Unit 1 &2
Native American Confederacy located in the Northeast comprised of 5 different tribes; the Mohawk, Onondaga, the Oneida, the Cayuga, and the Seneca.
Iroquois Conf,
Jackson rewarded supporters called the
Spoils System
According to the Articles of Confederation, who had the power to collect taxes?
The states
Henry Clay's American System included three things. Name one!
1. Protective Tariffs
2. Second US Bank
3. Internal Improvements
The woman is truly an American hero. She faced many dangers trying to save fellow slaves along the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The first settlement house in the United States. The goal was for educated women to share all kinds of knowledge, from basic skills to arts and literature with poorer people in the neighborhood.
Jane Addams, Hull House
This muckraker was well-known for his provocative photos of how the poor lived.
Jacob Riis
I created the EPA and had Title 9 passed during my presidency, however I am often only remembered for my scandals.
Nixon
Theory that maintains that increasing the supply of goods and services is the engine for economic growth. It advocates tax cuts as a way to encourage job creation, business expansion, and entrepreneurial activity.
Reaganomics
Supply-side economics
Trickle-down economics
This disease ran rampant throughout the Americas. Fortunately, it has been eradicated and only exists in high security labs...we hope.
Small Pox
intended to be a welfare agency and it was to provide food, clothing, medical care, and education to both freedmen and white refugees.
Freedman's Bureau
In this battle, the colonists soundly defeated the British after nearly a month of fighting. This will lead to the French joining the American cause.
Saratoga
The deal made between Henry Clay and Adams to prevent Jackson from becoming President was called this.
Corrupt Bargain
You can visit this gentleman's house in the Arlington cemetery. Ironically, it overlooks the Lincoln memorial.
The gentleman was also related to George Washington by marriage and had a grandfatherly appearance.
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Teddy Roosevelt issued this declaration in addition to the Monroe Doctrine essentially becoming the police of the Western Hemisphere.
Roosevelt Corollary
This battle got its name from the way the Germans tried to break through Allied lines in Europe. Its been depicted in many films and TV adaptations including a Band of Brothers.
Battle of the Bulge
Overturned Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v. Board
Passed by Congress with bipartisan support; aimed at preventing terrorism
Patriot Act
This settlement was established in 1607 and became the first English colony in America.
Jamestown
Violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers' rights
Haymarket Riot
This revolt was due to angry farmers who held large debts and were unable to pay back loans, bills, or taxes following the war.
Shays' Rebellion
One of the first abolitionists who used fierce arguments to fight slavery and demanded the immediate end to slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison
This battle involved 3 days in the summer heat of 1863.
Gettysburg
This union became one of America's largest labor unions in the country. Its founder, Samuel Gompers, focused on uniting craftsmen and other skilled workers around narrow economic goals.
(Hint: It is still around today, though it has now merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO)
American Federation of Labor
AFL
What hero from the Spanish-American War rose to prominence and even became President?
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the name given to the sweeping domestic policy reforms under Johnson?
Great Society
Political scandal during Reagan Administration
Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration. Between 1981 and 1986, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, a right-wing rebel group, in Nicaragua.
This lost colony was established by Sir Walter Raleigh and James White
Roanoke
This authorized the creation of 42,000 miles of interstate highways linking all major cities
Highway Act
Name the missing freedom or right from the 1st Amendment.
Religion, speech, petition, press
Assembly
Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
This territory was gained following the War of Independence. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress forbade the expansion of slavery here.
Northwest Territory
Political Party that emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but collapsed after it nominated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 United States presidential election.
Populist Party
This was the campaign help African Americans get rights during WWII
Double V Campaign
American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community.
Malcolm X
Official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people, instituted during the Clinton administration
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
In 1676 a thousand Virginians broke out of control, the rebels were frontiersmen. They killed Indians and chased Berkeley, Virginia's governor, from Jamestown and burned the capital.
Bacon's Rebellion
This gave the President the power to take "all necessary measures" to protect US interest in Vietnam
avoid getting involved in overseas foreign affairs no political parties would form as it would cause unnecessary arguing.
This group of congressional leaders encouraged an armed conflict with Great Britain prior and leading up to the War of 1812.
War Hawks
Under which president was the 15th Amendment passed?
Grant
Unlike W.E.B. du Bois, this Booker T. Washington advocated for cooperation between Whites & Blacks instead of radical challenges to America's segregation policies. What was Washington's plan called?
Atlanta Compromise
I implemented the containment policy that was in response to the rise of communism abroad
Pres. Truman
How did the Tet Offensive serve as a political victory for the Vietcong and North Vietnamese?
Demoralized American support for the conflict
This election year was a contested result with recounts and supreme court decision.
2000
Bush v Gore