1492 - 1760
What are Gold, Glory, God
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This Eli Whitney invention that increased slavery
cotton gin
These laws, primarily in the South, enforced racial segregation and disenfranchisement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jim Crow laws
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
The US dropped the first Atomic Bomb on this Japanese city.
What is Hiroshima?
This policy, first put into place by Harry S Truman, aimed to prevent the spread of Soviet influence abroad.
Containment
What was Watergate?
The winner of the 2000 Presidential election was contested in this state.
What is Florida?
This food was the main source of nutrition for peoples in Pre-Columbia America
What is maize/corn
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Battle of Saratoga?
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt against slave owners and their families (Southampton, VA in 1831).
Who is Nat Turner?
This SCOTUS case established the "separate but equal" ruling that would inspire many Jim Crow laws.
This Progressive Era president was known for his "Square Deal" and his efforts at trust-busting and conservation.
Teddy Roosevelt
Programs like the Agricultural Adjustment Act and Civilian Conservation Corp were part of what large program designed by President Roosevelt.
What is the New Deal?
This Supreme Court case in 1954 declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional, overturning Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown V Board of Education
This crisis drastically hurt the Carter campaign during his reelection in 1980
What was the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
This term refers to the increased interconnectedness of the world through trade, technology, and cultural exchange.
globalization
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
Henry Clay's plan to protect American manufacturing, promote a national bank, and federally fund infrastructure to link the regions together.
What is the American System?
Where is Appotomax Court House?
This muckraking journalist exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair
One of the causes of the Great Depression, people used this to purchase goods despite not having actual money.
What is credit?
This massive economic aid package was designed to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II and prevent the appeal of communism.
Marshall Plan
This conservative president, elected in 1980, implemented supply-side economics and increased military spending.
Ronald Reagan
This major foreign policy event involved the United States leading a coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invasion in 1991.
Persian Gulf War
Which event resulted in the creation of the Intolerable Acts?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Give two precedents of Washington's farewell address....
Two Terms
Neutrality in Foreign Affairs
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
The Great Migration
The term for journalists exposing problems in American society.
Muckrakers
Two reasons the US entered World War I.
The Sinking of the Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare) and the Zimmerman Telegram
What is rugged individualism?
This event in 1962 brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
Cuban Missle Crisis
This scandal involved Reagan officials illegally selling weapons to then use the funds to support an anti-communist group in Central America.
What was the Iran-Contra scandal
This piece of legislation, passed in response to the September 11th attacks, expanded government surveillance powers.
Patriot Act
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
The dominant political party in the US during the Jeffersonian Era (1800-1824).
What are Democratic-Republicans?
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands East of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
What is the Indian Removal Act? (Trail of Tears)
This movement inspired the doctrine of "survival of the fittest," and was commonly exercised in late-1800s America.
Social Darwinism
This political movement, largely supported by farmers, advocated for policies like the free coinage of silver and government regulation of railroads.
Populist movement
What is modernity v traditionalism
What is modern v conservative
This march in 1965 focused on voting rights for African Americans, Bloody Sunday occurred during the march.
This legislative package, championed by Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to create programs addressing poverty, education, and civil rights.
The Great Society
This Obama Era policy extended and expanded healthcare coverages for Americans
What was the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare