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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stamp Act (colonist’s reaction) | act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards |
| Very brief description of Declaration of Independence | summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence |
| Effect of Shays’ Rebellion | exposed the weakness of the government under the Articles of Confederation and led many—including George Washington—to call for strengthening the federal government in order to put down future uprisings |
| 3/5 Compromise | It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation |
| English Bill of Rights - influence on Constitution | contains many rights that were later included in the First Amendment, such as the right to petition and freedom of speech and debate |
| Jefferson’s view regarding how the Constitution must change with the times | a country's constitution should be rewritten every 19 years |
| Jobs of each branch of government | Legislative—Makes laws (Congress, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate) Executive—Carries out laws (president, vice president, Cabinet, most federal agencies) Judicial—Evaluates laws (Supreme Court and other courts) |
| Bill of Rights (general, not specific rights) | 1st 10 ammendments |
| Marbury v | Madison (precedent) |
| Spoils system | the practice of appointing political friends and firing enemies in any federal posts |
| Federalists vs anti-federalists | Feds: supported constitution and a stronger national republic Anit-Feds: opposed ratification of constitution and in favor of small localized government |
| Manifest Destiny | A belief that it was the divine mission of the US to expand westwardacross north america |
| Monroe Doctrine | Warns european nations to not interfere w western hemisphere like the sout americans |
| Emancipation Proclamation | All slaves shall be free |
| 13th Amendment | Slavery illegal in states |
| 15th Amendment | The right for citizens to vote shall not be denied |
| Reconstruction | Historic period in US where several administrations sought to reconstruct society in former confed states |
| Upton Sinclair & The Jungle | Influential in obtainig passage of the Pure food and drug act |
| Labor, Child, and consumer product reforms - why did each happen and how did they change | Labor:Happened due to terrible working conditions and made working conditions better |
| Consumer Product | government publicly showing their txes so that corrupt tax companies couldnt steal any money |
| Unions - impact on workers and business owners | workers making a group, business had to worry abouyt more pay and strikes |
| Susan B Anthony | American social reformer and womans rights activist |
| Suffrage | The right to vote in elections |
| Jim Crow | laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, "Jim Crow" being a pejorative term for an African-American |
| 18th Amendment | illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol |
| 19th Amendment | grant women's suffrage |
| Reservation System - negative impacts | The government failed to keep its promises |
| US troop removals from the South at the end of Reconstruction | |
| How did technology like the cotton gin change farming? | Helped make cotton more profitable for farmers |
| Big Stick Policy | The "big stick" symbolizes his power and readiness to use military force if necessary |
| Teddy Roosevelt’s conservationism | Established 150 national forest, 51 federal bird reserves |
| Impact of Spanish American War on American foreign policy | Produced a peace treaty that compelled the spanish to relinquish claims on cuba |
| Open Door Policy | A policy of the US that stated that china should be open to tall nations that trade with them |
| Espionage Act | Act that punishes acts that interfere with foreign relations |
| American foreign policy after WWI | Isolationaist advocate non-involment in european and asian conflicts |
| Failure of Treaty of Versailles - impact | Allies and germany struggled through revision after revision of the treaty until the treaty could be no more with the outbreak of WWII |
| German reparations - impact | couldnt handle it so ww2 |
| Prohibition | |
| Legal prevention of manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic bevs | |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period in the US marked by a burst of creativity within the african american community |
| Scopes Trial | stopped butler act (act to stop educating about mankind) |
| KKK | Ku Klux klan which were racist |
| Dust Bowl | Period where dust storms greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of american prairies Caused by manmade factors |
| Causes of the Great Depression | Stock market crash, bank failures, panics, collapse on money supply |
| New Deal Programs: Civilian Conservation Corp & Works Progress Administration | The CCC and WPA were formed not only to give work to eligible unemployed individuals but also to mitigate the country's environmental, agricultural, and social problems |
| Impact of New Deal today (Social Security Act) | about 179 million people work and pay Social Security taxes and over 65 million people receive monthly Social Security benefits |
