People
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This law prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities.
ADA
What term is an example that would become a standard practice?
Precedent
What term was formed by the idea that the United States was destined by God to expand west and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent?
Manifest Destiny
Which amendment ended slavery?
13th
Who assassinated JFK?
Lee Harvey Oswald
This term refrs to the legal/political process of ending the seperation and isolation of different racial and ethnic groups?
Desegregation
What was the name given to FDR's plan when he takes office as the new President of the U.S.?
The New Deal
What did Bill Clinton sign in to law that created a free trade zone for Mexico, Canada, and the United States?
NAFTA
The ___________ was the first Intercontinental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
League of Nations
The first woman to serve on the supreme court?
Sandra Day O'Connor
The United States transferred 13 billion dollars in economic recovery to Europe after WW2 under this plan:
Marshall Plan
Which term was given to people who behaved badly in the south during reconstruction, often collaborating with Northern Republicans for PROFIT?
Carpetbaggers
What does FEMA stand for?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
What battle ended the American revolutionary war?
The battle of Yorktown.
Who was the founder of the American Birth Control League (planned parenthood)?
Margaret Sanger
The ______________ College Act of 1862 set aside federal lands to create colleges to "benefit agricultural and mechanical arts"?
Morrill Land Grant
This term means to use force or violence against people or property, which is a violation of the criminal laws of the U.S., for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom?
Terrorism
What stated that a territory could determine whether to allow or not allow slavery based on popular sovereignty?
The Freeport Doctrine
The name of the SECOND bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
Fat Man
Who was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age?
JP Morgan
After 2 years of war, the U.S. troops would overrun the Mexican army during the U.S./Mexican war and get Santa Anna to surrender, both sides signing this treaty.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The economic policy called by which a nation seeks to gain power by exporting more goods than importing goods in order to build its national wealth?
Mercantilism
What group of people would behave badly and were mischievous rather than helpful in the south during reconstruction?
Scalawags
This term means the less the government is involved in the economy, the better off business will be?
Laissez-Faire