Columbian Exchange
The Declaration of Independence was written by
What is Thomas Jefferson (Influenced by John Locke)?
The belief that God ordained the U.S. to expand to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny (John O'Sullivan, 1839)?
Belief that only the fittest businesses and people survive in society.
What is Social Darwinism?
Mutual defense alliance between the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe against Soviet aggression.
What is NATO?
Columbian's exchange purpose
What is cultural and biological exchange between the New and Old World?
The Stamp Act was
What is direct tax on printed materials, triggering intense opposition?
People who migrated to California in 1849 for the gold rush.
What is 49ers?
The New Deal increased government involvement in the economy. Ended with WWII, making the U.S. as a global superpower.
What is the Great Depression and WWII?
Closest the superpowers have came to a nuclear war, President Kennedy pressured to remove missiles from Cuba.
What is smallpox, malaria, and influenza?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who lived on and improved it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act (1862)?
The U.S. pursuing overseas markets, with the Spanish-American War bringing new territories (Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.)
What is Imperialism?
This was the central U.S. strategy to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Policy of Containment?
Caused a population shift
What is New World crops like potatoes and corn causing significant population growth in Europe?
A prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains which angered the colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The final and violent end to the Indian Wars
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)?
What is the Haymarket Riot, 1886.
Soviet counter-alliance to NATO, including its Eastern European satellite nations.
Encomienda System
What is the Spanish system of using Native American labor for agriculture and mining?
A Thomas Paine pamphlet that encouraged independence.
What is Common Sense (1776)?
Gold and silver rushes in California, Colorado, Nevada, and the Black Hills.
What is the Mining Frontier?
The U.S. joined after German provocations, leading to major industrial mobilization.
What is World War 1?
These were the key leaders in the Cold War.
What is Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Stalin, and Khrushchev?