The success in what war gave America new lands with which they had to decide whether or not they would be slave states or free states?
Mexican-American War
100
Was founded by George Calvert
(AKA Lord Baltimore)
Maryland
100
The USSR closed off all routes into the western part of what city in 1948-1949?
Berlin
100
What was an essential part of Alexander Hamilton's economic plan that was killed in 1832 by Andrew Jackson?
Bank of the United States
100
Americans produced too many goods to be sold, known as what?
Overproduction
200
What compromise, drawn up by Henry Clay, admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and set a line at 36,30 latitude at which below it would be slave states?
Missouri Compromise
200
was supposed to be a "City on a Hill"
Massachusetts Bay Colony (founded by John Winthrop)
200
Capitalism took a hit when what major Asian nation turned communist in 1949?
China
200
What failed military operation against Cuba in 1961 did John F. Kennedy take the blame for?
Bay of Pigs Invasion
200
The government mainly stayed out of business, a policy known as what?
Laissez Faire
300
What book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, led many Northern Americans to sympathize with slaves?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
had the first permanent settlement and had Bacon's Rebellion
Virginia
300
Lyndon B. Johnson was so adamant about the war effort in Vietnam because he believed in what theory, stating that if one country fell to communism, more would follow?
The Domino Theory
300
What was Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy that intimidated other countries without harming them?
Big Stick Policy
300
Farmers were never able to pay off their debts or return to levels of production that had been had during what most recent war?
World War I
400
The violence in a western state over whether it should be a slave state or not was called what?
Bleeding Kansas
400
was founded in part by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
Rhode Island
400
The Cold War reached its most intense in 1962, when what event took place?
Cuban Missile Crisis
400
Many Anti-Federalists were up in arms because the new Constitution lacked what?
Bill of Rights
400
Companies over-speculated, and people bought stocks in a special way known as what?
On-Margin
500
What compromise, drawn up by Henry Clay, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., admitted California as a free state, gave Utah and New Mexico popular sovereignty, and created stricter Fugitive Slave Laws?
Compromise of 1850
500
split into a richer south and a poorer north
Carolina
500
What event of the 50s caused Americans to believe that they were falling behind the USSR in technology?
Launching of Sputnik
500
What affair divided the Republican Party during the Presidency of William Howard Taft?
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
500
Following World War I, the US raised what, which hurt foreign economies?