Expansion and Migration
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States and gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River (4.2)
The Louisiana Purchase
This 1823 policy warned European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs in the Western Hemisphere (4.4)
The Monroe Doctrine
This 1787 agreement settled the dispute between large and small states by creating a bicameral legislature (3.7)
The Great Compromise
This 1848 meeting in New York is considered the formal start of the organized women’s rights movement in the U.S (4.7)
Seneca Falls Convention
This 1920s term described the "new woman" who wore short skirts, bobbed her hair, and listened to jazz.
A Flapper
This 1830 law, signed by Andrew Jackson, authorized the forced removal of the "Five Civilized Tribes" from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to territory west of the Mississippi (4.8)
The Indian Removal Act
Triggered by the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, this 1898 conflict led to the U.S. acquiring territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines (7.2)
The Spanish-American War
During the Gilded Age, this New York City political machine, led by "Boss" Tweed, became the symbol of urban political corruption (6.4)
Tammany Hall
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine, legalizing Jim Crow segregation for decades (6.3)
Plessy v. Ferguson
This 1820 agreement attempted to maintain the sectional balance between free and slave states by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
The Missouri Compromise
This 1862 act encouraged Western settlement by providing 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm it for five years (6.2)
The Homestead Act
This was the primary U.S. strategy during the Cold War, intended to prevent the spread of communism beyond its existing borders (8.2)
Containment
This "Common Man" President's election in 1828 signaled a shift in power toward the "mudsill" of society and away from the Eastern elite (4.8)
Andrew Jackson
This 1863 presidential proclamation declared that all slaves in areas currently in rebellion against the United States were "thenceforward, and forever free" (5.8)
The Emancipation Proclamation
This is the only U.S. state that is an island archipelago and was once a sovereign kingdom before being annexed in 1898
Hawaii
This was the massive movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West during and after World War I (7.6)
The Great Migration
This 1763 proclamation by the British Crown forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, sparking early colonial resentment (3.2)
Proclamation of 1763
This 1930s series of programs and reforms, led by FDR, significantly expanded the role of the federal government in the economy (7.9)
The New Deal
This 1954 landmark Supreme Court case overturned the "separate but equal" doctrine in public schools (8.6)
Brown v. Board of Education
This 1969 music festival in upstate New York became the defining moment for the 1960s counterculture movement
Woodstock
To limit "New Immigration," this 1924 act established strict quotas based on the 1890 census, severely restricting migrants from Southern and Eastern Europe (7.8)
The Immigration Act of 1924
This 1947 plan provided billions of dollars in economic aid to help rebuild Western Europe after WWII, primarily to make communism look less attractive (8.2)
The Marshall Plan
This 1798 set of laws allowed the president to deport non-citizens and made it a crime to criticize the government, leading to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (3.9)
The Alien and Sedition Acts
In 1680, this indigenous leader led a successful revolt against Spanish colonial rule in present-day New Mexico, the most successful uprising of its kind (2.2)
Popé
This 19th-century inventor, held over 1,000 patents, including those for the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting electric light bulb
Thomas Edison