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Missionaries came to the Americas to

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convert Native Americans to Christianity.

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The English established their first successful colony at

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Jamestown.

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What plant or animal changed the way the Indians of the Great Plains lived?

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horses

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Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin

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caused cotton production in the United States to surge.

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What did Europeans introduce to the Americas that caused the deaths of thousands of Native Americans in the 1500s and 1600s?

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contagious diseases

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Which nation first established colonies in both North and South America?

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Spain

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Which of the following could vote during the first state elections?

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white men who owned property

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During the 1760s, American colonists rebelled against the British Parliament for

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raising the colonies’ taxes.

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the man who drafted the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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a form of government in which power is divided among the states and the nation

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federalism

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a system in which the federal government is organized into more than one branch

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separation of powers

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a law-making body with elected members that helped govern the Virginia colony

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House of Burgesses

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a statement meant to keep Europe out of American affairs

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Monroe Doctrine

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the practice of taking sailors and forcing them to serve in the navy

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impressment

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a Spanish invader who explored and conquered parts of the Americas

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conquistador

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the delegate who designed the Virginia Plan and became known as the “Father of the Constitution”

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James Madison

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the suspension of trade

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embargo

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a religious movement that took place during the 1740s

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Great Awakening

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During the 1760s, American colonists resisted

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taxation without representation.

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Which colonies offered settlers the most religious freedom?

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Middle

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One thing that helped Lincoln win the 1860 presidential election was

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the split between northern and southern Democrats.

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peacefully refusing to obey a law

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civil disobedience

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wrote a novel against slavery

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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promoted popular sovereignty

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Compromise of 1850

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southern military leader
Robert E. Lee
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strategy of targeting both troops and their resources
total war
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federal agency during Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
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farmers who work land but do not own it
sharecroppers
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religious movement starting in the 1820s
Second Great Awakening
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speech made by Lincoln in 1863
Gettysburg Address
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The Ku Klux Klan tried to
prevent African Americans from voting.
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Abolitionists wanted slavery to end because they thought that
slavery was morally wrong and dehumanizing.
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What present-day issue reflects issues similar to those of the Sabbatarian Controversy?
separation of church and state
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What was the primary goal of women’s rights activists during the first half of the nineteenth century?
women’s suffrage
35
Identify one effect of the Civil War.
People began to see themselves as part of a nation.
36
Which state first seceded from the Union?
South Carolina
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What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Voters in Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to exercise popular sovereignty.
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Why was the Fifteenth Amendment passed?
to give African American men the right to vote
39
Identify Benefits Explain the advantages that each side had as the Civil War began.
Union: The population of factory workers was increasing, which increased supplies manufactured. They had advanced railroads and agriculture. Confederacy: They had a more powerful army under a more organized general, Robert E. Lee.
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The Civil War began when
the Confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter.
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The Emancipation Proclamation applied to
rebellious slave states.
42
Following Reconstruction, African Americans
slowly lost rights in the South.
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Which of the following was a leading abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
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The Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered in
Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
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How did the South react to slave revolts?
Slave owners treated slaves more harshly.
46
Hawaii was annexed in
1898, during the Spanish-American War.
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Roosevelt’s “big stick” diplomacy
depended on a strong military to achieve America’s goals.
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Which woman founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African American families and those who were less fortunate?
Ida B. Wells
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The “Rough Riders” were
a volunteer cavalry unit in the Spanish-American War.
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What social problem did Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle describe?
the living and working conditions in Chicago’s stockyards
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Progressive women reformers worked to
limit the workday.
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Why was the U.S.S. Maine ordered to Cuba?
to protect American citizens
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a community center that provided social services to the urban poor
settlement house
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an organization that used the courts to challenge laws that were unfair to African Americans
NAACP
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an organization that worked for women’s suffrage
NAWSA
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legislation that strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by spelling out the specific activities in which businesses could not engage
Clayton Antitrust Act
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socially conscious writers who dramatized the need for reform
muckrakers
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an activist who opened the country’s first birth-control clinic
Margaret Sanger
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Theodore Roosevelt’s plan for fair government
Square Deal
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president who attacked the “triple wall of privilege”
Woodrow Wilson
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an African American leader who urged African Americans to demand immediate recognition of their rights
W.E.B. Du Bois
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a man who led the Division of Forestry under President Theodore Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
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Which reform did the Nineteenth Amendment enact?
women’s suffrage
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Which political party did Woodrow Wilson represent in the 1912 presidential election?
the Democratic Party
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Why was the work of muckrakers more effective than that of earlier groups?
Muckrakers sensationalized accounts in publications read by millions.
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Industrial workers often labored
with unsafe machinery.
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Which group experienced an early depression in the 1920s?
farmers
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Congress instituted the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) to loan money to
banks so that they could lend money to businesses to stimulate economic activity.
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Which factor contributed to the spread of the Great Depression overseas?
The United States curtailed investment in Europe.
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During the 1920s, the United States economy moved through which phase of the business cycle?
expansion
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Why did volunteerism fail?
Businesses and citizens acted in their individual best interests.
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Both African Americans and Mexican Americans had an especially difficult time during the Great Depression because they
faced discrimination when competing with white Americans for a limited number of jobs.
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general who dispersed protestors in the capital by ordering federal troops to fire on them with tear gas
Douglas MacArthur
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the theory that money invested in banks and businesses will work its way through the system to laborers
trickle-down economics
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government efforts to encourage or pressure Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico
repatriation
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president when the stock market crashed
Herbert Hoover
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Dust Bowl refugees who moved westward to find work
Okies
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agricultural workers who work on land owned by someone else
tenant farmers
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risky stock purchases made by investors with the hope of high returns
speculation
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the periodic expansion and contraction of the economy
business cycle
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the occasion of the stock market crash
Black Tuesday
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World War I veterans who marched to demand payment of money promised by Congress
Bonus Army
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In 1929, the stock market crashed because
investors lost confidence in the market and rushed to sell their shares.

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