Unit 1
Name 1 factor that made the Compromise of 1850 fail to reduce sectional tension and explain HOW/WHY. For this you do not need to answer in the form of a question.
Up to Schreck's interpretation
This 1862 Act provided 160 acres of free land to settlers in the West, provided they "improved" it, helping the Union secure the frontier during the war.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1887 Act was the first federal attempt to regulate the railroads and created the first regulatory commission.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Name 2 reasons the "Dust Bowl" occurred during the 1930s.
What are severe drought, over-farming/exhaustion of topsoil, and high winds on the Great Plains?
This simple "substitution cipher" is named after a Roman Emperor who reportedly used it by shifting letters three places down the alphabet.
These are 3 reasons for the rise of the Republican Party by 1856.
What are the Collapse of the Whigs; The Kansas-Nebraska Act; Bleeding Kansas violence.
Name 3 reasons the Battle of Antietam (1862) is considered a major political turning point for the Union.
What are providing Lincoln the "victory" needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, preventing British/French intervention, and halting Lee's first invasion of the North?
This 1914 Act is often called "The Magna Carta of Labor" because it legally exempted labor unions from being prosecuted as trusts.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This 1935 Act, often called the "Wagner Act," officially recognized the right of workers to organize and created a board to mediate labor disputes.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
In 1945, the U.S. government honored these Marines, whose "unbreakable" code based on their indigenous language was vital to winning the Pacific War.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
In his 1857 Dred Scott opinion, Chief Justice Taney used this specific constitutional justification to rule that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment (arguing that slaves were property and depriving owners of them without due process was unconstitutional)?
Name 3 reasons why Andrew Johnson’s "Presidential Reconstruction" was considered a failure by Radical Republicans.
What are his lenient pardons for Confederate leaders, his vetoing of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and his indifference to the passage of Black Codes?
Name 1 reason for the decline of the Knights of Labor following the 1886 Haymarket Square Riot.
What are their perceived association with anarchism/violence, the internal conflict between skilled and unskilled workers, and the rise of the more practical American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
These are 3 major programs created during the "Second New Deal."
What are Social Security (SSA), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the Wagner Act (NLRA)?
Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park famously built the "Bombe" machine to crack this complex, rotor-based German encryption device.
What is the Enigma Machine?
These are 3 arguments used in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
Popular Sovereignty (Douglas); Containment of slavery (Lincoln); The Freeport Doctrine.
These are two challenges that Lincoln faced from the "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats) and his own party that forced him to utilize controversial executive powers during the war.
The organized opposition to the Conscription Act, The threat of "Fifth Column" subversion in the Border States, Pressure from the Radical Republicans.
Nane 3 ways the 1912 Election was a turning point for Progressivism.
What are the split of the Republican Party (Taft vs. Roosevelt), the peak of the Socialist Party (Debs), and the victory of Wilson’s "New Freedom" platform?
These are 3 reasons why the "Conservative Coalition" (a bipartisan group of Republicans and Southern Democrats) successfully blocked further New Deal legislation after 1937.
What are the failed "Court-Packing" Plan, the "Roosevelt Recession" of 1937, and fears of excessive federal spending/deficit?
This type of modern encryption uses two different keys, a public one to lock the data and a private one to unlock it.
What is Asymmetric (or Public-Key) Encryption?
These are 3 causes for the sudden collapse of the Whig Party in the mid-1850s.
What are the death of Henry Clay/Webster, the internal split over the Fugitive Slave Act, and the rise of the Nativist/Know-Nothing movement?
This 1866 Supreme Court case ruled that the suspension of habeas corpus and the use of military tribunals were unconstitutional if civilian courts were still open and operational.
What is Ex parte Milligan?
Between 1860 to 1890, the U.S. issued this many patents (get within 10k).
what is 500,000?
This specific economic theory, adopted by the New Deal in its later stages, argues that the government should use deficit spending to "prime the pump" of the economy.
What is Keynesian Economics?
Developed by Gilbert Vernam in 1917, this is the only cipher ever proven to be mathematically "unbreakable," provided the key is truly random and used only once.
What is the One-Time Pad?