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The act, also known as the Intolerable Acts of 1774, that essentially allowed the area by the same name to be self-sufficient and expanded its borders, taking away potential lands from colonists in the Ohio River Valley.
What is the Quebec Act?
What is the Virginia Plan?
Who is Jane Addams?
What is the United Auto Workers (UAW)?
1941 act that allowed Britain to borrow US war materials that replaced the policy of "Cash and Carry."
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The document sent to King George III by the First Continental Congress in 1774 that urged him to correct the wrongs incurred by the colonists, but did acknowledge the authority of Parliament to regulate trade and commerce.
What is the Declaration of Rights and Grievances?
Law designed to reenslave those who had made it into a state that prohibited slavery while also denying legal rights to captured blacks and sentenced whites who harbored runaway slaves to heavy fines or jail time.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Foreign policy tactic used by President Taft that was much more economic than militaristic - encouraged US investors to send money to foreign countries to break down reliance on Europe while strengthening bonds with the United States.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
The idea of President Hoover's that stated that anyone could become a success if he or she worked hard enough. Lead to many believing that early victims of the Great Depression were to blame for their own economic situation rather than analyzing the larger context of the economy and lead to a delayed reaction by the federal government.
What is Rugged Individualism?
Created during a secret meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill that created the two nations postwar aims, focused on the concept of self-determination of peoples and free trade, and eventually served as the founding document to the United Nations Charter.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Name for Northern and Western Democrats in Congress who wished for an end to what they deemed an "unjust war" - named for the "venom" they spat as they spoke.
What were the Copperheads?
One of the most influential reform movements of this era that stated that Christians are obligated to improve the lives of those less fortunate and created the foundation for middle-class Protestant participation in progressive causes.
What is the Social Gospel?
Order issued by President Roosevelt in reaction to paranoia of the War Department that American citizens of Japanese ancestry might turn against the United States to aid Japan in an invasion of the West Coast. Ultimately, this order allowed for the illegal internment of Japanese-Americans for the duration of the war.
The freedoms of speech, religion, from want, and from fear that President Roosevelt hoped to protect by providing Great Britain with loans to buy US made munitions of war and eventually entering the war.
What are the Four Freedoms?
System used in the Chesapeake to deal with labor shortages due to disease and low birth rates. Typically a landowner would pay for the passage form England for a white "indentured servant" who would receive 50 acres after completing the term of service.
What is the Headright System?
New name for Anti-Federalists that sought to limit the powers of the central government in favor of greater states' rights.
1896 Supreme Court case that created "separate but equal" of segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Woman who founded the American Birth Control League and encouraged young women to openly discuss issues ranging from menstruation to the prevention of pregnancy.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
In 1924 the US Director of the Budget crafted this loan program that would give money to Germany to pay war reparations which then granted those nations receiving the money from Germany to pay off their debts to the US thereby lessening the finical crisis in Europe.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Plan constructed by the Albany Congress that called for a confederation of colonies to provide for defense from attack by European and native foes during the French and Indian War.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Supreme Court case under Chief Justice Taney that ruled in 1857 that the 36 degree 30 minute provision of the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that all African Americans were not citizens, making them ineligible to sue in federal court.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Commonly referred to as the "3 Rs" these referred to President Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression and prevent it from happening again.
What is Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
Strip of land along the border of Czechoslovakia that was claimed by Hitler in 1938 and was granted to Germany by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French President Edouard Daladier in an attempt to avert war thereby creating the policy of "appeasement" and Chamberlain's comments that he had achieved "peace in our time."
What is the Sudetenland?