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benchmark review
Thomas Jefferson US history benchmark review (3rd Nine weeks)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Declaration of Independence | statement of Democratic Principles, not a framework. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Purpose to keep Latin America independent from Europe. |
| Northern Industrialists | favored high tariffs and U.S. Expansion in the Pacific and Latin America in order to seize more raw materials & markets. |
| American colonists were | denied the “Rights of Englishmen” by the British. |
| Articles of Confederation | designed to give more political power to the states instead of the National Government. |
| Federalists and Anti-Federalists disagreed over | the powers that the new Federal Government would have over the states. |
| Andrew Jackson | led the movement to extend the vote to the Common Man (Democracy). |
| Open Door Policy | designed to get the US equal access to trade in China. |
| Factors of increased membership in Labor Unions | Increased Industrialization, Poor Working Conditions, Poor Management/worker relations. |
| Factors that led U.S. into WWI | German use of Submarines & Zimmerman Telegram. |
| Goal of New Deal | combat unemployment. |
| Gettysburg Address | “Four Score & Seven Years Ago…” Lincoln discerns the meaning of the Civil War as a struggle for a “New Birth of Freedom”. |
| US embargoed oil & steel to Japan | just before WWII due to their expansion. |
| Propaganda was used | to encourage African Americans to work in factories during WWII. |
| African Americans in WWII | fought in segregated units and often were denied combat service. Exception = Tuskegee Airmen. |
| Great Depression | 25% unemployment, runs on banks, business failures. |
| Navajo Code Talkers | US secret code during WWII. |
| Geneva Convention | Established international rules for the treatment of POW’s. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Segregated African Americans from whites in public and took away the Civil Rights of African Americans during the late 1800’s. |
| Plessey v Ferguson | Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal if separate facilities were more or less equal. |
| Korematsu v US | The Supreme Court justified the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII |
| US military | restricted press coverage during WWII. |
| United Nations | organization exists to preserve world peace. |
| Women’s Movement | From the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 until WWI Susan B. Anthony & Cady Stanton campaigned for Woman’s Suffrage. Resulted in 19th Amendment. |
| After WWII Germany | was officially divided between east and west. |
| Cold War | Triumph of Democracy and Free Markets over Communism. |
| Muckrakers | Journalists who exposed the problems and scandals in the U.S. during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s like child labor. |
| JFK Inaugural Address | “Ask not what you’re country can do for you….” |
| Progressive Movement | Sought to eliminate social injustice & extend rights. |
| Dollar Diplomacy | Taft’s policy of controlling Latina America with economic power. |
| Hawaii was annexed | by the US, their monarchy was deposed. |
| US strategy during WWII | Defeat Hitler First! |
| US strategy in Pacific against Japan. | Island Hopping to gain Air bases |
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