Three Old Worlds Create a New
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Lady of Cofitachequi
2. Paleo-Indians
3. Teotihuacan
4. Mayas
5. Anasazi
6. Huitzilopochtli
7. Tenochtitlan
8. Lateen sail, astrolabe, & quadrant
9. Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile
10. John Hawkins & Sir Francis Drake
11. Mediterranean Atlantic
12. Northeast Trades and the Westerlies
13. City of the Sun
14. Sao Tome
15. Christopher Columbus
16. Leif Ericsson
17. Henry Hudson
18. John Cabot
19. Hernan Cortes
20. Malinche
21. Spanish model of colonization
22. Encomienda system
23. Spanish missionaries
24. Columbian exchange
25. Smallpox & syphilis
26. Sir Walter Raleigh
27. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Europeans Colonize North America
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
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Juan de Onate
Samuel de Champlain & Quebec
Montreal
The Black Robes
New Netherland
Iroquois-Huron War
Sugar
English population boom
Puritans
Separatists
Doctrine of predestination
Great Migration
Joint-stock companies
Virginia Company
Jamestown
Captain John Smith
The “starving time”
Powhatan Confederacy
Pocahantos
John Rolfe
Tobacco cultivation
Headright system
Royal colony
House of Burgesses
Opechancanough
Maryland & Lord Baltimore
The Chesapeake
Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
Indentured servitude
The “seasoning process”
Plymouth
Pilgrims / Separatists
Mayflower Compact
The Pokanokets, Massasoit, & Squanto
Puritan Congregationalists
Massachusetts Bay Company / Massachusetts Bay colony
John Winthrop
Doctrine of the covenant
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
General Court
Thomas Hooker
Pequot War
John Eliot’s Praying Towns
Roger Williams
46. Anne Hutchinson
North America in the Atlantic World (1640-1720)
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Restoration colonies
2. Proprietary colonies
3. James, Duke of York
4. Quakers
5. William Penn
6. The Carolinas
7. The “Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina”
8. Witchcraft trials in New England (1650-90)
9. Colonial political structures of the late 17th century
10. Iroquois Confederacy
11. Beaver Wars
12. Popé & the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
13. King Philip’s War
14. Bacon’s Rebellion
15. Atlantic slave trade
16. The Middle Passage
17. William Kidd
18. Mercantilism
19. Navigation Acts
20. Vice-admiralty courts
21. Rice and indigo cultivation in South Carolina
22. Eliza Lucas
23. Indian slave trade
24. Dominion of New England
25. Sir Edmund Andros
26. Glorious Revolution in England
27. King William’s War
28. Salem Village witchcraft trials
American Society Transformed (1720-1770)
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. 18th century colonial population growth
2. African immigrants
3. Scottish, Irish, & German immigrants
4. Huguenots
5. Urban poverty
6. King George’s War
7. James Oglethorpe
8. Salutary neglect
9. Genteel culture
10. Advanced education in 18th century colonial America
11. Enlightenment
12. Two Treatises of Government
13. The culture of ordinary folk
14. Religious rituals
15. Civic rituals
16. Rituals of consumption
17. Rituals on intercultural rituals
18. Colonial families
19. Mestizos
20. African American families
21. 18th century colonial assemblies
22. John Peter Zenger
23. Stono Rebellion / Stono Uprising
24. New York conspiracy
25. New Jersey, Vermont, & Hudson riots
26. The Regulator movements
27. First Great Awakening/ The Great Awakening
28. Evangelicalism
29. Jonathan Edwards
30. George Whitefield
31. “New Lights” & “Old Lights”
Severing the Bonds of Empire (1754-1774)
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Iroquois policy of neutrality
2. Albany Congress
3. Seven Years’ War or French & Indian War
4. Proclamation Line of 1763
5. William Pitt
6. Treaty of Paris of 1763
7. Neolin
8. Chief Pontiac & Pontiac’s Rebellion
9. George III
10. George Grenville
11. Individual representation
12. Virtual representation
13. The Sugar Act
14. Currency Act
15. Stamp Act
16. Stamp Act Crisis
17. James Otis
