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What group of countries make up Great Britain
England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
The US First Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This French term, meaning "leave it be," describes an economic philosophy by minimizing government involvement in business.
What is laissez faire?
The U.S. stayed to themselves during World conflicts. This allowed to U.S. to do trade with any country. This is also referred to as being
What is Isolationist?
A case involving a man of color wanting to sit in the "for whites only" railway car. The Federal Court ruled that it was legal to have separate, but equal accommodations.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson case.
What is it called when a country forcibly takes over another country to increase its wealth?
What is Imperialism?
Four problems with the Articles of Confederation.
What is unable to collect taxes, could not make changes, only one branch, no checks and balances
Examples of Primary sources.
What are paintings, clothing, speaches, documentaries, autobiographies?
The sinking of the Lusitania by a German uboat in which many Americans died, cause the U.S. to get involve in
What is WWI?
A court case that reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of "separate, but equal". There is nothing in the Constitution that says this. Separate, but equal is NOT Constitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What were the people called that came to the Americans in the 1600's?
What are Pilgrims?
Supporters of the Articles of Confederation.
Who are the Federalists?
The opposite of urban.
What is rural?
The treaty that caused Germany to pay reparations, lose land, stop military production and lose their colonies
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Provided 160 acres to people willing to settle and farm the land.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Why did the Pilgrims come to the Americas?
The Pilgrims came to the Americas to have religious freedoms.
Did NOT SUPPORT the Articles of Confederation.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
"This invention, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, revolutionized the cotton industry by speeding up the process of separating seeds from cotton fiber."
What is the cotton gin?
Even though it was an Idea from the U.S., the U.S. never joined it.
What is the League of Nations?
An Act that allowed the President to break up reservation land and give it to individuals.
What is the Dawes Act?
What act placed taxes on newspapers, playing cards, dice, and pamphlets?
The Stamp Act
The Anti-Federalists wanted what to be added to the Articles of Confederation (Constitution)
What are the Bill of Rights?
"This term describes the transition from products being crafted by hand to being mass-produced by machines in factories."
What is industrialization?
The amendment that outlawed the making and selling of alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
What war tried to force S. Korea into N. Korea's communistic way of life.
What is the Korean War?
1770 Boston Several colonists were killed after a mob of colonists called the British soldiers names.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The Bill of Rights are
What are the first 10 Amendments?
"These laws, enacted in the Southern U.S. after the Civil War, aimed to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans and maintain a labor force similar to slavery."
What are the Black Codes?
What amendment allowed the making and selling of alcohol for the purpose of taxing the alcohol?
What is the 21st amendment?
A similar war to the Korean War. The north wanted the south to convert to communism.
What is the Vietnam War?
1773 Boston Why did the colonists throw tea into the Boston Harbor?
They did not want to pay the taxes on the tea.
The first 10 amendments are about
What are your basic freedoms such as freedom of speech, right to carry a gun, not have to quarter (house) British soldiers?
"This system of laws and customs enforced racial segregation and disenfranchised African Americans in the Southern U.S. from the late 19th century until the mid-20th century."
What is Jim Crow?
The stock market crash,
Only had to put down 10% of a stock purchase
High interest rates caused
What is the Great Depression?
A plan that would provide economic help to post WWII Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
1774 Examples: Not allowed to have town meetings,
closed Boston Harbor so the colonists could not receive or ship goods
colonists would have to quarter British soldiers in their homes.
What are the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts?
To make changes to the Constitution.
What are amendments?
"This white supremacist organization, founded in 1865, used terror and violence to oppose the rights and political participation of African Americans during Reconstruction and beyond."
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
The U.S. got involved in WWII because
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Created to stabilize the U.S. economy during WWI.
What is the Federal Reserve?
1775 - 1783 - Increased taxes on goods, more British control over the colonists led to
What was the Revolutionary War?
Number of amendments made to US Constitution.
What are 27 amendments?
"During early industrialization, factory workers often faced harsh conditions, long hours, low wages, unsafe environments and used child labor."
What are poor working conditions?
A time when USSR and US did not participate in actual fighting.
What was the Cold War?
1. A military alliance with 32 countries and the U.S.
2. Involves oil-producing and oil-dependent countries to influence the global oil market.
1. What is NATO? (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
2. What is OPEC? (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
1776 A written document sent to England requesting separation from England because of taxation without representation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
For an amendment to be enacted
What is must be ratified (approved/passed)?
These were created to help protect workers from long hours, low pay and poor working conditions.
What are labor unions?
A time when Russians and Americans competed to launch the first manned rocket into the atmosphere.
What is the Space Race?
A pact that was an agreement to outlaw war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?