Unit 1&2
This allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This court case upheld segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
These women defied social norms and were considered modernists in the 1920's
What are flappers?
Another term for Civil Disobedience.
What is peaceful protest?
This event affected US foreign policy by making the US try to stop terrorism around the world
What is 9/11?
This 19th century war lead to the United States' industrialization, economic stability, and internal improvements (like railroads!)
What is the War of 1812
This showed that the federal government had authority over the states and made slave states free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was when African Americans traveled north seeking better jobs and trying to escape segregation
What is the Great Migration?
This was the African American literary and cultural awakening in the US.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This organization cut oil exports to the US, which lead to inflation, oil shocks, and gas shortages
What is OPEC?
The South did not support this system, that was proposed by Henry Clay, that called for a protective tariff.
What is the American System
These helped earn workers rights, respect, and support.
What are Unions?
This helped US citizens to enlist or to help pay for the war
What is propaganda?
This is the term for trying to stop the spread of Communism.
What is containment?
This incident that involved illegal spying on the Democratic National Committee and lead to Nixon's resignation.
What is Watergate?
He influenced the Declaration of Independence by writing about Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke
During this period, Lincoln and Johnson both wanted the southern states to be able to quickly re-enter the Union.
What is reconstruction?
This was the result of new farming equipment, over farmed land, drought, and wind
What is the Dust Bowl?
This was the conflict between the US and USSR over political and economic differences.
What is the Cold War?
This was the nick name given to the trickle-down theory in the 1980s.
What is Reaganomics?
This group was created to protest unfair taxation that was put on colonists by the British Crown.
Who were the Sons of Liberty
This early Civil Rights leader believed that black people should work to gain equal rights as opposed to fighting for them.
Who is Booker T. Washington.
This president justified the US entering WWI by saying it was necessary to protect peace and democracy.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This ended segregation in the military, which helped the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Executive order 9981?
This US operation took place after an invasion in the middle east due to oil
What is Desert Storm?