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issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
100
A deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
What is Compromise of 1850 ?
100
Social reformer, progressive era "muckraker" and photographer who, with his book How the Other Half Lives (1890) captured the lives of the urban poor.
Who is Jacob Riis?
100
A case in which the Court held that compulsory exclusion of citizens during times of war is justified in order to reduce the risk of espionage.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
200
passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
What is American Colonization Society?
200
the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
200
It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
Authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
A crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The Battle was the impetus for France to enter the war against Britain, re-invigorating Washington’s Continental Army and providing much needed supplies and support.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
300
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, this was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and setting up protocol for future admission of states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, this was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
A proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movement. ... Born in Jamaica and eventually deported back there.....
Who is Marcus Garvey?
300
Aka - war on poverty. The name of this president's domestic policy. The programs had several goals, including clean air and water, expanded educational opportunities, and the lessening of poverty and disease in the United States.
What is LBJ’s Great Society?
400
The idea that a woman's role was to support her husband and guide her children from within the home. As women were seen as being morally superior to men, it was thought that they should promote a virtuous lifestyle and influence the voters of the next generation.
What is "Republican Motherhood"?
400
ideology of being a citizen in a state as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty.
What is Republicanism?
400
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Also known as the Colonization movement or Black Zionism, originated in the United States in the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors and was founded by Marcus Garvey.
What is Back to Africa Movement?
400
A series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive?
500
Assuming the states’ debts by issuing interest-bearing bonds was the first part of the plan. Also instituted tariffs for imported goods as a way of raising federal revenue and helping domestic businesses. With the establishment of a new national bank, it created a way for the United States to hold funds and use securities as capital to encourage future growth.
What is Hamilton's Financial Plan?
500
formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
500
Statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.
What is Open Door Policy?
500
The popular name for an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. In 1972 and President Richard Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
What is Watergate?
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