Unit 1/2
The first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
System of racial segregation in the South based on the concept of "seperate but equal"
What is Jim Crow?
Constitutional amendment banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of achohal
Act that prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Name for the series of strict measures created by the British as punishment for the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The expectation of women to guide their sons towards Republican virtue
What is Republican Motherhood?
Party who opposed the expansion of slavery as it threatened job security for white laborers
Massive military operation led by the US in Normady, France during WWI that caused Germany to surrender
What is D-Day?
US led counter-terrorism campaign in response to 9/11
What is the War on Terror?
Relaxed British control over colonial trade in the late 1600s to the mid 1700s
What is salutary neglect?
Seventh president of the United States who advocated for white male suffrage, dismantled the Bank of the United States, and asserted federal supremacy in the nullification crisis
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Act that sold settlers land for cheap if they lived and improved on it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
Roosevelt's scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member over 70 in hopes of overcoming the court's objections to the New Deal
An agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the United States creating a free-trade zone between the three countries
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
Voyage enslaved Africans were made to endure during the Transatlantic Slave Trade between Africa and North America
What is the middle passage?
The combining of the New Jersey and Virginia Plan which gave states proportional representation in the House and equal representation in the Senate
What is the Great Compromise?
New York political machine who gained support from immigrants by providing them with services
Native American men who served in the military during WWII by transmitting undecipherable messages in their Native language
What are codetalkers?
The 444 days when American workers were held captive by Iranian Revolutionaries
What is the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
False anti-Spanish/Catholic notion that Spanish conquerors were cruel and intolerant of Native Americans in the 17th and 18th century
What is the Black Legend?
Supreme court case that established the Supreme Court has final authority to determine Constitutionality
What is Marbury v. Madison?
A Native American spiritual movement which was banned by the U.S government out of fear that it was a rebellious movement
What are Ghost Dances?
Woodrow Wilson's proposal to ensure peace after WWI which included an end to secret treaties, arms reduction, and a new league of nations
What were Wilson's 14 Points?
A failed agreement between North and South America to unite against communism