18. The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
19. Patrick Henry
20. Virginia Stamp Act Resolves
21. Andrew Oliver
22. Thomas Hutchinson
23. Sons of Liberty
24. The Stamp Act Congress
25. Lord Rockingham
26. Declaratory Act
27. Charles Townshend
28. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
29. Daughters of Liberty
30. Lord North
31. Boston Massacre
32. Samuel Adams
33. Committees of Correspondence
34. Tea Act
35. Boston Tea Party
36. Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
37. Quebec Act
A Revolution, Indeed
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Daniel Boone
2. First Continental Congress
3. Declaration of Rights & Grievances
4. Chief Dragging Canoe
5. Oneida Indians
6. Loyalists
7. General Thomas Gage
8. Lord Dunmore’s proclamation
9. William Dawes, Paul Revere, Dr. Sam Prescott
10. Battles of Lexington & Concord
11. Second Continental Congress
12. George Washington
13. Sir William Howe
14. Common Sense
15. Thomas Jefferson
16. Declaration of Independence
17. The Crisis
18. Battle at Saratoga
19. Ben Franklin
20. Franco-American Alliance
21. Camp followers
22. Espirit de corps among officers of the Continental Army
23. Benedict Arnold
24. Endemic diseases in the Continental Army
25. Valley Forge
26. Battle of Yorktown
27. Newburgh Conspiracy
28. Treaty of Paris of 1783
Forging a National Republic (1776-1789)
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1.
Judith Sargeant Murray
2. Role of Women in a republican society (aka Republican Motherhood)
3. Abigail Adams
4. Emancipation & Manumission
5. Growth of the free black population
6. African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church
7. Benjamin Banneker
8. Post-revolutionary state constitutions
9. Articles of Confederation
10. Robert Morris
11. The Northwest Ordinances
12. Little Turtle
13. Battle of Fallen Timbers
14. Treaty of Greenville
15. Annapolis Convention
16. Shays’s Rebellion
17. Constitutional Convention
18. James Madison
19. The principle of checks and balances
20. Virginia Plan
21. New Jersey Plan
22. The Great Compromise
23. Three-fifths compromise
24. Constitution’s slave trade clause and fugitive slave clause
25. Electoral College
26. Separation of Powers
27. Federalists
28. Anti-Federalists
29. Letters of a Federal Farmer
30.The Federalist Papers
Conflicts at Home and Abroad (1789-1800)
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. The Bill of Rights
2. The Judiciary Act of 1789
3. George Washington
4. Alexander Hamilton
5. Report on Public Credit
6. Assumption of state debts
7. Location of nation’s capital
8. The First Bank of the United States
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. Strict constructionist vs. broad/loose constructionist
11. Report on Manufactures
12. The Whiskey Rebellion
13. Democratic-Republicans
14. Federalists
15. The 1778 Treaty of Alliance with France
16. Citizen Edmond Genet
17. Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality
18. Jay’s Treaty
19. The doctrine of executive privilege
20. The Pinckney Treaty
21. Washington’s Farewell Address
22. The Presidential Election of 1796
23. John Adams
24. The XYZ Affair
25. The Quasi-War with France
26. The Alien & Sedition Acts
27. Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
28. The Convention of 1800
29. Gabriel’s Rebellion
Partisan Politics & War: The Democratic-Republicans in Power
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Revolution of 1800
2. President Thomas Jefferson
3. Albert Gallatin
4. Judiciary Act of 1801
5. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase
6. Chief Justice John Marshall
7. Adams’ “midnight appointments”
8. Marbury v Madison
9. Judicial review
10. Louisiana Purchase
11. Lewis & Clark expedition
12. York
13. Sacagawea
14. Zebulon Pike
15. Josiah Quincy
16. Presidential election of 1800
17. Twelfth Amendment
18. Hamilton-Burr duel
19. Burr conspiracy and trial
20. Presidential election of 1804
21.
Prophet
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Tecumseh
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Battle of Tippecanoe
24.
