Geography and the Environment
"For the Benefit and Enjoyment of All"
Before the Civil Rights Movement, the American South has traditionally been aligned with this political party, going all the way back to the time of Jefferson.
What is the Democratic Party
Name of the Black Activist and Educator who encouraged Black Americans to learn a trade under Jim Crow, and focus on gaining political and social equality later.
Who was Booker T Washington?
The pre-Civil War party who ran on nativist policies, often attacking Irish Catholics.
Who were the Know Nothings?
Isolationists
The replacement of natural grasslands with farms helped to lead to this 20th century ecological disaster.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The "Corrupt Bargain" occurred in the 1824 election when who was elected?
John Quincy Adams
Passed by Lincoln during the Civil War, the name of the law that gave Americans free land if they were able to build a home on it and farm it for a certain number of years.
The Homestead Act
Give the collective name for race-based laws that segregated many parts of society after Reconstruction ended in 1877.
Jim Crow laws
The name of the alliance that helped the colonies win the Revolutionary War, or at least end it more quickly.
Franco-American Alliance
Despite its rocky soil, this region boasted the lowest mortality rate amongst the colonies due to its seasonal weather patterns.
What political party was created as a coalition backing Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election?
The Republican Party
The Bessemer Process was used to cultivate what material that made it easier to build bigger and better things like skyscrapers, cars, and airplanes?
Steel
Sam Adams was a major part of what radical independence group in the 1770s?
The Sons of Liberty
Impressment, funding Native insurgents, and blocking European trade were the main causes of this war.
What is the War of 1812
What are corn, beans and squash
The term, coined by Mark Twain, given to the era of politics that had many cities dominated by small groups of rich and powerful political machines
What is The Gilded Age
The 3 parts of Henry Clay's American System
What are National bank, infrastructure, tariffs?
The president proposed many social improvements in the 1960s, and called it "The Great Society"
Who is Lyndon Johnson
The 3 territories gained from Spain after the Spanish-American War
Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico?
The book, published in the 1960's, sparked a major debate over the use of pesticides in the US, which had previously been hailed as a miracle of science.
What is Silent Spring by Rachel Carson?
The Federalists and Democratic-Republicans had many differences. Their differences were rooted in how they interpreted the Constitution. How the Federalists interpreted the constitution is often referred to as this.
Loose Construction or broad construction?
Based on the abuses of the encomienda system, it was the idea that Spain was an abusive colonizer and an excuse for other nations to compete for land in the Americas.
What is the Black Legend?
Lincoln's slogan for reelection in 1864, now hilariously outdated
What is "Don't change horses in mid-stream"?
After WW2, what structure was built in Germany that became the international symbol of the Cold War?
The Berlin Wall