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US HISTORY PART I
SOCIAL STUDIES ASSESSMENT
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where the Nez Perce tribe lived in 1600s? | Oregon, WA area |
| Who set out on a 3 year voyage around the world? | Ferdinard Megellian |
| Who subdued Incas in Peru? | Francisco Pizarro |
| Who landed in mainland of North America (Florida)? | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | 1494 - divided land up between Spain and Portugal |
| When did Cabot (English) explore East Coast of North America? | 1497 |
| Who was first European to sight New York? | Verrzonno |
| Captain John Smith | Leader who tried to get Jamestown started |
| John Rolfe | Married Pocahontas and introduced tobacco |
| Why Jamestown failed? | Lack of food, indian attacks, disease, concentrated efforts in looking for gold, plus the leader did not respond challenges in wilderness. |
| Who founded Rhode Island | Roger Williams 1636 |
| Why did the Purtian leave England? | Upset by church, King James, Jon Robison, William Brewster, William Bradford |
| Who founded Pennsylvania? | William Penn (Quaker) |
| The Great Migration | Puritans persecuted-migrated in 1630s to the new World. |
| Black Legend | Used to describe Spaniards oppression of Native Americans. |
| Encomienda | |
| Requerimento | It was a document read to natives declaring that Jesus was the Christ, and that the pope had power to rule over all the earth. |
| What helped shaped the European settlement of Virginia and Maryland? | The headright system, Availability of Land |
| What legislation angered American colonists to the point that John Adams remarked, "The pot set to boil"? | The Stamp Act |
| What caused the Revolutionary war? | Tea act, sugar act and stamp act |
| Quebec Act | Setting procedures for governing Quebec, allowed free practice for Catholics |
| Toleration Act | Freedom of religion in Baltimore to anyone professing to believe in Jesus Christ. |
| Tea Act | 1773 allowed the British East India Company to sell tea to the British Colonies without paying colonial tax. They undercut prices of the colonial merchants and smugglers and the colonists got mad. -- one causes of American Revolutionary War. |
| Quartering Act | used by the British forces in the American colonies to ensure that British troops had adequate housing and provisions. |
| Trail of Tears | Migration of the Cherokees to Oklahoma |
| Mormon Migration | Migration of Mormons to what is now Utah |
| Westward Migration | Migration westward along the oregon trail |
| Events that fueled pre-Civil War conflicts over slavery? | Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas, Oregon statehood, Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott case, Presidential election of 1860 |
| War with Mexico | 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas. Mexico claimed ownership of Texas as a breakaway province and refused to recognize the secession and subsequent military victory by Texas in 1836. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation even in public accommodations (particularly railroads), under the doctrine of "separate but equal". |
| Relief Strategy of the Hoover administration during the initial years of the Great Depression? | Callled for a few reform measures but the overarching strategy revolved around the idea that government should not interfere with the business cycle. |
| New Deal - FDR | WPA, Social Security Act, Agricultural Adj. Act,NRA,FDIC, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Social Security System, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Fannie Mae. |
| Relief Strategy of the Hoover administration during the initial years of the Great Depression? | Callled for a few reform measures but the overarching strategy revolved around the idea that government should not interfere with the business cycle. |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | Part of new deal-restricted production during the New Deal by paying farmers to reduce crop area. |
| Thomas Jefferson | Commissioned Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. |
| John F. Kennedy | Challenged scientists to send a man to the moon by the end of the decade. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Set important precedents for the President's role in government. |
| Richard Nixon | Initiated diplomatic opening to China |
| Majority of immigrants that participated in Industrial Revolution came from: | Europe |
| Versallies | Name of the treaty ended WWI |
| Lusitiana | British linger carrying 128 passengers whose sinking angered the American public without warning. |
| Sussex | French liner whose sinking prompted the German government to pledge not to sink merchant vessels. |
| The Crisis | Article written by W.E.B. Du Bois that urged soldiers to forget grievances and fight for democracy |
| Johnson's Great Society Programs | Set up a program that prepared disadvantage preschoolers for elementary schools. Supplied federal funds to school districts. Set up insurance program for people over 65 years old. Started vocational schools in urban districts. |
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