Colonization through the Constitution
What economic theory motivated European powers to establish colonies to benefit the mother country?
What is mercantilism?
Who set the precedent of only serving two terms as President?
Who is George Washington?
What new invention most directly expanded communication across the U.S. in the late 1800s?
What is the telegraph?
What was one reason the U.S. entered World War I?
What is German unrestricted submarine warfare or the Zimmerman Telegram?
What strategy aimed to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War?
What is containment?
What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights added to the U.S. Constitution?
What is to protect individual liberties and address Anti-Federalist concerns?
What was the purpose of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense?
What is to encourage colonists to seek independence from Britain?
What president expanded suffrage for white men and opposed the Bank of the United States?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
What was the goal of Progressive Era muckrakers?
What is to expose social and political problems?
What movement of African Americans northward during WWI was called?
What is the Great Migration?
What Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This policy told Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What conflict led to Britain taxing the colonies to pay off debt, causing tensions before the Revolution?
What is the French and Indian War?
What law admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain balance?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What was the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
What is it upheld racial segregation under "separate but equal"?
How did New Deal programs try to combat the Great Depression?
What is through government intervention in the economy for relief, recovery, and reform?
What crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in 1962?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the purpose of the Federalist Papers during the ratification of the Constitution?
What is to convince states to ratify the Constitution by explaining its principles?
How did the Great Compromise solve a major debate at the Constitutional Convention?
What is by creating a two-house legislature, balancing large and small states?
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the purpose of the Civil War?
What is it made ending slavery a Union war goal?
How did labor unions like the American Federation of Labor work to protect workers?
What is by fighting for better wages, hours, and working conditions?
What were two causes of the Great Depression?
What are stock market speculation and overproduction?
What was the main goal of Reaganomics during the 1980s?
What is to reduce taxes, decrease regulation, and stimulate economic growth?
What group of Progressive journalists exposed corruption in business and government?
What are muckrakers?
How did Shays’ Rebellion expose the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
What is it showed the government couldn’t respond effectively to domestic unrest (weak central government)?
In what ways did the Black Codes seek to restrict African Americans’ rights after the Civil War?
What is by limiting freedoms such as movement, employment, and legal rights?
How did the Spanish-American War signal a turning point in U.S. foreign policy?
What is it marked the U.S. becoming an imperial power with overseas territories?
How did WWII affect the U.S. home front economy?
What is it boosted production, led to rationing, and increased employment for women and minorities?
How did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution affect U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
What is it gave the president authority to escalate military action without a formal declaration of war?
This turning point battle in the Civil War ended the Confederacy’s last major invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
How did the Three-Fifths Compromise affect political power in the new Constitution?
What is it increased Southern representation by counting three-fifths of enslaved people toward population?
How did the Compromise of 1877 effectively end Reconstruction and impact African Americans?
What is it removed federal troops from the South, leading to the loss of Black political power and rise of Jim Crow laws?
How did the Sherman Antitrust Act attempt to limit the power of big business?
What is it outlawed monopolistic practices and efforts to restrain trade?
How did the Manhattan Project alter the outcome of WWII and the future of warfare?
What is it developed the atomic bomb, leading to Japan’s surrender and ushering in the nuclear age?
How did 9/11 change U.S. foreign policy?
What is it led to the War on Terror, including wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
What was the War Powers Act of 1973 intended to do after Vietnam?
What is limit the president’s ability to send troops into combat without congressional approval?