Turning Points & Reactions
This was the colonists break up letter with the British, officially putting the colonists at war with Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave US control of the Mexican Cession.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
During the Gilded Age, many journalists used this type of journalism which is when the journalist presents little or no legitimate well researched news but instead uses eye-catching headlines for increasing sales.
What is yellow journalism?
The massive funding poured into this secret project based in a densely populated city, and the desire to prove our dominance to the Soviets were just some of the reasons the United States chose to do this.
What is drop the atomic bomb?
Continuities and changes after this amendment.
Continuities: Women were treated horribly still and not allowed to vote. Discrimination still happened at polls, such as literacy test and grandfather clauses.
Changes: Allowed Men to vote not counting against race, color, or religion.
What is the 15th?
British had shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for in reaction to this 1773 event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Addressed the main problems that plagued America. Examples: banking systems, unemployment, and lack of relief
What is the New Deal?
It was 1st government in the colonies during 1619.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This case gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Continuities and changes after this event included:
Continuities: Racism continued in the North as there was still discrimination and violence.
Changes: African Americans experienced change by moving North for economic growth and to escape Jim Crow hostilities.
What is the Great Migration?
After this attack on home soil, America was ready to retaliate and this event led America to join the fight of World War 2.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This amendment gave the US the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
This colony is characterized by about 115 English settlers. John White the governor of the settlers sailed back to England to get more supplies. On returning John White found no trace of the colony or inhabitants, but seen a carved "Croatoan" into a wooden post.
What is "the Lost Colony"(Roanoke Island)?
Governor William Berkeley's refusal to retaliate for a series of Native American attacks on frontier settlements. It was settlers v Indians.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
The Truman Doctrine helped these countries, whereas the Marshall plan helped who.
What is Greece and Turkey, and all western European countries?
This workplace disaster that claimed the lives of 146 workers in Manhattan. It provides an example needed to improve working conditions and workplace safety in factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
An issue debated between the North and South. The North favored it because made foreign products more expensive and encouraged people to buy American products.
What are tariffs?
Occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted.
What is the Salem Witch Trials of 1692?
This led to the House electing John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson as President. Henry Clay got to be the Secretary of State.
What is the Corrupt Bargain of 1824?
Began as a social movement and grew into a political movement... Initially the movement operated chiefly at local levels; later, it expanded to state and national levels. This group drew support from the middle class, and supporters included many lawyers, teachers, physicians, ministers and business people.
Who are the Progressives?
Americans felt betrayed and angry with this because the money gave to Contra and Iran was tax payer money.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
An executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson requiring that payment for the purchase of public lands be made exclusively in gold or silver.
What is the Specie Circular?
It marks a period in the political history of the USA that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.
What is the "Era of Good Feelings"?
The omission of the standard silver dollar from the coinage law passed by Congress on February 12, 1873 became known as this.
What is the Crime of 73?
What is both believed the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional?