America and the World
What year did the United States enter WW1?
1917
This doctrine pledged American support to nations resisting communist expansion.
Truman doctrine
What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
The 13th Amendment
This term describes the system where landowners paid for a laborer’s passage in exchange for several years of service.
Indentured Servants
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Nixon was the first U.S. president to visit this communist country in 1972, opening diplomatic relations.
China
What Cold War conflict did the U.S. enter in the 1950s to prevent the spread of communism in Asia?
Korea
What federal agency was created to help formerly enslaved people after the Civil War?
The Freedman's Bureau
This movement in the 1730s and 1740s emphasized personal religious experience and led to new denominations.
The First Great Awakening
She was a key figure in the women’s rights movement and co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What war in 1898 resulted in the U.S. gaining territories like Puerto Rico and the Philippines?
The Spanish-American War.
What U.S. program helped rebuild Western Europe after WWII?
The Marshall Plan
What laws were passed in Southern states to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans?
The Black Codes
What 1676 rebellion in Virginia highlighted tensions between frontier settlers and colonial leaders?
Bacons Rebellion
Who was a leading abolitionist who published The North Star?
Frederick Douglass
What international alliance, formed in 1949, pledged mutual defense against the Soviet Union?
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What bill provided education and housing benefits to returning veterans from WW2?
The G.I. Bill
What term describes Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction to assist or profit?
Carpetbaggers
This colony was known for its religious tolerance and was founded by William Penn.
Pennsylvania
This speech with 14 points outlined which president's vision for a postwar world and included the creation of the League of Nations?
Woodrow Wilson
Spain used this system to extract labor and tribute from indigenous populations in its colonies.
Encomienda System
This resolution, passed by Congress in 1964, gave President Johnson broad powers to escalate the Vietnam War.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What deal effectively ended Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877
These laws restricted colonial trade to benefit England and were often ignored through "salutary neglect."
Navigation Acts
Which president spoke at Johns Hopkins University in 1965 outlining the rationale for American involvement in Southeast Asia?
Lyndon B. Johnson