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This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Give two precedents of Washington's farewell address....
Two Terms
Neutrality in Foreign Affairs
This Eli Whitney invention that increased slavery
cotton gin
The acquisition of a large piece of land by President T. Jefferson that went against his usual strict interpretation of the Constitution. Made possible by the Haitian Revolution.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This industrialist made his fortune in steel and later became a prominent philanthropist, advocating for the "Gospel of Wealth."
This muckraking journalist exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
This policy, articulated by George F. Kennan, aimed to prevent the spread of Soviet influence abroad.
Containment
This conservative president, elected in 1980, implemented supply-side economics and increased military spending.
Ronald Reagan
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Jane Addams
President who vetoed the national bank, voice of the common man, and pushed through the Indian Removal Act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
The Great Migration
The term for journalists exposing problems in American society.
Muckrakers
Two reasons the US entered World War I.
The Sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare) and the Zimmerman Telegram
This Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Plessy v Ferguson
This reform aimed to increase citizen participation in government by allowing voters to directly propose and enact legislation.
initiative
This event in 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
Cuban Missle Crisis
This piece of legislation, passed in response to the September 11th attacks, expanded government surveillance powers.
Patriot Act
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’
Missouri Compromise
This SCOTUS case established the "separate but equal" ruling that would inspire many Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v Ferguson
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Battle of Saratoga?
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
This Progressive Era president was known for his "Square Deal" and his efforts at trust-busting and conservation.
Teddy Roosevelt
This Supreme Court case in 1954 declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown V Board of Education
This major foreign policy event involved the United States leading a coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion in 1991.
Persian Gulf War
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
This conflict led to a brief period of nationalistic fervor, and helped the U.S. gain respect abroad.
What is the War of 1812?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on "bread and butter" issues like wages and working conditions for skilled workers.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This massive economic aid package was designed to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II and prevent the appeal of communism.
Marshall Plan
This term refers to the increased interconnectedness of the world through trade, technology, and cultural exchange.
globalization
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
The event that completed the recovery of the nation from The Great Depression
World War II
Head of the supreme court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalists policies (strong national government)
John Marshall
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Indian Removal Act? (Trail of Tears)
Nickname for Monroe's presidency that reflected a rising sense of nationalism (1817-1825).
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
Populist movement
This intellectual movement challenged traditional Victorian notions of morality and emphasized the role of environment and heredity in shaping human behavior. "Survival of the Fittest" in the social sphere.
Social Darwinism
This legislative package, championed by Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to create programs addressing poverty, education, and civil rights.
This president is quoted as saying, "Mark my words, no new taxes."
George H.W. Bush