Period 1 & 2
What were the 3 motives for Spanish Exploration?
God, Gold, and Glory
The establishment of a national bank, protective tariffs, and excise taxes were on certain commodities were part of which early American politician's big ideas?
Alexander Hamilton
name given by Mark Twain to post Civil War period, implied hidden problems
Gilded Age
War that brought America Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
Spanish-American War
President for most of the 1980s
Ronald Reagan
the first permanent English settlement in the New World
Jamestown
A reform movement that encouraged people to limit their use of alcohol because of the effects it had on the family and home
Temperance Movement
Most famous political machine
Tammany Hall
Johnson's domestic policy that in many ways was a continuation of FDR's New Deal
Great Society
Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of segregation: Separate but Equal
Plessy v Ferguson
What were joint stock companies?
Businesses owned by shareholders that were investing in exploration and colonization in the western hemisphere
US policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants
Nativism
What does the 14th Amendment say?
Citizenship to people (1) born in the US and (2) naturalized. Equal protection for everyone under the law
Campaign in Vietnam that turned American opinion against the war
Tet Offensive
NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement)
3 sisters agricultre
corn, beans, squash
This was an uprising of Western Pennsylvania farmers that took place between 1791-1794 in response to Hamilton's excise taxes. It was a key incident in the development of Washington's Presidency
Whiskey Rebellion
Strike against a Carnegie factory, was crushed by Pinkertons
Homestead Strike
Group that opposed American intervention in WWII
America First Committee
Supreme Court case that established the principal of judicial review
Marbury v Madison
women banned from Massachusetts for questioning the church
Anne Hutchinson
US to European powers: Do not enter the United States- If you stay out of my business, I'll stay out of yours
Monroe Doctrine
What was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
the election of 1860
Name of Carter's signature foreign policy achievement
Camp David Accords
Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the Internment of Japanese Americans during WWII
Korematsu v United States