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POOR FARMERS REBELLING AGAINST WEALTHY LAWMAKERS. SHOWED THE AVERAGE POOR FARMER IN AMERICA WAS DIFFERENT AND DID NOT MIND STANDING UP FOR HIS RIGHTS.
Bacon's Rebellion
FIRST GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; LITTLE POWER; STATES HELD ALL THE POWER; ONLY A LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Articles of Confederation
Restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces.
Black Codes
An intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
Harlem Renaissance
Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Truman Doctrine
THE PART OF TRANSATLANTIC TRADE FROM AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS; SLAVE TRADE
Middle Passage
REBELLION BY FARMERS AGAINST HAMILTON'S ECONOMIC PLAN. THE REBELLION WAS PUT DOWN SHOWING THE UNITED STATES COULD ENFORCE ITS LAWS UNDER THE NEW CONSTITUTION
Whiskey Rebellion
An enterprise that is the only seller of a good or service.
Monopoly
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
Dust Bowl
The Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first.
Sputnik 1
FOUGHT BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND THE BRITISH; BRITISH VICTORY; CAUSED THE BRITISH TO IMPOSE TAXES ON THE COLONISTS WHICH THE COLONISTS OPPOSED; SEEN AS ONE CAUSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
French and Indian War
TERRITORY IN CENTRAL UNITED STATES; BOUGHT FROM FRANCE BY PRESIDENT JEFFERSON; DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE US
Louisiana Purchase
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops. The climax of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians.
Wounded Knee Creek
It gave employees the right to form and join unions, and it obligated employers to bargain collectively with unions selected by a majority of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit.
Wagner Act
A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
Brown v. Board of Education
SUPPORTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THAT USED PROPAGANDA TO INCITE SUPPORT FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
THE BELIEF THAT AMERICA HAD A CHRISTIAN DUTY TO EXPAND FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
Manifest Destiny
The case that upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races."
Plessy v. Ferguson
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
Battle of Midway
A failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States. It was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
LORD CORNWALLIS SURRENDERED HERE; MARKED AMERICAN VICTORY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Battle of Yorktown
MISSOURI ADMITTED AS A SLAVE STATE; MAINE AS A FREE STATE; LINE DRAWN IN WHICH SLAVERY COULD NOT BE NORTH. DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY THE DRED SCOTT DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT
Missouri Compromise
United States federal law enacted shortly after the United States entered World War I. Sought to stifle any criticism of the government or the war and allowed the Postmaster General to intercept mail containing such criticisms.
Espionage Act
A surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor
The most important written document of the civil rights era. The letter served as a tangible, reproducible account of the long road to freedom in a movement that was largely centered around actions and spoken words.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail