Revolution & Constitution
This 1765 British law taxed printed materials in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Belief that Americans were destined to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This is a more cynical label for the "captains of industry," such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
What are robber barons?
U.S. policy focused on preventing the spread of communism.
What is containment?
Colonial slogan arguing Americans should not be taxed without representation.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Economic system promoted by Henry Clay involving tariffs, banks, and internal improvements.
What is the American System?
This war added large western territories to the United States in the 1840s.
What is the Mexican-American War?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
Wisconsin Senator associated with anti-communist accusations during the Red Scare.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This document announced colonial independence from Britain in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Religious revival movement that inspired reform efforts during the early 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Compromise admitting California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The explosion of the battleship USS Maine helped spark this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Supreme Court case ending school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The Federalist Papers were written to support ratification of this document.
What is the Constitution?
Supreme Court case strengthening federal power through the “necessary and proper” clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Supreme Court case ruling African Americans could not be citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs to combat the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Lyndon B. Johnson’s domestic reform agenda.
What is the Great Society?
Supreme Court case establishing judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This convention marked the beginning of the women's rights movement where activists issued the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States upheld this during World War II.
What is Japanese American internment?
Political scandal that forced Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
What is Watergate?