Impressment of American sailors
25.
Non-Importation Act
26. Embargo Act
27. Non-Intercourse Act of 1809
28. Macon’s Bill Number 2
29. War of 1812
30. War Hawks
31. Dolley Madison
32. Burning of Washington DC
33. Francis Scott Key
34. Andrew Jackson
35. Treaty of Fort Jackson
36. Battle of New Orleans
37. Treaty of Ghent
38. Presidential & congressional elections of 1812
39. Hartford Convention & its effect on the Federalist Party
Nationalism, Expansion, and the Market Economy
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Second Bank of the United States
2. Tariff of 1816
3. James Monroe
4. Presidential election of 1816
5. McCulloch v. Maryland
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John Quincy Adams
7.
Rush-Bagot Treaty
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Convention of 1818
9.
Adams-Otis Treaty
10.
Monroe Doctrine
11.
Missouri’s petition for statehood
12.
Tallmadge Amendment
13.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
14.
Panic of 1819
15.
Panic of 1837
16.
Telegraph
17.
Gibbons v. Ogden
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward
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Fletcher v. Peck
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Corporation and limited liability
21.
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
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Erie Canal
23. Railroad construction boom
24. McCormick reaper
25. Steel plow
26. Eli Whitney
27. Cotton South
28. American system of manufacturing
29. Pre-Civil War cotton textile industry
30. Ready-made clothing
31. Specialization of commerce
32. Free banking
33. Waltham /Lowell system
34. Removal of the Shawnees
35. “Civilizing Act” of 1819
36. President James Monroe’s removal message of 1824
37. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Jackson, Abolitionism, and First Wave Feminism
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
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Dorothea Dix
Second Great Awakening
Charles Finney
American Female Moral Reform Society
Temperance
6. Penitentiary movement
7. Asylum movement
8. American Colonization Society
9. William Lloyd Garrison
10. The Liberator
11. Gradualists vs. Immediatists
12. Black abolitionists
13. American Anti-Slavery Society
14. Elijah P. Lovejoy
15. Gag rule
16. Women abolitionists
17. Angelina & Sarah Grimke
18. Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
19. Presidential election of 1824
20. The “corrupt bargain”
21. President John Quincy Adams
22. Presidential election of 1828
23. Andrew Jackson
24. Jacksonian Democrats
25. Kitchen Cabinet
26. Maysville Road veto
27. Tariff of Abominations
28. Doctrine of nullification
29. Webster-Hayne debate
30. Tariff of 1832
31. Nullification crisis
32. Force Act
33. Tariff of 1833
34. Veto of the 2nd Bank Re-chartering Bill
35. Presidential election of 1832
36. “Pet” banks
37. Specie Circular
38. The Whig Party
39. Martin Van Buren
40. William Henry Harrison
41. Manifest Destiny
American Society for the Promotion of
Religion, Renaissance, in Antebellum America
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Farm communities
2.
Country bees and town bees
3.
The Shakers
4.
The Mormons
5.
Brook Farm
6.
Transcendentalism
7.
American Renaissance
8.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
9.
California Gold Rush
10.
“Forty-niners”
11.
California agricultural boom
12.
New York City
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Early 19th century urban problems
14.
Public schools
15.
Horace Mann
16.
McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers
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Popular literature in early 19th century America
18.
The theater in early 19th century America
19.
Spectator sports in early 19th century America
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Associations & clubs in early 19th century America
21. Bowery boys and Bowery gals
22. Urban riots
23. Alexis de Tocqueville
24. Urban poor
25. New York City’s Five Points
26. Urban middle class
27. Catharine & Mary Beecher
28. Declining birth rate in early 19th century
29. Family planning
30. Abortion in early 19th century America
31. Louisa May Alcott
32. Irish immigrants
33.
Anti-Catholic sentiment in early 19th
34. German immigrants
35.
Hispanics in early 19th century America
36.
Negro Convention Movement
37. African American dance
38. Black nationalism
Transformation of the economy and society in Antebellum America
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1.
Pierce Butler
2.
