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Question 1

1. What was the Magna Carta? List 3 rights that it guaranteed.-

Answer 1

A document that gaurenteed the people certain rights and protection. Trial by Jury or Judge, no new tax laws without approval of the Great Council and no matter how poor someone was they must be tried in court to establish a just judgment. The king had to abide by it as well. It was also known as the great charter and King John was forced to sign it. A document that gaurenteed the people certain rights and protection. Trial by Jury or Judge, no new tax laws without approval of the Great Council and no matter how poor someone was they must be tried in court to establish a just judgment. The king had to abide by it as well. It was also known as the great charter and King John was forced to sign it.

Question 2

What was Thomas Aquinas greatest work and what was it about, and why did he fail to complete it?

Answer 2

Summa Theologica. It was seeking to understand the mysteries of the Bible with reason and logic, so he couldn’t finish it because he realized he couldn’t explain everything. He had a heavenly vision that made his work seem like straw to him.

Question 3

Approximately how many people died from the Black Death?

Answer 3

Around half the people in Europe.

Question 4

What did Joan of Arc claim to have seen?

Answer 4

She said she saw visions of angels telling her to recuse France from the English, during the Hundred Years War

Question 5

What translation of the Bible did Wycliffe produce?

Answer 5

The English Translation

Question 6

What happened to the old roman empire after Mohammed the second took Constantinople?

Answer 6

IT was wiped out and gone, it became Muslim. All the Christian relics and paintings were covered over. The Hagia Sofia was made into a mosque.

Question 7

What was the first book Gutenberg printed?

Answer 7

The Bible.

Question 8

What was the Renaissance?

Answer 8

A concious attempt to recover what was lost during the Golden Age of Greece and Rome. Art flourished but the idea that “man was the measure of all things” was popular during this time. They tried to outdo God

Question 9

What did Henry’s school help accomplish?

Answer 9

It was a school of Navigation and it paved the way for many of the great explorers, like Columbus and many others

Question 10

What did Columbus believe God had called him to do?

Answer 10

Take the gospel across the ocean and convert the people of the indies.

Question 11

What is another name the colony of Roanoke has been given and Why?

Answer 11

The Lost colony, because when John White cam back with supplies they were all gone. There was no evidence of them ever being there.

Question 12

What agreement was signed before settling at Plymouth? Why was it needed?

Answer 12

The Mayflower Compact. It was needed to establish rules for the separatists. To supply laws in the new land to establish justice. They got a charter but they landed outside of it so they needed an agreement.

Question 13

What problems arose between the British and French that caused the French and Indian Wars?

Answer 13

Problems over who would control the land in North America and their very different cultures clashed.

Question 14

Why did the First Continental Congress meet?

Answer 14

To discuss the injustices of England and seek peace with them.

Question 15

What was the declaration of independence and who drafted it?

Answer 15

A document declaring America’s independence from Britain. It was also a public statement of the colonies rights and grievances. Thomas Jefferson drafted it

Question 16

How did Washington’s men emerge from Valley Forge?

Answer 16

Fewer in number but stronger and more disciplined.

Question 17

What three rights did the Constitution give the Government?

Answer 17

The right to levy and collect taxes, the right to regulate commerce between the states and foreign countries and the right to establish a currency system

Question 18

Why was James Monroe sent by Jefferson to purchase New Orleans? What did he purchase and for how much?

Answer 18

He sent James Monroe to help Robert Livingstone negotiate the buying of New Orleans. He bought the Louisiana Territory for fifteen million dollars. It was actually very cheap, only 3 cents per acre.

Question 19

What was the Erie Canal? What did it do for New York?!?!?!?!?!

Answer 19

A canal going right across New York. It made New York the main business center.

Question 20

20. What changed regarding the voting process before Andrew Jackson’s election?

Answer 20

All adult men could vote not just men who owned property .

Question 21

What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

Answer 21

An act passed by Congress which required all Indian Tribes to move West.

Question 22

22. When did the US finally obtain a peace treaty with Mexico? What present day states became part of the holdings of the US after the War with Mexico?

Answer 22

1848. California New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah Colorado, Wyoming and parts of Texas.

Question 23

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 23

A proclamation issued by Lincoln saying that all the slaves in the southern states was free.

Question 24

How did the North and South disagree about government?

Answer 24

The North wanted a stronger federal government which would have more control, but the South wanted stronger state governments and not as much federal interferement.

Question 25

25. What was General Lee’s purpose in invading Gettysburg, PA?

Answer 25

General Lee’s purpose was to get needed supplies and turn the Union public opinion against the war.

Question 26

26. Why did the railroad seem to make the nation smaller?

Answer 26

Because you could cross it much faster. It was connecting the ends.

Question 27

27. How did most American hear about the cruelty of the Spanish over Cuba?

Answer 27

Through Yellow Journalism, which is sensationalizing.

Question 28

28. What happened to the U.S.S Maine in Cuba?

Answer 28

It blew up.

Question 29

29. Who was America’s most famous inventor? Name two things he invented.

Answer 29

Thomas Edison was America’s most famous inventor. Two of the things he invented are the light bulb and the record player.

Question 30

30. What were the dates of the Great World War?

Answer 30

1914-1918

Question 31

31. Who were the Central Powers? Who were the Allied Powers?

Answer 31

The Central powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and at first Italy who later joined the allies. the Allied powers were England, France, Russia and later Italy and the United States.

Question 32

32. When did World War II begin?? List the Axis and Allied Powers? List the Axis and Allied Powers

Answer 32

World War II began in 1939. The Axis powers were Germany, Italy and Japan. The Allied Powers were France England and later the USSR and the U.S. (USSR= Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Russia)

Question 33

33. What happened at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941?

Answer 33

Japan surprise attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet and the next day the U.S. declared war on Japan.

Question 34

34. Who was the president who issued the drop of the atomic bomb?

Answer 34

President Harry Truman.

Question 35

35. What was the “Cold War”?

Answer 35

An unofficial war between the USSR and the U.S.. the USSR was trying to spread communism to weaker countries and the US was trying to help those countries resist. There were real battles.