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What are reservations?
Generally poor areas where vanquished Indians were eventually confined under federal control.
What is the name of the federal law that offered generous land opportunities to poorer farmers but also provided bad people with opportunities for hoaxes and fraud?
The Homestead Act
What was the principle of American foreign policy warning European nations against any intervention in the Western hemisphere?
The Monroe Doctrine?
What Supreme Court decision ruled that Congress could not restrict slavery in the territories and declared that African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What is the name for the sensationalistic and jingoistic pro-war journalism practiced by Hearst and Pulitzer?
Yellow journalism?
What was the name of the Indian religious movement, originating out of the sacred Sun Dance, that the federal government attempted to stamp out in 1890?
The Ghost Dance
What was the first organization to attempt to provide services and opportunities for Western farmers.
The Grange organization?
Name of the U.S. strategy aimed to prevent the spread of communism rather than eliminate it, shaping foreign policy from Truman through Vietnam.
Containment
What was the name of the rebellion that demonstrated the need for a strong federal government including a constitution.
Shays' Rebellion
What was the name of the journalists exposed corruption and social problems in order to build public support for reform, often influencing legislation.
Muckrakers
A federal law that attempted to dissolve tribal landholding and establish Indians as individual farmers. This describes what act?
The Dawes Severalty Act?
What was the political party that emerged in the 1890s to express rural grievances and mount major attacks on the Democrats and Republicans?
Populist party
What was the name of the pamphlet written by Thomas Paine encouraging colonists to fight for independence.
Common Sense
What was the Supreme Court case that integrated schools?
Brown v. the Board of Education
What was the name of the policy that marked a major shift from isolationism by committing the United States to actively support countries resisting communism.
Truman Doctrine
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Supreme Court cases that decided "judicial review."
What were the reactions following the first and second world war?
First - Remain isolationist
second - Become global leader
What debate sparked during and after the Spanish American War?
Whether or not the US should be an imperialist power in the world
Name of the court case that legalized segregation.
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the name of the 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union brought the world to the brink of nuclear war after missiles were discovered 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
Cuban Missile Crisis
List and describe the 3 amendments that came following the Civil War
They abolished slavery (13th), birthright citizenship and equal protection (14th), prohibited voting discrimination based on race (15th)
What resolved the debate between large and small states by creating a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in one house and equal representation in the other.
the Great Compromise
Who was the businessman who authored "The Gospel of Wealth"?
Andrew Carnegie
What New Deal program established a system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance, marking a long-term expansion of federal responsibility for citizens’ welfare.
Social Security Act
What was the agency that assisted newly freed slaves with education, clothing, and protection?
The Freedmen's Bureau