Colonial America
An event in which British goods were boycotted and destroyed by the Sons of Liberty.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A rebellion where angry farmers rose up and took advantage of the weak US government over not being paid for their service in war.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The last violent event before the Civil War that divided Americans over slavery.
What is John Brown's Raid?
What is muckraking?
What are the Fourteen Points?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
A Supreme Court Decision that created the doctrine of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The leading Senator of the pro-slavery cause throughout most of the Antebellum Era.
Who are Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson?
The Supreme Court Decision that constitutionalized Japanese Internment.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
The exchange of goods between the New World and Old World that decimated the Native populations of America.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
A system created by Henry Clay to promote American infrastructure and industrialization.
What is the American System?
The Supreme Court Case that determined Black people could not be US citizens and that slavery could not be banned in any state.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The Supreme Court decision that justified Jim Crow Laws in America.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The laws that were created to limit opposition to World War I, but ended up getting used to deport immigrants during The First Red Scare.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
The era of philosophy that the founders based their theories of government on.
What is the Enlightenment?
The primary cause of The War of 1812.
What is impressment (kidnapping of American sailors?)
The two laws that dictated how slavery would work in Antebellum America.
What is the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
The largest industry in America during the late 1800s.
What are the railroads?
America's foreign policy during the Cold War that attempted to check the spread of communism.
What is containment?
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What is The Truman Doctrine?
A tax created by the British that angered colonists so much that they protested it into repeal.
What is the Stamp Act?
An event in which South Carolina threatened to secede over the issue of high tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The changes brought by The Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14 and 15).
What is 13th - Ended Slavery?
What is 14th - Gave citizenship to Black Americans?
What is 15th - Voting Rights to all males regardless of race?
The systems in which cities were controlled by political elites who traded votes for education, jobs & economic security.
What are political machines?
The primary causes of The Great Depression (name two).
What is the Run on the Banks?
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
What is Credit Spending and Consumerism?
What is The Boll Weevil Infestations?
What is the Dust Bowl?