The French and Indian War
Peace of Paris
Treaty of Paris
Shay's Rebellion
War of 1812
Conquistadors
The Boston Tea Party
King Phillips War
Bacon's Rebellion
Monroe Doctrine
A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
Aroostook War
Mayflower Compact
The Albany Plan
Bill of Rights
Spoils System
the system of employing and promoting civil servants who are friends and supporters of the group in power
An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats, stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements
Free-Soil Party
Compromise of 1850
Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War
Election of 1860
Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
Confederacy
Crittenden Compromise
Emancipation Proclamation
14th Amendment
Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
15th Amendment
Compromise of 1877
Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river
Dawes Act
Pendleton Act
18th Amendment
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
19th Amendment
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
League of Women Voters
21st Amendment
repeal of prohibition
United Nations
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
McCarthyism
The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Immigration Act of 1965
Joint-Stock Company
Slavery
Agriculture
Industry
Mercantilism
Industrial Revolution
California Gold Rush
Capitalism
Sharecropping
Assembly Line
Corporation
Trust
Monopoly
Union
Gold Standard
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Great Depression
New Deal
Keynesian Economics
Inflation
Great Migration
The Constitution
Brown v. Board of Education
Buffalo
Homestead Act
Alice Hamilton
Panama Canal
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Manifest destiny
Plantations
Trail of Tears
White Supremacy
Californios
Assimilation
Social Darwinism
White Supremacy
Baby Boom
Martin Luther King Jr.
Temperance Movement
Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
New Deal
Nineteenth Amendment
Malcolm X
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Horace Mann
A. Philip Randolph
Frederick Douglass
National Bank
William Lloyd Garrison
Eighteenth Amendment
Suburbanization
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition
Ku Klux Klan
Boston Tea Party
Immigration
Boston Tea Party
Social Gospel
Ku Klux Klan
Fundamentalism
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Eugenics
Nativism
Birth Control
National Origins Act of 1924
Okies
Baby Boom
Trail of Tears
Bacon's Rebellion
Enlightenment
The Second Great Awakening
The Great Awakening
Salem Witch Trials
Quakers
Salem Witch Trials
Great Awakening
Enlightenment
Romanticism
Harlem Renaissance
Radio & TV
McCarthyism
consumerism
fourth of july
yellow journalism
Social Darwinism
Nativism
flappers
Globalization
Non-Intercourse Act
Protective Tariff
Monroe Doctrine
Tariff of Abominations
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal
Nicaragua
League of Nations
United Nations
Television
World Bank
Berlin Wall
Internet
Outsourcing
Stono Rebellion
William Lloyd Garrison
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Fugitive Slave Act
Dred Scott Decision
Black Codes
14th amendment
Booker T. Washington
Plessy v. Ferguson
W. E. B. Du Bois
Brown v. Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr.
Emancipation Proclamation
13th Amendment
USS Maine
Cold War
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
D-Day
Containment Policy
League of Nations
Red Scare
Isolationism
Pearl Harbor
Civil War
Gettysburg