Politics
This Supreme Court case under Chief Justice John Marshall established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This system ensured colonies served the economic interests of their mother country.
What is mercantilism?
These laws segregated public spaces by race in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1950s cultural phenomenon celebrated teenage rebellion and consumerism.
What is rock and roll or youth culture?
This 1917 telegram helped push the U.S. into WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This early colonial assembly, formed in 1619, was the first representative legislative body in the Americas.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This federally funded transportation project connected the East to western markets in 1825
What is the Erie Canal?
This labor system dominated early Virginia and Maryland before slavery became widespread.
What is indentured servitude?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe stirred Northern sentiment against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This war from 1754–1763 drastically changed the balance of power in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
This 1786 rebellion exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation and helped lead to the Constitutional Convention.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This compromise allowed for taxation and representation of enslaved people.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This woman helped spark the early women’s rights movement with the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This group sought to limit immigration, particularly from Catholics.
Who were the Know-Nothings (or the American Party)?
This 1898 war made the U.S. an imperial power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The Compromise of 1850 included this controversial law that upset many Northerners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This 1980s economic philosophy emphasized tax cuts and deregulation.
What is Reaganomics (or supply-side economics)?
This belief that women should stay in the domestic sphere was known by this term.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
These documents advocated ratification of the Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
This 1899 policy aimed to prevent European powers from carving China into colonies and promoted equal trading rights for all nations.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This 1965 act banned discriminatory voting practices like literacy tests.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This scandal involved railroad companies and corruption during the Grant administration.
What is the Crédit Mobilier scandal?
This abolitionist and former slave published The North Star newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This artistic movement celebrated American landscapes in the early 19th century.
What is the Hudson River School?
This 1947 aid initiative provided billions in economic assistance to rebuild Western Europe as a strategy to contain communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?