American History
This war interrupted the construction of the Washington monument in D.C.
What is the American Civil War?
Passed in 1787, this Congressional Act pioneered the structure for territories in the US.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This covert military operation is the shortest, organized armed conflict between the US and another party in the history of the union.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion
The American founders believed that rights corresponded to these.
What are duties?
This concept is that slavery is a benefit to the slave because it gave structure to him who otherwise would be left to a savage nature.
What is the Positive Good theory?
Francis Scott Key composed "Star-Spangled Banner" while watching the British bombardment of this fort.
What is Fort McHenry?
Passed in 1854, this act of Congress brought two new territories into the US, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and allowed settlers in those new territories to decide if slavery is should be allowed in their respective territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Adams-Onís Treaty ceded this state to the US.
What is Florida?
This principle, mentioned by Madison in Federalist 10, is that the United States is so large that factions will be tempered by the need to coalesce into larger, moderate groups to gain politically significant size.
What is the extended sphere/republic?
This principle stated that America had a duty to spread its Democratic principles from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This US ship, named after a state, was sunk in Havana, Cuba, sparking the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
This act, passed in 1913, created a central banking system consisting of twelve regional banks governed by an appointed board.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This treaty dropped all trade barriers in Canada, the US, and Mexico.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
This argument, given by Abraham Lincoln, argued that the Union existed since the Declaration of Independence and was a bilateral social-contract.
What is the Perpetual Union argument?
This American statesman famously posited a concurrent majority which would allow minority groups to nullify the actions of majorities.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This place was the first capital of the United States of America after the 1789 Constitution.
What is New York City?
This act authorized the construction of over 40,000 miles of interstate highway.
What is the Federal Highway Act (of 1956)?
This was the first declared war in US history since the ratification of the Constitution in 1789.
What is the 1st Barbary War (or Barbary Wars)?
This concept guarantees fair adjudication of the law to all persons.
What is Equal Protection under the Law?
This political movement pursued the two goals of uplift and management in its expansion of American imperialism.
What is Progressivism?
These five Americans were assigned by the Continental Congress to write what would become the Declaration of Independence.
Who are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston?
This bill, passed in the year of the ratification of the US Constitution, created the US federal court system and the position of attorney general.
What is the Judicial Act of 1789?
This is the name of the treaties that ended the American Revolution and the Spanish-American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The is the principle basis for justice in the American republic. (One word)
What is Equality (in terms of natural rights)?
John Rawls, the famous neo-liberal philosopher, argued for this concept which demonstrates the justice of equality of condition a priori.
What is the veil of ignorance?