Colonial America & American Revolution
List all 5 of the Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
The idea that America has a God-given right to expand West
Manifest Destiny
Anti-immigrant, the belief that immigrants will take jobs from white workers
Nativism
The movement of African Americans from rural areas in the South to urban areas on the North
The Great Migration
Forced internment of Japanese people
The economic policy where Britain buys cheap, raw materials from the colonies and sells a finished product back to the colonies for a higher rate
Mercantilism
This law OVERTURNED the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The term for individuals who got rich through illegal or unfair practices
Robber Barons
The court case that ruled that your rights can be limited during wartime
Schenck v the United States
List ONE of the plans that kept us out WWII but allowed us to assists our allies
1. Cash and Carry Policy
2. Lend-Lease Act
One major success of the Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance, provides a path for the admittance of new states
This law established the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
List ONE muckraker journalist
Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Jacob Riis, Jane Addams
TWO causes of the Great Depression
1. Overproduction on farms
2. Stock Market Crash
3. Installment Buying/Buying on Credit
4. Run on the banks
This offered over $13 billion to rebuild the economies of Europe after WWII
The Marshall Plan
TWO examples of the Elastic Clause being used
Hamilton & the National Bank
Jefferson & the Louisiana Purchase
This law provided free land out West if it was cultivated within 5 years
Homestead Act
This law was passed in response to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Pure Food & Drugs Act
The name of the law that restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern European countries
The Quota Acts
ONE example of the policy of Containment being used in foreign affairs
Korea, Vietnam, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Bay of Pigs
This is the name for the decision that created a bicameral legislature & allowed 3/5 of the slave population to be counted towards representation
The Great Compromise
List 2 things that the Compromise of 1877 did
1. Makes Rutherford B. Hayes president
2. Removes the federal troops from the South
This was a movement where farmers supported each other by sharing farming equipment and buying seeds in bulk
Grange Movement
FDR tried to pass THIS to stop his New Deal programs from being threatened by the Supreme Court
Court Packing Plan/Judicial Procedures Reform Bill
This banned the use of poll taxes and literacy tests
Voting Rights Act of 1965