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One major reason for the development of different economies in the New England and Southern colonies was this geographic factor.
What is climate?
This compromise maintained the balance of free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free one.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
DAILY DOUBLE: Explain how the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction and assess its long-term impact on African Americans in the South.
What is the withdrawal of federal troops from the South in exchange for Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president, effectively ending Reconstruction enforcement?
—This led to the rise of Jim Crow laws, disenfranchisement, and segregation, undoing many of the gains made during Reconstruction for African Americans.
This intercepted message from Germany to Mexico helped push the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
His youth, charisma, and Catholic faith helped him win over voters in the televised debates.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The Mayflower Compact and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are examples of this broader trend in colonial political development.
What is self-government?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and had no rights under the Constitution.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford?
This system of agriculture kept many formerly enslaved people in a cycle of debt and poverty in the post-Civil War South.
What is sharecropping?
The 18th Amendment started this policy, which was widely ignored due to the rise of speakeasies.
What is Prohibition?
This 1963 event brought over 250,000 people to D.C. to demand jobs and freedom.
What is the March on Washington?
This 1980s economic policy, associated with Ronald Reagan, emphasized tax cuts, deregulation, and increased defense spending.
What is Reaganomics?
The phrase “Bleeding Kansas” refers to violent conflict over this issue.
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to this Progressive Era legislation.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This 1917 law made it a crime to interfere with military recruitment during wartime.
What is the Espionage Act?
This failed U.S. invasion of Cuba in 1961 embarrassed the Kennedy administration.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
What is Watergate?
This political party was formed in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery and would later elect Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Republican party?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This term describes the Viet Cong's use of hidden traps and surprise attacks.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This 1993 trade agreement created a free-trade zone between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
Henry Clay introduced this deal, which included incorporating territories acquired from the Mexican-American war.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Progressive reformers supported the direct election of senators, which was achieved through this constitutional amendment.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The bombing of these two Japanese cities effectively ended WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What is the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18?