Struggles Over Power
and Government
and Government
This document was the first governing framework for the U.S., later replaced due to its weaknesses.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This war gave the U.S. control over territories like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This rebellion in 1831 terrified enslavers and led to harsher slave codes.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This cash crop made Jamestown profitable.
What is tobacco?
This 1791 addition to the Constitution was demanded by Anti-Federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The surprise 1941 attack that brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This ideology claimed U.S. expansion across the continent was justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1896 Supreme Court case legalized segregation under "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This law encouraged westward migration by giving land to settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1832 crisis involved South Carolina attempting to nullify federal tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
This 1919 treaty ended WWI and placed heavy blame on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The U.S. annexed this Pacific island in 1898 after overthrowing its queen.
What is Hawaii?
This 1863 order freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These 1930s disasters devastated farms during the Great Depression.
What are the Dust Bowl storms?
This 1860 event led Southern states to begin seceding from the Union.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This 1863 speech redefined the Civil War as a struggle for liberty and democracy.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This doctrine, issued in 1823, warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 15th Amendment guaranteed this right for Black men, though it was often denied in practice.
What is the right to vote?
This movement, which included temperance and suffrage, reflected growing reform sentiment in the 19th century.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This 1930s program expanded federal power to address the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
This war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and increased sectional tension over slavery.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Roosevelt-era foreign policy claimed the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This 1940s policy incarcerated over 100,000 Japanese Americans.
What is Japanese internment?
These laws limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe and Asia in the 1920s.
The Immigration Act of 1921 and 1929.