MC practice 2
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- The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to
- protect rights not specified in the Constitution
- It was designed to meet the nations need for economic progress and self sufficiency. What plan?
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American System
Henry Clay
Protective tariff
Internal Improvements
Monetary policy - In 1861 the north went to war with the south primarily to
- preserve the union
- clothing industry in the late 19th century
- the sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable
- Woodrow Wilson hardened Senate opposition to the Treay of Versailles by his refusal to compromise on the issue of
- the unconditional adherence of the US to the charter of the League of Nations
- An outpouring of black artistic and literary creativity
- Harlem Renaissance
- the experience of americans of Japanese decent during WWII
- they were forced from their homes and businesses on the west coast into detention camps
- Students staged a sit-in in Greensboro, NC in 1960 to protest
- segregation of public facilities
- SEt a boudary along the crest of the Appalachians beyond which the english colonists were forbidden to settle
- Proclamation of 1763
- what contributed most to the American victory in the Revolution
- French military and financial assistance
- Ralph Waldo Emerson themes
- stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self reliance, dissent, and nonconformity
- the objective of the Bonus Expeditionary Force that marched on Washington DC in 1932 was to obtain
- payment of money to veterans of the first WW
- Brown vs Board of Education overturned
- Plessy vs Ferguson
- married women in colonial era
- she generally lost control of her property when she got married
- president washingtons neutrality proclamation of 1793 aimed at
- french dipolmatic overtures to invoke the franco-american alliance
- the hartford convention was a manifestation of
- New England Federalist opposition to the war of 1812
- declining death rate in american cities at the end of the 19th century
- cities built sewers and supplied purified water
- Labor org that endorsed the philosophy of bread and butter unionism by concentrating on demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions
- the American Federation of LAbor
- Built dams that made rural electrification possible
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- In negotiation to end the cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy promised to
- refrain from a military invasion of Cuba
- the primary purpose of the stamp act was to
- raise revenue to support British troops stationed in america (F&I war)