Population distribution in the antebellum South
3. Proslavery arguments in the antebellum South
4. Thomas Dew
5. Yeoman Farmers
6. Yeoman Folk culture
7.
Ferdinand L. Steel
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Landless whites of the antebellum South
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Free blacks of the antebellum South
10.
Slaveholding planters of the antebellum South
11.
Southern paternalism
12.
Women of the planter class in the antebellum South
13.
The ostrich game
14.
Southern slaves
15. Slaves’ work routines
16. Task system
17. Violence against slaves in Antebellum South
18. Slave-master relationship
19. Slave culture
20. Slaves’ religion
21. Slaves’ music
22. Slave family
23. Slave traders
24.
Slave resistance & rebellion
25. Denmark Vesey
26. Nat Turner
27.
Virginia Debate on slavery of 1832
28.
Democratic reform movements in antebellum South
29.
White workers’ protests in the antebellum South
30. The Impending Crisis
The Crisis of the Union
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economic (SPRITE) causes and/or consequences of each key term below
1. Republican Party
2. James K. Polk
3. Oregon Treaty
4. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
5. Slave Power
6. Wilmot Proviso
7. John C. Calhoun’s state sovereignty theories
8. Presidential election of 1848
9. Popular sovereignty
10. Free-Soil Party
11. Compromise of 1850
12. Fugitive Slave Act
13. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
14. Proslavery novels
15. Underground Railroad
16. Harriet Tubman
17. Presidential election of 1852
18. Franklin Pierce
19. Personal-liberty laws
20. Stephen A. Douglas
21. Kansas-Nebraska bill
22. Mexican War
23. American (Know-Nothing) party
24. “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”
25. Southern version of republicanism
26. Bleeding Kansas
27. John Brown
28. Sumner-Brooks affair
29. James Buchanan
30. Presidential election of 1856
31. Dred Scott case
32. Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech
33. Lecompton Constitution
34. “Mormon War” in Utah
35. Panic of 1857
36. John Brown’s raid on Harper Ferry
37. Presidential election of 1860
38. Crittenden Compromise
39. Separate-state secession strategy
40. Confederate States of America
41. Attack on Fort Sumter
Civil War
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consequences of this item?
1. Anaconda Plan
2. Ulysses S. Grant
3. General Robert E. Lee
4. Jefferson Davis
5. Confederate conscription law
6. Confederate tax-in-kind
7. Confederate bureaucracy
8. Inequities in the Confederate draft
9. Northern labor activism
10. Union Pacific & Central Pacific Railroads
11. Morrill Land Grant Act
12. Homestead Act of 1862
13. Lincoln’s use of presidential power
14. United States Sanitary Commission
15. Clara Barton
16. Walt Whitman
17. Lincoln’s plan for gradual emancipation
18. Radicals
19. Emancipation Proclamation
20. 13th Amendment
21. Davis’s emancipation plan
22. African American soldiers in the Union army
23. Battle of Gettysburg
24. Southern food riots
25. Desertions from the Confederate army
26. Peace Democrats
27. Copperheads
28. New York City draft riot
29. Sand Creek Massacre
30. Presidential election of 1864
31. Trent affair
32. Sherman’s southern campaign
33. Appomattox Court House
34. John Wilkes Booth
Reconstruction
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
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Lincoln’s Ten-Percent plan
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
Wade-Davis Bill
13th Amendment
5. Freedmen’s Bureau schools
6. Hiram Revels
7. Sharecropping system
8. Cotton and the southern economy
9. Johnson’s Reconstruction plan
10. Black Codes
11. Radical Republicans
12. Civil Rights Bill of 1866
13. 14th Amendment
14. First Reconstruction Act
15. Thaddeus Stevens’s plan for land redistribution in the South
16. Tenure of Office Act
17. Johnson’s impeachment trial
18. Presidential election of 1868
19. Ulysses S. Grant
20. 15th Amendment
21. Southern Republican Party
22. Carpetbagger
23. Scalawag
24. Enforcement Act of 1870
25. Ku Klux Klan
26. Enforcement Acts & the anti-Klan law
27. Amnesty Act of 1872
28. Civil Rights Act of 1875
29. Panic of 1873
