Colonization & Conflict
The three Gs of Spanish colonization
What was God, Gold, and Glory?
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This conflict led to a brief period of nationalistic fervor, and helped the U.S. gain respect abroad.
What was the War of 1812?
This 1865 amendment abolished slavery.
What is 13th Amendment
This 1917 act punished interference with the war effort during WWI.
What was the Espionage Act?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Revolt in 1680 temporarily drove the Spanish out of New Mexico
What is the Pueblo Revolt? (or Pope's Rebellion)
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
This religious revival movement emphasized individual salvation and sparked reform
What was the Second Great Awakening?
This 1877 agreement ended Reconstruction in exchange for a Republican presidency.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This New Deal agency provided jobs through public works projects.
What was the Works Progress Administration? (WPA)
A letter written in 1963 while its author was jailed for protesting segregation. It defends civil disobedience.
What is "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
This 1676 uprising shifted Virginia’s labor system toward racial slavery
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
This meeting in 1774 coordinated colonial resistance against the Intolerable Acts
What was the First Continental Congress?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What was the American System?
This philosophy promoted by Carnegie justified wealth through philanthropy
What was the Gospel of Wealth
This Cold War doctrine pledged to support nations resisting communism
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This document, issued in 1823, warned European powers to stay out of the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
He founded Rhode Island based on religious freedom and separation of church and state.
Who was Roger Williams?
This 1787 event highlighted the need for a stronger national government
What was Shays' Rebellion?
This 1854 law repealed the Missouri Compromise and reignited sectional tensions.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1896 case upheld segregation under "separate but equal."
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
This 1964 law ended segregation and banned discrimination in public places.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
A wartime executive order issued in 1942 that led to the internment of Japanese Americans
What was EO 9066?
This 1619 institution in Virginia was the first representative legislative body in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
What was Dred Scott v Sandford?
This strike in 1894 was crushed by federal troops under President Cleveland.
What was the Pullman Strike?
This 1980s economic policy emphasized tax cuts and deregulation.
What is Reaganomics?
A statement issued in 1848 calling for women's equality and modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?