Review Flashcards
Where did Dr. King give his famous “I have a dream…” Speech in 1963?
Washington, D.C.
What war goal did Woodrow Wilson set as public policy during World War I?
Keeping the world safe for democracy
Lincoln’s _____ shifted his goals for winning the civil war from preserving the union to abolitionism.
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the practice of using public offices/jobs to benefit members of the winning party?
spoils systems
Where was the constitution written?
Philidelphia
Who was the “Father of the constitution?”
James Madison
What war won by the US, in 1840’s led to enormous territorial gains?
Mexican war
What is the belief in US destiny to stretch from ocean to ocean?
Manifest Destiny
What is the seizing of islands closer and closer to japan to use as bases for air attacks on Japan
Island hopping
Truman ordered use of the atomic bombs on ____ and _____ to prevent american casualties if invaded Japan
Hiroshima and nagasaki
Documents that officially started the women’s right movement?
Seneca Falls Declaration
What were the three main cash crops of the new world?
tobacco, rice, and indigo
Who wrote “ Common Sense “ ?
Thomas Paine
Who led the Federalist?
Alexander Hamilton
Who led the Democratic-Republicans?
Thomas Jefferson
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What is the three-fifths compromise?
When the south counts each black person as three-fifths of a person
What was Teddy Roosevelt’s progressive plan?
square deal
Wilson’s plan to eliminate the causes of war?
Fourteen points
What year did World War 1 start for the world? For the United States?
1914 for the world
1917 for the United States
What year did the stock market crash?
1929
What started World War 2 for Europe? For the United States?
Hitler’s invasion of Poland in Europe.
Pearl Harbor for the United States
During WW II, What is the seizing of islands closer and closer to japan to use for bases to use air attacks on Japan
Island hopping
Truman ordered us of the atomic bombs on ____ and _____ to prevent american casualties if invaded Japan
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the removal of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to present day Oklahoma?
Trail of Tears
President during the Civil War, who insisted that the union be held together, by force if necessary.
Abraham Lincoln
_____ was the site of Lee’s surrender to Grant.
Appomattox
What was the Supreme Court’s decision that overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery?
Dred Scott Case
Two people important to the Women Rights Movement.
Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
___ was the first confrontation of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Documents that officially started the womens right moment
Seneca Falls Declaration
What act gave president authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the axis power?
Lend-Lease Act
What were 2 causes of the Great Depression?
Stock Market Crash 1929
High Protective Tariffs
What insured the Allies victory in World War I
American Entry
Who was the chairman of the Constitutional Convention?
George Washington
Who believed that the national government should be stronger than the state?
Federalists
What group of people were removed from their homeland, put onto reservations, or killed?
American Indians
Who was Florida acquired from?
Spain
What made farming more profitable?
The mechanical reaper
What did the cowboys do?
Long cattle drives
____ believed that education was meaningless without political and social equality.
W.E.B Dubois
___ prevents any business structure that “restrains trade” (monopolies)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
___ workers helped build the transcontinental railroad
Chinese
What were the 3 “R’s” of FDR’s New Deal.
Relief, Recovery, Reform
What act gave president authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the axis power.
Lend-Lease Act
Economic depression resulting from reckless speculation that caused bank failures and dissatisfaction with state banks for public funds.
Panic of 1837
Many New England religious leaders who saw slavery as a violation of Christian principles
Abolitionists
How long did the United States remain neutral during World War II?
2 years
Which Treaty brought an end to World War I?
Treaty of Versailles
How did congress limit immigration?
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
Westward settlement intensified between ___ and ___.
Mississippi to the Pacific
What caused discrimination/segregation against blacks to intensify?
Jim Crow Laws
What nationality struggled to obtain desegregation of the arm force and end discriminatory hiring practices?
African American
drew an East-to-West line through the Louisiana purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line.
Missouri Compromise (1820)
What President activated the Dollar Diplomacy?
President Taft
what did the draft/selective service do?
provide personnel for the military.
Who were some big industrial leaders?
Carnegie (steel)
Morgan (finance)
Rockefeller (oil)
Vanderbilt (railroads)
was followed by the secession of several Southern states that feared Lincoln would try to abolish slavery
Election of Lincoln (1860)
What were the two countries fighting during the Cold War
Soviet Union and USA
Lead a communist revolution in Cuba in the late 1950’s
Fidel Castro
Defensive alliance between the USSR and eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
Nixon won the election by promising what?
Peace with Honor
CIA sponsored attempt by Cuban exiles
Bay of Pigs
Following Japan’s defeat in WW2 what country was it occupied by?
Merica
Created a defensive alliance among the USA and western Europe?
NATO
What year did the USSR test their first nuclear weapon?
1950s
Drills conducted at school to prepare for nuclear warfare?
Duck and cover drills
When was JFK assassinated?
November 22, 1963
Who said “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
Ronald Reagan
North Vietnam refused to agree to peace on what?
US terms
What are the three branches of Government?
Legislative, Executive, & Judicial
What did the Virginia Declaration of Rights establish?
Rights that should not be violated by government.
Who won the War of 1812?
United States
American migration into Texas led to an armed revolt against ________ rule and a famous battle at the_______.
Mexico, Alamo
US ties to Great Britain led the US to enter ___ war?
World War One
Why was JFK assassinated?
let the discussion begin (ha! ha!)
What three reasons did people came to America for?
Religious freedoms,
economic opportunity,
Colonization for heiarchy
What became the central issue in the election of 1832?
Andrew Jackson’s veto
The turning point of the civil war is _____?
Gettysburg
What became the central issue in the election of 1832?
Veto
What is the name of Lincoln’s speech at cemetery dedication?
Gettysburg Address
What is McCarthyism?
The making of false accusations based on rumor or guilty by association.
What ended Slavery in the south?
Emancipation Proclamation
What did Nixon promise in order to win the 1968 election?
“peace with honor in Vietnam “
How was responsible for the building of the Panama Canal?
Theodore Roosevelt
What treaty ended World War I
Treaty of Versailles
Over speculation in what, was one of the causes of The Great Depression?
The Stock Market
What were the impacts of The Great Depression?
Unemployment, bank closings,
political unrest, farm foreclosures,
migration (Okies)
What was Open Door Policy?
All nations have equal trading rights in China
What provided financial aid to rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism?
Marshall Plan
What established the policy of containment?
Truman Doctrine
Soviet missiles discovered in Cuba?
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Examples of Containment in Asia?
Vietnam War & Korean War
Who were the spies (all) and which one was executed for spying for the Soviet Union?
Alger Hiss and Julius & Ethel Rosenburg
The destruction/persecution of a racial, political, cultural, or religious group.
Genocide
The U.S. attempted to cut off ________ supplies through submarine warfare against shipping.
Japanese
The _______ _______ fought in units and were not segregated.
Mexican Americans
Two events that fueled the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts were?
Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre
what year was the homestead act?
1862