| Nativism | the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants |
| he Great Migration - Change in northern cities/suburbs | Cities and suburbs boomed, But opportunities to move up the ladder would dwindle for the generations that followed |
| Expansion of suburbs - , causes, impacts, and results | Baby boom, great migration, cars, impacts were highway system increase in automobiles, cities became more subtle |
| Outcome of Nixon’s visit to China | began a slow process of diplomation between the United States and China |
| Trigger of Watergate scandal | lead to Nixon's retirement, Watergate was a hotel that Nixon was a part of a robbery in |
| Watergate tapes (revelations) | Nickerson ended up retiring |
| End of Watergate scandal | Gerald Ford became the president |
| The United States v Nixon | decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Courtordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordingsto a federal district court |
| Who won/lost Vietnam war | Vietnam won and America lost |
| Three Mile Island Accident (cause) | In 1979 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the #2 reactor The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed Some radioactive gas was released and nobody was hurt |
| Camp David Accords | The camp David accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978 |
| Rustbelt (how did it happen) | The region received the name “Rust Belt” in the late 1970s, after a sharp decline in industrial work left many factories abandoned and desolate, causing increased rust from exposure to the elements |
| Moral Majority | he's an American politician associated with the Christian right in the republican party |
| End of cold war - impact on US and Europe | The fall of communism |
| Supply side economics (results of a tax cut) | supply side economics examples are lowering economics, allowing free trade and decreasing regulation all of these result in tax cuts |
| Reagan Doctrine | was February 6, 1985 and was a strategy implemented by Reagan administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet union in the cold war |
| Fall of Communism Impact on US role in 80’s politics | The Berlin wall in east Germany represented communism in the wall was destroyed, meaning that those whom destroyed the war no longer wanted the concept of communism |
| Iran-Contra scandal (Reagan’s role) | In 1986, President Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) authorized the sale of arms to Iran in exchange for Iran's influence in obtaining the release of four American hostages |
| Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) | what is a proposed missile by the United States for strategic nuclear fighting |
| INF Treaty | do US and Soviet union would not use nukes |
| 90’s Technology boom | created many jobs for the unemployed |
| Clinton Impeachment | Clinton was impeached for sleeping with someone else while being with his wife he was impeached because he lied about it to the government and that's illegal |
| Technological Progress: Personal Computer, Cell Phone, Internet | revolutionized our country |
| Impact of US change from manufacturing to a service economy | The country went through a massive amount of inflation |
| George W Bush Presidency (Iraq and Afghanistan) | as president of the country bush, invaded Afghanistan, and served during the our war with Iraq |
| 9/11/2001 | Airplanes were hijacked and the US was put into panic, 2 planes hit the twin towers, one hit the pentagon, and another crashed |
| Barack Obama Presidency | Obama was elected in 2008 serve two terms and left office in 2016 he made Obama care which was very important to our country |
| Global Financial Crisis | The global financial crisis classic from 2007, 2008 was a worldwide financial crisis, hence the name global financial crisis |
| Universal Healthcare | Obama care what is the first free healthcare in the USA that put us on pace with the rest of the world |
| Trump Presidency | Trump was elected in 2016 in his first term ended in 2020 he was not reelected and almost got impeached |
| Rise of Political Extremism | political extremism has rise The last couple of years and political extremism is when you share your political beliefs to make others believe what you believe in |
| Wealth Gap (a new gilded age) | because of inflation, there has been a big wealth gap, for the poor are very poor and rich are very rich |
| Kennedy and the use of TV | Kennedy was the 35th president and the first one to have a state of the union speech broadcasted on television |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The Cuban missle crisis was when the us and ussr confronted each other during the Cold War through Cuba |
| Rachel Carson (Silent Spring) | She wrote silent spring which advanced global environmental movements |
| EPA how did it gain political traction? | It was made my Nixon in 1970 |
| Space Race | The American race against the ussr to new achievements outside of our worldSpace Race |
| Alliance for Progress | Kennedy wanted to improve relations with Latin America |
| Free Speech Movement (what sparked it) | Berkeley students Arrested for setting up a CORE information table |
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