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Spuzzle US History 1
| Answer | Description |
|---|---|
| Quartering Act | 1765 British law that required colonists to provide room and board to British troops |
| Engle v. Vitale | 1962 Supreme Court case that declared school prayer unconstitutional |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | 1914 law that banned a number of business practices favoring large corporations or monopolies |
| Russo-Japanese War | 1904-05 conflict that pitted two Pacific powers in a battle over Manchuria |
| Atlantic Charter | Declaration issued in 1941 by FDR & Churchill. It condemned imperialism and military aggression, asserted the right to national self-determination, and advocated disarmament |
| Treaty of Ghent | US-Britain agreement signed Christmas eve 1814 to then the War of 1812 and return to the prewar status |
| Judiciary Act | 1789 resolution that created the court system |
| Harold Ross | Fouding Editor, 1925-51, of the literary and cultural weekly The New Yorker |
| Uhlan | 18th-19th century Prussion light infantry unit modeled on Tatar practices |
| Palmer Raids | Government crackdown on Socialists and Communists between 1918 and 1921 |
| Port Huron Statement | Mission statement of SDS, written by Tom Hayden in 1962 |
| Eighteenth Amendment | 1919 move to federally projhibit alcohol, repealed 14 years later |
| Zola Neal Hurston | Harlem Renaissance writer; author of the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Mechanical Reaper | Device for harvesting grain invented in 1831 by Virginia farmer Cyrus McCormick |
| Raj | Indian term for British colonial rule, which ended in 1947 |
| Hiram Revels | First black congressman, elected in 1870 |
| Jacques Cartier | French sailor who explored the St. Lawrence River region, 1534-42 |
| Alien & Sedition Acts | 1798 laws that gave the government unprecedented power to infringe upon individual liberty |
| Lochner v. NY | 1905 Supreme Court case that declared certain professions exempt from the regulation of work hours |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Leader of the transcendentalist movement; author of a number of influential essays during the 1830-40s including "Nature" |
| Triangular Trade Routes | Mercantilist system paths linking England, its colonies in North America, the West Indies, and Africa |
| Salutary Neglect | Late 17th- and early 18th century English non-enforcement of the trade laws mot harmful to colonial ecomomies |
| Crazy Horse | Sioux chief who resisted and killed Lt. Col. George A. Custer and his troops at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876 |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | Group founded in 1874 to push for temperance, let by women activists like Susan B. Anthony and Frances E. Willard |
| Fisk-Gould Scandal | Manipulation of gold markets during U.S. Grants presidency |
| Tom O'Brien | Vietnam veteran and author of the 1990 The Things They Carried |
| Triple Entente | 1907-14 agreement among the French, British, and Russians to reach "no separate peace" in WWI |
| Mann-Elkins Act | 1910 law that extended the jurisdiction of the ICC to communications and increased its power over railroads |
| Goa | State on the western coast of India that was a colony of Portugal until 1962 |
| Commonwealth v. Hunt | 1842 Supreme Court decision that found it permissable for workers to form unions and strike |
| Grover's Corners, NH | Town in Our Town, 1938 play about small town America by Thornton Wilder |
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