Expansion and Migration
1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the US (4.2)
The Louisiana Purchase
Policy warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere (4.4)
The Monroe Doctrine
First President of the US (3.3)
George Washington
Name of the laws in the SOuth that enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction (6.2)
Jim Crow Laws
Religious group, led by William Penn, settled in PA and preached Pacifism
The Quakers
Massive movement of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities starting in WWl (7.5)
The Great Migration
1807 act by Jefferson stopped all trade with foreign nations to avoid war with Britain and France (4.2)
Embargo Act
3 branches of government (2.2)
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
1861-1865 conflict was fought primarily over the issue of slavery (5.3)
The Civil War
"Captain of Industry" dominated the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
Forced relocation of Cherokee and other tribes to "Indian Territory" in the 1830s (4.6)
Trail of Tears
1917 telegram from Germany to Mexico helped pull the US into World War l (7.4)
Zimmermann Telegram
1930s serious of programs by FDR Recovery, and Reform (8.5)
The New Deal
1830s movement, called for the immediate end of slavery (4.7)
The Abolitionist Movement
First successful "cash crop" in the VA colony
Tobacco
1862 act encourage Western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of public land (6.2)
The Homestead Act
1941 suprise attack by Japan brought the US into World War ll (8.2)
Pearl Harbor
1786 rebellion by farmers showed that the Articles of Confederation were too weak (3.7)
Shays Rebellion
"Middle" part of the Triangular Trade involved the brutal shipment of enslaved Africans to the Americas (2.4)
The Middle Passage
Inventor who created the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Northern Republicans who moved to the South during Reconstruction for economic gain (5.4)
Carpetbaggers
Primary enemy of the United States during the Cold War (3.4)
The Soviet Union (USSR)
1798 law allowed the government to imprison or deport non-citizens and prosecute critics of the government (5.3)
Alien and Sedition Acts
1920s trial involved a teacher who was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution (6.3)
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
1890 battle the final clash between the U.S. Army and Plains Indians
Wounded Knee