Standard 1
These are three branches of government that the Constitutional Convention created to ensure separation of powers.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
The Louisiana Purchase was made under this President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These were journalists and writers such as Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell who sought to expose the tragic conditions of the Gilded Age in hopes of getting government regulations on the monopolies passed.
What are muckrakers?
The Red Scare refers to Americans' fear of this specific ideology coming into the country through immigration.
What is communism?
This was the idea that if one European or Asian country fell to communism, their neighboring countries would fall to communism as well.
What is domino theory?
This Supreme Court case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This was the name given to the era of segregation and racial discrimination following the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Jim Crow Era?
This is the idea that one is prejudice against people from other nations in favor of people from their own nation.
What is nativism?
Unemployment during the Great Depression rose as high as this percentage.
What is 25%?
This was the economic plan for the United States to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II to help prevent the spread the communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This political party was firmly against the National Bank, viewing it as unconstitutional.
Who are the Democratic-Republicans?
This act was passed to move Native Americans from their lands in the East to reservations in the West.
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
This was the term that describes the forced attempt to make Native Americans become more like "white Americans" through education, clothing, name changes, etc.
What is assimilation?
This President promoted "rugged individualism" and believed that it was not the government's responsibility to pull Americans out of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This was the name given to a unit within the Nixon Administration whose job to ensure no "leaks" escaped the White House.
What is The White House Plumbers?
This event showed the ultimate weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
This plan, developed by Winfield Scott, was to blockade southern ports and "strangle" their ability to get goods into and out of the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This Progressive Era idea advocated that it was the role of the Christian to not only share their faith with others but also to try and affect social change in the country.
What is the Social Gospel?
This amendment repealed Prohibition in the United States, showing the Constitution to be a "living document" that could be altered over time.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The invasion of this country officially ended the Detente era.
What is Afghanistan?
This was the "turning point" of the American Revolution as it finally convinced the French to join the American cause.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This is the name of the deal struck that led to the withdrawal of the federal troops from the South and ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877? (aka the Corrupt Bargain of 1877)
This law required companies to label their food and pharmaceutical drugs. It also led to the founding of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This law was passed in 1944 giving military veterans access to monetary support in areas of education and housing as well as other benefits.
What is the GI Bill?
This deal was signed by President Clinton to try and end trade barriers between the US and Mexico and Canada.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?