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This colonial region was the most tolerant of different religions.
What was the middle colonies?
This legislation over slavery resulted in Maine being added as a free state and Missouri being added as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
British passenger ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, that had over 100 Americans on board.
The Lusitania
This US President was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This group of people settled in the New England colonies to escape religious mistreatment in England.
What was the Pilgrims or the Puritans?
Time period of violence leading up to the Civil War between pro-slavery advocates and abolitionists over popular sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This is the nickname for journalists who exposed the terrible working and living conditions during the Gilded Age. (ex: Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell)
What are muckrakers?
Organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson after WW1 who would attempt to stop future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
This US President was known for "Dollar Diplomacy" especially in Latin America.
Who is William Taft?
During the Constitutional Convention this decision created our bi-cameral (two-part) Congress, and solved the debate over representation between the large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
The first Women's Rights movement event.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
The nickname for big business leaders who used their position to take advantage of their workers in order to make large amounts of money.
What is Robber Barons?
Name at least two of the territories that the US gained as a result of the Spanish-American war?
What is Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba?
This US Congressmen lost the Presidential election 4 times, and was known as the Great Compromiser for his ability to craft legislation like the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
Of the first two political parties, this one was strongest in the New England region, believed in manufacturing and trade as the future of the country, and supported the National Bank?
What were the Federalists?
This Supreme Court Case ruled that the Indian Removal Act was unconstitutional, however, Andrew Jackson enforced the Trail of Tears anyway.
What is Worchester v. Georgia?
Economic system where there is very limited government interference.
What is laissez-faire economics or free-market capitalism?
Gilded Age and Imperialism Era belief that certain people/countries were destined to dominate others because they were superior.
What is Social Darwinism?
This US President was the most successful Union general during the Civil War, and used the Ku Klux Klan act to destroy the Reconstruction Era Klan.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This US Treaty signed with Spain added Florida as a US Territory.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
The primary Union strategy for winning the Civil War. Included blockading all Confederate ports, controlling the Mississippi to split the Confederacy in half, and capturing Richmond.
What was the Anaconda Plan.
Organization created by Woodrow Wilson in order to regulate the economy, control the amount of currency in circulation, and prevent banking panics.
What is the Federal Reserve or The Fed?
Massive construction project completed in Central America in the early 1900s as a result of Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy.
What is the Panama Canal?
This New England clergyman was critical to the success of the Great Awakening, and is most know for his famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?