite efforts to industrialize like the North
What is sharecropping
Era the emphasized individualized treatment in the states ability to solve problems
What is Progressive Era
1954 court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education
Torn down in 1989, marking the end of the Cold War
What is The Fall of The Berlin Wall
A case in which the Supreme court ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
Laws created in the South to enforce segregation after Reconstruction ended
What are Jim Crow Laws
aggressive nativism after WWI results in the federal government taking these measures to slow the rate of immigrants
what is the quota system or national origins act
Health insurance program created in 1965 for the elderly and disabled, providing government payment for health care supplied by private doctors and hospitals.
What is Medicare
reformation of the health care system for universal coverage
What is Obama care/ Affordable Care Act
This was a crisis in financial and economic conditions in the U.S. following changes in the banking system initiated by President Andrew Jackson and his Specie Circular that effectively dried up credit
What is the Panic of 1837
A belief that stated the benefits of industrialization should benefit all people equally and all business decisions should be controlled by the government
What is socialism
Group of writers, journalist and critics who expose the corporate and political corruption in the 1st decade of the 20th century
What is Muckrakers
Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for supremacy in technology and spaceflight.
What is the Space Race
Our knowledge and response to this human-driven weather phenomenon became the source of political discord through this period and today
What is Global Warming