Post-Revolutionary War
These two plans were part of the Great Compromise. The first established the Senate, and the second established the House of Representatives.
What are the New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan?
_______ is the line of the Missouri Compromise.
What is 36/30?
This was the name given to Northerners who went South during Reconstruction for personal profit.
Who are carpetbaggers?
This amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This was a major movement of African American culture in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This was the name given to the process in which each branch of government would check on the power of the others.
What are checks and balances?
This compromise admitted CA as a free state, and declared popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This act encouraged Westward migration by giving 160 acres of land to those who would move West during Reconstruction.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This was the name given to journalists who wrote about bad things happening during the Progressive Era.
What are muckrakers?
William Jennings Brian was the prosecutor in this trial, in which a man was convicted of teaching evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote these papers that supported the Constitution as well as a strong central government.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This act led to Bleeding Kansas, in which conflict ensued between the north and south over the legality of slavery in Kansas.
What is the Kansas/Nebraska Act?
These three amendments freed slaves, granted them citizenship, and gave them the right to vote.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
The title of Upton Sinclair’s book that led to the Meat Inspection Act and the FDA.
What is The Jungle?
Event in which massive dust storms ruined farms and houses in the West.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The drafting of the Constitution took place here.
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
When African Americans were granted freedom and rights, this white supremacy group emerged.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Women received voting rights with this amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Name at least two causes of the Great Depression.
What is overproduction of crops, stocks going down, bad credit, bank failures, and the stock market crash?
This was added to the Constitution in order to satisfy the Anti Federalists, who feared that a strong central government would undermine personal liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This Supreme Court Case legally declared that slaves are considered property and not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
Provide at least two examples of African Americans being excluded from their newly gained rights during Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws, segregation, sharecropping, or literacy tests?
Ida Tarbell’s writings led to a Supreme Court decision that stopped the monopoly of this company.
What is the Standard Oil Company?
This President failed to pull the United States out of the Great Depression.
Who is President Herbert Hoover?