Regents Review

Question 1

Homestead Act

Answer 1

allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of land if they farmed it for 5 years

Question 2

Dawes Act

Answer 2

Abolished Native American tribes and provided farm land for each family

Question 3

Interstate Commence

Answer 3

created the interstate commerce commission to regulate interstate trade

Question 4

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 4

it made many of the actions companies had used to stifle competition

Question 5

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 5

the US would oppose any attempt by European nations to establish new colonies in the Americas

Question 6

Manifest Destiny

Answer 6

a claim to extend the boarders of the US from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Question 7

Open Door Policy

Answer 7

all nations should have equal trading rights with china

Question 8

Big Stick Policy

Answer 8

the US would act as a policeman in the Western Hemisphere

Question 9

Truman Doctrine

Answer 9

US would support any gov. that was fighting communist rebels

Question 10

Marshall Plan

Answer 10

the US gave aid to western European countries

Question 11

George Washington

Answer 11

successfully kept the country out of “entangling alliances” that might have threatened the new nation

Question 12

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 12

led the nation during civil war, preventing it from splitting apart into two independent countries; ended slavery

Question 13

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 13

introduced a number of progressive reforms under his square deal program; built panama canal

Question 14

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 14

led a nation into WW1 and was instrumental in the creation of the league of nations