30. Race relations in the American West
31. William Seward
32. Freedmen’s Bureau
33. The Slaughter-House cases
34. Presidential election of 1876
35. Exodusters
Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. Frederick Jackson Turner frontier thesis
2. Buffalo Bill Cody
3. Slaughter of the buffalo & the decline of salmon
4. US Government’s reservation policy
5. Battle of Little Big Horn
6. Helen Hunt Jackson
7. Women’s National Indian Association and the Indian Rights Association
8. Dawes Severalty Act
9. Government’s Indian school system
10. Ghost Dance movement
11. Wovoka
12. Massacre at Wounded Knee
13. Mining frontier
14. Women and nonwhites in frontier society
15. Conservation movement
16. Omnibus bill of 1889
17. Newlands Reclamation Act
18. Standard time zones
19. Westward migration, 1870-1890
20. Life on the Plains
21. Homestead Act of 1862
22. Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890
23. Hatch Act of 1887
24. George Washington Carver
25. Ranching frontier
26. Open range ranching
27. Barbed wire
Industrial American in the Late Nineteenth Century
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. Thomas Edison, Menlo Park, & Edison Electric Light Company
2. Patent System
3. George Westinghouse
4. General Electric Company
5. Henry Ford
6. Mass production and the assembly line
7. Economies of scale
8. Child labor
9. Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
10. Lochner v. New York
11. Muller v. Oregon
12. General railway strike of 1877
13. National Labor Union
14. Knights of Labor
15. Terence Powderly
16. Southwestern Railroad System Strike of 1886
17. Haymarket Riot
18. American Federation of Labor
19. Samuel Gompers
20. Homestead strike
21. Pullman strike
22. Eugene V. Debs
23. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
24. “Mother” Jones
25. The “Uprising of the 20,000”
26. Women’s Trade Union League
27. John D. Rockefeller
28. Trust
29. Holding company
30. Vertical integration
31. US Steel Corporation
32. Social Darwinism
33. Principles of laissez faire
34. Gospel of Wealth
35. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
36. United States v. E.C. Knights Co.
Urban Society in the Late Nineteenth Century
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. Electric trolley
2. Urban growth
3. African American migration
4. “New” immigration
5. Ghettos
6. Chinese Exclusion Act
7. Barrios
8. New York State tenement legislation
9. “Model tenements”
10. Public Health Regulations
11. Steel-frame construction
12. Urban poverty, crime, & violence
13. Charity Organization Societies
14. East St. Louis riot of 1917
15. City engineers
16. Political machines
17. Political boss
18. Urban reform movement
19. Social reformers
20. Settlement house
21. Beautiful City movement
22. Importance of kinship
23. Circus
24. Vaudeville
25. Ministrel Show
26. Motion pictures
27. Birth of a Nation
28. Still Camera
29. Phonograph
30. Joseph Pulitzer & William Randolph Hearst
31. Yellow journalism
32. Mass-circulation magazines
33. Telephone
34. Cultural pluralism
Populism and Progressivism
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. Pendleton Civil Service Act
2. Munn v. Illinois
3. The Wabash case
4. Interstate Commerce Act
5. Tariff controversy
6. Currency Controversy
7. Bland-Allison Act of 1878
8. Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
9. Rutherford Hayes
10. James Garfield
11. Chester Arthur
12. Presidential campaign and election of 1884
13. Grover Cleveland
14. Presidential election and campaign of 1888
15. Benjamin Harrison
16. Ida B. Wells
17. Poll tax
18. Mississippi Plan
19. “Grandfather clause”
20. Civil Rights cases
21. Plessy v. Ferguson
22. Cummins v. County Board of Education
23. Jim Crow laws
24. National Woman Suffrage Association
25. Susan B. Anthony
26. Crop-lien system
27. Grange movement
28. White Hats
29. Farmers’ Alliances
30. Populist (People’s) party
31. Omaha platform
32. James B. Weaver
33. Depression of the 1890s
34. Eugene v. Debs
35. Jacob S. Coxey
36. Free coinage of silver
37. Presidential campaign & election of 1896
38. William McKinley
39. William Jennings Bryan
40. Gold Standard Act
The Progressive Era
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consequences of this item?
