Periods 1 and 2
This Native group developed an impressive civilization in the Andes Mountains and along the Pacific Coast of present-day South America (1200s-1400s)?
Incas
1754 Plan put together by Benjamin Franklin to create a more centralized colonial government that would establish policies regarding defense, trade, and territorial expansion?
Albany Plan of Union
Term coined in 1845 by John L. O'Sullivan to describe what he saw as the nation's God-given right to expand its borders?
Manifest Destiny
1851 treaty that sought to confine tribes on the northern plains to designated areas in an attempt to keep white settlers from encroaching on their land.
Treaty of Fort Laramie
This is the military alliance in Eastern Europe, formed by the Soviet Union. Meant to counteract NATO.
Warsaw Pact
In this historical construct, America provided Europeans with high-yielding, nutrient-rich foods like maize, tomatoes, and potatoes, as well as new indulgences like tobacco and cacao?
Act of Parliament that restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Sparked protests from colonists.
Proclamation Line of 1763
1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War. The United States acquired control over parts of Texas and the New Mexico Territory, as well as parts of Utah, Colorado, and Nevada.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
African American cavalrymen who fought in the West against American Indians in the 1870s and 1880s.
Buffalo soldiers
He was president during the Korean War, 1950-1953?
Harry S. Truman
In this system, leading men received land from the Spanish crown in the New World as well as benefitted from unpaid Native American labor?
Encomienda
Decisive battle in which the surrender of the British forces on October 19, 1781, effectively sealed the Patriot victory in the American Revolution?
Battle of Yorktown (Virginia)
Party founded by political abolitionists in 1848 to expand the appeal of the Liberty Party by focusing less on the moral wrongs of slavery and more on the benefits of providing economic opportunities for northern white people in western territories
Free-Soil Party
1887 act that ended federal recognition of tribal sovereignty and divided American Indian land into 160-acre parcels to be distributed to American Indian heads of household?
Dawes (Severalty) Act
This document strengthened the policy of Containment and proposed that the United States continue work on nuclear weapons technology?
NSC-68
A group of allied American Indian nations that included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca tribes. Situated around the Finger Lakes in present-day upstate New York.
Iroquois Confederacy
1785 Act of the Confederation Congress that provided for the survey, sale, and eventual division into states of the Northwest Territory.
Northwest Ordinances
Act passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, strengthening earlier slave laws. The act provided widespread anger in the North and intensified sectional divisions.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
1889 essay by Andrew Carnegie in which he argued that the rich should act as guardians of the wealth they earned, using their surplus income for the benefit of the community.
The Gospel of Wealth
This Act, signed into law by FDR, prohibited teaching or advocating the "duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence?"
Smith Act
Local governing body in Virginia established by the English crown in 1619.
House of Burgesses
Road constructed using federal funds that ran from western Maryland through southwestern Pennsylvania to Wheeling, West Virginia; also called the Cumberland Road. Completed in 1818.
National Road
1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Meant to publicize the evils of slavery, the novel struck an emotional chord in the North was was an international best seller.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Organization founded in 1874 to campaign for a ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol. In the late nineteenth century, under the leadership of Frances Willard, this organization supported a broad social reform agenda.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Joseph McCarthy represented this state in the United States Senate?