Literature
Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel written at a tumultuous point in America, was panned by this author.
Who is Harriet Breecher Stowe?
Led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, this group of people argued for the War of 1812 as a solution.
Who are the War Hawks?
An economic system, this is an arrangement where a colony supplies raw materials to the mother country which in turn gets to sell manufactured goods back as a monopoly.
What is Mercantilism?
A "Declaration of Sentiments" was issued at this event in 1848, but was overshadowed by slavery debates.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This movement was mostly supported by northern Democrats and Whigs who wanted all Blacks out of the Western Territories.
What is the Free Soil movement?
Written by Alexis de Tocqueville, this book highlights the success of a democratic revolution due to equality developed throughout society.
What is Democracy in America?
During the Civil War, this strategy employed by the Union forces employed a naval blockage and stopped the Confederate forces from shipping out cotton.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This colonial power mainly worked with fur trappers and was known to have an alliance with the indigenous population.
Who are the French?
Known for his public feud with W.E.B Du Bois, this person insisted on industrial skills and a solid economic foundation for African Americans before calling for equal rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This act rapidly settled the Great Plains region, as the government provided subsidies in order to encourage migration.
What is the Homestead Act.
Washington Irving was an early 19th-century writer whose works were pieces from this genre, including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
What is American Mythos?
Fought in the colonial era, this war was when Benjamin Franklin drafted the Albany Plan of Union (Join or Die).
What is the 7 Years War?
The Hawaiian Islands were acquired by the US by supporting a coup to function as this sort of republic.
What is a Banana Republc?
This revolutionist in 1831 South Hampton VA and religious zealot led an unsuccessful slave rebellion that ultimately further splintered feelings over slavery.
Who is Nat Turner?
This Supreme Court Judge was a Federalist cousin of Jefferson and judged many influential cases such as Marbury v. Madison and McCulloh v. Maryland.
Who is John Marshall?
"The Jungle" by Uptown Sinclair was a major literary novel in the Progressive Era that uncovered the grotesque system of the meat-packing industry and ultimately led to these two acts being passed.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The American Expenditionary Force was commanded by this General who secured a segment of the Western Frontier in World War 1.
Who is John J. Pershing?
Indirect imperialism occurs when a country intervenes economically or politically but generally without force, as is seen in this example of the U.S. and this country vital to trade routes.
What is Panama?
A response from some Native American Tribes to colonialism was to ally with a specifc European power, as did the tribes from Mexico with this European power.
What is Spain?
A misnomer, the Revolution of 1800 occurred when there was a peaceful transition from the previous Federalist President to this person.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The "lost generation" represented a group of writers disillusioned with the materialism and emphasis on business culture, as seen in this book by Scott F. Fitzgerlad.
What is The Great Gatsby?
This sinking of this ship acted as the catalyst for what would become known as the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S Maine?
This person wanted the U.S. to compete with others using a strong navy to colonize territories across the sea and demonstrate standing as a world power.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
The significance of this case was that it opened the posibility of multiple ethnicities gaining citizenship and expanding families under the U.S. constitution.
What is US v. Wong Ark Kim?
These alliances were made in order to spread knowledge of agriculture and wth underlying political and economic goals.
What are Farmers' Alliances?