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SALT History Final
SALT U.S. History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the first permanent settlement in Virginia? | Jamestown |
| What battle was the turning point in the American War for Independence? | Battle of Saratoga |
| Who was President during World War I? | Woodrow Wilson |
| Who established the colony of Rhode Island? | Roger Williams |
| What are the first ten amendments to the Constitution called? | Bill of Rights |
| Who led the conquest of the Aztecs? | Hernando Cortes |
| Who wrote the Blue-Backed Speller? | Noah Webster |
| What compromise temporarily settled the slavery issue in 1820? | Missouri Compromise |
| What general won the Battle of Vicksburg? | Ulysses S. Grant |
| For whom was the New World named? | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Who is considered the “Father of the Constitution”? | James Madison |
| What island did U.S. troops rescue from a Cuban invasion in 1983? | Grenada |
| What President helped negotiate the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel? | Jimmy Carter |
| Who was the prosecutor at the Scopes Trial? | William Jennings Bryan |
| Who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world? | Ferdinand Magellan |
| What was the last battle between the American Indians and federal troops? | Battle of Wounded Knee |
| Who was the first president of the “Lone Star Republic? | Sam Houston |
| What was the name for President Lyndon Johnson’s liberal social and economic program? | Great Society |
| Founding of the Plymouth colony | 1620 |
| End of the Civil War | 1865 |
| Homestead Act | 1862 |
| Operation Desert Storm | 1991 |
| Constitutional Convention | 1787 |
| Spanish-American War | 1898 |
| America pulls out of the Vietnam War | 1973 |
| “Black Tuesday” | 1929 |
| Treaty of Paris | 1783 |
| End of the Mexican War | 1848 |
| Defeat of the Spanish Armada | 1588 |
| Interstate Commerce Act | 1887 |
| End of Reconstruction | 1877 |
| Declaration of Independence | 1776 |
| America enters World War I | 1917 |
| V-J Day | 1945 |
| Louisiana Purchase | 1803 |
| Who was the first black Cabinet member? | Robert Weaver |
| Who were members of the Apollo XI mission? | Collins Aldrin and Armstrong |
| What agreement established the World Trade Organization? | GATT |
| Who was the dictator of Panama that was arrested by invading U.S. troops? | Manuel Noriega |
| What court decision legalized abortion? | Roe vs. Wade |
| Who was the spokesman for détente during the Nixon Administration? | Henry Kissinger |
| Who became the first woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court? | Sandra Day O’Connor |
| In what country were 63 Americans taken hostage in 1979? | Iran |
| Who was Vice President under President Ronald Reagan? | George Bush |
| Who was known as the “Great Communicator”? | Ronald Reagan |
| Who wrote History of Plymouth Plantation? | William Bradford |
| Who was the first secretary of the treasury? | Alexander Hamilton |
| Which general was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville? | Stonewall Jackson |
| Who has been called the greatest inventor of all time? | Thomas Edison |
| Who wrote Gone with the Wind? | Margaret Mitchell |
| The House of Burgesses was organized in | 1619 |
| Phillis Wheatley | an African-American poet during the Colonial Era |
| Billy Sunday | a former baseball player who became a great evangelist |
| The colony that was founded as a haven for Catholics | Maryland |
| Robert E. Lee | a Confederate general during the Civil War |
| Jonathan Edwards | preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” |
| The Northwest Ordinance | provided for the gradual development of self-government in the Northwest Territory |
| The economic theory that says colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country | mercantilism |
| The Good Neighbor Policy | promoted friendship between the United States and Latin America |
| Gertrude Stein - Ernest Hemmingway - and F. Scott Fitzgerald | known as the Lost Generation |
| Samuel de Champlain | the “Father of New France” |
| The best known evangelist of the Second Awakening | Charles Finney |
| Elias Howe | invented the sewing machine |
| The compromise of 1850 | the last work of Henry Clay |
| What became America’s most important means of transportation by the 1860’s | The railroads |
| John D. Rockefeller became a leading businessman in what industry? | the oil industry |
| The greatest real estate deal in American history | Louisiana Purchase |
| The best known of the local color writers | Mark Twain |
| Who invented the reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| President Nixon resigned as a result of | The Watergate Affair |
| Who adopted the slogan “speak softly and carry a big stick” | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Who sent U.S. troops to Haiti and Bosnia | Bill Clinton |
| Adopted the slogan “fifty- four forty or fight | James K. Polk |
| Who was President at the beginning of the Great Depression | Herbert Hoover |
| Who stood against Communism and helped stabilize the economy | Ronald Reagan |
| Who launched the New Frontier | John F. Kennedy |
| Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation | Abraham Lincoln |
| Who was the only President to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court | William Howard Taft |
| Who was the only President to be elected by unanimous vote | George Washington |
| Who launched the New Deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Who launched the Fair Deal | Harry S. Truman |
| Who was President during the War of 1812 | James Madison |
| Who was President during the Persian Gulf War | George Bush |
| Who advocated a “return to normalcy” | Warren G. Harding |
| Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms | Grover Cleveland |
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