periods 1-2 (1449-1754)
A formed territorial political society that is shared under one government through shared cultural and ethnic aspects.
What is a nation-state?
A powerful Protestant religious revival movement in the United States.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
The belief that God had destined the US to spread the empire of liberty across North America.
What was the Manifest Destiny?
A pledge to support people fighting any communist threats.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Eliminated tariffs and trade barriers.
What was NAFTA?
English propaganda against Spanish colonization was used to convince people that English colonization was more moral.
What is the Black legend?
The practice of good citizenship is where people try to be good and participate publicly to benefit their community.
What is Civic virtue?
Executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared slaves in the Confederate States to be Free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
US policy to strengthen ties with Latin America and open markets.
What was the Big Sister Policy?
Women's constitutional right to abortion, protected under the right to privacy, and overturned.
What was Roe v. Wade?
5 allied Native American nations that created a government system to maintain peace and become powerful/influential in those regions.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
A policy for administering the Northwest territories for statehood forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
A theory that applies to survival of the fittest, which suggests that stronger people in society will naturally take over weaker ones, showing social inequality and imperialism.
What is the Survival of the Fittest?
A political and social movement that prioritized the interests of Native-born Americans over immigrants.
What was the Nativist Movement?
A political action committee that promoted traditional American Christian values and opposed feminism, abortion, and gay rights.
What was the Moral Majority?
A religious movement that swept across the American colonies where people should make personal connections with God away from ministers.
By George Washington, America would remain neutral in the conflicts between England and France.
Required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
What were the Fugitive Slave Laws?
A political scandal involving the Nixon administration, where a break-in happened at the DNC headquarters and was covered up.
A political scandal where Reagan's Administration secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran.
What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
Thomas Paine's pamphlet that urged the colonies to declare independence from England
What is "common sense"?
Forced march of 15 thousand Cherokee Indians from Georgia and Alabama homes to Indian Territory, where many died on the journey.
What was the Trail of Tears?
A scandal involving government officials and distillers that wanted to defraud the federal government of tax revenue on whiskey.
What was the Whiskey Ring?
Agreements between the US and the Soviet Union to limit nuclear arms during the Cold War.
What were the SALT treaties?
A region in the US that became prominent after WWII, stretching from California to Florida. This gave economic growth due to the better climate and lower costs.