American Foundations
Expelled from Mass Bay Colony and established Rhode Island
Who is Roger Williams
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Between 1850 and 1871 alone, __________ companies received more than 175,000,000 acres of public land, an area larger than the state of Texas. Investors reaped enormous profits.
What is railroad
As a result of this, New York City’s Black population grew 257 percent, from 91,709 in 1910 to 327,706 by 1930 (the white population grew only 20 percent)
What is the Great Migration?
Brown v. Board of Education overturned this previous ruling regarding the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
what is Plessy v. Ferguson
This Virginia event grew out of tensions between Native Americans and English settlers as well as tensions between wealthy English landowners and the poor settlers who continually pushed west into territory controlled by Native Americans.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
Strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, outlawed slave trade in DC, established CA as a free state, and permitted popular sovereignty in NM and UT
What is the Compromise of 1850
Purchasing/merging with all competing companies that sell the same project.
What is horizontal integration?
Establishing the SEC created federal regulations governing the stock market to limit extreme speculation. This speculation was caused by this behavior, common in the 1920s.
What is buying on margin
A confidential and damning history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam commissioned by the Defense Department and later leaked, this collection of documents showed how presidents from Truman to Johnson repeatedly deceived the public on the Vietnam war’s scope and direction
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This was the first governing document of the new United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This case Ruled that Black Americans could not be citizens of the United States and therefore could be transported as chattel from any state to another regardless of state law
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
He critiqued Booker T. Washington and urged Black Americans to concede to nothing, to make no compromises and advocate for equal rights under the law.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois
New York congressman Fiorello LaGuardia, who later served as mayor of New York City, captured public sentiment when he denounced this government program, established by Hoover, as a “millionaire’s dole.”
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
In November 1969, dozens from this organization began a year-and-a-half-long occupation of the abandoned Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
What is the Bill of Rights?
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction because
what is it removed federal troops from the south?
As labor became less skilled, workers established ____________ allegiances with fellow workers, rather than building relationships with different levels of hierarchy in the workplace.
what is horizontal
The group of senators who were never going to sign on to the Treaty of Versailles because of the League of Nations were known as this.
Who are the Irreconcilables?
George H. W. Bush had belittled this theory as “voodoo economics” during the 1980 Republican primaries, before he became Ronald Reagan's Vice President.
What is supply-side (aka "trickle down") economics?
The ruling that the Supreme Court reserved the right to decide whether an act of Congress violated the Constitution. In other words, the court assumed the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
1. 3/5 Clause
2. Fugitive Slave Law
3. Protecting international slave trade until 1808
This was the signature piece of Roosevelt’s Second New Deal. It provided for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and economic aid, based on means, to assist both the elderly and dependent children and was financed by payroll, NOT the federal government.
What is Social Security?
With this agreement, President Bill Clinton opened the nation’s northern and southern borders to the free flow of capital and goods
What is NAFTA