Suspended habeas corpus, which is the requirement that law enforcement have enough proof against someone to keep them in jail.
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
100
Designed to restrict and control black Americans in the South after the Civil War.
What were the Black Codes?
100
This 1865 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Philosopher John Locke was influential to American leaders like Thomas Jefferson, because of his idea that if life, liberty, and property were not protected, government...
What is--could be overthrown or changed by the people?
100
Led to bootlegging and corruption of public officials with bribery.
What is prohibition?
200
As a result of the 19th Amendment, this was given.
What is Women's Suffrage (right to vote)?
200
It was fought in Cuba and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
200
Provided services to help poor immigrants at a community center in Chicago, called Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
Daily Double!!!
Wealthy industrial leaders used this doctrine to justify vast differences between upper, middle, and lower classes in American society.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Daily Double!!!
Indoor plumbing and hot water pipes, for example.
What is a Rise in the Standard of Living During the 1920s?
300
The change from steam to electric power sources, as well as the growth of automobile and automobile-related manufacturing.
What are Industrial Changes and Their Effects in the 1920s?
300
It was made in response to moves by Europe and Japan to try and take direct control. It shows the U.S. had become a major commercial power in the region.
What is the Open Door Policy?
300
Social, political, and economic reform that came as an American response to problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration.
What Progressivism, or the Progressive Movement?
300
Said that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in territory acquired after the creation of the U.S., since slaves were property of their owners.
What is the Dred Scott vs. Sandford Supreme Court Decision?
400
600,000
What is--By the time of its conclusion, this was the number of people killed in the American Civil War?
400
A period following the Civil War in which the U.S. tried to change the society of the South.
What is Reconstruction?
400
New Mexico, Arizona, California, Texas, and most of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
What is territory taken by the U.S. as a result of the U.S.-Mexican War?
400
Which one of your flashcard topics does the following list describe:
1. Agrarian (plantation) system of cash crops.
2. very little industrialization, urbanization, or immigration.
3. Economic & political power based mostly on having the largest export of the U.S. at the time.
What is The South, 1850?
400
He was pro-Progressive, pro-Imperialist, and pro-environmental conservation.
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt?
500
Separated blacks and whites in public, and restricted civil rights that are supposed to be guaranteed to all American citizens. After a long struggle, they were eventually determined to be unconstitutional.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
Daily Double!!!
Petitions, anti-government political organizing, boycotts, violent protests, and eventually, revolution.
What are Methods of American Colonial Resistance (leading to the creation of the U.S.)?
500
They did not trust the strong, centralized government being created by the U.S. Constitution, because they believed it would limit freedoms, much like the British had done in America before the Revolution.
Who are Anti-Federalists?
500
This region and time period of American history can best be described as experiencing rapid growth as a result of industrialization, urbanization, and immigration; its growing wealth, political power, and abolitionist views threatened the other major region of the U.S. at this time in American history.
What is The North, 1850.
500
Fill in both blanks for double points!!!
________ _________successfully killed the legal justification for ___ ____ ____, which enforced segregation and other restrictions on the rights of racial/ethnic minorities, by convincing the Supreme Court to overturn its decision from 60 years prior in Plessy vs. Ferguson.