Constitution and early America
This document, adopted in 1781, created a weak national government with no executive branch and no power to tax
Articles of Confederation
This transportation technology connected the east and west coast's of the United States, leading to economic growth
Transcontinental Railroad
This pamphlet presented an argument for why the United States should go to war against Great Britain. Include the name of the pamphlet and the author
Thomas Paine - Common Sense
This formerly enslaved man became an abolitionist who spoke around the country to end slavery
Frederick Douglass
This announcement by a President in 1947 told the world that they would defend countries against communism with military and financial aid
Truman Doctrine
This series of law passed in 1774 closed the port of Boston, ended the right to self government in the Massachusetts colony and required citizens to allow British soldiers to be quartered (housed) in their homes
Intolerable / Coercive Acts
This economic system argued the government should be hands off with the economy and allow businesses to do what they think will make the most money
Laissez Faire Economics
Yellow Journalism used the sinking of this ship to push the United States into the Spanish American War
USS Maine
This muckraker spoke out against Standard Oil's monopoly, leading the Supreme Court to break up the company
Ida Tarbell
This conflict represents the closest the United States ever came to nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
This group opposed the ratification of the Constitution because they feared it would limit people individual liberties. They wanted a Bill of Rights to be added
Anti-Federalists
This muckraker wrote a book that exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. Name the book and the journalist
Upton Sinclair The Jungle
This attack on United States territory led them to enter an existing war. Include the name of the event and the war they entered
Pearl Harbor + World War 2
This abolitionist was involved in the bleeding Kansas incident as he tried to make Kansas a free state. He then led a rebellion against slavery in 1859.
John Brown
This document limited the Presidents power to declare war without the support of Congress
War Powers Act 1973
This announcement by the British prevented colonists from settling on land west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
labor unions (American Federation of Labor and Knights of Labor)
This secret communication tried to get a country to attack the United States, it led the USA to enter an existing war. Name the "secret communication" and the war the US entered
Zimmerman Telegram led to World War 1
This President took office in 1963 following the assassination of John F Kennedy. He passed the biggest package of laws to improve social and economic conditions for Americans since the New Deal
Lyndon B Johnson
This policy of easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union included the signing of arms control treaties by President Richard Nixon and President Ronald Reagan
detente
These were the 2 earliest examples of self-government in the 13 colonies
Virginia House of Burgesses and Mayflower Compact
These labor laws allowed the Government to break up businesses that became too powerful (2 laws)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Clayton Anti-Trust Act
The United States fought these proxy wars to prevent the spread of communism (Need both wars to earn the points)
Korean War and Vietnam War
Chief Justice John Marshall
This US policy promised to provide support to Western Europe as a way to prevent the spread of communism
Marshall Plan