Unit 2
Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.
Salem Witch Trials
This act placed duties on foreign sugar and certain luxuries with the soul purpose of raising money for the British monarchy.
Sugar Act
Conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, primarily over territorial disputes following the U.S. annexation of Texas.
Mexican American War
Continuous rail line constructed between Omaha, Nebraska and San Francisco Bay, California
Transcontinental Railroad
Rapidly became a global epidemic among homosexual men
Aids
First settlement founded in Virginia (1607)
Jamestown
This was a tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, & tea.
Townshend Act
First women's rights convention held in the United States, marking a pivotal moment in the early women's suffrage movement
Seneca Falls Convention
Act suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Soviet Union built a high barrier to seal off their sector of Berlin in order to stop the flow of refugees out of the Soviet zone of Germany
Berlin Wall
First popular uprising in the American Colonies. Revolt against British tyranny.
Bacon's rebellion
The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution that guarantee different civil liberties.
Bill of Rights
Period refers to a violent conflict that occurred between 1854 and 1859 as pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions clashed over whether Kansas should enter the Union as a free or slave state.
Bleeding Kansas
"Survival of the fittest"
Scandal that ocured during president Truman's presidency
Iran-Contra Affair
Series of conflicts between Native Americans and English settlers. The conflicts lasted from 1675 to 1676 and resulted in the destruction of several English settlements and the decimation of Indian bands in New England
King Philips War
What did Washington say about foreign policies in his farewell address
He wanted to maintain economic relationships but not permanent alliances
This case upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Dred Scott Case
Who established the Hull House
Jane Addams
Based on the theory that allowing companies the opportunity to make profits, and encouraging investment, will stimulate the economy and lead to higher standards of living for everyone
Reaganomics
The efforts of Spanish colonists to convert Native Americans to Christianity were most directly influenced by what?
Extraction of gold and other wealth from the land in the Americas
What war marked the turning point of the American Revolution
Battle of Saratoga
Informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election
Compromise of 1877
Established the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroads
Interstate Commerce Act
What popular movement rised during this time?
Conservative Movement