This trade of animals, plants, culture, and human population between American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres during the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
President George Washington encouraged national unity and cautioned against political factions and the danger of permanent foreign alliances in this speech.
What is the Farewell Address?
100
The theory that wealth belongs in the hands of those who were fittest to manage it.
What is Social Darwinism?
100
The movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
100
The major event that led to the U.S. War on Terror.
What is 9/11?
200
This system was created by the Spanish to control American Indian labor during the colonization period.
What is the encomienda system?
200
This founding father coined the phrase "Join, or Die" in a political cartoon.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
Southerners who wished to return the South to pre-Civil War status.
Who are the Redeemers?
200
This letter contained a promise from the German government to the Mexican president that if his country assisted Germany in a possible war against the U.S., Mexico would be given the territory lost in the Mexican-American War after Germany's victory.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
President who ushered in a new era of conservative policy making, promising lower taxes, smaller government, and a stronger military.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
Colonists of this European country brought women and children with them and showed little interest in assimilating the native population.
What is England?
300
John Locke's Enlightenment philosophy on natural rights was used by Thomas Jefferson in this founding document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The treaty at the end of the Mexican-American war that gave parts of Texas, California, and New Mexico to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
A 13-day confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
Created a free-trade pact with Canada and Mexico that allowed the free flow of goods, services, and jobs in North America.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
400
A system established in 1618 in which 50 acres of land was awarded to any settler who paid for his passage to the New World.
What is the headright system?
400
Settled sectional tensions, admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and outlawed slavery north of the 36'30' line. It also protected slave owners with a clause that any slaves would be sent back to Missouri in the event they escaped.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
The foreign policy of the U.S. between 1844-1877 (P5).
What is neutral/neutrality?
400
Hoping to avoid the mistakes of WWI regarding returning veterans, Congress passed this bill, which provided funding for a college education, as well as low-interest home and small business loans.
What is the GI Bill?
400
The Soviet statesmen who was forced from power when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Who is Gorbachev?
500
In 1637, this tribe, which controlled the New England fur trade, killed an English fur trader. In retaliation, colonists surrounded the village at Mystic and set it on fire killing more than 500 men, women, and children.
What is the Pequot?
500
Jefferson persuaded Congress to pass this act in 1807, which prohibited U.S. merchant vessels from engaging in foreign trade.
What is the Embargo Act?
500
This lecture given at the World's Columbian Expo in Chicago in 1893 argued that the American character was shaped by the existence of the frontier, which encouraged individualism and democracy.
What is Turner's Frontier Thesis/Essay?
500
This made literacy tests illegal and prohibited states from denying the right to vote to any U.S. citizen on the basis of race.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
500
The NASA space shuttle that exploded shortly after take-off, killing all seven astronauts on board.