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Florence Kelley
Muckrakers
Initiative, the referendum, & recall
Eugene V. Debs
Robert M. La Follette
The 17th Amendment
National Child Labor Committee
War on alcohol
The 18th Amendment
The Mann Act
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Charles A. Beard
Social Gospel
Eugenics
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Compromise
W.E.B. Du Bois
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Margaret Sanger
Harriott Stanton Blatch
The 19th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Hepburn Act
The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Newlands Reclamation Act
Gifford Pinchot
William Howard Taft
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Mann-Elkins Act of 1910
The 16th Amendment
Progressive Party
Woodrow Wilson
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Underwood Tariff
War Industries Board
Quest for Empire
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. William H. Seward
2. Purchase of Alaska
3. Transatlantic cable
4. Washington Treaty
5.
Captain Alfred Mahan
6.
New Navy
7.
Hawaiian-annexation question
8.
Hawaii’s 1887 constitution
9.
The 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government
10. The Venezuelan crisis of 1895
11. Cuban revolution
12. Jose Marti
13. Wilson-Gorman Tariff
14. General Valeriano Weyler
15. The Maine
16. The de Lome letter
17. Teller Amendment
18. Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War
19. Commodore George Dewey
20. Treaty of Paris
21. Emilio Aguinaldo
22. Philippine Insurrection
23. the Jones Act
24. the Open Door policy
25. Platt Amendment
26. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901
27. Panamanian revolution
28. Panama Canal
29. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
30. Portsmouth Conference
31. Taft-Katsura Agreement
32. Root-Takahira Agreement
33. Great White Fleet
34. Dollar diplomacy
35. Anglo-American rapprochement
Americans in the Great War
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. The Lusitania
2. The Sussex Pledge
3. President Wilson’s proclamation of neutrality
4. Submarine and international law
5. Unrestricted submarine warfare
6. Zimmerman telegram
7. Wilson’s war message
8. Jeannette Rankin
9. National Defense Act of 1916 and the Navy Act of 1916
10. Selective Service Act
11. African American enlistees in the military
12. General John J. Pershing
13. Trench warfare and poison gas
14. Bolshevik Revolution
15. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
16. Food, Railroad, & Fuel Administration
17. War Industries Board
18. Revenue Act of 1916 & 1917
19. African American Migration
20. National War Labor Board
21. Civil liberties issue
22. Committee on Public Information
23. Espionage and Sedition Acts
24. Eugene V. Debs
25. Schneck v. United States
26. Red Scare
27. American Legion
28. Mitchell Palmer
29. Palmer Raids
30. “Red Summer” of 1919
31. Paris Peace Conference
32. Principle of self-determination
33. Mandate system
34. Balfour Declaration of 1917
35. League of Nation
36. Article 10 of the League Covenant
37. Treaty of Versailles
38. The “Irreconciliables”
The New Era
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consequences of this item?
Charles A. Lindbergh
2. Installment plan
3. Oligopolies
4. Teapot Dome Scandal
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Calvin Coolidge
6. American Indian’s citizenship status
7. Bureau of Indian Affairs
8. League of Women Voters
9. National Women Party
10. The automobile
11. Federal Highway Act
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The radio
13. Marcus Garvey
14. Mexican immigrants
15. Puerto Rican immigrants
16. Women in the 1920s labor force
17. The Flapper
18. Ku Klux Klan
19. Emergency Quota Act of 1921
20. Nicole Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
21. The Scopes trial
22. Pentecostal religion
23. Motion pictures
24. Baseball
25. Prohibition
26. Al Capone
27. Lost Generation
28. Harlem Renaissance
29. Jazz Age
30. 1928 presidential election
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Black Tuesday
33. Stock Market Crash
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The Great Depression & The New Deal
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consequences of this item?
