American History
What Was The Purpose Of The Marshall Plan?
To aid in the economic recovery of Europe after WWII
Who Was The President Of The United States During The Great Depression And World War II?
FDR
After WWI, the United States adopted this foreign policy stance of avoiding international conflicts.
Isolationism
Who Was The President Of The United States During The Civil Rights Movement?
LBJ
Pearl Harbor
This economic philosophy favored by big business in the late 1800s called for minimal government interference in the economy.
Laissez Faire
This 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
What Was The Purpose Of The Manhattan Project?
To develop the atomic bomb during WWII
The division and sharing of power between the national and state governments.
Federalism
A belief widely held by Americans in the 1800s said that they were destined by God to expanded westwards.
Manifest Destiny
This 1787 ordinance established natural rights and created educational institutions in the territory north of the Ohio River
Northwest Ordinance
What Was The Purpose Of The Homestead Act?
To encourage settlement of the American West
Who Was The President Of The United States During The Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
This 1930 U.S. tariff law, intended to protect American industries, worsened the Great Depression by triggering retaliatory tariffs from other nations.
Smoot Hawley Tariff
This 1947 U.S. foreign policy committed America to containing the spread of communism by providing military and economic aid to threatened nations.
Truman Doctrine
This preacher lead a two day slave revolt in Virginia and would end up being the deadliest in American history.
Nat Turner
What Was The Outcome Of The Spanish-American War?
US gained control of the Philippines, Guam & Puerto Rico
This monetary system was once in the United States and set a fixed exchange rate between gold AND silver.
Bimetalism
A term created by Winston Churchill that described the ideological boundary dividing Europe between Communism and Capitalism/Democracy.
Passed in 1854, a law passed that organized new territories west of Missouri, allowing settlers to decide through voting whether to allow slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
British intelligence intercepted this message that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico, which would end up pulling The United States into WWI. What was this message called?
Zimmermann Telegram
During WWI, these laws made it a crime to obstruct military recruitment or say anything disloyal about the U.S. government.
Espionage and Sedition Acts
What Was The Outcome Of The Seneca Falls Convention?
It sparked the Women's Suffrage Movement in the US
Who Was The President Of The United States During The War Of 1812?
James Madison
This 1850 law required citizens in free states to assist in the capture and return of escaped enslaved people.
Fugitive Slave Act