Political Parties
This party was formed in 1854 when independent Democrats, Free Soilers, and Conscience Whigs united to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Republican Party?
This person's program would have government funded internal improvements, a protective tariff, and a second National Bank.
What was Henry Clay's American System?
These two were arrested falsely for murder in 1925.
Who were Sacco and Vanetti?
This expanded Congress’s interstate regulation under the Commerce Clause
What was Gibbons v. Ogden(1824)?
This woman wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was a reality-based anti-slavery novel spurred northern sentiment against slavery in the South
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This party formed in 1891 from remnants of the Farmer's Alliance, who liked a big government with silver coinage and income taxes.
What was the Populist Party?
This person's program would impose a excise (Whiskey) tax and create the First National Bank.
What was Hamilton's Economic Program?
This act replaced quota laws with preference categories based on families and job skills.
What was the Immigration Act of 1965?
This ruled native tribes as dependent entities, not as foreign nations and put Native tribes under direct authority of the federal government.
What was Cherokee Nation v Georgia (1831)?
This woman's concerns for mentally ill led to reforms in asylums and prisons
Who was Dorothea Dix?
This was a party of modernization and backed Henry Clay's American System.
What was the Whig Party?
This economic ideal would advocate for minimal government intervention in the market, allowing businesses to have more freedom.
What was the Laissez-Faire economic ideal?
This group settled in the western part of the British colonies and Pennsylvania
Who were the Germans?
This endorsed native sovereignty against state laws and governments.
What was Worcester v Georgia (1832)?
This woman spoke against female weakness as perceived by male dominance, and made comparisons of hardships of womanhood to hardships as a slave
Who was Sojourner Truth?
This party was a nativist party who opposed immigration and supported temperance.
What was the American (Know Nothing) Party?
This program emphasized tax cuts, deregulation, and reducing government regulation to stimulate the economy.
What was Reagonomics?
This act banned the immigration of Chinese to the US.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This said natives not automatically U.S. citizens if born on reservations
What was Elk v. Wilkins (1884)?
These two women led abolitionist rhetoric with first-hand experiences as women living on plantations in South Carolina, and also spoke about woman equality/suffrage
Who were the Grimke Sisters?
This was the first third party, and they were a single-issue party that were absorbed by National Republicans to form the Whig Party.
What was the Anti-Masonic Party?
This policy required the use of gold and silver to buy public lands, and lead to an economic after the introducing president left office.
What was Specie Circular (Andrew Jackson)?
This group came to the U.S. in the 1930s to help Dust Bowl farmers fuel American jobs.
Who were Mexicans?
This overturned the “separate but equal” concept of Plessy v. Ferguson
What was Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)?
This woman created the American Birth Control League (1921) to promote education for pregnancy prevention and menstruation; she also spoke against poor conditions for young women
Who was Margaret Sanger?