Colonial America
This labor system promised freedom and land after a period of service, but often ended in poverty.
What is indentured servitude?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine made a persuasive argument for independence.
What is Common Sense?
Abraham Lincoln issued this document in 1863 as a military tactic, but it meant much more to the enslaved in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term described journalists who exposed corruption and social injustice.
What are muckrakers?
This 5th president of the United States developed a international policy doctrine that strongly influenced US neutrality in the 19th century.
Who is James Monroe?
This British colony was developed as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This 1781 battle led to the British surrender and effectively ended the Revolutionary War. Lin-Manuel Miranda sang that it created a "World Turned Upside Down."
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This Reconstruction agency provided education and aid to freedmen.
What is the Freeedmen's Bureau?
This author gave the Gilded Age its nickname, as he satirized the glitz and glamour of the wealthy at the turn of the 20th century. He now has a Kennedy Center Prize named after him that is awarded to other satirists and comedians.
Who was Mark Twain?
This president who lived the strenuous life was known for his “Square Deal” and trust-busting policies.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia reflected the sizzling tensions between frontier settlers and colonial elites.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
These laws passed in 1798 targeted immigrants and restricted speech.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This constitutional amendment created birthright citizenship, aimed at protecting the citizenship rights of the formerly enslaved.
The Supreme Court's decision in this 1896 case upheld racial segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This president’s “Fourteen Points” proposed a League of Nations at end of World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This 1649 Maryland law was one of the first to guarantee religious freedom (for Christians).
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
This 1786 rebellion of farmers showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This president succeeded Lincoln and was impeached by the House of Representatives.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This is the derisive nickname for wealthy industrialists who were also seen as exploiters of workers.
What are robber barons?
This president came into office using the “Southern Strategy” in the 1968 election. He resigned from the office in 1974.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This economic theory held that colonies existed to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention created a bicameral legislature, one house with proportional representation and the other with equal representation.
What is the Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise)?
Rutherford B. Hayes made this deal to ensure he would get to be president. It marked the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
The Populist Party supported this economic policy related to coinage that was meant to help farmers in debt.
What is free silver / bimetallism?
This president escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam following the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?