Unit 1
This is a government system where power is shared between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
This was the belief that power resides in the people and they deserve to vote on the issue of slavery in their territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This is the process of becoming similar to others by taking in and using their customs and culture.
What is assimilation?
This is used when Newspapers use sensational headlines & exaggerated stories in order to promote readership
What is Yellow Press/Journalism?
This is when countries use other counties to fight a war for them and they do not engage directly with each other.
What is a Proxy War?
This is a marine animal that has no bones.
What is a shark?
This early political party were supporters of the Constitution. They liked the balance of power between state and national government and were led by Alexander Hamilton.
What were the Federalists?
This was the Union strategy during the Civil war to create a naval blockade of the Confederacy in order to prevent the export of their major cash crop cotton or the import of weapons from Europe.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
These people were African Americans who moved from post reconstruction south to Kansas to escape discrimination.
Who were Exodusters?
This is a form of diplomacy where countries use their armed forces to get what they want.
What is militarism?
This was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, between 1945 and 1991
What was the Cold War?
This is the smallest country in the entire world.
What is Venice City?
This event highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
This term was coined by the New York Tribune to describe the violence between pro and anti slavery factions between 1854 and 1858. The violence was an attempt to influence whether Kansas would become a free or slave state.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This is the economic policy that states governments should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
What is Laissez-Faire Economics?
This war began after the American demand for Spain's peaceful resolution of the Cuban fight for independence was rejected.
What is the Spanish American War?
In, 1962, this was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This is the term used to describe a group of porcupines.
What is a prickle?
This Ordinance was created in 1787 to provide a feature for dividing the land into territories when admitting new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens
What is the Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v. Sandofrd?
This political party supported the regulation of railroads and banking, the free and unlimited coinage of silver, a system of federal farm loans, the popular election of Senators, the secret ballot, a graduated income tax, an eight-hour workday, and restrictions on immigration
Who were Populists?
The note was intercepted on March 1, 1917 by the U.S. government. This was a major factor that led us into WWI. It was from a German foreign secretary. In this note he had secretly proposed a German- Mexican alliance. He tempted Mexico with the ideas of recovering Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from authoritarian (communist) forces
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This US President had a pet alligator in the White House and kept it in the Tub.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
This was decided in 1803 when the Supreme Court, for the first time, struck down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. This decision created the doctrine of judicial review and set up the Supreme Court.
What is the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison?
He was the 7th president of the United States and was most known for the Indian Removal Act, Nullification Crisis, nicknamed "Old Hickory," first southern/western president," president for the common man, spoils system, Trail of Tears, Henry Clay
Who was Andrew Jackson?
In 1906 it forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
These policies helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. These programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation.
What were the New Deal policies?
This is a situation in which laws do not segregate people, but society does.
What is De Facto Segregation?
This is the year Mr. Day got his first girlfriend.
What is 2013?