Period 1
Spanish government's policy to give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them
Encomienda
Which major colony was established in 1607?
Jamestown
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
Court case that established Judicial Review
Marbury v Madison
the name of the new country created when 11 Southern states left the Union
the Confederate States of America
systematic state-level legal codes of segregation.
Jim Crow
The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.
The Great Migration
This proxy war was from 1950 to 1953.
Korean War
Phrase used to justify the United States invading and overthrowing Iraq and it's leader.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Beans growing on the trellis of the cornstalks and squash covering the mounds to retain moisture in the soil
Three-sister farming
Who wrote the Poor Richard's Almanac?
Benjamin Franklin
idea that women had a duty to shape the morals of future political leaders
What is republican motherhood
westward expansion was the fulfillment of America's destiny
Served as U.S. Secretary of War in the Pierce Administration and senator from Mississippi. He resigned from the Senate when Mississippi seceded from the Union, and was selected the president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was founder of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
Booker T. Washington
This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.
The Red Scare
This act prohibited employers from paying unequally on the basis of gender.
Equal Pay Act
Reaganomics
Businesses owned by shareholders that were investing in exploration and colonization of the western hemisphere.
Joint Stock Companies
William Bradford was the governor of which early colony?
Plymouth
This plan called for a legislature divided into two bodies (the Senate and the House of Representatives) with proportional representation and was favored by the larger states
Virginia Plan
Man-made waterway completed in 1825 that helped connect an entire region of the United States and transport goods Easter/West.
Erie Canal
one advantage of the South in Civil War
Leaders with more experience (Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson)
AND/OR
home-field advantage
the political agreement between the Republicans and the Democrats that ended Reconstruction in the southern states by removing the federal troops from the South in exchange for Republican Rutherford B. Hayes winning the presidency in 1876.
The Compromise 1877
Sensational news stories stirred the anger of the American public.
Yellow Journalism
This senator used unsupported accusations about communists in government and to discredit the Truman administration
Joseph McCarthy
Coordinated attacks that claimed the lives of more than 3,000 Americans.
What is 9/11?
What were the three "Gs" motivating European expansion into the western hemisphere?
Gold, glory, and god
What was the most important war between the colonists and natives during the second period?
King Phillip's War or Metacom's Rebellion
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Thomas Paine
This made the Mississippi River the main transportation route in the US in the early to mid-1800s
steamboat
a short-lived political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, that later merged into the Republican Party
Free-Soil Movement
Citizenship Clause - Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
Due Process Clause - Prohibited state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness.
Equal Protection Clause - Required each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction.
14th Amendment
What the acronym NAACP stands for
National Association (for the) Advancement (of) Colored People
LBJ's plan for increased domestic spending on anti-poverty & anti-racism programs
The Great Society
What happened to Clinton after he lied under oath about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky?
Impeachment
Identify 3 things that the old World brought over to the New World during the Columbia Exchange
Wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, scarlet fever
This was passed to benefit the British economy, prevent the colonists from buying from other nations
The Navigation Acts
Washington warned of entangling foreign alliances and political parties in his what?
What is Washington's Farwell Address?
Cult of Domesticity
one advantage of the North in the Civil War
Large and powerful navy
Controlled banks, manufacturing, and railroads
Well-established strong government
Had more railroad tracks and more transportation
(1883) law that reformed the patronage system; created civil service and banned requirement of government workers to support political campaigns.
Pendleton Act
The 3 main goals of the New Deal
The 3Rs - Relief for unemployed, Recovery for business, & Reform of economic institutions
Under this bill, hotels, restaurants, and employers could not discriminate based on race and schools could not be segregated.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Agreement that eliminated trade barriers among the US, Mexico, and Canada and created the largest free trade zone in the world.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?