1. Dust Bowl
2. “Hoovervilles”
3. Herbert Hoover
4. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
5. Bonus Expeditionary Force
6. Franklin D. Roosevelt
7. 20th Amendment to the Constitution
8. Banking crisis
9. National bank holiday
10. Emergency Banking Relief Bill (March 9, 1933)
11. Roosevelt’s fireside chats
12. First Hundred Days
13. Brain Trust
14. National Recovery Administration
15. Agricultural Adjustment Act (May 12, 1933)
16. Civilian Conservation Corps (March 31, 1933)
17. Public Works Administration
18. Father Charles Coughlin
19. Dr. Francis E. Townsend
20. Huey Long
21. Second New Deal
22. Works Progress Administration
23. Social Security Act (August 15, 1935)
24. Federal Theater, Federal Arts, Federal Music, & Federal Writers Projects
25. National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (July 5, 1935)
26. United Auto Workers’ strike of 1936
27. Indian Reorganization Act (June 18, 1934)
28. Tennessee Valley Authority (May 18, 1933)
29. Roosevelt’s court-packing plan
30. Scottsboro Boys
31. A. Philip Randolph
The Second World War
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. Washington Naval Conference
2. Five-Power Treaty, the Nine-Power Treaty, and the Four-Power Treaty
3. Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
4. American economic and cultural expansion
5. The war debts and reparations issue
6. Dawes Plan of 1924
7. Young Plan of 1929
8. Johnson Act of 1934
9. London Conference of 1933
10. Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
11. The most-favored-nation principle
12. Export-Import Bank
13. Diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union
14. Good Neighbor policy
15. Fascism
16. Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact
17. Policy of appeasement
18. Munich Conference
19. American isolationist sentiment
20. Nye Committee
21. Neutrality Acts of 1935 & 1936
22. Nazi-Soviet Pact
23. Repeal of the arms embargo (Neutrality Act of 1939)
24. Stimson Doctrine
25. Sino-Japanese War
26. Roosevelt’s quarantine speech
27. Panay incident
28. Japan’s “New Order”
29. Destroyers-for-bases agreement
30. Selective Training and Service Act
31. Lend-Lease Act
32. Tripartite Pact
33. Operation MAGIC
34. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The Second World War
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consequences of this item?
1. Navajo Code Talkers
2. Bataan Death March
3. Doolittle raid
4. Battle of Midway
5. The “Europe first” strategy
6. Winston Churchill
7. Joseph Stalin
8. War Production Board
9. Wartime government-business interdependence
10. Manhattan Project
11. March on Washington Movement
12. Executive Order No. 8802
13. Bracero program and wartime Mexican workers
14. Women’s wartime work
15. Rosie the Riveter
16. National War Labor Board
17. War Labor Disputes (Smith-Connally) Act
18. The Office of War Information
19. Detroit race riots of 1943
20. Zoot-suit riots
21. Alien Registration Act
22. Internment of Japanese Americans
23. Korematsu v. United States
24. 442nd Regimental Combat Team
25. Congress of Racial Equality
26. “Tuskegee Airmen”
27. Teheran Conference
28. Yalta Conference
29. Harry S. Truman
30. Potsdam Conference & Declaration
31. The “island-hop” strategy
32. Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
33. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States and the Early Cold War
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. Cold War
2. Third World
3. World Bank and International Monetary Fund
4. Atomic diplomacy
5. Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
6. Henry A. Wallace
7. Truman Doctrine
8. Containment doctrine
9. Walter Lippmann
10. Marshall Plan
11. National Security Act of 1947
12. Berlin blockade and airlift
13. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
14. Hydrogen bomb
15. Japanese reconstruction
16. Korean War
17. General Douglas MacArthur
18. Inchon landing
19. The POW Question
20. The Korean armistice
21. John Foster Dulles
22. Liberation, massive retaliation, and deterrence
23. Brinkmanship
24. Domino Theory
25. Eisenhower’s use of the CIA
26. Sputnik and the missile race
27. U-2 incident
28. Process of decolonization
29. Recognition of Israel
30. Suez crisis
31. Eisenhower Doctrine
32. 1954 Geneva accords
The 1950’s
For each item, try to answer this question: What were the Political, Social, Economic, and/or Cultural
consequences of this item?
