1763 - 1800
Eliminated the French in North America
What was the French and Indian War?
Doubled the size of the US in 1803
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The location of the first battle of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
America's policy at the outbreak of WWI.
What was neutrality?
The policy adopted by Truman to oppose Soviet expansion during the Cold War officially referred to as the Truman Doctrine.
What was the Containment policy?
Uprising of poor white settlers from western va against rich planters from eastern va.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
War that ended with a return to status quo antebellum.
What was the War of 1812?
Resulted in the territorial acquistions of Puerto Rico; guam; Midway; and the Philippines.
What was the Spanish-American War?
Name two events that brought the US into WWI.
What was unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman note?
The policy of Eisenhower against Soviet expansion that involved the possible use of nuclear weapons.
What was brinkmanship or massive retaliation?
Uprising of Native Americans that led to the Proclamation line.
What was Pontiac's Rebellion?
What was Florida?
The amendment that promised the US would grant independence to Cuba after defeating Spain.
What was the Teller Amendment?
The type of foreign policy that America desired in the time period between WWI and WWII.
What was isolationism?
Name of the turning point battle in the Vietnam War 1968.
What was the Tet Offensive?
Treaty that avoided war with Britain and they agreed to give up forts in the NW territories.
What was Jay's Treaty?
The nullification crisis involved this president and this state
What was Andrew Jackson and South Carolina?
American's proposal that the spheres of influence be ended in China.
What was the Open Door Notes?
The act that involved the US in WWII without committing troops to the war.
What was the lend-lease act?
The approach of the US in Soviet relationships in the 1970s that called for a warming of relationships.
What was detente?
The attempted bride of American diplomats by the French that led to the Quasi War.
What was the XYZ affair?
This held up the annexation of Texas for 9 years.
What was abolitionist who did not want another slave state admitted to the union?
The nickname of the Roosevelt Corollary.
What was the Big Stick Policy?
The ultimatum by H. Truman to the Japanese to surrender or else face WMD's.
What was the Potsdam ultimatum?
This treaty called for the first disarmament of nuclear weapons in history.
What was the INF Treaty with Reagan and Gorbachev?