Benchmark III NoteCards

Question 1

Colonial Characteristics

Answer 1

New England- Puritans
Middle- Quakers, Diverse
Southern-Tobacco , Tar, Founded for god

Question 2

Types of Governments

Answer 2

Representatives(VHB)-Elect own officials/voice

Question 3

Manifest Destiny

Answer 3

Inspired many to see western settlement as sacred duty. Rail Roads helped with faster transportation. God giving rule to to move West

Question 4

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 4

Stated that the us would not tolerate European intervention in the affairs of any ind. nation in America.

Question 5

American Revolutionary War-Declaration of Ind. Thomas Jefferson

Answer 5

Concludes with a list of complaints the king and asserts the colonies’ right to declare indep.

Question 6

Self-Salutary Neglect

Answer 6

England neglected US,and we had to self rule ourselves.

Question 7

Types of Government-Limited(Magna Carta)

Answer 7

prohibited the taking of a person’s life, liberty and property, unless their peer’s deem it necessary. Separate from England.

Question 8

Federalism

Answer 8

Shared Powerd

Question 9

Taxation W/O Representation

Answer 9

Reason for creating dec. of independence

Question 10

Acts…Purpose/why (Nav. Act)

Answer 10

Required the British colonies to sell certain goods only to England.

Question 11

Articles of confederation-Strengths VS weaknesses

Answer 11

nations first set of laws. not enough power to lead

Question 12

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 12

Surrendered last Battle. of Amer. Rev.

Question 13

Progressive Reformers vs Robber Barrons

Answer 13

Time of political, social and economic change in the US

Question 14

Social Darwinism

Answer 14

Bushing ideas on theories of Charles Darwin “Survival of the fittest” Gov’t shouldn’t interfere

Question 15

Reconstruction

Answer 15

Rebuild the South

Question 16

Poll Tax & Literacy Test

Answer 16

Blacks test to vote

Question 17

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 17

Laws for blacks

Question 18

Solid South

Answer 18

Southerns remained distrustful for Rep. party and ‘Solidly” supported Democratic Candidates

Question 19

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 19

1/8 black. jailed for sitting in a whites only railway car. sued. separate but equal.

Question 20

Nativism=Immigrants

Answer 20

Opposing Immigrants

Question 21

Quotas

Answer 21

limited the amount of immigrants could come in, in one group.

Question 22

KKK

Answer 22

(Klu Klux Klan) used violence, murder, and threats to scare blacks.

Question 23

Red Scare

Answer 23

People feared that such a Rev. might occur in US

Question 24

Japanese

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Pearl Harbor US put Japanese into international camps

Question 25

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 25

prohibited Chinese immigrants from coming into the US illegally

Question 26

American System: Henry Clay

Answer 26

Plan to strengthen and unify the south

Question 27

Abraham Lincoln (wants)

Answer 27

Unite south with the north. | Free slaves

Question 28

54th Massachusetts

Answer 28

black army fought at fort Wagner and won.

Question 29

North:Popular Soveighty

Answer 29

people choice to have Free States or Slave States

Question 30

South:States RIghts

Answer 30

State choice if the states were freed or slaved states

Question 31

Marbury vs maddison

Answer 31

Chief Justice John Marshall stated that the appointees were entitled to their commissions but that the US sum. Court didn't have the authority under constitution.

Question 32

Spanish-American War

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USS marine exploded in Cuban harbor blamed Spain declared war April 1898

Question 33

Yellow Journalism

Answer 33

Exaggerated and untrue stories published in papers. | meant to sell papers

Question 34

Lusitania

Answer 34

hit by the U-Boat (Germany) 1915

Question 35

Woodrow Wilson (14 Points)

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US President declared US neutral

Question 36

League of Nations

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Place where nations could negotiate peaceful solutions rather than war

Question 37

Open Door Policy-China

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would leave china open for us trade and commerce

Question 38

Roaring 20s/GD

Answer 38

Brokers and banks began to call loans that had no money to pay

Question 39

Consumerism

Answer 39

increasing consumption or gov is economically desirable, people spend a lot of money on good and services.,

Question 40

US Farmers 1920 over production

Answer 40

new machinery such as tractors allowed farmers to produce more resulted in overproduction

Question 41

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 41

a cultural movement in Af. America | Art and Music

Question 42

FDR(New Deal)

Answer 42

an effort to provide relief and recovery

Question 43

Liberal (D) vs Conservative (R)

Answer 43

a symbol women who entered the work force to fill the gab | left by vacant men

Question 44

Dec. 7 1941

Answer 44

Pearl Habor

Question 45

Big 3-Names

Answer 45

Stalin Roosevelt churchill

Question 46

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 46

symbol for women to participate in war