Wars & Foreign Policy
What war between Britain and France led to increased taxes on the colonies and helped spark the American Revolution?
French and Indian War
What 1798 laws targeted immigrants and limited speech critical of the government?
Alien and Sedition Acts
What invention by Eli Whitney in 1793 expanded slavery in the South?
Cotton Gin
What 1803 land deal doubled the size of the U.S.?
Louisiana Purchase
What 19th-century religious revival helped spark abolition and temperance efforts?
Second Great Awakening
What U.S. policy aimed to prevent European colonization in the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
What 1854 law allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What 19th-century transportation innovation linked the East and West coasts?
Transcontinental Railroad
What 1830 law led to the forced relocation of Southeastern tribes like the Cherokee?
Indian Removal Act
What organization, founded by Frances Willard, pushed for prohibition? FULL NAME OF GROUP
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
What war was declared by the U.S. in 1898 to help free Cuba from Spanish rule?
Spanish-American War
What 1917 law during WWI made it illegal to interfere with the war effort or speak against the draft?
Espionage Act
What communications invention by Samuel Morse changed long-distance messaging?
Telegraph
What phrase described Americans’ belief that it was their destiny to expand westward?
Manifest Destiny
What reformer worked to improve treatment of the mentally ill and prison conditions?
Dorothea Dix
What Cold War conflict did the U.S. enter to contain communism and avoid the “domino effect” in Southeast Asia?
Vietnam War
What 1944 law helped returning WWII veterans attend college and buy homes?
GI Bill
What massive WWII project led to the development of the atomic bomb?
Manhattan Project
What was the name for African Americans who migrated west to Kansas after Reconstruction?
Exodusters
What movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s Rights Movement
What 2003 war was justified by U.S. claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
Iraq War
What law eliminated literacy tests and enforced voting rights for African Americans?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What system of factories and mass production transformed the U.S. economy during the Market Revolution?
Lowell System
What group of immigrants faced restrictions under laws passed in 1882 and 1924?
Chinese (and other Asian/Eastern European groups)
What mid-20th-century movement aimed to end racial segregation and gain voting rights?
Civil Rights Movement
What Cold War-era U.S. policy declared that the U.S. would use military force to prevent communism in the Middle East, and was first applied during the Lebanon Crisis of 1958?
The Eisenhower Doctrine
What 1972 amendment, though never ratified, aimed to guarantee gender equality under the law?
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
What 21st-century technological shift has transformed communication and commerce globally?
Digital Revolution / Internet
What 20th-century movement saw millions of African Americans relocate from the South to the North and West?
Great Migration
What 1960s and 70s feminist organization pushed for equal rights and workplace equality?
National Organization for Women (NOW)