Revolution & New Nation
This event involved the Sons of Liberty dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This difference between political parties focuses on how strictly the Constitution should be interpreted.
What is strict vs. loose interpretation of the Constitution?
The Gold Rush made this state’s population diverse.
What is California?
Early 1900s immigration increased because the cities had many of these.
What are jobs?
This secret German message helped pull the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Colonists used this economic method to protest British taxes.
What is boycotting British goods?
This canal caused population growth in New York by improving trade and transportation.
What is the Erie Canal?
This 1854 law let voters decide on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These groups formed in response to unsafe factory conditions.
What are labor unions?
This British ship’s sinking in 1915 increased tensions with Germany.
What is the Lusitania?
This document listed natural rights and explained why the colonies were breaking away from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This abolitionist newspaper editor, founder of The Liberator, fought for ending slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This Lincoln order proposed freeing enslaved people in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These investigative journalists exposed problems during the Progressive Era.
Who are muckrakers?
This WWI-era tool influenced public opinion and encouraged support for the war.
What is propaganda?
The United States gained independence after winning this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This religious revival of the 1800s encouraged reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These restrictive laws in the South limited the rights of newly freed people.
What are Black Codes?
This war made the U.S. a colonial power in 1898.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This movement in the 1920s celebrated African American music, art, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This disagreement over the role of the federal government led to the first political parties.
What is the debate over how strong the federal government should be?
This belief favored native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
This 1896 Supreme Court case allowed “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Imperialism grew because the U.S. wanted new ______ and ______.
What are resources and markets?
Name one major effect of the Great Depression.
What is poor diet, homelessness, OR unemployment?