Politics
Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Barry Goldwater shared this ideology of opposition to aggressive government action to address inequality.
What is Conservatism?
In the post-World War I Red Scare climate, immigration policy moved in this direction.
What is Restriction or Quotas or limits?
The name for the change in the economy during Period 4, 1800-1848, which came before the rise of industry.
What is the Market Revolution?
The name for the waves of religious, Christian revivals that have occurred multiple times in U.S. history
What are Great Awakenings?
This is the decade in which America's involvement in Vietnam escalated, prompting an antiwar movement.
What is the 1960s?
The political party that in the 1870s served as the home for the Redeemers but since 1964 has served as the home for 90%+ of African Americans.
What is the Democratic party?
60 years after the Chinese Exclusion Act, federal policy continued to discriminate against Asian Americans through this program (in period 7).
What is Japanese Internment?
A disparaging (insulting) name given to rich industrialists like Rockefeller and Morgan of the "Gilded Age" of the 1877-1916 period.
What are "robber barons"?
The role assigned to women in the late 1700s, early 1800s.
What is Republican Motherhood?
The United States refused to sign onto the League of Nations after this war.
What is World War I?
The problems (such as Shays Rebellion) with this weaker form of government led leading Americans to gather at this important meeting in Philadephia in the 1780s (two answers required).
What are the Articles of Confederation and the Constitutional Convention?
Who are Irish immigrants?
FDR changed the federal government's role during the Great Depression away from this approach to the economy.
What is Laissez Faire?
The word for Christians who seek to convert others to the religion, to "the Word"
What is Evangelical?
The Truman Doctrine articulated this policy of the Cold War, applied first in Europe and then around the world.
What is Containment?
These two Supreme Court cases - one from before the Civil War and one from after Reconstruction - are infamous for justifying racial exclusion and segregation (two answers required).
Before Civil War: Dred Scott
After Reconstruction: Plessy v Ferguson
This wartime law is one of the most famous accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln, but often forgotten is this major limit to its power (2 answers required).
What are the Emancipation Proclamation and only freed slaves in the Confederacy, not the border states / only freed slaves in lands still in rebellion?
One ideology of the Left thinks the wealth should be redistributed to all; the other ideology of the Right thinks that people deserve their status, rich or poor (two answers required).
Left: socialism or communism; Right: Social Darwinism
The institutions set up by Progressive women to help and educate poor people during 1890-1916, inspired by the photographs of this man (2 answers required)
What are settlement houses and Jacob Riis?
As Germany and Japan built up their militaries and threatened peace in the 1930s, the U.S. followed this policy that drew upon George Washington's warning against "foreign entanglements"
What is isolationism?
The direct election of Senators, the progressive income tax, and the vote for women were Constitutional Amendments pushed by which three major movements of the 1877-1916 period? (Three answers required, half credit if you get two of them)
These were three of the attempts at compromise (during Periods 3, 4, and 5) over whether new territory in the West should be slave or free.
What are 3 of the Northwest Ordinance, Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Act, and Kansas-Nebraska Act (half credit for 3/5 Compromise).
The opposite of protectionism, this economic approach gets rid of this form of tax on imports to allow for "free trade" (two answers required).
What are globalization and tariffs.
The movement that grew out of abolitionism, and whose declaration comes from this location in New York State (2 answers required)
What are Women's Suffrage and Seneca Falls?
What are Manifest Destiny and Mexico?