Unit 4
A declaration that stated non-colonization European countries should NOT establish new colonies in the Americas.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Issued by Lincoln, this declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate territoryis
What is the Emacipation Proclamation?
An industry titan best known for his use of horizontal integration to eliminate competition.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
It granted the women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
A surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. which led to U.S. involvement in WW2.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This compromise admitted one free state, as well as one slave state AND established a "balance" where any state admitted North of the 36°30° line prohibited slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The belief that the US was destined by God to expand its territory across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
An 1889 essay written by Andrew Carnegie which argued for philanthropy, stating that the wealthy had been granted this money to improve the communities around them
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This war led to the aquisition of territories like Puerto Rico and the Philipines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The fear of communism after the Russian Revolution which triggered a government crackdown on radicals and immigrants
What is the "Red Scare"?
This was the tariff that caused the Nullification Crisis.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
This created the territories of Kansas and Nesbraska, allowing settlers to use popular soverignty to decide on the legality of slavery, eventually leading to violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in what became known as "Bleeding Kansas"
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A 1896 court case that ruled racial segregation under the "seperate but equal" doctrine was legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A series of programs established by FDR to provide reform, relief and recovery following the effects of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, and literature centered in Harlem, NYC
What is Harlem Renaissance?
A Protestant religious revival movement that emphasized personal salvation, emotional worship, and perfectionism, which led to reform movements like abolition and temperance.
What is the second Great revival?
The treaty that ended the Mexican American war which ceded vast territories including California, Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A political movement, also known as the People's Party, formed by farmers to fight corporate power and railroad abuses
What is the populist party?
A style of journalism crowned by Joseph Pulitzer AND William Randolm Hurst during the Spanish-American War?
What is Yellow Journalism?
A conference where FDR, Churchill and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into occupation zones
What is the Yalta Conference?
A 19th-century political ideology, that promoted the "common man" and led to greater political participation by removing property requirements for voting.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
A series of amendments that Confederate states were required to ratify in order to be readmitted to the union.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
A federal policy designed to break up Native American tribes and force assimilation.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
An expansion to the Monroe Doctrine, positioning the US as an international police power in Latin America to protect economic interests
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The U.S. citing national security concerns forced 120,000 Japanese Americans under this executive order into internment camps
What is Executive Order 9066?