Colonial Expansion
Belief Americans had the God-given right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Lincoln's executive order that abolished slavery in the U.S., excluding the border states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Legislation put in place to avoid American involvement in the Second World War.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
First manmade satellite/object successfully launched into space.
What is Sputnik 1?
Movement that saw a dramatic increase in rebellious and alternative behavior. Prevalence of the freedom of personal expression.
What is Counterculture?
1.) Admitted Missouri and a slave-state
2.) Admitted Maine as a free state
3.) Prohibited slavery north of the latitude 36° 30'
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Laws instituted by Southern states in defiance; violated freed slaves' civil rights.
What are Black Codes?
Term to describe provisional measures taken to ensure there was enough supplies for the war effort.
What is Rationing?
Failed invasion by Cuban exiles, prompted by the U.S., to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Controversial decision concerning Women's Rights, ruled right to terminate pregnancy is constitutionally protected.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This act resulted in the introduction of the concept of popular sovereignty, counteracted the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Practice implemented that allowed individuals to reside on a piece of land and be given supplies from planters, in exchange for their labor.
What is Sharecropping?
First military unit to solely feature African American pilots.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
Plan made by President Nixon to gradually withdraw U.S. forces from the Vietnam War.
What is Vietnamization?
Lyndon Johnson's agenda to address social issues through the introduction of federal programs and legislation.
What is the Great Society?
Bloody conflict between Free-Soilers and Pro-slavers for control over Kansas.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Lincoln's plan to reinstate the Confederate states into the Union.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
Order issued by FDR that called for the internment of Japanese-Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Communist guerillas, who lived in South Vietnam. Fought American and South Vietnamese Forces.
What is the Vietcong?
Influential movement that saw an increase in the support for, as well as the building of more right-wing institutions to spread conservative influence.
What is the New Right?
Treaty that signified the end of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Practice implemented that allowed individuals to reside on a piece of land and be given supplies from planters, in exchange for their labor.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Considered to be the catalyst for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is the U.S. Oil Embargo (1941)?
Attack launched by North Vietnam during Tet Holiday celebration, during what was presumed peace time.
What is the Tet Offensive?
High rates of inflation and unemployment, coupled with the slowing of the economy. (Hint: 2 words combined into 1, not Reaganomics)
What is Stagflation?