benchmark notecards

Question 1

3 colonial sections

Answer 1

new England- puritains,stricked religion;
middle- quakers, tolorance;
southern-tobacco, plantations, slaves

Question 2

representative gov.

Answer 2

Virginia house of berrugess- first rep gov. in outhern colonies

Question 3

limited gov.

Answer 3

magna carta-1st document to ever restrict powers on the king or gov.

Question 4

self gov.

Answer 4

salutary neglect-the colonies ruled themelves

Question 5

manifest desiny- railroads

Answer 5

called by god to move west, established railroads, owns and mrkets

Question 6

Monroe doctrine

Answer 6

tany attempt of european nations to colonize land or interfere with hemisphere would be viewed as acts of aggression

Question 7

declaration of independence

Answer 7

the fundamental doc. wrote by thomas jefferson

Question 8

taxation without representation

Answer 8

england taxed the colonies without a representative established

Question 9

articles of confederation

Answer 9

1st gov. established in the u.s. but would fail because it did not have the power to tax, or enforce laws and there was no national army or navy. each state had own currency

Question 10

battle of yorktown

Answer 10

The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington.

Question 11

social Darwinism

Answer 11

the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals.

Question 12

reconstruction

Answer 12

the rebuilding of the south after the civil war

Question 13

Jim crow laws

Answer 13

laws that segregated blacks and whites from each other to avoid breakouts and murders

Question 14

Plessy vs. ferguson

Answer 14

a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants.

Question 15

Quota

Answer 15

the limited number of minority immigrants to enter the u.s

Question 16

KKK

Answer 16

whites that murdered blacks because they didn’t want equality

Question 17

red scare

Answer 17

when everyone suspected that they were communist spies in the u.s

Question 18

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 18

prohibited all Chinese immigrant

Question 19

america system

Answer 19

promoting industry in the u.s with a high protective tariff

Question 20

Abraham lincon

Answer 20

wanted slavery to end. uphold the union

Question 21

54th massachusetts

Answer 21

one of the first African american units in the civil war

Question 22

North popular soveity

Answer 22

will of majority

Question 23

South states rights

Answer 23

the states decided the laws

Question 24

marbury vs. madison

Answer 24

when the judicial review was first used and established

Question 25

yellow journalism

Answer 25

journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration. cause of Spanish-american war

Question 26

Lusitania

Answer 26

sunk by a German u-boat. cause the u.s to enter WWl

Question 27

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 27

a speech he spoke declaring that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe.

Question 28

league of nations

Answer 28

an organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

Question 29

open door policy

Answer 29

china let access to other countries to trade freely with them

Question 30

consumerism

Answer 30

the protection and promotion of the interest of the cunsumer

Question 31

u.s farmers 1920- overproduction

Answer 31

overproduction was one of the results of the roaring twenties. one of the causes of the stock market crash and great depression

Question 32

cause of the great depression

Answer 32

stock market crash

Question 33

FDR president

Answer 33

created the new deal to help fix the economy

Question 34

libreral vs. conservative

Answer 34

liberal is open to new ideas conservative is on a stricked regulation

Question 35

Dec. 7th, 1941

Answer 35

japan bombed perl harbor

Question 36

big three

Answer 36

FDR, Stalin, and Churchill

Question 37

Rosie the riveter

Answer 37

represented the women that contributed fo the war efforts

Question 38

american revolutionary war

Answer 38

the war that included the colonies of the early u.s and Britain.

Question 39

progressive reformers

Answer 39

people who worked their way up the social bar

Question 40

robber barons

Answer 40

an American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.

Question 41

civil war

Answer 41

the war that included the north and south of the eastern united states

Question 42

WWl

Answer 42

the war that started because the arch duck Ferdinand was murdered and following events

Question 43

Roaring Twenties

Answer 43

a time of happiness and glory for the u.s because the economy was thriving

Question 44

WWll

Answer 44

war that was meant to take Hitler down from his reign