Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
1942A US History
Study Stack for 1942A Final exam study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did | Carry out trade |
| Foundations of American Democracy | Examples are: Mayflower Compact House of Burgesses Albany Plan of Union New England town meetings |
| Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787? | opposed ratification of the United States Constitution in 1787 was because the Constitution failed to include a bill of rights. |
| Thomas Paine and Common Sense | Thomas Paine argued that the American colonies should break away from England. Tried to convince the colonists to declare their independence |
| Declaration of Independence | Know the quote that begins "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, ...deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”. |
| Shay’s Rebellion | exposed fundamental weaknesses in government under the Articles of Confederation |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | Settled conflicts of the North and South over Admission of states to the Union |
| Compromise of 1850 | Settled conflicts of the North and South over Admission of states to the Union |
| Manifest Destiny | First used as a support of Westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean. It was first used in the Mexican War to justify the U.S. government actions. |
| Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War | Transportation systems were more developed in the North than in the South. The South had more agriculture based while the north was more industrial based. |
| Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | Preserve the Union |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Is often seen as the beginning of the Women’s rights movement |
| Reconstruction Period | The period after the Civil War of reconstruction and where former slaves became citizens. |
| Result of the Civil War | the power of the Central government was strengthened |
| Black Codes | Following the Civil War, many Southern States enacted Black Codes to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | Is an example of actions that reflected widespread nativist sentiment |
| Indian Wars between 1860-1890 | Were a result of the movement of settlers onto the Great Plains |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | provided free land to settlers Contributed to the development of the Great Plains |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Contributed to the development of the Great Plains |
| Three-fifths Compromise | Related to slavery and that a slave would count as 3/5 of a person in respect to representation. |
| Reconstruction goals after the Civil War | Heal wartime bitterness by quickly bringing the South back into the Union. |
| Tenements | Were first built in the nineteenth century to house the poor as cheaply as possible. |
| Battleship Maine | Because of the sinking of the Battleship Maine off the coast of Cuba, America became eager and willing to go to war against Spain. |
| Why was the North worried about Great Britain during the Civil War? | North fear they might become an ally of the Confederacy |
| Impressments | The practice by which men were forced to serve as British sailors |
| Trail of Tears | The forced expulsion of Indians from the eastern part of the United States |
| Why did the South secede from the Union? | The first Southern States seceded from the Union after the Wilmot Proviso (The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.) |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared that slaves in "rebelling" Southern states were free made the destruction of slavery a Northern war aim. discouraged any interference from foreign governments. |
| Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction? | assassination a few days after Lee's surrender |
| Mukrackers | Writers who exposed social conditions in need of reform. (Child Labor, tenement housing, factory working conditions….) |
| Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war? | Blacks and women |
| Treaty of Versailles | France and Britain insisted on punishing Germany for the war. A League of Nations was created to prevent future wars and aggression. National boundaries were redrawn, creating many new nations. |
| Why did US enter WWI? | To make the world safe for democracy To protect American lives and shipping To uphold international law. |
| League of Nations | was objected to by Americans because United States foreign policy decisions would be made by an international organization |
| Americans reaction to WWI | they wanted insurance that the U.S. could stay out of the conflict |
| Lusitania sinking | In response to the Lusitania Sinking…the U.S. demanded that Germany cease unrestricted submarine warfare |
| Zimmermann Telegram | proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico to conquer the U.S. |
| Declaration of Independence | Is a social contract meant to guarantee individual rights. It stated that in a democracy, power comes from the People |
| Louisiana Purchase | When President Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory from France, he demonstrated that he had modified his belief that the Constitution should be strictly interpreted. |
| Louisiana Purchase continued. | It had great geographic significance for the US becauseitfocused the US on westward expansion. |
| President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period | After the Civil War, there was a period called the Reconstruction Period. |
| President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period continued | During this time,serious differences between Congress and President Andrew Johnson about how to handle Reconstruction led to theImpeachment of President Johnson. |
| Native Americans | After the Civil War the way of life for Native Americans was different in that their country as they knew it was taken away, as well as their means of support. |
| Native Americans continued. | It broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, andintroduced disease and decay among them. |
| Economic impact of the Civil War | The South was left embittered and devastated by the war. The South's factories, farms, railroads, and major cities were destroyed and lay in ruins. |
| Economic impact of the Civil War continued | The south remained a backwards agriculture-based economy and the poorest section of the nation for many decades. |
| Women's’ Suffrage Movement | resulted in the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony before and after the Civil War |
| Women's’ Suffrage Movement continued | developed a declaration of women’s rights at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York was another reform movement established during Jacksonian Democracy. |
| Progressivism | Progressives sought to use the government to help create a just society it was a political response to industrialism and its social by-products |
| Progressivism continued | It differed from populism in that progressivism was more urban and enlisted more journalists, academics, and social theorists |
| Rapid growth in cities caused what? | need for public services, such as water and sewage shortage of housing facilities rise of slums and tenement houses |
| Missouri Compromise | provided that Missouri be admitted as a slave state Maine be admitted as a free state all of the Louisiana Territory north of 36°30' except within Missouri itself to be closed to slavery |
Created by:
Mrs. Stubbs
Popular U.S. History sets