Benchmark 3rd nine weeks

Question 1

What are the characteristics of the three different regions in the American colonies?

Answer 1

New England: puritans, religiously non tolerant, shipping
Middle: Culturally diverse, trade, quakers
Southern: plantations and slave farming

Question 2

What is Virginia House of Burgesses?

Answer 2

2 house party first limited government

Question 3

What is an example of limited government?

Answer 3

Magna carta, limited power of the king and gave citizen rights

Question 4

What is salutary neglect?

Answer 4

when the english government forgot about the colonists and they governed themselves

Question 5

What is federalism?

Answer 5

division of national and state government

Question 6

What is manifest destiny?

Answer 6

Railroads helped US expand and they colonized from east to west and created new trade

Question 7

what is the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 7

The Us policy to stay out of western hemisphere problems

Question 8

What is the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 8

The letter written by the colonies to Great Britain saying they were an independent nation, Thomas jefferson

Question 9

What does the saying “No taxation without representation” mean and what did it lead to?

Answer 9

The colonist felt like Great Britain shouldn’t tax them because they had no one speaking up for them over there. And lead to boycotting British goods

Question 10

What is the navigation Act?

Answer 10

products not produced by the mother country were to be shipped from the colonies only to England, restricted trade and caused more acts and ended up cause colonist to send declaration of independence

Question 11

What is the Articles of confederation and why did it fail?

Answer 11

Was the first set of laws(before constitution) gave power to individual states none to the government
were able to coin money and declare war (federal/central) government to weak to effectively lead

Question 12

What happened at the Battle of Yorktown?

Answer 12

General Cornwallis surrendered to Washington with help of French Navy

Question 13

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 13

survival of the fittest

Question 14

What is the poll tax and literacy test?

Answer 14

You had to pay a poll a tax and take literacy test to be able to vote during reconstruction. To prevent blacks to be able to vote

Question 15

What are Jim Crow laws?

Answer 15

blacks and whites had to use separate public facilities(separate but equal)

Question 16

What is the solid south?

Answer 16

one potical(democratic) party causing oppression of African Americans

Question 17

what is the court case plessey vs. ferguson?

Answer 17

segregation was constitutional, separate but equal

Question 18

what is Nativism?

Answer 18

immigrates were opposed by natives

Question 19

what is the KKK

Answer 19

secretive organization whose members often dressed in hooded white robes, used violence, murder and threats to intimidate blacks

Question 20

what is the red scare?

Answer 20

is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism

Question 21

what is the Chinese exclusion act?

Answer 21

restricting immigration into the United States

Question 22

what is significance of the Japanese?

Answer 22

bombed pearl and made the Americans question the Japanese-Americans because they thought they were spies for Japan and sent all Japanese-Americans to a interment camp

Question 23

What is quotas?

Answer 23

The limited number of immigrants let into the US

Question 24

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 24

president during the civil war, wanted the US to be one union

Question 25

Who is the 54th Massachusetts?

Answer 25

one of the first official African American units in the United States during the Civil War, the are recognized for winning the battle of fort Wagner

Question 26

What is popular sovereignty

Answer 26

majority rules votes on to allow slavery or not

Question 27

what are state’s rights in the south?

Answer 27

10th amendment and wanted to establish their own laws

Question 28

What is Marbury vs Madison

Answer 28

Court case in which the Court `formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States, judicial review made it possible to over rule the president

Question 29

What is the Spanish America war?

Answer 29

Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba, cedes the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States for the sum of $20 million = US will be a World Power

Question 30

What is yellow journalism?

Answer 30

exaggerated headline during the war

Question 31

What happened to the Lusitania?

Answer 31

A cruise ship that German u-boat sank and was one of the reasons for the US entering the war

Question 32

What is Wilson’s (14 points)?

Answer 32

Peaces talks after WW1 leading to league of nations

Question 33

What is the league of Nations?

Answer 33

Wilson’s 14th point to keep peace between between nations

Question 34

What is the open door policy?

Answer 34

China let the US come in and trade

Question 35

What is Consumerism?

Answer 35

the theory that an increasing consumption (buying) of goods is economically desirable; the actions of people who spend a lot of money on goods and services

Question 36

What happened to us farmers overproduction in 1920?

Answer 36

New machines caused over production caused fell prices, and the dust bowl

Question 37

What caused the Great depression?

Answer 37

The stock market crash on October 29, 1929 (black Tuesday)

Question 38

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 38

Cultural movement that took place in New York: art music and literature, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Marcus Garvey etc

Question 39

What is the new deal?

Answer 39

Help for American citizen,
Relief-government gives direct help
Recovery-government will provide jobs to help Americans
Reform-the government will regulate for business no more laissez- faire

Question 40

Explain liberals vs conservative?

Answer 40

Liberals: pro big government equal rights
Conservative: traditional values, lassies faire pro big business

Question 41

What happened December 7th 1941?

Answer 41

Pearl Harbor “ A day that will live in infamy”

Question 42

Who are the Big 3?

Answer 42

Britain(Churchill) US(FDR) Russia(Stalin)

Question 43

What is Rosie the Riveter?

Answer 43

This became the symbol of women who entered the workforce to fill the vacancy of the men off to war, popular song during WWII

Question 44

What is America System?

Answer 44

Want to reunite the nation and strengthen the US

Question 45

What is reconstruction?

Answer 45

governments attempt to rebuild the south after the war

Question 46

What are progressive reformers and robber barons?

Answer 46

robber baron want monopolies and big business while progressive reformers want to stop monopolies and think its a corrupt society