SOL Places Review

Description:	A SOL review of Places for United States History
Category:	U.S. History
Created by:	mist73lee on 2004-05-06

Description	Place
first permanent English setlement in the New World; 1607	Jamestown
held town meetings (direct democracy); relied on fishing, shipbuilding, small-scale farming; very religious; consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticutt	New England colonies
nicknamed the "breadbasket" for growing crops such as wheat and corn; consisted of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland; religious tolerance	Middle Atlantic colonies
agrarian (farming) lifestyle; large plantations; slavery; cash crops of tobacco, rice and indigo (purple dye); consisted of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia	Southern colonies
Middle colonial cities that developed as seaports	New York, Philadelphia,and Baltimore
where the Quakers settled	Pennsylvania
where a large amount of Catholics settled	Maryland
Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settled west of this geographical feature	Appalachian Mountains
the French had to give up land in this area after losing the French and Indian War	Canada and all lands west of the Appalchian Mts
New England colony founded by people who didn't agree with the Puritan church and fled Massachusetts	Rhode Island
Americans immigrating to this place eventually caused the Mexican War	Texas
War of 1812 resulted in Americans to claim this region	Oregon Territory
Where the Native American Indians were sent to in the "Trail of Tears"	Oklahoma
states acquired as a result of the Mexican American War	Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California
entered into the Union as a free state because of the Compromise of 1850	California
these two territories were allowed to chose whether they would enter the Union as slave or free	Kansas and Nebraska
entered the Union as a free state because of the Missouri Compromise	Maine
beginning place of the Civil War	Fort Sumter
where the largest battle of the Civil War took place; marked a turning point in the war--in favor of the North	Gettysburg
where the South surrendered to the North	Appomattox Court House
Prior to 1871, most immigrants came to America from this region	Northern and western Europe
Between 1871 and 1920, most immigrants came to American from this region	southern and eastern Europe
where most people entered the US; it is in NYC	Ellis Island
first subway system began here at the beginning of the 20th century	New York City
the "Great Migration" resulted in many African-Americans moving to these places	Northern cities
these 2 areas were annexed to the US following the Spanish American War	Puerto Rico and Phillipines
Theodore Roosevelt supported Panama's independence from this country	Columbia
Open Door Policy opened trade with this country	China
this country helped us win the American Revolution	France
where the British surrendered to the American colonists	Yorktown
where slavery was outlawed prior to the Civil War	North
where slavery existed prior to the Civil War	South
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free all the slaves; it only freed slaves living in the _______________. Thus, allowing slavery to continue in Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia (The border states)	Confederacy
two states not part of the Continental US	Hawaii and Alaska
built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans	Panama Canal
three countries of the Central Powers	Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Ottoman Empire
the Zimmerman Note was sent from a German diplomat to this country	Mexico
The area the Zimmerman Note offered to Mexico if it joined Germany's side in WWI.	Mexican Secession
Their unrestricted submarine warfare resulted in the US entering WWI	Germany
WWII began with Hitler's invasion of ______________.	Poland
Hitler invaded this country, causing it to join the Allies	Soviet Union
Germany quickly conquered this Allied Country which wasn't freed until the Normandy Invasion (D-Day)	France
The US aided Britain during WWII in exchange for military bases in these two areas	Bermuda and the Caribbean
The US imposed an embargo of oil to this country at the beginning of WWII	Japan
Place attacked by the Japanese which resulted in the US entering WWII	Pearl Harbor
The WWII battle of El Alamein was fought between Germany and Britain over this strategic waterway	Suez Canal
WWII siege in the Soviet Union.	Stalingrad
WWII battle in the Pacific that turned the tide of the war in favor of the US in the Pacific	Midway
The Normandy Invasion or D-Day freed this country from Germany's control	France
the US acquired these two islands from the Japanese; but, there were so many US soldiers killed that Truman later decides not to invade Japan--he drops the atomic bomb instead	Iwo Jima and Okinawa
two Japanese cities the US dropped atomic bombs on to end WWII	Hiroshima and Nagasaki
European country divided after WWII	Germany
democratic side of Germany during the Cold War	West Germany
communist side of Germany during the Cold War	East Germany
the Marshall Plan rebuilt this area of Europe	Western Europe