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Year review 2015-B Flashcards

1
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What was the primary factor to weakening Indian societies to European domination?

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Diseases

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2
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What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

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Jamestown, Va.

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3
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Which colony was a haven for Catholics?

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Maryland

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4
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Which colony welcomed Quakers?

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Pennsylvania

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5
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The difficult journey slaves made from Africa to the Americas during which they went from the familiar to the foreign is called ____

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Middle Passage

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6
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John Locke believed that people could _____ a government that failed to live up to the social contract.

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overthrow

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7
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Virginia’s cash crop during the colonial days.

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Tobacco

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8
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Virginia’s House of Burgesses was modeled on Britain’s ____.

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Parliament

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9
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The Mayflower Compact established rules for the ____ in Massachusetts.

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Pilgrims

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10
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Workers during colonial days that were under contract for their payment of passage to America.

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Indentured servants

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___ is the idea that all are equal before God no matter how rich or poor people were.

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Great Awakening

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12
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Migration to ____ in colonial days was primarily to escape religious persecution in their home European countries.

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Massachussets

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13
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This encouraged independence from Great Britain.

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Common Sense by Thomas Paine

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14
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Thomas Jefferson words “Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration emphasized John Locke’s theory of ____

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Natural Rights

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15
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Thomas Jefferson wrote ___.

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Declaration of Independence

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16
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US ally during the Revolution was primarily ____.

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France

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17
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fist shots of the revolution were fired at ___

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Lexington, Massachussets

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18
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The Proclamation Line of 1763 forbid colonists to settle west of ______

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Appalachian Mountains

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19
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These people could leave the colonies, serve as spies for the British, or join the British in the fight against the Patriots during the Revolution.

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Loyalists

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20
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Why did Parliament tax the American Colonies in the 1760s and 1770s?

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To pay for the expenses of the French and Indian War

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21
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List three Patriots during the American Revolution.

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Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry

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22
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General Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington at ___ at the end of the Revolutionary War

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Yorktown, Va.

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23
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After Saratoga, ____ helped negotiate a treaty of alliance with the French.

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Benjamin Franklin

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24
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Slaves would be counted as a portion of a person for purposes of taxation and representation is the essence of this compromise found in the Constitution.

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Three-fifths Compromise

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25
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No taxing
No Executive or President
No commerce regulation

All these are weaknesses of ____

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The Articles of Confederation

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26
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Father of the Constitution

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James Madison

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27
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Executive’s Power is ____

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To enforce the laws

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28
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father of the Declaration of Religious Freedom
father of the Democratic-Republican Party
father of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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29
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The importance of the Election of 1800.

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First peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another.

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30
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John Marshall’s supreme court case that allowed for Judicial Review.

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Marbury vs. Madison

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31
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Territorial expansion from Atlantic to Pacific is the basis of ____

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Manifest Destiny

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32
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The US and Great Britain disputed the ownership of the ____ country in the 1840s.

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Oregon

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33
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US warned Europe not to interfere in Western Hemisphere in the 1823 ____ Doctrine

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Monroe Doctrine

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34
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Jefferson did not believe he had the power to buy ____, but did it anyways.

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Louisiana Territory

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35
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Indian woman who served at guide and translator for Lewis and Clarke

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Sacajawea

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36
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What single factor was most important for settlers moving west of the Mississippi?

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availability of cheap or free land

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37
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Turner and Prosser’s slave rebellions led to _____.

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harsher southern slave laws

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38
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Who were the first abolitionists?

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New England religious leaders and pastors

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39
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William Lloyd Garrison’s followers were ___.

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Abolitionists of slavery

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40
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Where did women begin their Declaration for Women’s Rights

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Seneca Falls, NY

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41
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This state was to become a free state with the Compromise of 1850.

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California

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42
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Captured runaway slaves would be required to be returned to their owners with the ____.

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Fugitive Slave Law as defined by the Compromise of 1850

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43
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This book turned many Northerners against the institution of slavery.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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44
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Industrial economy
High Tariffs

These ideas were favored by what region of the country in the early 1800s?

A

Northern States

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45
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Trail of Tears
Nullification Crisis
Spoils System

All occurred during which presidency?

A

Andrew Jackson

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46
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Turning point battle of the Civil War

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Gettysburg, Pa.

47
Q

Event at beginning and end of the Civil War

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Fort Sumter-Beginning

Appomattox-Ending

48
Q

At beginning of Civil War, Lincoln’s goal was ___

A

To preserve the Union

49
Q

Accepting defeat and returning home was this general’s advice at the end of the Civil War.

A

General Robert E. Lee

50
Q

This is the period following the Civil War where the southern states were under federal control.

A

Reconstrution

51
Q

Abolished slavery throughout the nation.

A

13th Amendment

52
Q

African American voting rights was guaranteed by the ____ amendment.

A

15th Amendment

53
Q

Rutherford Hayes promised that if elected he would remove martial law in the south with what became known as the ___

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Compromise of 1877

54
Q

After 1871, most immigrants to the United States came from _____ Europe.

A

East and South Europe

55
Q

Helped to build the Central Pacific Railway.

A

Chinese immigrants

56
Q

Port of entry for many immigrants

A

Ellis Island, NY

57
Q

streetcars
sewage and water systems
tenements

All these led to the growth of ____

A

cities in United States

58
Q

Law that had most impact on settling the west.

