Road to Revolution
This British policy allowed the colonies to govern themselves for years, making them resentful when Britain later tried to enforce strict control.
What is salutary neglect?
This was the name of the first written constitution of the United States, known for having a very weak central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This term describes the growing economic and political loyalty to one's own region rather than the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
This exaggerated style of news reporting helped whip up public support for the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
This major economic downturn began with the stock market crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
This economic system used by Great Britain forced the 13 colonies to provide raw materials to the mother country and buy its manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
This 1786 uprising by armed Massachusetts farmers proved that the national government under the Articles was too weak to maintain order.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling stated that enslaved people were property, not citizens, increasing North-South tensions.
What is the Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford)?
This U.S. policy demanded that all nations have equal access to trade with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This set of government programs was created by FDR to bring relief, recovery, and reform during the Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This specific tax on paper goods provoked widespread colonial protests, boycotts, and the cry of "No taxation without representation."
What is the Stamp Act?
This plan favored small states at the Constitutional Convention by proposing that every state get an equal number of votes in Congress.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This specific Reconstruction amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the entire United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This island nation was annexed by the U.S. in 1898 after American planters overthrew its queen.
What is Hawaii?
This law created a system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance in 1935.
What is the Social Security Act?
This 1776 pamphlet written by Thomas Paine used plain language to argue that the colonies should break away from British rule.
What is Common Sense?
This agreement settled a debate between Northern and Southern states by counting a fraction of enslaved populations toward tax and representation totals.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S. and guaranteed them "equal protection under the law."
What is the 14th Amendment?
This engineering marvel was built by the U.S. across Central America to create a faster shipping shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
This constitutional amendment banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol, starting Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This document, written mostly by Thomas Jefferson, explicitly stated that the purpose of government is to protect people's unalienable rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
To prevent the federal government from abusing its power, Anti-Federalists refused to ratify the Constitution until this was promised.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Reconstruction amendment protected voting rights by stating citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This island became a U.S. territory as a direct result of the Spanish-American War and remains a U.S. commonwealth today.
What is Puerto Rico?
This geographic disaster of the 1930s was caused by severe droughts and poor farming methods, forcing thousands of families to leave the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?