American and National Identity
This amendment gave everyone born in America Citizenship
14th
This early American political party favored a strong central government and was led by Alexander Hamilton.
Federalist
The rise of this economic system in the late 19th century emphasized private ownership and minimal government regulation.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This 17th-century religious group sought to build a "city upon a hill" in New England.
Puritans
This 19th-century immigrant group faced discrimination due to Catholicism and poverty. Their immigration to the US led to a increase membership in the Know Nothing Party
Who were the Irish?
This 1930s environmental disaster displaced many farmers from the Southern Plains.
Dust Bowl
This 18th-century war between Britain and France affected American colonial unity and led to new British taxes.
French and Indian War
This 1950s-60s movement challenged traditional American values through experimentation with art, music, and communal living.
CounterCulture
This movement in the early 20th century emphasized African American pride and culture.
Harlem Renaissance
This 19th-century movement expanded political participation to the "common man" and was associated with Andrew Jackson.
Jacksonian Democracy
This 1890 law was the first federal attempt to regulate monopolies. It was first used against unions
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The Second Great Awakening inspired this major reform movement of the 19th century.
What is the abolitionist movement?
This law drastically reduced immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe in the 1920s.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924
This animal was hunted to near extinction during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and afterwards
Bison
This 1947 plan provided economic aid to rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism.
Marshall Plan
This group of writers in the 1920s, often disillusioned by WWI, criticized American materialism and cultural values.
The Lost Generation
The idea that America is a “melting pot” reflects debates over this 20th-century development.
Immigration and assimilation
This 1913 reform allowed citizens to vote directly for U.S. Senators.
17th
The Lowell System was an early form of industrial labor in which region of the U.S.?
North East
This term describes the belief that women should guide family morals and education from the home.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Sun Belt
This 1962 book exposed the environmental dangers of pesticides and helped start the modern environmental movement.
Silent Springs
The journey of this was a projection of American might around the world during Teddy Roosevelt's Presidency
What is the Great White Fleet?
This cultural ideal emphasized homemaking and the moral influence of women in the home during the 19th century.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This 1830s political philosophy emphasized the unique destiny of the U.S. as a democratic model.
American Exceptionalism
This clause in the Constitution has been used to justify expanding federal power, especially in taxing imports but not exports
Commerce Compromise
The Panic of 1837 was largely caused by this controversial economic policy under Andrew Jackson.
The vetoing of the Second National Bank
The Chicano Movement advocated for the rights of which group in the 1960s–70s?
Mexican Americans
This term describes the relocation of African Americans from the rural South to urban North in the 20th century.
The Great Migration
This concept justified U.S. expansion and had significant environmental consequences.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1990–1991 conflict marked the first major U.S. military engagement after the Cold War and restored American Military prestige after the Vietnam War
Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
This early 19th-century movement influenced the development of uniquely American art and literature, such as the works of Emerson and Thoreau.
Transcendentalism
The 1965 Immigration Act reshaped American national identity by doing this.
Removing quotes on Immigrants
This 1973 law aimed to limit presidential war powers following the Vietnam War.
War Powers Act
This post-WWII act dramatically increased college education and home ownership among veterans, reshaping the middle class.
The GI Bill
This Trial in the mid 1920s highlighted the tensions between religion and science
Scopes Trial
This was the result of the Great Migration and racism in the North as African Americans moved into cities
White Flight
The 1872 creation of this park marked the beginning of the U.S. national park system.
YellowStone
This was the first war American participated in overseas
Barbary Pirate Wars
This term refers to the intense regional divides in the period before the Civil War
What is Sectionalism