Unit 3
American colonists were largely influenced by this pamphlet that called for independence and a republican form of government.
What is Common Sense?
This was largely caused by a 30% drop in world agricultural prices.
What is the Panic of 1819?
This act of Congress divided the South into 5 military districts.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Promoted by Charles Sheldon, this is the goal of renewing religious faith through dedication to justice and social welfare.
What is social gospel?
The US declared war on Spain in 1898 after the sinking of this ship in the Havana harbor.
What is the USS Maine?
This ordinance created states that would eventually become Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This idea, supported by Christian ministers, emphasized that women should exercise their influence over their homes and sons rather than in public.
What is Republican Motherhood?
These laws passed in southern states towards the end of the Civil War were designed to force slaves back into plantation labor.
What are the Black Codes?
In 1892, John Muir founded this organization aimed at preserving America's great mountains.
What is the Sierra Club?
Sent by US Secretary of State John Hay this letter declared equal access to trade in China.
What is the Open Door Note?
The enforcement of this act was the end of salutary neglect in the British colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was a period between 1817-1825 during James Monroe's presidency in which there was an appearance of political consensus.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This party collapsed after a huge defeat to Democrats in the 1852 presidential election and the remainder of its members joined the Republican party during the 1856 election.
What is the Whig party?
In this famous speech, Booker T. Washington argued that blacks and whites could live as separately as the five fingers on the hand.
What is the Atlanta Compromise speech?
Bearing the name of the New York senator who supported it, this Neal Deal legislation established the right of industrial workers to join unions.
What is the Wagner Act?
Signed by the British in 1783, this document formally recognized American independence and relinquished British control of land south of the Great Lakes and east of the Mississippi.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This was South Carolina's argument that a state has the right to void, within its borders, a law passed by Congress.
What is nullifcation?
Native Americans believed this movement would bring the return of the bison and drive whites back to Europe.
What is the Ghost Dance?
Formed in the 1870s this political party that consisted of Grangers, labor advocates and farmers called for the U.S. government to increase the amount of money in circulation to stimulate the economy.
What is the Greenback-Labor Party?
These riots in LA between whites and Mexican American teenagers were named for the colorful suits the Mexican teenagers were.
What are the Zoot Suit riots?
This original colony refused to send a delegate to the Continental Congress that met in Philadelphia in 1774.
What is Georgia?
Civil disobedience, an ideology popularized by Gandhi and Dr. King, was first proposed by a poet during this popular movement that began in the 1830s.
What is transcendentalism?
This Supreme Court case ruled that voting rights are not inherent and that states could deny women the right to vote.
Minor v. Happersett
This Supreme Court case that limited women's work days to 10 hours was argued and won by future Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis.
What is Muller v. Oregon
President Harding's administration was riddled with corruption including this scandal that involved leasing government oil reserves to private corporations.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?