After LBJ passed the Immigration Act of 1965, immigrants from these two global regions became the "New Immigrants".
What is Latin America and SE Asia?
100
This system employed by the Spanish forced the native populations of the Americas to work as slave labor.
What is the encomienda system?
100
In a well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempt to assimilate Native Americans, President Grover Cleveland signed this act to end tribal control of reservations and divide their land into individual holdings
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
100
John D. Rockefeller perfected this monopolistic system of buying his competitors out after he drove them to bankruptcy with lower prices.
What is Horizontal Integration?
200
Three Mile Island, Watergate, Roe v. Wade
What is the 1970s?
200
During the Civil War, immigrants from this nation became one of the biggest supplier of Union replacement soldiers.
What is Ireland?
200
After the Boston Tea Party, the British government threw down the gauntlet, particularly on the Massachusetts colony with this most hated act.
What is the Intolerable or Coercive Acts?
200
Her book, the Feminine Mystique, motivated many housewives to get more active in the Feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Who is Betty Friedan?
200
In the 1990s, this famous region of California, catapulted the United States to the head of technological innovation.
What is Silicon Valley?
300
Kansas-Nebraska Act, Raid on Harper's Ferry, Dred Scott Case
What is the 1850s?
300
The Order of the Star Spangled Banner became legitimate when it became this political party in the 1850s.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
300
Henry Clay's replacement in the Senate, attempted one last time to stop the Civil War from happening, by introducing this piece of legislation which was quickly denied by Lincoln.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
300
Literary figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, advocated through this movement, that individuals are at their best when truly self-reliant and independent.
What is the transcendentalist movement?
300
Although Eli Whitney is most famous for his Cotton Gin, his second invention laid the groundwork for future entrepreneurs like Henry Ford and his factory line system.
What is interchangeable parts?
400
Cross of Gold Speech, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike
What is the 1890s?
400
Many German immigrants in the 1800s, moved out to mid-western cities such as Milwaukee, St. Louis, and Chicago where they were able to flourish in this industry.
What are beer breweries?
400
After reading Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, Teddy Roosevelt immediately pressed Congress to pass this law which fell under the consumer protection wing of his Square Deal.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
400
This group of writers, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, wrote against conformity of the 1950s.
What is the Beat Generation or Beatniks?
400
This trade deal officially began in the 1990s, breaking down tariffs between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, today its hanging on life support.
What is NAFTA?
500
Declaration of Independence, Common Sense, the Articles of Confederation
What is the 1770s?
500
Forced labor, shackled to slave ships, were shipped along the harrowing middle passage as part of this economic system.
What is the Atlantic (Triangle) Trade System?
500
After the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, Congress passed this comprehensive bill in 1973 intended to check the presidents power to commit the US to an armed conflict without the consent of the US Congress.
What is the War Powers Act or War Powers Resolution?
500
With the end of reconstruction failing to stop the southern redeemers from acquiring their political power back, southern African Americans, found themselves in a cycle of poverty brought on by this default labor system.
What is sharecropping?
500
In the 1950s, growth in this sector of the economy caused many people to move to the sunbelt states where these jobs were plentiful.