Early America
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This land purchase doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This idea claimed that society should be survival of the "fittest" with the "fittest" dominating the "unfit".
What is Social Darwinism?
This conflict gave the U.S control over the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
What is the Spanish-American War
This US policy was designed to contain communism by supporting countries that were resisting Soviet influence.
What is the Truman doctrine?
This geometric shape emphasized mercantile values.
What is the triangular/Transatlantic Slave trade?
This religious revival emphasized individual salvation and sparked widespread social reform movements like abolition and temperance.
What is the SECOND Great Awakening?
The first major federal restriction on immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This law created the central banking system of the U.S, giving the federal government more control over the economy.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This confrontation was between the US and the Soviet Union over missiles in the Caribbean.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Founding Father helped write the Constitution, co-wrote the Federalist Papers, and later served as president in the War of 1812
Who is James Madison?
This agreement maintained the balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is Horizontal Integration?
This law restricted speech that criticized the government and the military during a time of war.
What is the Espionage Act?
This court case overturned Plessy v Ferguson and declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
This early American uprising saw settlers burning Jamestown and demanding land reform, which highlighted the colonial government's corruption and tensions between the wealthy and the poor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
DAILY DOUBLE : This Supreme Court decision ruled that Congress had no authority to ban slavery in territories and declared that African Americans were not U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v.s. Sanford?
This law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual allotments.
What is the Dawes Act?
DAILY DOUBLE : This statement by President Woodrow Wilson outlined the principles for a just peace after WWI, later rejected by the U.S.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This Congressional resolution gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers to escalate U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This Founding Father fell ill shortly after co-writing the Federalist Papers, and negotiated a treaty with Britain in 1794 that was aimed to avoid war.
Who is John Jay?
This final piece of Reconstruction legislation aimed to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, but it was claimed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
This nationwide railroad strike was crushed by federal troops and revealed the government's alliance with large businesses.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Proposed by Secretary of State John Hay, aimed to ensure equal trading rights for all nations in China and protect U.S commercial interests without colonizing territory.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This report by a presidential commission concluded that racism and economic inequality were the main causes of recent urban uprisings in U.S. cities.
What is the Kerner Commission Report?