Year review 2015

Question 1

Europeans first contact with Native Americans resulted in these three interactions.

Answer 1

new diseases
new crops
new livestock

Question 2

This colony welcomed Quakers.

Answer 2

Pennsylvania

Question 3

The difficult journey experienced by African slaves from their capture in Africa to the unfamiliar circumstances in the Americas is called ____.

Answer 3

The Middle Passage

Question 4

Overthrowing government and setting up a new one better to the people’s needs is a basic idea included in the Declaration of Independence and expressed by the enlightened thinker

Answer 4

John Locke

Question 5

Virginia’s cash crop that promised economic success.

Answer 5

tobacco

Question 6

The Pilgrim’s Covenant community in Massachusetts was based on rules as outlined by ____.

Answer 6

The Mayflower Compact

Question 7

Equality for all before God no matter how rich or poor a person was is the basis of ___

Answer 7

The Great Awakening of the mid 1700s.

Question 8

The pamphlet with the idea of independence from rule by Great Britain published in 1776 is called ____.

Answer 8

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Question 9

Author of the Declaration of Independence is ___

Answer 9

Thomas Jefferson

Question 10

The _____ allied with the American Patriots during the U.S. Revolution

Answer 10

France

Question 11

Slaves would be counted as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation purposes in ____

Answer 11

The 3/5th compromise of the Constitution

Question 12

The ______ as seen by Montesquieu was embraced by the Constitution separation of powers so that no single branch of the government would become too powerful

Answer 12

Checks and Balances

Question 13

___ is seen as the father of the Virginia Plan and as “Father of the Constitution”

Answer 13

James Madison

Question 14

Its primary purpose as defined by the Constitution was to enforce the laws.

Answer 14

Executive Branch headed by the President

Question 15

The ______ election marked the first peaceful transition of political power from one political party to another.

Answer 15

Adams/Jefferson 1800 Election

Question 16

Extending American control from the Atlantic to the Pacific was the basis of the idea of ____.

Answer 16

Manifest Destiny

Question 17

The US warned European nations not to interfere or intervene in the Western Hemisphere in 1823 with the ____.

Answer 17

Monroe Doctrine

Question 18

Gathering and recording information about the Louisiana Purchase’s natural resources was the purpose for _____ explorations in 1804.

Answer 18

Lewis and Clark

Question 19

Who were William Lloyd Garrison’s devoted followers?

Answer 19

Abolitionists who wanted to do away with slavery

Question 20

The state of ____ would become a free state according to the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 20

California would become a free state.

Question 21

Many northerners were appalled and angered by slavery when they read _____.

Answer 21

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 22

What are three events of Andrew Jackson’s presidency?

Answer 22

Trail of Tears
Nullification Crisis
Spoils System

Question 23

At the beginning of the Civil War, what was Lincoln’s primary goal?

Answer 23

To preserve the Union from a break up

Question 24

Allowing African American voting was the purpose of which Amendment?

Answer 24

15th Amendment

Question 25

Just prior to World War I, many _____ came to the United States.

Answer 25

Immigrants from South and East Europe about 1904-1914.

Question 26

Ellis Island in the port of ____ was the primary landing area for immigrants between 1885-1914.

Answer 26

New York City’s Ellis Island

Question 27

The _____ opened the western territories for wide spread settlement in the 1860s-1900s.

Answer 27

Homestead Act opened the west for settlement.

Question 28

Discouraging government regulation of business is the essence and central point of ____ economics

Answer 28

Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Question 29

____ perfected the assembly line for automobiles.

Answer 29

Henry Ford

Question 30

____ perfected the light bulb for consurmers

Answer 30

Thomas Edison

Question 31

____ perfected the powered airplane

Answer 31

Wright Brothers

Question 32

_____ were journalists who exposed the abuses of corruption in business and politics

Answer 32

muckraking journalists

Question 33

List three events tied to the Spanish American War of 1898.

Answer 33

Annexing Puerto Rico
Fighting in Cuba
USS Maine Explosion

Question 34

List three locations annexed in the 1890s during American Imperialism.

Answer 34

Hawaii
Philippines
Puerto Rico

Question 35

What was Woodrow Wilson’s justification for US involvement in World War I?

Answer 35

To make the world safe for democracy

Question 36

Peoples’ bank savings accounts would be protected with the ____ as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal Programs

Answer 36

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Question 37

US direct involvement in World War II started with ____

Answer 37

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Question 38

To end World War II quickly with few casualties, Harry Truman decided to use the ____ on Japan.

Answer 38

Atomic bomb

Question 39

____ was the symbol of the woman war worker during World War II.

Answer 39

Rosie the Riviter

Question 40

Which country placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to threaten the US with in 1962?

Answer 40

Soviet Union

Question 41

The credit for creating the Panama Canal is given to which US president?

Answer 41

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 42

Woodrow Wilson’s most important parts of the 14 points were ___, ____, ___,

Answer 42

Freedom of the Seas
Colonial Self Determination
League of Nations

Question 43

Many people were homeless, unemployed, experienced mass farm bankruptcies, and many bank closings during the ____.

Answer 43

Great Depression

Question 44

conserving resources to produce war materials and to foster a sense of home front patriotism during World War II were all reasons for ____ by the US government.

Answer 44

rationing and scrap drives

Question 45

During the Cold War, the Soviets dominated territory behind the Iron Curtain in ___

Answer 45

Communist Eastern Europe

Question 46

This was to supply western Europe economic aid following World War II.

Answer 46

Marshall Plan

Question 47

revolutions in China and Vietnam along with the Hiss/Rosenberg spy rings and nuclear weapon testing by the Soviets led to a fear of _____ in the United States

Answer 47

fear of a communism

Question 48

This was a military alliance to resist soviet expansion in Europe.

Answer 48

NATO

Question 49

This was Nixon’s plan to allow the Vietnamese to fight their own war rather than American soldiers

Answer 49

Vietmanization

Question 50

List three events that led to opposition to the Vietnam War.

Answer 50

My Lai Massacre
Kent State shootings
Bombing of Cambodia and Laos

Question 51

He believed in taking a tough stance against the Soviets, building up nuclear and conventional military forces, and challenged the morality of the Soviets.

Answer 51

Ronald Reagan

Question 52

Plessy v. Ferguson’s Separate but equal doctrine was overturned by the Supreme Court’s ____ ruling.

Answer 52

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

Question 53

During the March on Washington protest, Dr. King made his famous ____ speech

Answer 53

I Have a Dream speech