Politics and Power
(1.2) This Spanish system used in the 16th century effectively enslaved Native Americans to support plantation agriculture and mineral extraction.
Encomienda System
(2.6) This 1676 rebellion in Virginia led to a shift away from indentured servitude toward a greater reliance on enslaved African labor.
Bacon’s Rebellion
(3.3) This 1763 royal decree prohibited British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid conflict with Native Americans.
Proclamation of 1763
(2.3) These colonies (including Pennsylvania and New York) were known as the "breadbasket" because of their cereal crop production and high level of diversity.
The Middle Colonies
(3.3) This 1763 royal decree prohibited British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid conflict with Native Americans.
Proclamation of 1763
(3.6) To win over Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates, Federalists promised to add this to the Constitution to protect individual liberties.
Bill of Rights
(5.5) These state and local laws, established after Reconstruction, enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Jim Crow Laws
(5.2) This term described the 19th-century belief that the United States was destined by God to expand its dominion across the entire North American continent.
Manifest Destiny
(4.7) This 1830 act led to the forced relocation of the "Five Civilized Tribes" to land west of the Mississippi River.
Indian Removal Act
(4.8) This 1823 policy declared that the Western Hemisphere was closed to further European colonization and that the U.S. would stay out of European affairs.
Monroe Doctrine
(4.8) This 1823 policy declared that the Western Hemisphere was closed to further European colonization and that the U.S. would stay out of European affairs.
Monroe Doctrine
(6.6) This 1896 Supreme Court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine, legalizing segregation for decades.
Plessy v. Ferguson
(7.3) This 1898 explosion of a U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor served as a primary catalyst for the Spanish-American War.
USS Maine
(6.2) This 1862 act encouraged Western settlement by providing 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm it for five years.
Homestead Act
(7.3) This 1898 explosion of a U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor served as a primary catalyst for the Spanish-American War.
USS Maine
(7.7) This New Deal agency was created to restore public confidence in the banking system by insuring individual deposits.
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
(8.5) This 1965 legislation abolished literacy tests and other discriminatory practices that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
(7.11) This top-secret U.S. project during World War II was dedicated to the development of the atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project
(7.6) During and after WWI, this mass movement saw millions of African Americans move from the rural South to the urban North and West.
The Great Migration
(7.2) This top-secret U.S. project during World War II was dedicated to the development of the atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project
(9.4) This 1980s economic policy, often called "Reaganomics," focused on supply-side tax cuts and deregulation.
Supply-Side Economics
(8.6)This landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by declaring that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Brown v. Board of Education
(8.2) This U.S. policy, established at the start of the Cold War, sought to prevent the global spread of communism.
Containment
(9.2) This post-WWII region in the South and Southwest saw a massive population boom due to the defense industry and the invention of air conditioning.
The Sun Belt
(8.2)In 1962, the U.S. and the Soviet Union reached the brink of nuclear war after American spy planes discovered Soviet nuclear missiles being installed in a neighboring island nation.
Cuban Missile Crisis