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The exchange of people, plants, and animals between Europe, Africa, and North America that occured after Columbus's arrival in the Western Hemisphere

Columbian Exchange

100

The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Bill of Rights

100

State laws in the South that legalized segregation

Jim Crow Laws

100

A government system created by Karl Marx advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned

Communism

100

Idea of the gradual warming of the Earth's surface

Global warming

200

Infectious disease brought to America by the Spanish that devestated native populations

small pox

200

First American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress

Articles of Confederation

200
An influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies

JP Morgan

200

An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States in an attempt to overthrow Cuba dictator Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs

200

First woman Speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi

300

The name of the Spanish feudal system

Enconmienda
300

American colonists who opposed the Revolution and maintained their loyalty to the King

Loyalists

300

The general of the Confederate troops

Robert E. Lee

300

A plan by Frankling Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression

New Deal

300
Torn down in 1989, marking the end of the Cold War

Fall of the Berlin Wall

400

A sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies

Great Awakening

400
This invention made the distribution and creation of literary works much easier

Printing Press

400

1870s-1890s time period that had corrupt politics and a growing gap between the rich and poor

Gilded Age

400

1920s growth in African American literature and arts, as southern African Americans brought culture to the north

Harlem Renaissance

400

Cabinet department to protect the U.S. from terrorist attacks, accidents, and natural disasters

Department of Homeland Security

500

The first successful settlement in the Virginia colony founded in May, 1607

Jamestown
500

A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism.

Second Great Awakening

500
Notion that the sovereign people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery

Popular Sovereignty

500

1954 court decision thatv declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional

Brown vs. Board of Education

500

Also known as ObamaCare, this Act was a reform of the health care system for universal coverage

Affordable Care Act