A

Homestead Act of 1862.

59
Q

Henry Ford’s contribution to American industrialism was ___

A

Assembly line production

60
Q

Andrew Carnegie’s industry

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steel

61
Q

Alexander Bell’s invention

A

phone

62
Q

Thomas Edison’s invention

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light bulb

63
Q

Wright Brother’s invention

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airplane

64
Q

John Rockefeller’s industry

A

oil

65
Q

J.P. Morgan’s industry

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banking

66
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Cornelius Vanderbilt’s industry

A

Railroads

67
Q

Thomas Edison used _____ to power many inventions.

A

Electrical power

68
Q

Laws that discriminated against African Americans

A

Jim Crow Laws

69
Q

When ___ ended, former Confederate leaders regained power in the South.

A

Reconstrution

70
Q

Separate but equal was the essence of the Supreme Court’s ruling of ___

A

Plessy vs. Ferguson

71
Q

African Americans moved to northern cities seeking economic opportunity during ____>

A

The Great Migration

72
Q

_____ tried to have the government stop lynchings in the Southern States.

A

Ida B. Wells

73
Q

Political and economic equality for African Americans was the goal for _____’s NAACP.

A

W.E.B. Dubois

74
Q

Journalists who exposed corruption

A

muckrakers

75
Q

protecting workers was a major goal of the ____.

A

progressives

76
Q

woman’s suffrage amendment

A

19th Amendment

77
Q

USS Maine
Invasion of Cuba
Annexation of Puerto Rico

All these happened during ____

A

The Spanish-American War

78
Q

president who claimed to have built the Panama Canal

A

Theodore Roosevelt

79
Q

This was to give US access to Chinese trade in the late 1800s.

A

Open Door Policy

80
Q

During World War I, the _____ waited to join in the fight until 1917.

A

United States

81
Q

Woodrow Wilson’s slogan to enter World War I.

A

Make the world safe for democracy

82
Q

Freedom of the seas
League of Nations
Colonial self determination

All these are seen in ___.

A

Wilson’s 14 points

83
Q

We have nothing to fear but fear itself was intended by ____ to calm the nation’s anxiety about unemployment and bank falures.

A

Franklin Roosevelt

84
Q

To protect bank accounts, Franklin Roosevelt established the _____.

A

FDIC

85
Q

World War II started when Germany invaded ___ in 1939.

A

Poland

86
Q

US enters World War II when ____

A

Japan bombs Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941

87
Q

The Allies’ strategy to win World War II was

A

to concentrate military forces in Europe and Africa before Asia because Hitler was the biggest threat.

88
Q

Midway and Guadalcanal were turning points in World War II in the fight against the _______.

A

Japanese in the Pacific.

89
Q

To end World War II quickly with no American casualties, President Truman authorized the ____

A

Atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

90
Q

The invasion of ______ led to the Germans retreating out of France in 1944.

A

Normandy

91
Q

The Turning point in Russia during World War II was the battle of ____

A

Stalingrad

92
Q

These were “code talkers” that helped defeat the Japanese during World War II.

A

Navajo Indians

93
Q

Hitler’s plan to exterminate all Jews was called the ____

A

Final Solution or Holocaust

94
Q

The symbol of the female industrial war worker during World War II

A

Rosie the Reviter

95
Q

These people were placed in internment camps in the US during World War II.

A

Japanese Americans

96
Q

Conserving resources
home front participation
war production

_____ was used for all these purposes during World War II.

A

Rationing and scrap drives

97
Q

The Cuban Missile crisis was caused by ___ placing offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba.

A

Soviet Union

98
Q

Soviets dominated ____ Europe during the Cold War.

A

Eastern Europe

99
Q

The ____ was economic aid to Western Europe by the US to recover from devastation during World War II.

A

Marshall Plan

100
Q

intervening with military aid to stop the spread of communism is the basis of the _____ Doctrine.

A

Truman Doctrine

101
Q

The 38th Parallel divided _____ in to a communist north and a democratic south.

A

Korea

102
Q

____ was a military alliance of the US and Western Europe.

A

NATO

103
Q

Bay of Pigs was a counter invasion of ____ in 1960.

A

Cuba

104
Q

The city of ____ was divided by a wall in the 1960s through the 1980s increasing Cold War tensions

A

Berlin, Germany

105
Q

To stop the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy chose to use a _____ of Cuba.

A

Naval Blockade

106
Q

Kennedy sent military advisers to _____ to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia.

A

Vietnam

107
Q

_____ escalated US involvement in Vietnam in 1964.

A

Lyndon B. Johnson

108
Q

_____’s program of Vietmanization was to reduce America’s involvement in Vietnam.

A

Nixon

109
Q

____ overturned Separate But Equal doctrine.

A

Brown vs. Board of Education

110
Q

Southern officials refused to abide by the Brown ruling with their _____ campaign.

A

Massive Resistance

111
Q

Where did King give his “I Have a Dream Speech”.

A

Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

112
Q

racial discrimination in public accommodations was forbidden by the _____.

A

Civil Rights Act of 1964.

113
Q

Which president signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act?

A

Lyndon B. Johnson

114
Q

Which president said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”?

A

John F. Kennedy.

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