Founding Docs
The group of people who supported a strong national government and the Constituion
What are Federalists?
A time period right before the Great Depression in which America experienced a great economic boom
What is the Roaring 20s?
What is imperialism?
The movement of African Americans from the South to the North
The Supreme Court case that established segregation
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
How "consent of the people" is demonstrated in American democracy
What is election of representatives?
Laws that sought to limit the power of monopolies in America
What are the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act?
What is the Roosevelt Corrollary
The growth of cities during industrialization
What is urbanization?
The 5 Prohibition amendments
The division of powers between the federal government and state governments
What is federalism?
Three government programs started during the New Deal?
The fear that if one country falls to communism, others around it will fall too.
What is Domino Theory?
Laws passed after World War 1 to limit the influx of foreigners from certain countries
What are immigration quotas?
Three civil rights organizations in the 1960s and beyond.
What are: NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, NOW, AIM, UFW
Examples of powers given to Congress to address the nation's problems
What are: powers to levy taxes, raise armies, regulate commerce
The primary type of jobs Americans have today, in the era of globalization.
What are service-based jobs?
Isolationist laws passed ahead of World War 2 in order to keep America out of the war.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
Three reasons people moved from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt after World War 2
What is: closure of factories, opening of defense industries in the south, and invention of AC.
Examples of how the War Production Board impacted America during World War 2
What are: rationing, price controls, war bonds, and propaganda?
The 4 precedents established by the Northwest Ordinance
Three causes of the Great Depression
What are: stock market speculation, Federal Reserve policies tightening money supply, and consumer debt?
A military alliance to counter the Warsaw Pact.
What are: Homestead Act, mineral resources, Manifest Destiny, and expansion of railroads?
Law that caused the shrinking of American Indian Reservations
What is the Dawes Act?