US Presidents
US Constitution
Sectionalism
Foreign Policy
US "Wars"
100

This president won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Camp David Accords

Jimmy Carter

100

This concept from the Enlightenment set up the three branches of government

Separation of Powers

100

The Missouri Compromise meant to create a balance between slave and free states in this part of goverment

US Senate

100

This man gave the advice to "avoid permanent entangling alliances" in his Farewell Address

George Washington

100

The US obtained territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean, including what will become the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California

Mexican War

200

This president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France

Thomas Jefferson

200

This concept is a division of power betwen the national and state governments

Federalism

200

This compromise allowed CA to enter the union as a free state and the government to pass a strong fugitive slave act

Compromise of 1850

200

This warning to Europe stated that the Western Hemsiphere is no longer open to additional colonization

Monroe Doctrine

200

This "war" during the Cold War created a demilitarized zone that currently still exists at the 38th parallel

Korean War

300

This man is the only one to have resigned from the office of the presidency

Richard Nixon

300

The Bill of Rights was added to the US Constituion based on the demands of this group

Anti-federalists

300

This act opened up territory that was intended to be free to popular sovereignty and led to a mini civil war in the mid-west

Kansas-'Nebraska Act

300

The theory of domino is what led the US into this long controversial "war"

Vietnam

300

This "war" was declared by Congress following September 11, 2001

War on Terror

400

This president led a "war on poverty" under his vision of The Great Society

Lyndon B Johnson

400

This amendment guarantees equal protection under the law and was the key in both Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education

14th amendment

400

This man was a white abolitionist and editor of The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison

400

At the beginning of both WWI and WWII, the US followed a policy of ____________________. 

Neutrality

400

The US became an imperial power by acquiring Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines

Spanish-American War

500

This president enforced the payment of the whiskey tax by leading troops to suppress a rebellion

George Washington

500

The US Constitution replace this as the official government of the US

Articles of Confederation

500

This man was an escaped slave who was articulate and at the forfront of the movement to abolish slavery

Frederick Douglass

500

The US vowed to assist "free peoples resisting outside pressures" in this 1947 statement

Truman Doctrine

500

This war involved secession, states' rights, and slavery

The Civil War

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