Period 5
What president is responsible for leading the U.S. into the Mexican–American War, and after winning the war he annexed the Republic of Texas, the Oregon Territory, and the Mexican Cession.
James K. Polk
Economic liberalism that believes in unrestricted private enterprise and no government interference in the economy.
laissez faire
In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.
Zimmerman telegram
The Strategic Defense Initiative: this was President Reagan's proposed weapons system to destroy Soviet missiles from space. It was never implemented. It was also referred to as...
Star Wars
Allowed voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators.
17th Amendment
Ended the Mexican-American War, Mexico ceded 55% of its territory to the United States, including California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
In 1894, the U.S. came to a standstill as millionaire George Pullman (1831-1897) faced off against railroad workers, led by Eugene Debs (1855-1926) and the American Railway Union. Responding to layoffs, wage cuts, and firings, workers at a Company in Chicago went on strike
Pullman Strike
...prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation.
Espionage Act
was a foreign policy established by the President in 1947 that pledged American support for democratic nations facing authoritarian threats.
Truman Doctrine
What was a major factor in the North defeating the South during the Civil War?
The North out supplied the South.
-repealed Missouri compromise
-championed popular sovereignty
-ends Whig party essentially
-Republican party emerges -leads to increased sectionalism
Kansas Nebraska Act
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting. However, it was initially misused against labor unions
Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890
was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
14 Points by President Woodrow Wilson
The First peace time alliance the United States belonged to. It made a promise to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
NATO
Who defeats President Carter in the election of 1980?
Republican Ronald Reagan
It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state. Violence broke out immediately between pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists and continued until 1861.
This era became forever known as....
Bleeding Kansas
Treaty between the United States and Cuba that established the terms for the U.S. ending its military occupation of Cuba and defined the relationship between the two countries
Platt Amendment
was a highly publicized 1925 trial that tested the constitutionality of Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial)
1945 meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt in which the leaders discussed plans for the post-war world. Stalin agreed to join the fight with Japan 90 days after the war in Europe was over. Stalin also promised to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. The breaking of this promise led in part to the Cold War.
Yalta Conference
a landmark 1832 Supreme Court case that established that states do not have the right to regulate Native American land.
Worcester v. Georgia
refers to an attack led by a radical abolitionist and his followers on a federal armory in Virginia (now West Virginia) on October 16, 1859, where he aimed to seize weapons and incite a slave uprising throughout the South, which is widely considered a significant event leading up to the American Civil War
John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry
was an unwritten political deal in the United States to settle the intense dispute over the results of the 1876 presidential election. Gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency in exchange for the end of Reconstruction in the South.
Compromise of 1877
a 1941 law that allowed the United States to provide war supplies to nations that were considered vital to the country's defense
Lend-Lease Act
This event in 1989 marked the symbolic end of the Cold War and was the beginning of the collapse of communism in eastern Europe
Fall of Berlin Wall
This Battle proved to be the height of Native American power during the 19th century. It was also the worst U.S. Army defeat during the Plains Wars.(1876)
Battle of little BigHorn