Period 4
The treaty that allowed the U.S to acquire Oregon and establish the northern border of the region.
What is the Oregon Treaty
Violence in the newly established territory of Kansas because of popular sovereignty and tensions between the North and the South
What is Bleeding/Bloody Kansas
The process where several smaller companies would combine to form a larger company, either by being bought out legally or being destroyed illegally.
What is horizontal integration
The voter right where voters could propose new laws
What is ballot initiative
This plan sent more than $12 billion to Europe to help rebuild its cities and economy.
What is the Marshall Plan
The war between Mexico and the United States over the Southwest territory.
What is the Mexican-American War
The president that led the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis
The process where other companies were allowed in the same industry to compete, but one company can buy out all the factors of production.
What is vertical integration
The attempt to secure favorable relationships with other nations by providing monetary loans.
What is dollar diplomacy
The physical blockade to separate East Berlin from West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall
The political party that formed to support the Wilmot Proviso.
What is the Free Soil Party
The first battle of the American Civil War.
What is Battle of Fort Sumter
The idea that in business, as in nature, unrestricted competition only allowed the "fittest" to survive.
What is Social Darwinism
The paranoia surrounding the spread of communism in the United States
What is the Red Scare
Where the U.S prohibited anyone from using the U.S mail system to interfere with the war effort or with the draft.
What is the Sedition/Espionage Act
The idea that the territories themselves would decide, by vote, whether to allow slavery within their borders.
What is popular sovereignty
The final battle of the Civil War (led to the Gettysburg Address)
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
The belief by Native Americans that, with supernatural magic and cultural practice, Western expansion would end and the Native Americans could live in peace.
What is the Ghost Dance Movement
The amendment that gave U.S the power of Cuba's foreign affairs.
What is the Platt Amendment
Where Governor Palmer organized raids on people's homes, community centers, and other public facilities to check for communists.
What is Palmer Raids
The political party that was established from Nativism, specifically a hatred of German immigrants.
What is the Know-Nothing Party
The battle that led Abraham Lincoln to draft the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam
The political party that supported government ownership of railroads, coinage of silver, direct elections, and shorter workdays.
What is the People's/Populist Party
The event where Germany planned to keep the U.S out of World War I by convincing Mexico and Japan to declare war on the U.S
What is the Zimmerman telegram
- free trade
- self determination
- creation of League of Nations
What is Wilson's 14 Points