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This document was known as the first constitution of the United States, but was widely considered to be a failure.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The belief that citizens of the U.S. had a divine right to expand their territory from East to West.
What is MANIFEST DESTINY?
This was established in 1882 and was the first significant law restricting immigration into the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Term for journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The chronological order of America's four founding documents.
What is Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Constitution, Bill of Rights?
This practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters is credited to Andrew Jackson.
What is the Spoils System?
This leader was concerned with racial equality and founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B Dubois?
This was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The acts Great Britain imposed on the colonists directly after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This ended the war between the United States and Mexico and by its terms, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was the main processing point for immigrants on the East coast in New York from 1900-1920.
What is Ellis Island?
This territory was NOT acquired by the U.S. after the “splendid little war.”
What is Cuba?
The name of the compromise that established two houses (bicameral) within the legislative branch.
What is the Great Compromise?
It provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
What is the Homestead Act?
This article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
US policy established in the late 19th and early 20th century that called for a system of equal trade and investment with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This proclamation prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.
What us the Proclamation of 1763?
It allowed for California to enter the nation as a free state as long as the Fugitive Slave Law was amended.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
This amendment gave citizens of each state the power to directly elect U.S. Senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
This was included in the post-Spanish-American War Cuban constitution as a provision that greatly diminished Cuba’s independence.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This article states, "whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution."
What is Article 5 of the Constitution?
This court case decision determined that any Black person in the United States would never be considered a U.S. citizen and is not protected by the Constitution.
What is the Dred Scott vs. Sanford case?
The name of a bill that originates from citizens, rather than legislators.
What is an initiative?
This was the rallying cry of the Spanish-American war.
What is “Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!”
He was President when America acquired the Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This made made slavery a moral issue rather than simply an economic one.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This conservationist, along with the help of Teddy Roosevelt, helped preserve wilderness areas and establish the National Park system.
Who is John Muir?
The First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt.
Who are the Rough Riders?