1700s
Colonial power takes raw materials from colony, makes finished product and sells it back to colonies
What is mercantilism?
Doubled the size of the U.S, Opened port of New Orleans to Mississippi River shipping
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
He gave one of America's most eloquent speeches about the purpose of the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and then was assassinated after the war
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
People who wrote books like The Jungle and took photographs of poor working and living conditions to push for change during the Progressive Era
What are muckrakers?
The executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s and McCarthyism, HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) and the execution of the Rosenbergs in the 1950s were frightening time periods of anti-communist hysteria
What is the Red Scare?
Virginia House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, New England Town Meetings
What were the first colonial representative governments?
Marbury v. Madison ruled that the Supreme Court had the right to rule if laws were constitutional or not otherwise known as
What is judicial review?
Period after the Civil War to rebuild - Radical Republicans (punish Rebels, help Blacks) tough on the South Lincoln Plan – treat states like they never left Union (lenient)
What is Reconstruction?
He proposed the 14 Points for peace after WWI, and pushed the U.S. to join the League of Nations and sign the Treaty of Versailles, but Congress rejected
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and separate but equal, and desegregated schools
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What are causes for the War for Independence?
Foreign Policy established under President James Monroe U.S, opposes European attempts to extend control over Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
1890 Supreme Court case that upheld racial segregation saying separate but equal facilities were legal and did not violate the equal protection provision of the 14th amendment.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Temperance Movement led to this ban on the production and consumption of alcohol, showed that unpopular laws are difficult to enforce
What is Prohibition or the 18th amendment?
A controversial war to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, escalated during LB Johnson's presidency, led to many protests and later the War Powers Act
What is the Vietnam War?
Those who agreed with the Constitution and convinced those on the fence to ratify it using the Federalist Papers and adding the Bill of Rights
Who were the federalists?
1820, settled disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories, The balance between free and slave states was maintained
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Gave away free farmland in the West- encouraged immigrants to move West provided free land to settlers settlement of western territories
What is the Homestead Act?
Favoring native born Americans and opposing immigrants, the Chinese Exclusion Act and quotas showed this attitude
What is nativism?
He created the envirnomental protection agency and improved relations with the Soviet Union, but was the only president to resign after the Watergate scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Added to the Constitution to make laws "necessary and proper" to deal with changing times
What is the Elastic Clause?
Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown wanted to end slavery and were known as
What are abolitionists?
Trie to break down native American tribes and attempt to assimilate Native Americans into white culture, used Native American Boarding Schools
What is the Dawes Act?
FD Roosevelt's plan that increased the size and power of government, Federal government directly assisted Americans, relief, recovery, reform, (example: Social Security)
What is the New Deal?
Enhanced national security by expanding government surveillance powers and intelligence gathering capabilities, allowing for expanded surveillance, increased information sharing between law enforcement and intelligence agencies
What is the Patriot Act?