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| 504665276 | Continental Divide | Identifies the point in the Rocky Mountains at which streams and rivers flow west or east. Colorado is the only state intersected by the divide | |
| 504665277 | Piedmont Region | Plateau region located in the eastern United States between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains Stretches from New Jersey to Alabama. | |
| 504665278 | Anasazi | Noted for large pueblos, sophisticated irrigation & pottery they were destroyed by drought in 12th century but culture was inherited by Hopi, Zuni & Acoma. | |
| 504665279 | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | 3-Step Plan for territories to become states: 1. Appointment of governor, secretary & 3 judges by Congress 2. Once it had a pop of 5000 free adult men territory qualified to have legislature 3. at population of 60,000 people terr could apply to Congress for admission as a state. | |
| 504665280 | Louisiana Territory | Land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains purchased from France for 15 million dollars. It doubled the size of the US at the time, getting more land than the US wanted. | |
| 504665281 | Articles of Confederation | This document, the nation's first constitution, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1781 during the Revolution. The document was limited because states held most of the power, and Congress lacked the power to tax, regulate trade, or control coinage. | |
| 504665282 | Alexander Hamilton | 1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt. | |
| 504665283 | Transcendentalist Movement | Movement that held that reality involves going beyond the senses and investigating the processes of the mind of thought. Centered around New England. Authors: Emerson Thoreau Fuller | |
| 504665284 | Frances Cabot Lowell | Early 1800's: founded cotton cloth factory in MA and employed young women from NE farms until they married and had families. Believed this would prevent a permanent underclass of factory workers. | |
| 504665285 | abolitionist movement | the movement concentrated on ending slavery in the United States | |
| 504665286 | Missouri Compromise | Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820) | |
| 504665287 | Kansas-Nebraska Bill | (FP)1854, Stephen Douglas, Act in 1854 which created two new organized territories and allowed popular sovereignty to determine the status of slavery, victory for the South | |
| 504665288 | Popular Sovereignty | The concept that a States people should vote whether to be a slave state or Free | |
| 504665289 | Fugitive Slave Act | passed 1850 this law stated that ALL citizens were required to assist in the recovery of runaway slaves and fugitives slaves could NOT get a jury trial | |
| 504665290 | Panama Canal | The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal. | |
| 504665291 | New Deal | the policies of social and economic reform introduced in the United States between 1933-1938 with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt's basic goal was to reform capitalism in order to preserve it. Roosevelt created relief programs like the WPA to help him with his New Deal. | |
| 504665292 | Feudalism | A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land | |
| 504665293 | Tang Dynasty | considered the golden age of Chinese civilization and ruled for nearly 300 years; China grew under the dynasty to include much of eastern Asia, as well as large parts of Central Asia | |
| 504665294 | Heliocentric Universe | sun center of universe; developed by copernicus | |
| 504665295 | free trade | the removal of trade barriers so that goods can flow freely between countries | |
| 504665296 | Alexis de Tocqueville | He wrote a two-volume Democracy in America that contained insights and pinpointed the general equality among people. He wrote that inequalities were less visible in America than France. | |
| 504665297 | Coercive Acts | This series of laws were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its resistance. It also closed down the Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for the ruined tea. Also forced Bostonians to shelter soilders in their own homes. Also known as Intolerable Act | |
| 504665298 | Townshend Act | The act that put taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea | |
| 504665299 | Freedom Act | 1966 Act allowing citizens to inspect all government records with the exception of classified military or intelligence documents, trade secrets or private personnel files. | |
| 504665300 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | |
| 504665301 | John Maynard Keynes | English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946) | |
| 504665302 | Mesabi Range | a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887 | |
| 504665303 | Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln issued it and freed all the slaves in the Confederate states, but slaves in Border States loyal to the Union remained enslaved (to ensure their loyalty). It only applied to states in rebellion (Confederate states). It led to slaves rebelling and joining the Union army and increased sympathy from Europe. | |
| 504665304 | Jakota Triangle | The easternmost region of the East Asian realm, consisting of Japan, (South) Korea, and Taiwan | |
| 504665305 | Senator Joseph McCarthy | 1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists | |
| 504665306 | Market Revolution | the major change in the U.S. economy produced by people's beginning to buy and sell good rather than make them for themselves | |
| 504665307 | Indian Removal Act | Passed in 1830, authorized Andrew Jackson to negotiate land-exchange treaties with tribes living east of the Mississippi. The treaties enacted under this act's provisions paved the way for the reluctant—and often forcible—emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West. | |
| 504665308 | Cold War | This period of time following World War II is where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years. | |
| 504665309 | Cuban Missile Crisis | the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba | |
| 504665310 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress passed on August 7, 1964 in direct response to a minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of military force in Southeast Asia. | |
| 504665311 | Vietnam War | a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States | |
| 504665312 | Invasion of Afghanistan | October 2001, the United States began bombing Taliban centers in Afghanistan in response to the attack on September 11, 2001 of the World Trade Center in New York | |
| 504665313 | Iraq War | A war fought to end Sadaam Hussein's influence in Iraq and disarm them of WMD's | |
| 504665314 | Korean War | a war between North and South Korea, The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. | |
| 504665315 | League of Nations | an international organization suggested by Woodrow Wilson after WWI, it was formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations. The U.S. never joined. | |
| 504665316 | United Nations | International organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations. | |
| 504665317 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | |
| 504665318 | World War I | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 "The Great War" | |
| 504665319 | World War II | War fought Between Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) and Allied Powers (U.S., France, U.S.S.R., and U.K.); Single largest war in the history of U.S.; Introduced Age of Nuclear Weapons; New system of international diplomacy developed as a result; 1939 to 1945, but U.S. involved from 1941-1945 |
