Presidents
President who coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny" ?
Who was Polk?
Issued in 1862, this declared that all slaves were free in the Rebel and Union states?
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
What invention increased slavery in the south?
What was the cotton gin?
Largest and bloodiest battle of the American Civil War; Union victory.
What was the Gettsyburg Battle?
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy; envisioned the colony as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world.
Who was John Winthrop?
Nickname for John Quincy Adam's victory in during the 1824 elections?
What is Corrupt Bargain?
Ruled that Indians were dependent domestic nations which could be regulated by the federal government.
What was Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)?
An artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo; supported by New York Governor Dewitt Clinton.
Historical Significance:
Lowered shipping costs, fueling an economic boom in upstate New York and increasing the profitability of farming in the Old Northwest.
What was the Erie Canel?
This rebellion was caused by the great debt, severe economic depression, and underpaid war veterans in 1787. It undermined the strength of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
Was included in the Article of Confederations and helped organize the new territories west of New England?
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Ordered the removal of Indian Tribes still residing east of the Mississippi to newly established Indian Territory west of Arkansas and Missouri; those resisting eviction were forcibly removed by American forces, often after prolonged legal or military battles.
What was the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
Railroad line that linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system; constructed by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads; completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah.
Historical Significance:
Established a mechanized transcontinental transportation network that revolutionized the population and economy of the American West.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Ended French and Indian War
Terms:
Britain gained all of French Canada & all territory south of Canada & east of the Mississippi River.
France & Spain lost their West Indian colonies.
Britain gained Spanish Florida.
Spain gained French territory west of the Mississippi, including control of the port city of New Orleans.
What was the Peace of Paris (1763)?
Andrew Carnegie's call for community service in 1889
What was the Gospel of Wealth?
Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South and Central America through the use of military force
What was Roosevelt Corollary?
Ruled that no person descended from an American slave could ever be a U.S. citizen and that slavery could not legally be excluded from U.S. territories.
Historical Significance:
Strengthened Northern slavery opposition; divided the Democratic Party while strengthening the Republican Party; encouraged secessionist elements among Southern supporters of slavery to make bolder demands.
What was the Dred Scott Decesion?
Effort made by the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain to construct an atomic bomb; led by Robert Oppenheimer.
What was the Manhatten Project?
The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period; inspired in part by Spanish officials' promise of freedom for American slaves who escaped to Florida.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
Surpreme court case that enforced judicial power 1803
What was Marbury vs Madison?
Under JFK an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the U.S. government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
The first major legal restriction on immigration to the U.S.; prohibited further unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A corporate expansion strategy in which companies acquire their competitors.
What was horizontal integration?
The program under which the US supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, France and other Allied nations with vast amounts of war material between 1941 and 1945.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Replaced the Molasses Act (1733).
Reduced the duties on imported sugar, while the British made a concerted effort to enforce the act & punish smugglers.
What were the sugar acts?