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U.S History
Ghostlaw
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1896 court case: "Separate, but equal" | Plessy V Ferguson |
| President who developed the Square Deal | Teddy Roosevelt |
| First Constitution of America; weak federal government | Articles of Confederation |
| Developed the bicameral legislature | Great Compromise |
| Added to the Constitution so the Anti- Federalists would ratify it | Bill of Rights |
| Power for each branch of the federal Government to limit the power of the other two | Checks and Balances |
| Court Case: States Vs. Federal Government; issue over abortion | Roe V Wade |
| believed in a strong central or federal government | Federalist |
| means to pass or approve | ratify |
| branch of the government where laws are made | legislative |
| Plan where states thought representation in the government should be based on population | Virginia Plan |
| The first representative body of government in the colonies; located in Virginia | House of Burgess |
| document created in 1776 that officially broke ties with England; written by Thomas Jefferson | Declaration of Independence |
| not taking sides; Washington advocated for it | neutrality |
| Created the First National Bank to help the economy recover | Alexander Hamilton |
| a tax on imported goods | tariff |
| Line that separated the 13 colonies from the territory in the west after the french and Indian War | Proclamation Line of 1763 |
| Anti federalists wanted a strong what type of government | state |
| President responsible for bringing the country out of the Great Depression with his new Deal program | Franklin Roosevelt |
| The three R's of the New Deal Program | Relief, Recovery, and Reform |
| Idea that everybody gets an equal chance to succeed | Square Deal |
| President responsible for The Great Society | Lyndon Johnson |
| Court Case: judicial review | Marbury V Madison |
| Told European Powers to stay out of the western hemisphere | Monroe Doctrine |
| policy of taking over a country for natural resources | imperialism |
| pride in one's country | nationalism |
| stopping the spread of communism | containment |
| NATO stand for | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| movement against slavery | abolition |
| Founded an abolitionist paper (North Star), an escaped slave | Fredrick Douglas |
| abolitionist leader of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| Best Hockey Team Ever | Boston Bruins |
| the first women's rights convention was held here | Seneca Falls |
| Publisher of the Liberator; an abolitionist movement leader | William Lloyd Garrison |
| ban the sale and consumption of alcohol | prohibition |
| amendment that gave Congress the Power the tax income | 16th Amendment |
| Amendment that passed Woman suffrage | 19th Amendment |
| Court case that ended segregation in all public schools | Brown V Board |
| Founded Hull House to help poor folks during the progressive Era | Jane Addams |
| Act that ended all public segregation | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| tax aimed at the African American population to prevent them from voting | poll tax |
| Act that ended poll taxes, literacy tests, etc | Civil Rights Act of 1965 |
| Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet to encourage colonists to declare independence from Great Britain | Common Sense |
| an abolitionist novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Period of time during the early 20th century where corruption in politics and big business were tackled | Progressive Era |
| someone who exposes social or political corruption in the early 20th century | muckraker |
| Wrote The Jungle; exposed bad business practices in a Chicago meat packing plant | Upton Sinclair |
| a period of time in the 1920's where there was a revival of African American literature, music, and art | The Harlem Renaissance |
| Removed Native Americans from the south in 1930 | Indian Removal Act |
| This act helped settle the west by giving away 160 acres of free land | The Homestead Act |
| Organization to help combat racial segregation in the South after the Civil War; provided African Americans with jobs and housing | Freedman's Bueru |
| Chinese workers immigrated to help build this | Transcontinental Railroad |
| In 1882 excluded Chinese Immigration | Chinese Exclusion Act |
| Divided Native American land and sold it to settlers | Dawes Act |
| President responsible for the Indian Removal Act; hated banks, renowned Native American stabber | Andrew Jackson |
| Great band who become popular in the early 90's with songs such as When I come around | Green Day |
| Amendment that provides rights such as freedom of speech and press | First Amendment |
| Lincoln passed this law in 1863 that freed all slaves south of Mason Dixon Line | Emancipation Proclamation |
| Set up system of assistance to elderly; part of New Deal program | Social Security Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate for this political party during 1912 | Progressive Party |
| Act that guaranteed labor rights and the right to organize in 1935 | Wagner Act |
| capture of American soldiers/sailors and forced to work on British Ships | impressment |
| idea that Americans have the Divine right to expand westward | Manifest Destiny |
| President who championed manifest destiny | James Polk |
| President who ordered the dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan | Harry Truman |
