Chapter 1-2
Colonial Foundations
Colonial Foundations
Proclamation Line of 1763, Stamp Act, Tea Act, Quartering Act, Closing Boston Harbor, etc.
The Louisiana Purchase gave the US control of what river AND what city?
Mississippi River and New Orleans
Provide one example of a Jim Crow Law
Segregation, literacy tests, grandfather clause, poll tax, etc.
Define President Roosevelt's "Big Stick Policy"
The US will use its military to get what it wants.
Define the Marshall Plan
US gives economic aid to Europe, garner influence for democracy and capitalism during Cold War.
Describe the Great Compromise
-Two houses (bicameral legislature)
-One house based on population (house of reps)
-One house of equal representation (senate)
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Laws that punished negative speech about the government, targeted immigrants.
Which progressivist is associated with opposition to the business practices of Rockefeller and Carnegie?
Ida Tarbell- opposition to monopolies.
Yellow Journalism contributed to which major US war?
Spanish-American War
The United States was/is a major player in NATO. To which organization did the Soviet Union belong?
Warsaw Pact
Name the three branches of government and their function
Legislative Branch- writes the laws
Executive Branch- enforces the laws
Judicial Branch- interprets the laws
These early 19th-century Supreme Court decisions, including McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden, had this overall effect
What is they strengthened the power of the federal government over the states
The election of 1860 was pivotal in US history because...
Lincoln is elected, causing South to succeed.
Which two major events challenged Pres. Wilson's ability to be "neutral in thought as well as action."
Zimmerman Telegran
Sinking of the Lusitania
The decision in Brown v. Board of Education directly overturned the decision from which Supreme Court case?
Plessey v. Ferguson
Name THREE rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights
Speech, religion, privacy, trial by jury, own guns, no quartering, etc.
Define an Embargo.
Trade restriction, used to economically punish another country.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the _______________________________.
Confederate States
States in rebellion
"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy..."
What event is this quote referencing?
Pearl Harbor Attacks
College students protesting the Vietnam War were shot and killed at which American university?
Kent State
What was the major disagreement between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
Disagreement over how much power the Federal gov. should have.
Why did some people call President Jefferson a hypocrite when he bought Louisiana?
The Constitution doesn't say whether a president can or cannot buy land.
The Election of 1876 is significant because
What is ends with Rutherford B. Hayes winning presidency after Compromise of 1877. Ends Reconstruction when Union Army is removed from the South?
Describe the major decision made by President Truman in 1945, and explain what his two major choices were.
Use of Atomic weapons.
Either use atomic bomb and 250,000 Japanese die
or
Military invasion and at least 250,000 Americans die
What religious group did Malcolm X belong to?
What is Nation of Islam?