Periods 1, 2, & 3
The French predominately engaged in this type of trade with the Native American Indians.
What is the fur trade?
This was the name of the political party of the era that supported nativist policies.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
This trial symbolizes the desire by some to return to religious fundamentalism in the 1920's as the speakeasies, flappers, jazz music, and easy money seemed to defy morality and religion.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This court case declared separate but equal unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
Lincoln suspended this in border states during the civil war. Roger Taney did not believe the Constitution granted the president this power.
What is habeas corpus?
After witnessing the treatment of Native American Indians by the Spanish colonists, he argued that Spain should turn to Africa for labor and contributed to the Black Legend.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
The belief in the superiority of whites and democracy as the most supreme form of government may have contributed to this ideology of expansionism.
What is Manifest destiny?
An example of a conflict between labor and management that erupted after an 8 day strike and a bomb being thrown into the crowd
What is the Haymarket riot
This Great society Program ensure that Americans 65 and older would be guaranteed healthcare.
What is Medicare?
Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to increase the size of this government body to ensure his New Deal programs would be legally upheld.
What is the number of Supreme Court justices?
After Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia increased its use of slave labor while decreasing its use of this form of contract labor.
What is indentured servitude?
This element of the Compromise of 1850 further increased the north’s belief in a slave power conspiracy.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
This amendment allows people to vote directly for Senators
What is the 17th amendment?
Students from this university died during a protest of the Vietnam War.
What is Kent State?
The idea that resident of a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
What is Popular sovereignty?
Hamilton, Madison and Jay wrote these to convince NY to ratify the Constitution.
What is the Federalist Papers?
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are leaders of this movement, which rejected the material world and called for a closer connection to nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
This Amendment guaranteed blacks citizenship, as well as all people born in the United States, thus providing equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
This was the group who were in support of Nixon and the war but did not express their opinions publicly.
Who are the Silent Majority?
This Supreme Court case upheld that free speech was not absolute and could be restricted.
What is Schenck v. U.S. (1919)?
The adoption of the Articles of Confederation as the first post-Independence form of government was a reaction to the colonists fear of this.
What is a strong, tyrannical, centralized government?
This Supreme Court decision, in dictum, declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is Scott v. Sandford or Dred Scott case?
This 1890s group was founded and supported government regulation of trade and economic well being for farmers as well as attacked the Gold Standard.
Who are the Populist Party?
Reagan believed government was a roadblock to the economy and advocated for this, which is lifting restrictions on industries such as the airlines and banks.
What is deregulation?
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty.
What is social darwinism or the Gospel of wealth?