Period 1 & 2
Corn and tomatoes made it to Europe because of this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
America's desire for independence from Great Britain demonstrated a hypocrisy because of this ongoing institution.
What is slavery?
The language of the Declaration of Independence (1776) matches the language used in the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from this 1848 gathering.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This war was fueled by yellow journalism, a desire for more resources, and a chance for America to prove itself as a world power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The Second Red Scare began at the close of this momentous event.
What is WWII?
A 50 year truce existed between the Wampanoag and the Massachusetts colonists until this event.
What is King Philip's (Metacom's) War?
The Ordinance and Nullification of 1832 was adopted by this state.
What is South Carolina?
In addition to revolutions in Europe, another reason for the sharp increase in immigration to America in the decade after 1845 is this.
What is crop failure (e.g. potato blight)?
The Progressive Party Platform of 1912 was a direct rejection of the political and economic philosophy of this previous era.
What is the Gilded Age?
This excerpt from "The Port Huron Statement" demonstrates a direct connection to this concurrent happening.
"The declaration 'all men are created equal' rang hollow before the facts of Negro life. . . "
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
In exchange for the stolen labor of indigenous people and tribute, the Spanish lord would provide protection and education.
What is the encomienda system?
The 1774 action taken by the British that infuriated colonists and urged the convening of the First Continental Congress.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The growth of this movement is best reflected in this quote, "the conventional artisan trio of master, journeyman, and apprentice. . .yet class differences mark these craftsmen's every feature. . .".
What is organized labor?
The migration of southern blacks to Chicago from the 1930s-1950s, meant that they were probably engaged in this type of labor.
What is sharecropping?
How the Reagan administration was able to end economic exhaustion and stagnation.
What is the deregulation of industry?
Debates between Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) on how people should be governed is a hallmark of this historical era.
What is the Enlightenment?
For those at the First Continental Congress that wanted a union with the British, their main concern was the lack of this.
What is representation in the British Parliament?
The growth of cities ensured that the influx of new immigrants could be persuaded to vote in the way that these groups wanted.
Who are political machines?
The domestic and global economic upheavals during the 1930s most likely influenced this one of FDR's "Four Freedoms".
What is the freedom from want?
U.S. manufacturing fell sharply from the 1980s to the 2000s as a result of this one-word term.
What is globalization?
Compared to French and Spanish interactions, English interaction with natives could be described as. . .
What is separated etc.?
The following excerpt from 1777, most similarly reflects which Amendment from the 1800s.
". . .an act of legislature to be passed whereby they may be restored to the enjoyments of that which is the natural right of all men."
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Lincoln's main purpose in writing the Gettysburg Address was this.
What is gaining continued support for the war effort?
A set of internationally agreed rules and institutions that ease international trade, cross border investment, and movement of capital from one nation-state to another.
What is an international monetary system?
The domestic containment of the 1950s created greater cultural homogeneity, but it also had this unintended consequence in the long-term.
What is the counterculture?