Period 1 1491-1607
This crop became the main staple of many Native American tribes.
What is corn(maize)?
This rebellion in Virginia resulted in the increase in black slavery and decrease in indentured servitude.
Bacon’s Rebellion
Gave a precedent of Washington's farewell address....
Two Terms
Neutrality in Foreign Affairs
Avoid two party system
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
Name given by Mark Twain to post Civil War period, implied hidden problems
Gilded Age
War that brought America Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillippines
Spanish-American War
President associated with interstate highway system, growth of suburbs, NDEA
Eisenhower
President for most of the 1980s
RONALD WILSON REAGAN
This type of farming involved planting corn, beans and squash all together.
What is Three Sister Farming?
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
What has Elizabeth Schuyler been reading?
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
a diplomatic incident between the United States and France that occurred in 1797 and 1798
XYZ Affair
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
Most famous political machine
Tammany Hall
Jane Addams is associated with this movement (not Progressivism)
Settlement Houses
Name of LBJ's set of domestic programs
Great Society
Epidemic that was mostly ignored by federal government in the 80s
AIDS
Of all the European nations who encountered American Indians, this one enjoyed probably the most cordial relationship through mutual understanding and gift-giving.
What is France
The diversified economy of this New England region relied primarily on these
fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce
A major defect in the national government established by the Articles of Confederation was that it lacked what?
The ability to tax
Head of the supreme court under Jefferson-Monroe, who opposed Democratic-Republican legislation, and enforced federalists policies (strong national government)
John Marshall
Give 2 differences between the North and the South that led to the Civil War?
Views on slavery
Economic differences (rural vs. industrial)
State vs Federal Rights
first federal law that (was supposed to) break up monopolies
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Government agency meant to persuade Americans to support WWI
CPI
Invention that propelled massive demographic shift from North to South and Southwest
Air conditioning
Bill Clinton's free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
The dominant tribal groups in the Northeast
Iroquois
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
What were the main events that led to the American Revolution? (must give two examples!)
Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
was a political party in the United States from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.
Free Soil Party
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
Agricultural group that preceded/helped bring about the Populists
Grange
Act that enforced the 18th Amendment
Volstead Act
Campaign in Vietnam that turned American opinion against the war
Tet Offensive
George W. Bush's legislative response after the 9/11 terror attacks
Patriot Act
This was a form of economic nationalism that sought to increase the prosperity and power of the mother nation through restrictive trade practices. Its goal was to increase the supply of a state's gold and silver with exports rather than to deplete it through imports.
What is mercantilism?
This individual openly promoted the idea of an individual personal relationship with God without the guidance of church leaders, and was later expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony
Anne Hutchinson
What contributed to the ratification of the Constitution?
Federalists promise to create a Bill of Rights, frustration over the limitations of the Articles of Confederation, lowering the required number of states to 9/13
the "Five Civilized Tribes"
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Executive order that declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate-held territory.
Strike against a Carnegie factory, was crushed by Pinkertons
Homestead Strike
Group that opposed American intervention in WW2
America First Committee
Name of Carter's signature foreign policy achievement
Camp David Accords
Third party candidate in 1992 election who said this "you’re going to hear a giant sucking sound of jobs being pulled out of this country"
Ross Perot (about NAFTA) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_sucking_sound)