American Identity
Period 2:
THIS PRACTICE, PERFORMED BY THE BRITISH, LEFT THE COLONISTS RELATIVELY ALONE AND ALLOWED THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN CULTURE.
WHAT IS STATUARY NEGLECT?
Period 1:
THESE DIVERSE GROUPS OF PEOPLE LIVED IN WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE UNITED STATES BEFORE EUROPEANS. THEY WERE INCREDIBLY DIVERSE AND VARIED AMONG PLACE.
WHAT ARE NATIVE/INDIGENOUS AMERICANS?
Periods 1-6:
THIS SYSTEM USED FREE AND FORCED LABOR TO COMPLETE MANY AGRICULTURAL DEMANDS TO THE UNITED STATES' GROWING ECONOMY. THE LABORERS WERE AFRICANS WHO WERE FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM THEIR HOMES AND SUBJECTED TO INHUMANE CONDITIONS.
WHAT IS SLAVERY?
Period 3:
THE 1803 LANDMARK SUPREME COURT MARBURY V. MADISON CASE ESTABLISHED THIS KEY POWER OF THE LAW.
WHAT IS JUDICIAL REVIEW?
Period 8:
IN THE 1950S, THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE WERE EXPECTED BY SOCIETY TO BE GOOD CARETAKERS AND OBEDIENT SPOUSES.
WHO ARE WOMEN?
Period 5:
THIS MOVEMENT MOVED MANY AMERICANS AWAY FROM THE EAST AND INTO THE WEST, ACCENTUATING AND SPREADING WASP IDEALS.
WHAT WAS THE MANIFEST DESTINY?
Period 4:
DUE TO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE WEST, PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON ENACTED THIS 1830 LEGISLATURE FORCING THE RELOCATION OF INDIGENOUS AMERICANS.
WHAT WAS THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT?
NOTE: TRAIL OF TEARS ALSO ACCEPTED, BUT EXPLAIN
Period 7:
THIS EVENT, BEGINNING WITH THE 1932 STOCK MARKET CRASH, PLUNGED THE UNITED STATES INTO A PERIOD OF ECONOMIC CRISIS AND DESPAIR.
WHAT WAS THE GREAT DEPRESSION?
PERIOD 4:
THIS 1820 LAW ADMITTED THE STATE OF MISSOURI INTO THE UNION UNDER THE CONDITION THAT IT ALLOWED SLAVERY. IT ALSO BANNED SLAVERY FROM TERRITORIES WEST OF MISSOURI.
WHAT WAS THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE?
Period 8:
THIS MOVEMENT HELPED THE ADVANCEMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RIGHTS AND WAS SPEARHEADED BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
WHAT WAS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?
Period 4:
THIS 1823 POLICY DECLARED THAT THE US WOULD STAY OUT OF THE AFFAIRS OF FOREIGN NATIONS, ALLOWING THEM TO DEVELOP ITS OWN IDENTITY.
WHAT WAS THE MONROE DOCTRINE?
Period 7:
THIS PORT PROVIDED AN ENTRY TO THE UNITED STATES TO MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS, PRIMARILY FROM EUROPE.
WHAT IS ELLIS ISLAND?
Period 7:
PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT ENACTED A NEW SERIES OF LAWS AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS TO INCREASE PRODUCTION AND ECONOMY FOLLOWING THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
WHAT IS THE NEW DEAL?
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Period 3:
THIS ORIGINAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE US GOVERNMENT ULTIMATELY FAILED DUE TO ITS LACK OF REGULATION OF A NATIONAL ECONOMY.
WHAT WERE THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION?
Period 4:
THIS RELIGIOUS REVIVAL, THE SECOND OF ITS KIND TO HIT THE UNITED STATES, BROUGHT A NEW ERA OF SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY.
WHAT WAS THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING?
Period 5:
AS A RESPONSE TO THE EVER-GROWING TENSIONS BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH, SOUTH CAROLINA BECAME THE FIRST STATE TO DO THIS IN 1860.
WHAT IS SECEDE?
Period 7:
THIS MOVEMENT DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY WAS COMPRISED OF MILLIONS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS MOVING FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH IN SEARCH OF BETTER OPPORTUNITIES.
Period 3:
THIS DEVICE, DESIGNED BY ELI WHITNEY, EXPANDED THE USE OF SLAVERY TO THE SOUTH AND MADE IT WORSE FOR COUNTLESS AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
WHAT IS THE COTTON GIN?
Period 5:
ADOPTED IN 1898, THIS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT GUARANTEES EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW FOR ALL PEOPLE.
WHAT IS THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT?
Period 6:
THIS GILDED-AGE IDEOLOGY ADVOCATED THAT ONLY THE STRONGEST ECONOMICALLY WOULD SURVIVE AND THAT IS THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS.
WHAT IS SOCIAL DARWINISM?
Period 7:
THIS IDEOLOGY, WHICH HAD PUSHED THE US AGAINST WWI AND OUT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, EFFECTIVELY ENDED ON DECEMBER 7, 1941.
WHAT IS ISOLATIONISM?
Period 6:
THIS 1882 LAW WAS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND TO BAN IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES FOR A SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE.
WHAT WAS THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT?
Period 4:
THIS 19TH CENTURY CHANGE, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, PROVIDED DRASTIC CHANGES TO US ECONOMY AND SOCIETY BY INTRODUCING NEW MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION.
WHAT WAS THE MARKET REVOLTUOIN?
Period 7:
AS AN EFFORT TO PREVENT AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM VOTING, MANY SOUTHERN STATES MANDATED LITERACY TESTS AND THIS OTHER THING.
WHAT IS A POLL TAX?
Period 4:
THIS PERIOD OF TIME FROM 1815-1825 WAS CHARACTERIZED BY THE GENERAL TRUST AND OPTIMISM AMERICAN PEOPLE HAD IN THEIR GOVERNMENT AND PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE.
WHAT WAS THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS?