Period 1/2
A vicious economic system created by the success of African slave trade. Ships were sent to Africa to purchase slaves, then the slave ships were sent to the Americas, and the fruits of the slaves’ labor were transported back to Europe.
What is Triangular Trade?
First direct tax on the everyday citizen, placing a steep tax on any paper product.
What is the Stamp Act?
The northern strategy for the Civil war. They planned to use their strong navy to blockade the entire South, then take the Mississippi River to cut the CSA in half, and finally invade Richmond.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Anti-imperialist policy regarding China during a time when it was increasingly being torn up and weakened by colonial forces. Stated that China’s territorial boundaries should be respected as long as it maintains free trade with other countries.
What is the Open Door Policy?
Officially known as the Strategic Defense System, an initiative launched by the Reagan administration to protect the American homeland. It was generally considered unfeasible, as it would involve the construction of a space-based shield that would cover the United States and render it invulnerable to nuclear strikes.
The economic system in which a colony (that being a small offshoot of a “mother country” in another location) is economically isolated from its surroundings and forced to only do trade with its mother country, to maximize profits for the mother country and create a domestic market in the colony.
What is Mercantilism?
The author of Common Sense and the American Crisis, an influential writer who used rhetoric to convince loyalists and further rouse the patriots. These two pamphlets were significant in popularizing the idea of American independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Apparatus of political allies that use corrupt practices to gain a widespread base in big cities and control politics, primarily protecting business interests.
What is a Political Machine?
A Wickes-class destroyer commissioned into the U.S. Navy on December 31, 1918, shortly after World War I. It became the first U.S. Navy warship to engage in hostile action with a German U-boat before the United States had officially entered World War II.
What is the USS Greer?
A 1974 federally-supported publicity campaign to change consumer attitudes in the United States, in response to high inflation. Rather than changing the fiscal policy of the country, the government instead chose to inform Americans that they can reduce inflation through personal saving and disciplined spending habits.
What is Whip Inflation Now?
A policy in the settlement of the 13 Colonies that granted land to people who paid to transport others into the colony.
What is the Headright System?
Plan for American economic growth by Henry Clay, some parts were put into action and others were opposed. The plan advocated for a rechartered National Bank, which had slowly lost its reputation as a negative Federalist concept and gained support in the Democratic-Republican party.
What is the American System?
Book by Andrew Carnegie, owner of U.S. Steel. Proposed an alternative, more egalitarian justification for capitalism, theorizing that the lower classes had a right to support the upper class in exchange for the upper class aiding the lower class.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Law passed during the 1920s to combat immigration. Only permitted a specific number of immigrants into the country in a time period, and when that number was reached, no more immigrants would be allowed into the country until the time period elapsed.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
Civil rights group founded as a result of the sit-ins and served as a youth wing of southern Christian organizations that supported civil rights. They aimed to make decisions based on participatory democracy and consensus.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
The subject of the Valladolid Debate between Bartoleme De Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda.
What are Encomiendas?
The ruling given by the Supreme Court in Gibbons v. Ogden.
What is "Only the Federal government could regulate interstate commerce?"
Jacksonian Democrats who believed that the Civil war was unjust and that the Union should sue for peace immediately.
Who are the Copperheads?
Act that prevented large corporations from engaging in behavior that would limit or harm economic competition between businesses. Served as an expansion to an earlier Act.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
Covert operation performed by the CIA and British intelligence supporting Iranian paramilitary organization and instigating a coup d'etat against the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. It was intended to protect the oil trade in the region, as the prime minister was attempting to nationalize oil fields in the country, which was tantamount to British and American economic growth.
What is Operation Ajax?
Spanish people born in Spain, living/working in the Colonies.
What are Peninsulares?
A method for strengthening rubber tires by using sulfur to bind together the individual polymers within the rubber.
What is Vulcanization?
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. Ceded California, Utah, New Mexico, and southern Texas to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
1898 Supreme Court ruling and landmark case on immigration. Cemented birthright citizenship as the law of the land and combated common nativist sentiment at the time.
What is the United States v. Wong Kim Irk?
Architect of the Republican Revolution, who was influential in politics and the government during the 1990s. As Speaker of the House he helped to push new legislation and compromise with the president to create reform.