American History Final Review #2

Unit 1

100

This was added to the Constitution to protect individual rights

Bill of Rights

200

This uprising in Massachusetts led American leaders to re-examine the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

Shays' Rebellion

300

This protest over British taxes led to the destruction of property and the passage of the Intolerable Acts

Boston Tea Party

400

This uprising, during the presidency of George Washington, challenged the authority of the national government to enforce federal laws

Whiskey Rebellion

500

This author, and his famous pamphlet ___________, convinced many American colonists that declaring independence was a good idea.

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Unit 2

100

This term refers to the American belief that God gave the continent to Americans to spread democracy

Manifest Destiny

200

This former slave was an outspoken advocate for Abolition, even creating an anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star.

Frederick Douglas

300

This term refers to fear and hatred of immigrants

Nativism

400

She was an outspoken advocate for reforming the American prison systems and improving mental healthcare

Dorothea Dix

500

He promoted the development of the first state funded public education systems

Horace Mann

Unit 3

100

This term refers to the journalists who exposed social, economic, and political problems of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Muckrakers

200

This author exposed problems in the meatpacking industry in his famous novel ___________

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

300

This change to the constitution led to the direct election of Senators

17th Amendment

400

This Civil Rights worker of the late 19th and early 20th century helped to create the NAACP and used his Harvard law degree to fight discrimination in courts

W.E.B. Du Bois

500

This was the first piece of successful anti-monopoly legislation, passed in the late 1800s

Sherman Antitrust Act

Unit 4

100

These were the 4 general causes of WWI

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

200

This was Wilson's plan for peace in the post-WWI period

14 Points

300

This was the response of Americans in the Post-WWI period to the influx of immigrants and fear of communism

Red Scare

400

This iconic character came to symbolize the efforts of American women in WWII

Rosie the Rivetor

500

This term describes the efforts of African Americans to fight oppression in Europe and at home during WWII

Double V Campaign

Unit5

100

This term is used to describe the large number of children born in the United States following WWII

Baby Boom

200

This court case helped to stimulate the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s & 1960s

Brown v. Board of Education

300

This scandal during the Nixon presidency resulted in many Americans no longer trusting the U.S. government

Watergate

400

This term describes the rising inflation coupled with rising unemployment in the 1970s

stagflation

500

This term refers to the technological program created in the 1980s by Ronald Reagan to end the threat of nuclear weapons 

Strategic Defense Initiative/Star Wars