Marking Period 1
The Proclamation of 1763 set the Western border of the American colonies as which geographic landmark?
Appalachian Mountains
The idea that America was destined to control all lands between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific in its earlier years as a nation.
Manifest Destiny
This Supreme Court decision created the term "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The nickname(s) for people such as Rockefeller, Carneige, and Morgon during the Gilded Ages due to their success/questionable business practices (100pts per)
What are Robber Barons or Titans of Industry
The term used to describe the build up of nuclear and non-nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
Arms Race
Thomas Paine's notorious work explaining the reasons why the American colonists should declare independence in the simplest terms.
Common Sense
This doctrine forbid Europe from further colonizing the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This gave newly freed slaves and poor whites benefits including medical care, jobs, and an education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Creators of articles, photos, and other works showing the ugly side of the gilded age were known as...
Muckrakers
The WWI message intercepted by the British and provided to the US, that stated that if Mexico would side with Germany it could reclaim lands lost to the US during the 1800s.
Zimmerman Telegraph
The British policy of letting the colonies run themselves, in an effort to maintain the flow of wealth from the colonies to Britain.
Salutory Neglect
The name of the forced migration of major Native tribes to reservations West of the Mississippi River.
What is the "Trail of Tears?"
This act promised Americans land in the West in exchange for developing the land and living on it for several years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The foreign policy under Teddy Roosevelt that allowed the US to get involved in foreign affairs if its interests were at risk
Roosevelt Corollary
The goal of Presidential Reconstruction
Rebuild the Union as fast as possible
Describe the geographic aspects of one of the following: New England, Middle, or Southern Colonies
New England - Cold, Coastal, Forests
Middle - Some fertile farmland, large ore deposits, temperate climate
Southern - Humid and lots of usable fertile land
How did Westward Expansion create conditions that led to the American Civil War?
What is "Slavery in New States Debate"
These people were given tools and land in exchange for a share of the harvest, which sometimes wasn't much.
What are sharecroppers?
The trend of African Americans leaving the South and moving North in the hopes of finding new jobs and escaping the Jim Crow South
Great Migration
Journalism designed to provoke [cause] an emotional response to increase sales. Usually done by unique headlines and broad claims based on limited facts
Yellow Journalism
3 Ways in which colonists resisted British Rule
-Tar/Feathering
-Boston Tea Party
-Stamp Act Congress
-Non-Importation Movement
-Continental Congress
The decision in Dred Scott v. Stanford had what effect on the institution of Slavery in the US?
What is "allowed slavery in any state, regardless if free/slave"
A law designed to redistribute land from public to private ownership, especially in the effort of civilizing the Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
The cultural renaissance in the 1920s that re-created the African American identity, emphasizing pride in a cultural history through art, music and literature.
Harlem Renaissance
America's presence in places such as the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Panama, Cuba, Guam and Hawaii (including its interference in political/social matters) is an example of...
Imperialism