Law
Division of power between national government and local governments.
What is federalism?
Consolidation of wealth and power in a single business to limit competition.
What is a monopoly?
Also: trust
Separating people based on race.
What is segregation?
Also: Jim Crow and Black Codes
Granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
Foreign policy that supports building empire overseas.
What is imperialism?
Supreme Court decision limiting the right to free speech.
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
The first U.S. Treasury Secretary who wanted to establish a national bank to regulate currency.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Caused by African Americans trying to escape Jim Crow and wanting factory jobs.
What is the Great Migration?
President Woodrow Wilson's idealistic list of ideas to prevent another world war.
What are the Fourteen Points?
America annexes this territory to get fertile land, naval bases, and refueling stations in 1898.
What is the annexation of Hawaii?
Banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Ended World War I and severely punished Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Caused by fear of the Russian Revolution, and resulted in anti-immigration laws.
What is the Red Scare?
Progressive activist who demanded an immediate end to segregation and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Foreign policy that opposes building empires overseas.
What is anti-imperialism?
Colony of Virginia's legislative branch, which led to growth of American self-government.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Nearly doubled size of U.S. and gave control over the Mississippi River.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Compromise to reduce conflict over whether African slaves should count for representation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
International organization created after WW1 to promote peace, but U.S. refuses to join.
What is the League of Nations?
U.S. crushes a dying empire, gains control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines
What is the Spanish-American War?
1898!!!!!
Citizens directly vote on whether to pass law.
What is a referendum?
Results in New York City becoming an important trading city.
What is the Erie Canal?
Supreme Court decision denying African Americans citizenship and overturning Missouri Compromise.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
Famous meeting considered to be start of women's suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
U.S. foreign policy threatening military action to settle disputes in Caribbean.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?