Momentous Movements
A Farewell to Arms
Ideas and Influences
The Abolition Movement
Industry and Economics
200
"Suffrage" is the term used to describe this right.
What is voting?
200
This British policy of seizing sailors from American ships for military service in Britain's navy and army was one of the major causes of the War of 1812.
What was impressment?
200
This term was used to describe the belief that the U.S. was foreordained to expand its territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What was Manifest Destiny?
200
This machine was invented in 1793 to separate the fiber of a cotton boll from its hard shell.
What is the cotton gin?
200
An abundance of fast-flowing rivers that could be used to provide power for machines is one factor that led many early factories to be established in this region of the United States.
What is the Northeast?
400
The goal of the penitentiary movement was to reform these American institutions.
What were prisons?
400
Andrew Jackson was the commander of the U.S. forces at this engagement of the War of 1812 that took place after a peace treaty had already been executed.
What was the Battle of New Orleans?
400
The belief that the interests of one's own country should be placed ahead of regional concerns or the interests of other countries is referred to by this name.
What is nationalism?
400
This term is used to refer to the release of someone from a condition of enslavement.
What is emancipation?
400
A blockade of the planet Naboo by this industrial and economic organization was the primary source of conflict in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
What was the Trade Federation?
600
This was the name given to the social and economic reorganization that took place as machines replaced hand tools and large scale factory production expanded after the Embargo Act of 1809.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
600
In the original Star Wars trilogy, the Empire built two of these planet-destroying battle stations in an attempt to win the Galactic Civil War.
What were the Death Stars?
600
The early 1800s saw increasing numbers of this type of believer whose faith focuses primarily on a personal relationship with God rather than formal religious practices.
What is an evangelical.
600
This escaped slave became an evangelist and reformer in the abolition and women's rights movements.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
600
This term is used to describe money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise.
What is capital?
800
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent advocate for universal suffrage, which was a major goal of this mid-1800s reform effort.
What is the women's movement?
800
The Mexican-American War was ended by this 1848 agreement.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
800
This is the name given to a person who favors increasing the territory or influence of a country.
What is an expansionist?
800
This procedural resolution banned Congress from engaging in any discussion about slavery from 1836 to 1844.
What was the Gag Rule?
800
This man-made waterway, the largest in the U.S. upon its completion in 1825, connected one of the Great Lakes to New York Harbor via the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
1000
The failure of this reform effort to reduce alcohol abuse in the United States would eventually lead many of its advocates to support the much more extreme Prohibition Movement.
What was the temperance movement?
1000
Frances Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" while watching the British bombard this American fort during the War of 1812.
What was Fort McHenry?
1000
Members of this monastic order in the Star Wars universe believed that they should use their abilities for "knowledge and defense, never for attack".
What was the Jedi Order?
1000
An 1831 revolt led by Nat Turner, an escaped slave, resulted in the deaths of 60 people in this U.S. state.
What is Virginia?
1000
These importation taxes were used to protect U.S. industries against destructive competition from cheap foreign-made goods.
What are tariffs?