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This future President borrowed the words of John Locke to write the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is the site of the "shot heard around the world" in the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The investigation into the political beliefs of State Department workers and citizens following WWII, in order to root out communism, became known as this term which is now used to describe similar witch hunts conducted by the government.
What is McCarthyism? (the Red Scare)
George Washington believed the U.S. should always adhere to this foreign policy with regards to conflicts between other nations.
What is neutrality?
This document served as the first Constitution in the United States but it failed to unify.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This President was responsible for the Indian Removal Act. He also believed in nullifying Federal laws that interfered with states' rights.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The first tobacco growing colony in America was located here.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
These wars began as proxy wars during the Cold War in order to prevent the "domino theory" from taking effect.
What are the Korean and Vietnam Wars?
These policies inspired by muckrakers helped protect consumers from eating or drinking harmful food and substances.
What were the Pure food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act?
This document was written by Woodrow Wilson at the end of WWI and it was designed to outline the reasons why war happened and how to prevent another such conflict.
What was the 14 Points Speech?
This man served President of the Confederate States.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
In this Cuban bay, the U.S. staged a failed mission to over throw Castro using U.S. military trained exiles from Cuba to carry out the plan.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This war was considered the "2nd war for independence" as it finally cleared British troops out area purchased by Thomas Jefferson in the Louisiana Purchase.
War of 1812
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This policy stated that the U.S. would interfere with any attempt by European powers to take over or have undue influence anywhere in the western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine
In this document, Abraham Lincoln officially frees slaves.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation
This group of congressmen believed reconstruction needed to include substantial aid for organizations like the Freedman's bureau following the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republican?
Shots from Mexico across this river into U.S. territory prompted the beginning of the Mexican American War
What is the Rio Grande River?
President Reagan's diplomacy with USSR Mikhail Gorbachev led to this historic event in Germany which signified the end of the Cold War and failure of Communism.
What was taking down the Berlin Wall?
These policies limit free speech, often during times of war and were challenged in the Schenck v. U.S. Supreme court case.
What are Sedition Acts?
This letter issued by Germany pulled the U.S. into WWI as it threatened war on U.S. territory via an alliance with Mexico
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack Obama are all considered to be leaders who fall under a category which sometimes is a synonym for "advancement".
What is a Progressive?
This state became the border state in a compromise made with regard to free states and slaves states.
What is Missouri?
This campaign spying scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon.
What is Watergate?
These policies, passed by southern democrats, limited the rights of Africa American in certain states.
What were Jim Crow and Black Codes?
The Anti-Federalists would not ratify the Constitution unless it included these specific civil liberties be spelled out in the document within a year or two after signing..
What was the Bill of Rights/!0 amendments