Benchmark 3rd nine weeks Flashcards
What are the characteristics of the three different regions in the American colonies?
New England: puritans, religiously non tolerant, shipping
Middle: Culturally diverse, trade, quakers
Southern: plantations and slave farming
What is Virginia House of Burgesses?
2 house party first limited government
What is an example of limited government?
Magna carta, limited power of the king and gave citizen rights
What is salutary neglect?
when the english government forgot about the colonists and they governed themselves
What is federalism?
division of national and state government
What is manifest destiny?
Railroads helped US expand and they colonized from east to west and created new trade
what is the Monroe Doctrine?
The Us policy to stay out of western hemisphere problems
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The letter written by the colonies to Great Britain saying they were an independent nation, Thomas jefferson
What does the saying “No taxation without representation” mean and what did it lead to?
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
What is the navigation Act?
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
What is the Articles of confederation and why did it fail?
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
What happened at the Battle of Yorktown?
General Cornwallis surrendered to Washington with help of French Navy
What is Social Darwinism?
survival of the fittest
What is the poll tax and literacy test?
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
What are Jim Crow laws?
blacks and whites had to use separate public facilities(separate but equal)
What is the solid south?
one potical(democratic) party causing oppression of African Americans
what is the court case plessey vs. ferguson?
segregation was constitutional, separate but equal
what is Nativism?
immigrates were opposed by natives
what is the KKK
secretive organization whose members often dressed in hooded white robes, used violence, murder and threats to intimidate blacks
what is the red scare?
is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism
what is the Chinese exclusion act?
restricting immigration into the United States
what is significance of the Japanese?
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
What is quotas?
The limited number of immigrants let into the US
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
president during the civil war, wanted the US to be one union
Who is the 54th Massachusetts?
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
What is popular sovereignty
majority rules votes on to allow slavery or not
what are state’s rights in the south?
10th amendment and wanted to establish their own laws
What is Marbury vs Madison
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
What is the Spanish America war?
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
What is yellow journalism?
exaggerated headline during the war
What happened to the Lusitania?
A cruise ship that German u-boat sank and was one of the reasons for the US entering the war
What is Wilson’s (14 points)?
Peaces talks after WW1 leading to league of nations
What is the league of Nations?
Wilson’s 14th point to keep peace between between nations
What is the open door policy?
China let the US come in and trade
What is Consumerism?
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
What happened to us farmers overproduction in 1920?
New machines caused over production caused fell prices, and the dust bowl
What caused the Great depression?
The stock market crash on October 29, 1929 (black Tuesday)
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Cultural movement that took place in New York: art music and literature, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Marcus Garvey etc
What is the new deal?
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
Explain liberals vs conservative?
Liberals: pro big government equal rights
Conservative: traditional values, lassies faire pro big business
What happened December 7th 1941?
Pearl Harbor “ A day that will live in infamy”
Who are the Big 3?
Britain(Churchill) US(FDR) Russia(Stalin)
What is Rosie the Riveter?
This became the symbol of women who entered the workforce to fill the vacancy of the men off to war, popular song during WWII
What is America System?
Want to reunite the nation and strengthen the US
What is reconstruction?
governments attempt to rebuild the south after the war
What are progressive reformers and robber barons?
robber baron want monopolies and big business while progressive reformers want to stop monopolies and think its a corrupt society
