Colonial
This 17th-century labor system allowed poor Europeans to trade years of service for passage to the New World.
What is Indentured Servitude?
This "Great" plan created a bicameral legislature, balancing the interests of both large and small states.
What is the Connecticut (Great) Compromise?
The 19th-century belief that the U.S. was destined to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This "standard" process made steel production faster and cheaper, fueling the Gilded Age.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This "Fear" of communism swept the U.S. twice—once after WWI and more intensely after WWII.
What is the Red Scare?
The economic theory that colonies exist to benefit the mother country by providing raw materials and a market for goods.
What is Mercantilism?
The 1803 Supreme Court case that established the power of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This term refers to the "people's right to vote" on whether a new state would allow slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Journalists like Upton Sinclair who exposed corruption and social injustices during the Progressive Era.
What are Muckrakers?
The U.S. policy of preventing the spread of communism, rather than attacking it where it already existed.
What is Containment?
This "Great" 1730s religious movement challenged established hierarchies and laid the social groundwork for the Revolution.
What is the Great Awakening?
This foreign policy statement warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1863 executive order freed slaves specifically in the "rebelling" Southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1896 Supreme Court ruling legalized "Separate but Equal" segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This WWII program allowed the U.S. to ship arms to Britain without technically entering the war yet.
What is Lend-Lease?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to convince neutral colonists that independence from England was the only logical path.
What is "Common Sense"?
These were the first two political parties, led respectively by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson.
Who were the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?
Radical Republicans passed this 15th Amendment, which guaranteed this specific right to all male citizens.
What is Voting Rights (Suffrage)?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born citizens against those of immigrants.
What is Nativism?
The 1954 landmark case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ordered the desegregation of schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The 1763 decree by the King that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This constitutional principle ensures that no single branch of government becomes too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
This compromise effectively ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This 19th-century legislation encouraged westward settlement by giving 160 acres of land to anyone who would farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This Cold War "theory" suggested that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?