FOUNDING A COUNTRY
This war left Britain deep in debt and led Parliament to start taxing the colonies after 1763.
The French and Indian War
This 1803 deal roughly doubled the size of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase
In this 1857 case, the Supreme Court ruled that Black Americans were not citizens and could not become citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This business arrangement let one leader control an entire industry and set its prices.
A trust
The three territories the United States gained from the Spanish-American War.
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
What the letters M.A.I.N. stand for.
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
According to the Declaration of Independence, governments get their power from this.
The consent of the governed
The belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
The part of the Compromise of 1850 that most angered Northerners because it forced them to help capture escapees.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This 1911 disaster killed 146 workers, many trapped behind locked exit doors.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Sensational newspaper coverage that stirred up public support for war with Spain.
Yellow journalism
The wartime movement of Black Southerners to Northern cities for factory jobs.
The Great Migration
The two powers Congress lacked under the Articles of Confederation — the system's most serious weakness.
The power to tax and the power to regulate trade between the states
Jefferson hesitated over the Louisiana Purchase for this reason.
The Constitution did not clearly give the government the power to buy territory. He followed the Constitution strictly.
This amendment established birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law.
The 14th Amendment
Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman all ended the same way this way.
They were broken up with the help of police or federal troops
The leading economic motive for American expansion overseas after 1890.
The need for new markets for goods American consumers could not absorb
These two developments most directly preceded the American declaration of war in April 1917.
The Zimmermann Telegram and the return of unrestricted submarine warfare
This 1786–87 farmers' uprising convinced many leaders the national government was too weak to keep order.
Shays' Rebellion
The Cherokee won Worcester v. Georgia, but this is what actually happened next.
The ruling went unenforced and removal happened anyway
After the Compromise of 1877, this is what happened to the Reconstruction Amendments.
They remained law but went largely unenforced in the South
This 1882 law was the first federal law to bar an entire nationality by name.
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What makes the Philippine-American War significant.
Filipinos who had fought Spain for independence then had to fight American rule
These two laws made criticism of the war effort a federal crime.
The Espionage Act and the Sedition Act
This compromise shaped politics for decades by boosting Southern power in both Congress and the Electoral College.
The Three-Fifths Compromise
The one question every new western territory forced Congress to fight over.
Whether that territory would permit slavery
By 1860, the total market value of enslaved people in the South was greater than this.
The value of all American railroads and factories combined
These two amendments, both ratified in 1913, created a federal income tax and the direct election of senators.
The 16th and 17th Amendments
The central argument of the Anti-Imperialist League.
That owning overseas colonies contradicted the principles the United States was founded on
The standard the Supreme Court set in Schenck v. United States for when speech can be restricted.
When it creates a clear and present danger