Early US
This 1776 document, written mainly by Thomas Jefferson, announced that the colonies were breaking away from Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
This was the belief that the United States was destined by God to expand from coast to coast.
Manifest Destiny
The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol. What is this era called?
Prohibition
This scandal, involving a break-in at Democratic headquarters and a cover-up, forced President Nixon to resign in 1974.
Watergate
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known by this name.
The Bill of Rights
America's FIRST plan of government was so weak it could not tax or raise an army. Name it.
The Articles of Confederation
This 1862 law gave settlers 160 acres of free western land if they farmed it for five years.
The Homestead Act
This explosion of Black art, music, and literature was centered in an Upper Manhattan neighborhood.
The Harlem Renaissance
This president was impeached in 1998 for lying under oath about an affair with a White House intern, but was acquitted by the Senate.
Bill Clinton
This president led the Union during the Civil War and was assassinated in 1865.
Abraham Lincoln
In 1803, Jefferson doubled the size of the United States by buying this territory from France.
The Louisiana Purchase
Completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, this connected the East Coast and West Coast by rail.
The Transcontinental Railroad
After WWI, fear of communism led to the Palmer Raids and the arrest of suspected radicals. Name this period of panic.
The (First) Red Scare
President Obama's 2010 health care law, officially the Affordable Care Act, is better known by this nickname.
Obamacare
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) established this doctrine, which made segregation legal.
"Separate but equal"
This deal at the Constitutional Convention created a two-house Congress: one based on population, one with equal votes per state.
The Great Compromise
This 1887 law broke up Native American tribal lands into individual plots to force assimilation.
The Dawes Act
In the 1920s, Americans bought radios, refrigerators, and cars using this "buy now, pay later" method.
Installment buying (buying on credit)
Weeks after 9/11, the US invaded Afghanistan. The goal was to destroy this terrorist group and capture its leader, Osama bin Laden.
Al-Qaeda
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known together by this name.
The Reconstruction Amendments
Marbury v. Madison (1803) gave the Supreme Court this power: the ability to declare laws unconstitutional.
Judicial review
This 1890 massacre in South Dakota, where the US Army killed hundreds of Lakota people, marked the end of the Indian Wars.
The Wounded Knee Massacre
The Emergency Quota Act (1921) and National Origins Act (1924) did THIS to immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Severely restricted/limited it (set immigration quotas)
In 2002, the government created this new cabinet department to protect the country from terrorism.
The Department of Homeland Security
This 1954 Supreme Court case overturned Plessy and declared school segregation unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education