EXAM HISTORY

According to the Declaration of Independence, governmental power should be based on what?

Consent of the people

Anna Hutchinson and Roger Williams helped establish what principle?

Freedom of Religion

As a result of President Jackson's policy, what happened to most Native Americans?

They were forced to give up their land

Define Manifest Destiny.

Expectation that the US would expand to the Pacific Coast and into Mexico

Describe the conditions for farmers in the 1920s.

Overproduction of crops

For what reason did Reagan support a tax cut?

Stimulate private investment

For what reason did the March on Washington in 1963 take place?

To bring about passage of the Civil Rights Bill

For what reason were English colonies set up in North America?

Financial Gains

How did FDR's New Deal Coalition help the Democrats?

Gave majorities in Congress

How did GB and FR get drawn into war with Poland?

They had promised military aid to Poland

How did most women contribute to the war effort?

Volunteered as nurses

How did the Bay of Pigs reflect on the US?

Made the US appear aggressive

How did the Ku Klux Klan affect the South during Reconstruction?

Reversed reconstruction in the South

How did the launching of Sputnik affect Americans?

Made Americans feel insecure

How did the US gain control of the land used to build the Panama Canal?

Encouraging and supporting Panamanian independence

How did the US help finance WWI?

Liberty bonds

How long were farmers under the Homestead Act required to work the land?

Five years

How was the Mayflower Compact an important precedent for later colonial government?

Established a policy of rule by the will of the majority

Identify Atlantic Charter

Statement of war aims drafter by Churchill and Roosevelt

Identify Bonus Army.

WWI veterans and their families that wanted payment - driven out of DC

Identify collective bargaining.

Negotiating to win worker's rights

Identify Committees of Corres\`7pondence.

Creating greater unity in the colonies by spreading propaganda

Identify Copperheads.

Northern Democrats who opposed the Union War effort

Identify detente

Easing of Cold War tensions

Identify empresario.

Land Agents in Texas

Identify Hoovervilles.

Shantytowns - named for people's disgust with President Hoover

Identify indentured servant.

Worked for a specific number of years in exchange for passage to America

Identify NAFTA

Free trade with US, Canada, and Mexico

Identify self-determination.

Right to form own government

Identify slave codes.

Tightened controls of African Americans

Identify the "Star War" defense system

National defense program with lasers

Identify the 19th Amendment.

Women's Suffrage

Identify the AAA.

End overproduction and raise crop prices

Identify the Anti-Defamation League.

Defended Jewish Americans from verbal attacks and false statements

Identify The Jungle.

Upton Sinclair wrote to expose unsanitary conditions in meat packing industry

Identify the Louisiana Purchase.

Identify the Louisiana Purchase.

Identify the Open Door Policy.

Designed as a way for the US to further its trade interests

Identify the REA.

Provided electricity to farmers

Identify the SEC

Regulates the stock market

Identify The Trail of Tears.

Forced relocation of the Cherokee nation to Oklahoma

Identify the Triangular Trade.

Exchange of rum, molasses, and slaves for manufactured products between the colonies, West Indies, and Africa.

Identify the XYZ Affair

France tried to collect a bribe from the US to speak to the French foreign minister

Identify Yellow Journalism.

Sensationalized style of writing that exaggerates the news to readers

In an effort to remove Johnson from office, the House charged him with violating what?

Tenure of Office Act

In line with the framers' beliefs in balancing one interest against another, they created what system?

Three branches of government with a system of checks and balances

In what region of the world did President Carter work to bring peace?

The Middle East

James Oglethorpe founded what colony as a refuge for prisoners and debtors?

Georgia

Shay's Rebellion directly resulted in what?

A convention in Pennsylvania to revise the Articles of Confederation

Summarize Abraham Lincoln's approach to reconstruction

Relatively easy for the South to rejoin Union

What 21st century problem will be a challenge to Social Security?

Longer life expectancies

What 1896 Supreme Court case upheld segregation?

Plessy v. Ferguson

What book about slavery increased hostilities between the North and South?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

What British philosopher influenced Thomas Jefferson?

John Locke

What brought the US into WWII?

Pearl Harbor

What colony was established as a refuge for the Catholics?

Maryland

What Congressional act made it legal for communications companies to compete in more than one communication business?

Telecommunications Act of 1996

What did Congress pass in 1890 to stop the growth of monopolies?

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

What did FDR do just days after his inauguration?

Bank Holiday

What did most investors do in October of 1929?

Raced to sell their stocks

What did southern states say gave them the right to secede?

States' Rights

What did the pamphlet Common Sense urge Americans to do?

Declare their independence

What did the Soviets set up in response to the efforts to reunify Germany?

Berlin Blockade

What did the Whiskey Rebellion establish?

Federal government could enforce laws within states

What did TR add on the Monroe Doctrine?

Roosevelt Corollary

What does the term "forty-niners" refer to?

California gold miners

What event involving John Brown heightened tension between the S and N?

Raid on Harpers Ferry

What finally made slavery illegal?

13th Amendment

What geographical feature lies at the end of the Mormon Trail?

Great Salt Lake Desert

What group benefited from the Tariff of 1816?

Manufacturers

What happened to many US citizens that had been part of extremist movements during the Cold War?

Viewed as un-American

What health care program for the elderly was part of LBJ's Great Society?

Medicare

What idea did the UNIA support?

Blacks should form a separate society

What industry utilized standardized time that created time zones?

Railroad companies

What invention brought about a sharp increase in the number of slaves?

Cotton Gin

What is 'flexible response'?

JFK's plan to use military action short of nuclear attack

What is considered the immediate cause of WWI?

Assassination of the heir to the Austrian- Hungarian throne

What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?

To keep the Soviets out of the Middle East

What is V-E Day?

Germany surrendered in WW II

What land grant was given to the US in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?

Mexican Cession

What line was established to stop colonial establishment west of the Appalachians?

Proclamation of 1763

What made skyscrapers possible to construct in the late 1800's?

New methods of making steel

What name did Theodore Roosevelt call reporters who informed the public about the need for reform?

Muckrakers

What New Deal program set a precedent for funding of the arts and artists?

The Federal Art Project

What new group of soldiers brought an anti-slavery dimension to the Union cause?

African-Americans

What organization's office where Nixon's "burglars" caught breaking into?

Democratic National Committee

What pair of railroad companies built the first transcontinental railroad?

Central Pacific and Union Pacific

What parallel divided North and South Korea?

38th Parallel

What political party wanted to keep slavery out of the western territories before the Civil War?

Republican Party

What political party was started because Roosevelt was upset with Taft?

Bull Moose Party

What Resolution allowed LBJ to conduct war in Vietnam?

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

What right did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War?

Writ of Habeas Corpus

What role did television play on the Vietnam War?

Showed the brutality of war to Americans

What role did the government play in the economy during WWI?

Regulated industrial protection of war goods

What slogan allowed Wilson to be re-elected?

"He kept us out of war"

What Supreme Court doctrine was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education?

Separate but Equal

What two groups of immigrants did the most to build the transcontinental railroad?

Irish and Chinese

What type of business organization did Carnegie own when he owned every aspect of the steelmaking industry?

Vertical Integration

What was a major factor in the US decision to enter WWI?

Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare

What was established in McCulloch v. Maryland?

Broadly interpreted the Constitution to expand federal power

What was established to bring about financial reform to the US?

Federal Reserve System