Vocabulary
This is the name for the group of people during the late 1700s who thought that the states should have more power than the federal government
anti-federalists
Name of the act President Jackson signed to move Native Americans to reservations in the West
Indian Removal Act (1830)
This president was called a hypocrite for using executive power to pass the Louisiana Purchase (1803) because he called himself an anti-federalist
President Thomas Jefferson
Supreme Court decision which ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Freedom of Speech
1st Amendment
This is the term for the Supreme Court being able to check laws to see if they are legal (follow the Constitution). The court case that created this was Marbury v. Madison
judicial review
Name of the act used by President FDR from 1939-1940 to help the country remain neutral in WWII, while still allowing us to give our European allies food and weapons.
Lend-Lease Act
This president was known for a system of supply-side economics or trickle-down economics that gave tax breaks to the wealthy and businesses to open more jobs and help all people
-Name the president AND economic system named after him
President Ronald Reagan
Reaganomics (1980s)
This trial interned Japanese Americans during WWII because they were seen as a national security concern after the bombing at Pearl Harbor
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Name used to represent the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution
Bill of Rights
The name for a person who tried to expose wrongdoing by businesses and robber barons during the gilded age. Largely done through taking photographs and conducting interviews
muckraker
Name of the document used during Manifest Destiny telling Europe not to intervene in the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
This president wanted to focus on domestic policy called the "Great Society" to help lower socio-economic groups with welfare like food stamps, but did not accomplish a lot because the Vietnam War was happening at the same time
President Lyndon B. Johnson
This trial said that the First Amendment is limited during times of war because it is a national security concern
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Women's Suffrage
19th Amendment
Fear that if one country falls to communism then others will follow until the majority of the world is communist instead of democratic
Domino Theory
Name of document passed by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1904 that added onto the 1823 act by President Monroe - expanding the U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
This president was in office during the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan at the end of WWII, and the policy of containment during the Cold War is named off of him.
President Harry Truman
This trial was held after two Italian immigrants were put on trial for murder in the 1920s despite there being flimsy evidence because of nativist attitudes
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial (1920)
Prohibition
18th Amendment
Name of both policies Great Britain took during the colonial era
1. When GB ignored the colonies at let them set up their own local, democratic governments
2. When GB restricted trade between colonies, and only let colonies trade with GB (it was unfair and GB profited)
1. salutary neglect
2.mercantilism
Law passed by Congress in an attempt to limit the power of monopolies during the Gilded Age
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Name the president that helped with the Rise of American Power and New Manifest Destiny during the turn of the 20th century through expanding U.S. territory past the Pacific to: Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico
President William McKinley
Name of two trials:
1. This trial said "separate but equal"
2. This trial overturned "separate but equal" and called for desegregation/integration
1. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
2. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Write down the NAME of the 3 Civil Rights Amendments and WHAT THEY DID
13th Amendment: abolish slavery
14th Amendment: provide African Americans with citizenship
15th Amendment: give African Americans the right to vote