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Term used for the sharing of power between the federal, state and local governments.
Federalism
Indian Removal Act
This warned European countries like Spain to stay out of the Western Hemisphere (the Americas)
Monroe Doctrine
The secret agreement in which Germany promised to return territory from the United States to Mexico in exchange for Mexico's assistance during World War I was the
Zimmerman Telegram
Belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
Manifest Destiny
Economic policies of Ronald Reagan, consisted of budget cuts, tax cuts, and an increase of spending where?
Defense/military spending
Court case that ruled segregation in public schools was illegal
Brown v. BOE
This incident resulted in public trust in the honesty of the U.S. federal government declining.
Watergate
Decisive of the Civil War; resulted in the Union gaining control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg
Provided women in the United States with a chance to organize the suffrage movement.
Seneca Falls Convention
Missouri is admitted as a slave state.
Maine is admitted as a free state.
36-30 line used to divide free state and slave state territory.
Missouri Compromise
This person worked in exposing the horrid living conditions of the urban slums and ghettos, largely through the pictures he published.
Jacob Riis
Term used for when Parliament and the king of England allowed colonists in America to exercise a great deal of control over local and regional matters
salutary neglect
Agencies created with this program gave the federal government a larger role in the day-to-day welfare of its citizens.
The New Deal
President Teddy Roosevelt used his Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine to support the building of
- California is admitted as a free state.
- Slave trade abolished in Washington, DC
- Fugitive Slave Act is strengthened
All part of what Compromise?
Compromise of 1850
What campaign promise did President George H.W. Bush break leading to him losing election despite having previously had a 91% approval rating?
He raised taxes
Congress passed these acts to prevent US involvement in WW2
Neutrality Acts
First suburbs in America were called
Levittowns
Domestic programs of the Johnson Administration focused on improving the lives of the elderly & those living in poverty
The Great Society
What communist nations did president Nixon improve relations with during his Administration?
China & Soviet Union
The Camp David accords were between what two countries?
Israel & Egypt
According to the Articles of Confederation, who had the most governing power?
the states
What powers did the government gain from the PATRIOT Act making it a controversial law?
Ability to search devices without a warrant
The act placed a limit on the President's ability to send troops into hostile areas/war.
War Powers Act