1. GI Bill of Rights
2. Postwar inflation
3. Baby boom
4. Post-World War II suburbanization
5. William Levitt
6. Practice of redlining
7. Harry Truman
8. Roosevelt’s “Second Bill of Rights”
9. Dixiecrats
10. Fair Deal
11. Dwight Eisenhower
12. Military-industrial complex
13. Red-baiting
14. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
15. Hollywood Ten
16. Senator Joseph McCarthy
17. Internal Security Act of 1950 (McCarran Act)
18. Alger Hiss case
19. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
20. Army-McCarthy hearings
21. Jackie Robinson
22. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
23. Emmett Till
24. Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott
25. Martin Luther King, Jr.
26. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
27. Civil Rights Act of 1957
28. Emergence of a national middle class culture
29. Television
30. Consumer culture
31. Post-World war II religious revival
32. Gender roles in families of the 1950s
33. Dr. Spock
34. Dr. Alfred Kinsey
35. Hugh Hefner
36. Youth culture
37. Rock ’n’ roll
38. Elvis Presley
39. The 1950s upsurge in juvenile delinquency
40. Critics of 1950s conformity
41. Silent Spring
The 1960’s: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Counterculture
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Sit-ins in Greensboro, NC
John F. Kennedy
Presidential election of 1960
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
1961 Berlin crisis
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban missile crisis
Nuclear test ban treaty of 1963
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Freedom Riders
Freedom Summer of 1964
Children’s Crusade
James Meredith
Medgar Evers
March on Washington & “I Have a Dream”
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing
New Frontier
Space program
Assassination of JFK & Lee Harvey Oswald
Lyndon Johnson
Great Society
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Barry Goldwater
Fannie Lou Hamer
Voting Rights Act of 1965
War on Poverty
Medicare and Medicaid
Tonkin Golf incident and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder
Harlem race riot
Watts race riot of 1965
Kerner Commission Report
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael and “Black Power”
Black Panthers
Young Americans for Freedom
New Left
Port Huron Statement
Free Speech Movement
Students for a Democratic Society
Counterculture
Summer of Love
Tet offensive
Assassinations of Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy
Presidential election of 1968
Politics and Economics of the End of the Twentieth Century
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The Pentagon Papers
The Chicano Movement
Affirmative Action
The Feminine Mystique
The National Organization for Women
Equal Rights Amendment
Roe v. Wade
Phyllis Schlafly
Vietnamization
Kent State and Jackson State
The My Lai Massacre
The “boat people”
War Powers Act of 1973
Henry Kissinger
Nixon Doctrine
Détente
The Six Day War
OPEC oil embargo
Watergate cover-up and investigation
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
The White House tapes
Spiro Agnew’s resignation
Gerald Ford
24. Nixon’s resignation
25. Jimmy Carter
26. Stagflation
27. Energy crisis of the 1970s
28. 1970s environmentalism
29. New Age movement
30. Camp David Accords
31. Iranian hostage crisis
32. Saddam Hussein
33. Iran-Iraq War
Politics and Economics at the end of the Twentieth Century
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Ronald Reagan
Reagan Democrats
Reagan’s policies toward regulatory agencies
The New Right
Sandra Day O’Connor
Reaganomics
Supply-side economics
Recession of the early 1980s
Walter Mondale
1984 presidential election
Deregulation
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Contra War in Nicaragua
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Perestroika and glasnost
1987 Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty (INF)
The culture wars
Poverty in the 1980s
The “crack” epidemic
Homelessness in the 1980s
The AIDS epidemic
“New immigrants” of the 1970s and 1980s
George H. W. Bush
1988 presidential election
Disintegration of the Soviet Union
Saddam Hussein
Operation Desert Storm
Americans with Disabilities Act
Clean Air Act
Recession of 1991
Clarence Thomas
Anita Hill