Unit 5 Vocab (1840-1877)
Belief that the U.S. was destined by God to spread its "empire of liberty" across North America.
What is the Manifest Destiny?
This law prohibited most further Chinese immigration to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Term coined by Prez. Theodore Roosevelt for Progressive Era journalists, photographers, and writers who exposed corruption, industrial monopolies, and social injustices to prompt reform
What are Muckrakers?
What New Deal labor law regulated minimum wages and minimum hours for workers involved in interstate commerce?
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Legislation pushed through Congress by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson that prohibited ballot-denying tactics, such as literacy tests and intimidation
What is the Voting Rights Act?
Landmark battle in the Civil War that ended in a draw but demonstrated the prowess of the Union Army, forestalling foreign intervention & giving Prez. Lincoln the "victory" he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This law established the Civil Service Commission which granted federal gov't jobs on the basis of examinations instead of political patronage, thus reigning in the Spoils System
What is the Pendleton Act?
Movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural South to urban North and West in two major waves
What is the Great Migration?
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The 444 days in which American embassy workers were held captive by Iranian revolutionaries, holding 53 Americans hostage after the Shah was overthrown
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
What anti-slavery party during the 1848 and 1852 elections opposed the extension of slavery into the territories, arguing that the presence of slavery would limit opportunities for free laborers?
What is the Free Soil Party?
What is the Populist Party (People's Party)?
A period of intense anti-communism.
What is the Red Scare?
This was Pres. Truman's universal pledge of support for any people fighting any communist or communist-inspired threat
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What is the Mai Lai Massacre?
What document declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free, but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling border states?
The founder of the Standard Oil Company; developed the technique of horizontal integration
Progressive Era reforms designed to increase direct democracy and reduce corporate/machine influence in the government
What is "Initiative, Referendum, and Recall"?
What was the first "hot war" of the Cold War; ended in a stalemate (when neither one side nor the other has the advantage)?
What is the Korean War?
Military strategy launched by Pres. Nixon to reduce the number of American combat troops in Vietnam, supplying South Vietnam with American armor, tanks, and weaponry
What is Vietnamization?
Robert E. Lee was the general in command of the Confederate Army during which war?
What is the Civil War?
An economic philosophy advocating minimal gov't interference in the economy, believing free markets and competition naturally regulate themselves through supply & demand
What three amendments were added during the Progressive Era?
What are the 16th, 17th, and 18th amendments?
A brand of vitrolic, fear-mongering anti-communism associated with the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy
What is McCarthyism?
Series of scandals that resulted in President Richard Nixon's resignation
What is the Watergate Scandal?