| War to battle communism that created a DMZ | Korean War |
| Unpopular war to stop the spread of Communism | Vietnam War |
| economic system of imperialism. The colonies only exist to help the mother country | Mercantilism |
| Terrible hockey team, Mr Carpenters favorite team | Red Wings |
| Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris |
| President who Purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 15 million | Thomas Jefferson |
| plan that called for a representation to be equal | New Jersey Plan |
| A system that calls young men to serve in a war | draft |
| The period of time immediately following the Civil War; meant to rebuild the South; was a disaster | Reconstruction |
| First true test of federal Government's power that showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, a rebellion of farmers | Shays Rebellion |
| This war provided the Unites States with land such as Texas and California | The Mexican American War |
| Forcing the North to turn over all runaway slaves back to the South | Fugitive Slave Act |
| Granted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to restore balance between the two sides | The Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
| Responsible for the creation of the Missouri Compromises; from the west, nicknamed the Great Compromiser | Henry Clay |
| Court case 1857: slaves are property and do not have rights; cause of Civil War | Dred Scott V Sanford |
| Abolitionist whoLed a raid on Harpers Ferry; cause of Civil War | John Brown |
| letting the people determine the law based on a vote | popular sovereignty |
| The first war where the media played a major influence in shaping public opinion | Vietnam War |
| outlaws slavery | 13th Amendment |
| The United States rival during the Cold War | Soviet Union |
| Muckraker who wrote How the Other Half Lives | Jacob Riis |
| Big Businesses that dominate a particular industry | monopoly |
| A set of laws created to ensure the segregation and discrimination in the South after the Civil War | Jim Crow Laws |
| massive dust storm during the great depression that forced thousands of people to lose their farms | Dust Bowl |
| Gave all citizens that right to vote | 15th Amendment |
| Cause of the Civil War. Made California A free state, enacted the Fugitive slave Act, popular sovereignty to determine if a territory would become free or slave, ban the slave trade in D.C | The Missouri Compromise of 1850 |
| Great band who became popular in the early 1990s with hits such as All the Small things | Blink 182 |
| Hands of government; practiced by Hoover during Great Depression | Laissez faire |
| No bad monopolies allowed | Sherman Anti Trust Act |
| A student protest turned violent during the Vietnam War; 5 unarmed students killed | Kent State |
| president during the Cuban Missile Crisis | John Kennedy |
| Nicknamed the Trustbuster | Theodore Roosevelt |
| belief that all immigrants are bad; often immigrants themselves | nativism |
| Best Baseball team | red Sox |
| President associated with the Watergate Scandal | Richard Nixon |
| Ben Franklin's Plan to keep the Union united against British oppression or be destroyed one colony at a time. | Albany Plan of Union |
| Clause in the constitution that allows for change...think about a rubber band | Elastic Clause |
| This counted each slave a 3/5 of a person to determine representation for states | Three Fifths Compromise |
| Outlawed slavery in the Northwest territories | Northwest Ordinance |
| He helped establish the idea of Freedom of the press | John Peter Zenger |
| The purchase of the Louisiana Territory gained control of these two things | Mississippi River, Port of New Orleans |
| Our country acquired this territory during the Mexican- American War | Texas |
| Raids that were focused on weeding out communists during the 1920's | Palmer Raids |
| These shanty towns developed during the Great Depression and were named after a President | Hoovervilles |
| Court Case: Argued that during times of war groups such as Japanese Americans had limited rights | Koramatsu V United States |
| The Cold War was fought over which major idea | Communism |
| Connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes to the Midwest, made trade much easier | Erie Canal |
| Wrote the Federalist Papers | James Madison |
| Going to see this epic band in concert during the summer of 2017 | Green Day |
| Initiative, Reform ,and Referendum were created during the Progressive Era to | Make the government more democratic, give people more voting power |
| FDR was accused of doing this to the Supreme Court to pass New Deal legislation | Court Packing |
| Two Italian immigrants put on trial due to extreme nativism in the 1920's | Sacco and Venzetti |
| This gave education and financial assistance to veterans after World War 2 | GI Bill |
| Dwight Eisenhower used Federal Troops here to ensure the school would be de segregated | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| George H.W Bush sent troops to Saudi Arabia and was involved in the Persian Gulf War for this natural resource | Oil |
| Gained western territory from Mexico in the 1840;s during this conflict | Mexican American War |
| Court Case: Cannot shout fire in a crowded theater | Schneck V. United States |
| 18th Amendment started this and the 21st ended it | Prohibition |
| The SEC and Federal Reserve System | Break up business monopolies, and regulate business |
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