The exchange of plants, animals, ideas, people, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds
The Columbian Exchange
Compromise by which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state, and Maine was admitted to the Union as a free state
The Missouri Compromise (1820)
Soviet leader at the end of World War II
Stalin
U.S. President during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
1913 constitutional amendment that created the Progressive Income Tax
16th Amendment
The first permanent English colony in the present day United States (1607)
Jamestown
War in which the U.S. won territory that includes present day CA, NM, UT, CO and AZ
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
U.S. President at the end of World War II
President Harry Truman
Lusitania
Settlement house founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889
Hull House
The "Proclamation" made by the British Royal governor of Virginia that slaves and indentured servants who joined the British army would be freed for their service
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)
Part of the Compromise of 1850 that was most offensive to Northerners
The Fugitive Slave Act
Policy of easing tensions between the USA and the USSR during the Nixon administration
Detente
Massachusetts Senator who led opposition to the ratification of the Versailles Treaty
Henry Cabot Lodge
Political party founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1812
The Progressive Party, also known as The Bull Moose Party
The author of the "Long Telegram"
George Kennan
Abolitionist newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison founded in 1831
The Liberator
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
German naval strategy of using U-boats to attack and destroy any boats without warning
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote in the U.S. in 1920
The 19th Amendment
1887 law that broke up tribal reservations into individual allotments
The Dawes Act
Lincoln belonged to this political party before he joined the Republicans
Whigs
Term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to refer to the the political, ideological, and physical divide between Western and Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain
Year that the U.S. entered World War I
1917
President after Theodore Roosevelt and before Woodrow Wilson
President William Howard Taft