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Who is: Indentured Servants
The system of labor where immigrants were held in bondage for 4-5 years in exchange for room and board.
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Who is: Eli Whitney
Who was the inventor of the cotton gin in 1793?
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What is: The Lowell System
The system used in the 1820s in factories that recruited young single girls.
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What is: The Open Door Policy
The driving factor for this policy by Theodore Roosevelt was to spur American economic growth with new markets.
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What is: Levittowns
The suburban neighborhood in Long Island which sparked the rise of suburbia.
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What is: The Columbian Exchange
These cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old World transformed Native American and European ways of life.
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What is: Henry Clay’s American System
The system that focused on internal improvements, the national bank, and tariffs.
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What is: The Nonintercourse Act of 1809
The Act that repealed the Embargo Act in 1809 during the War of 1812.
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What is: The Sherman Silver Purchase Act
The act enacted during the Gilded Age which increased a certain type of coinage to satisfy Democrats.
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What is: The Taft-Hartley Act
The act passed over Truman’s veto which amended the Wagner Act to create a pro-business economy over a pro-union economy.
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What is: Tobacco
What export made the colony of Jamestown prosper?
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What is: Congress lacks the power to levy taxes
This weakness of the Articles of Confederation made it difficult to pay off Revolutionary War debt.
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What is: Gibbons v. Ogden
The supreme court case that stated that the federal government had the power to regulate interstate commerce.
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What is: The Pullman Strike
The strike in Chicago which ended after a federal court issued an injunction forbidding interference with mail.
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What is: Sputnik I
The first satellite to orbit the Earth which was created by the Soviet Union.
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What is: South Carolina and Georgia
The 2 colonies that produced indigo.
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Who is: Alexander Hamilton
This political leader’s economic plan aligned closely with Henry Clay’s American System.
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What is: The Panic of 1837
The economic crisis which made the South believe their plantation economy was superior to the North.
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What is: Wilson’s Clayton Antitrust Act
The President that passed the act that increased the power of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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What is: Military-Industrial Complex
A phrase coined by Eisenhower which warned that combined lobbying efforts between armed services and industries would result in excessive Congressional spending.
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