WW2

Question 1

New England, Middle, Southern

Answer 1

New England- Mass, New Hampshire, RI, & Conn (Puritans. Shipbuilding, trade, & fishing. Promoted public education)
Middle- NY, New Jersey, Penn, & Delaware (religious tolerance. depend on farming & commerce. Quakers- William Penn)
Southern- Maryland, VA, NC, SC, GA (Jamestown is the first settlement. Tobacco was the cash crop.)

Question 2

Representative Gov (Virginia House of B)

Answer 2

gov in which the people elect their own officials and have a voice. House of B is the 1st ex of limited self-gov. Consisted of one elected by the people & one appointed by king

Question 3

Limited Gov (Magna Carta)

Answer 3

This document granted the nobles various legal rights and prevented the king from imposing taxes w/out the consent of a council

Question 4

Self-Salutary neglect

Answer 4

Sal neg- letting the colonies govern themselves

Question 5

Federalism

Answer 5

2 levels of gov share power. Shared b/w the national ( federal) & state gov.

Question 6

Manifest Destiny (Railroads)

Answer 6

many leaders believed in the country’s destiny to expand & possess territory all the way to the Pacific (new trade markets)

Question 7

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 7

the US would not tolerate European intervention in the affairs of any independent nation in the Americas. Us was no longer open to European colonization

Question 8

Declaration of Independence

Answer 8

formed ground work for US constitution, written by Thomas Jefferson, it asserted the principal of egalitarianism.

Question 9

Taxation without Representation

Answer 9

under British law, no tax could be imposed except one approved by Parliament

Question 10

Acts…Purpose/Why (Navigation Act)

Answer 10

restricted trade

Question 11

Articles of Confederation- strength vs. weaknesses

Answer 11

1st set of laws but failed bc it did not give enough power to the federal (national) gov to lead effectively. It didn’t grant congress the power to impose taxes

Question 12

Battle of Yorktown

Answer 12

Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown. Ended Revolutionary war. Would not have won w/ out french army

Question 13

Progressive Reformers vs Robber Barons

Answer 13

robber barons monopolies recon. after the war

Question 14

Social Darwinism

Answer 14

based ideas on the theories of Charles Darwin, Spencer believed that life was a battle for “survival of the fittest”

Question 15

Reconstruction

Answer 15

attempt to rebuild the south

Question 16

Poll tax, Literacy Test

Answer 16

people had to pass these in order to vote

Question 17

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 17

required blacks & whites to use separate public faciliites

Question 18

Solid South

Answer 18

whites teamed up & joined democrtic

Question 19

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 19

separate but equal

Question 20

Nativism

Answer 20

opposing immigration

Question 21

Quotas

Answer 21

limitations

Question 22

KKK

Answer 22

a secretive organization whose members often dressed in hooded white robes, the Klan used violence, murder, & threats to intimidate blacks & those who favored giving African Americans equal rights

Question 23

Red Scare

Answer 23

US feared that Communism would occur in the US

Question 24

Japanese

Answer 24

fearful of jap. & created camps to put them in

Question 25

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 25

immigrants from legally coming to the US and was no repealed until 1943

Question 26

America System: Henry Clay

Answer 26

designed to unite the nation and make it more economically independent following the war of 1812 called for tariffs internal improvements strong national bank

Question 27

Abraham Lincoln (wants)

Answer 27

opposed expansion, first republican, Sc seceded from union, prevent slavery in new territories, also dismantle it in south

Question 28

54th Massachusetts

Answer 28

volunteer infantry that saw extensive service in the union army during the american civil war. first official AA unit in the US during civil war.

Question 29

Popular Soveignty

Answer 29

the will of the majority

Question 30

South Code of States Rights

Answer 30

the right of the state government to establish their own laws where the constitution does not specifically empower the national gov

Question 31

Marbury vs Madison

Answer 31

Attempt by the feds to take control of the field judicially before Thomas Jefferson took office. declared unconstitutioal

Question 32

Spanish American War

Answer 32

officially began as a result of the USS Maine exploding while anchored in the Cuban harbor.

Question 33

Yellow Journalism

Answer 33

exaggerated and untrue facts. meant to sell papers rather than accurately report the facts

Question 34

Lusitania

Answer 34

German sunk in in 1915 twelve hundred people died. Moved US close to war.

Question 35

Woodrow Wilson (14 points)

Answer 35

peace proposal

Question 36

League of Nations

Answer 36

provide a place where countries could negotiate peacefully. US failed to join BC of isolationism

Question 37

Open Door Policy –> China

Answer 37

leave china open for US trade

Question 38

Consumerism

Answer 38

increasing consumption of buying goods. mass production, new tech, mechanization

Question 39

US farmers 1920- over production

Answer 39

economically mass production of food and causing overproduction and falling prices. Dust bowl disaster

Question 40

Causes of G.D. –>Stock Market

Answer 40

buying on margin, mechanization loan

Question 41

Harlem Renaissance (people/what)

Answer 41

out powering of African American Art, music and literature

Question 42

FDR=New Deal

Answer 42

Relief- those who are suffering direct help
Recovery- provide
Reform- Regulate businesses
no more lassiez-faire

Question 43

Liberal (D) vs Conservative (R)

Answer 43

Pro big government equal rights, traditional values with pro big business (L-F)

Question 44

Dec.7, 1941

Answer 44

bombing of pearl harbor, day which will live in infamy

Question 45

Big 3

Answer 45

Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin

Question 46

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 46

symbol of women’s economic power, workforce.