Period 3 (1754-1800)
This act, passed by the British in 1765, required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials.
Stamp Act
This political party, founded and led by Andrew Jackson, claimed to represent the "common man."
Democratic Party
This 1854 law allowed settlers in certain territories acquired in the Louisiana Purchase to utilize "popular sovereignty" to decide on the legality of slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The leader of Tammany Hall political machine in New York City during part of the Gilded Age.
President from 1901-1909, known for his "Square Deal" and progressive reforms.
Theodore Roosevelt
Shays Rebellion
This policy, issued in 1823, warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
Monroe Doctrine
This 1868 constitutional amendment granted citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people.
14th amendment
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
President from 1933-1945 who used his "New Deal" to expand the powers of the federal government in an effort to combat the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Political party founded in the 1790s, advocating for a stronger central government, neutrality in the French Revolution, increased trade with Britain, and support for industrialization. Had more support in the North.
Federalist Party (Alexander Hamilton)
Andrew Jackson's use of the __________ power was criticized by Henry Clay and the Whig Party as an abuse of power. They nicknamed him "King Andrew" in response.
Veto
This political party formed in the 1850s as a free soil party in opposition to the spread of slavery.
Republican Party
First nativist law passed by Congress in U.S. history (1882)
Chinese Exclusion Act
Name three ways that the Progressive Movement expanded the political power of citizens to influence government and create a more open and fair democracy.
17th amendment, 19th amendment, Direct Primary, Recall elections, Initiatives and Referendums
In this 1798 law, the federal government made it harder for immigrants to become citizens and allowed the president to deport them
Alien and Sedition Acts
This 1832–33 crisis involved South Carolina’s attempt to nullify federal ____________.
Tariffs or the "Tariff of Abominations"
Name three ways in which southern whites sought to sabotage Reconstruction and maintain white supremacy after the Civil War.
Black Codes, terrorism, lynching, segregation, convict leasing, sharecropping/tenant farming
Law passed by Congress in 1890 that gave the government the power to breakup powerful trusts and monopolies.
Sherman Antitrust Act
The politics and dominant economic philosophy of the 1920s was most similar to which previous time period?
Gilded Age of the late 19th century
The "Great Compromise" components at the Constitutional Convention. Also called the "Connecticut Compromise" after negotiator Roger Sherman.
Name the three components of the American System.
Tariffs to support domestic industries, a national bank, and "internal improvements" (infrastructure to connect the country)
Nativist party founded in the 1850s in response to an increase in immigration from Europe.
American Party, also called the "Know Nothing" party.
Name at least two specific goals or policy proposals supported by the Populists Movement.
Bimetallism, government control of railroads, access to cheap government loans for farmers, replacing property taxes with income taxes, direct election of senators, antitrust enforcement.
1914 law passed by Woodrow Wilson which strengthened the anitrust power of the government and supported unions.
Clayton Antitrust Act