Foundations of America (Units 1-3)
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution were known as this, which guaranteed freedoms for many Americans
What is the Bill of Rights?
The God-given right for America to expand westward and spread democracy is known as this
What is manifest destiny?
What is suffrage/right to vote?
The United States entered World War II after Japanese forces attacked this military base in Hawaii
What is Pearl Harbor?
This was the official policy of the U.S. against communism, seeking to stop it from spreading elsewhere (e.g. Korea, Vietnam)
What is containment?
The 13 Colonies were divided into three sections known as these, each with their own economic, religious, and social identities.
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
President Jefferson acquired 828,000 square miles of land from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the country in a transaction known as this
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
These laws restricted African Americans from voting (poll taxes, literacy tests, etc.) and enjoying many civil rights that other Americans had
What are Jim Crow laws?
To relieve Americans of poverty during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) implemented a series of programs known as this, many of which are still in place today
What is the New Deal?
This landmark Supreme Court case made segregated schools illegal, overruling Plessy v. Ferguson and marking a significant step toward African American civil rights
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The British began imposing harsh taxes upon colonists without their representation to pay their debts from this war/conflict
What is the French and Indian War?
The network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada was known as this
What is the Underground Railroad?
Reform-minded journalists who sought to expose corruption and wrongdoings by the government and/or corporations were known as this
What are muckrakers?
During the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, President Woodrow Wilson urged the U.S. to join this world organization to promote peace and prevent future world wars
What is the League of Nations?
The paranoia and fear that American citizens were communists and secretly working for the Soviet Union was known as this, named after the U.S. senator who promoted it
What is McCarthyism?
The Constitution divided rule among 3 branches of government and set up a system known as this, where each branch would prevent each other from abusing their powers
What are Checks and Balances?
Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing many Native Americans off their land to embark on this long and deadly trek
What is the Trail of Tears?
This term was used to describe the wealthy owners of corporations during industrialization, who got rich and powerful on the backs of their workers (e.g. Rockefeller)
What are robber barons?
What is Korematsu v. United States?
President Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a part of this successor program to the New Deal, declaring a war on poverty by expanding welfare, Medicare, and food stamps
What is the Great Society?
When colonists decided to revolt against Britain and set up their own government, they looked to this European intellectual movement, started by John Locke, for inspiration and ideas
What is the Enlightenment?
This Supreme Court case asserted that slaves who moved to a free state with their owner would not be free due to their slave ancestry, upholding the Fugitive Slave Act
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
These 3 amendments were known as the Reconstruction Amendments, which sought to address the rights of newly freed African Americans
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
During the 1920s, African Americans expressed their pride and anger through music, poetry, art, and literature in a cultural movement known as this, named after the neighborhood in NYC where it started
This act was created in the wake of 9/11 for the interest of preventing terrorism, which generated controversy since it allows the government to monitor phone calls and emails
What is the Patriot Act?