Periods 1-2
First official form of government in the colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Andrew Jackson's policy of giving jobs to political supporters.
What is the spoils system?
People freed from the Emancipation Proclamation
Who are the slaves in the confederacy, not slaves in the Union's border states?
Passed by Theodore Roosevelt to break up Monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Ronald Reagan's economic policy
What is Supply-side Economics?
A time when you might crave salted wife
What is Starving Time?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Maddison?
Ended Reconstruction in the South in exchange for the election of Rutherford B. Hayes to the presidency.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This president was known for "dollar diplomacy", which improved relationships with other countries, and his large bath tubs.
Who is William Howard Taft?
Congressman known for his claims that many in the U.S. Government were secretly communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Spanish system exploiting Native American labor
What is the Encomienda System?
This plan at the Constitutional Convention proposed a unicameral legislature with equal representation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Viewpoint the Know-Nothing Party was founded on
What is strong anti-immigrant sentiments?
Basis for peace negotiations after WW1. Was not fully supported by Congress, which led to its failure and the US' return to isolationism.
This was a military victory but also a strategic/political loss for the US during the Vietnam War.
What is the Tet Offensive of 1968?
Limited trade and prevented colonists from producing certain goods
What are the Navigation Acts?
She was a leading reformer for prisons and the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The South's advantages in the war (name two)
What are fighting defensively and better military officers?
This major change in foreign policy is an example of "big stick diplomacy" that justified military intervention in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
Number of states Nixon won electoral votes from in his 1972 re-election
What is 49 states?
A way for the Puritan church to gain more support as membership declined. Involved more lenient rules surrounding baptism, but some criticized it for straying too far from the principles of the Puritan Church. Decline in support was signaled by various protesters in the early 1600s.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions advanced this theory of state power.
What is nullification?
This battle is known as a turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This legislation brought up questions over the extent of the First Amendment. It prohibited attempts to interfere with the war effort through the mail or speak negatively about the war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
Nixon's first vice president that resigned due to scandal
Who was Spiro Agnew?