Colonial America (Unit 2)
This economic policy aimed to enrich the mother country by controlling colonial trade.
What is mercantilism?
This 1765 act required colonists to purchase official paper for printed goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe influenced anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This term describes the rapid growth of factories and industry after the Civil War.
What is industrialization?
This 1947 policy aimed to stop the spread of communism during the Cold War.
What is containment?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia revealed tensions between frontier settlers and colonial elites.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This 1770 event was used as propaganda to encourage resistance to British rule.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This law required citizens to help return runaway slaves and increased sectional tensions.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This law of 1882 severely restricted immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This crisis brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
New England colonists formed this early democratic assembly in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1787 rebellion exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This union, led by Samuel Gompers, fought for skilled labor rights.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
This 1964 law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This 1730s-1740s religious revival emphasized emotional preaching and challenged established churches in the colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This agreement resolved the issue of representation between states population in Congress during the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Great Compromise?
This event marked the official start of the Civil War in April 1861.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This muckraker exposed corruption in the oil industry.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This 1973 decision legalized abortion under the right to privacy.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This group of colonies was known for its diverse population, religious tolerance, and "breadbasket" economy.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This group opposed ratifying the Constitution, fearing a powerful central government.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
This 1854 legislation allowed settlers in new territories to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Which doctrine did the Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson establish?
What is "separate but equal"?
This scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?