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History Final SG
Study Guied for Final Exam ( US History )
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did | to increase their wealth and power by expanding their empires to America. |
| Foundations of American Democracy | -Worth of the individual. -Equality of all persons. -Majority rule-minority rights. -Individual freedom. -Necessity of compromise. |
| Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787? | they feared that the new national government would be too powerful and thus threaten individual liberties, given the absence of a bill of rights. |
| Thomas Paine and Common Sense | Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 |
| Declaration of Independence | the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress |
| Shay’s Rebellion | an armed uprising in Massachusetts, mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787. |
| Louisiana Purchase | a land deal between the United States and France |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states |
| Compromise of 1850 | a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states |
| Manifest Destiny | belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. |
| Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War | the North was based on manufacturing. The South was based on agriculture. |
| Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | to preserve the Union at all costs. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | the first women's rights convention. |
| Reconstruction Period | The period after the Civil War, 1865 - 1877 |
| President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period | President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South. |
| Result of the Civil War | abolishing the institution of slavery in America and firmly redefining the United States as a single nation. |
| Black Codes | Statutes passed by pro-slavery, Southern states of the USA before and after the Civil War, to limit the civil rights of slaves or freed slaves |
| Native Americans | a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. |
| Indian Wars between 1860-1890 | armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against various American Indian tribes. |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network |
| Development of the Great Plains | Developed from erosion from wind and rain. |
| Three-fifths Compromise | a compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. |
| Reconstruction goals after the Civil War | to help the South become a part of the Union again. |
| Economic impact of the Civil War | the Civil War was expensive, In 1860 the U.S. national debt was $65 million. |
| Tenements | a multi-occupancy building of any sort |
| Women's’ Suffrage Movement | A protest women did to get the right to vote. |
| Battleship Maine | an American naval ship that sank in Havana Harbor during the Cuban revolt against Spain |
| Why was the North worried about Great Britain during the Civil War? | they supported slavery. |
| Impressments | the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice. |
| Trail of Tears | the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. |
| Why did the South secede from the Union? | Because they were convinced that President Lincoln was going to end slavery |
| Emancipation Proclamation | declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." |
| Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction? | Because Lincoln believed that the South had never legally seceded from the Union |
| Mukrackers | investigative journalists |
| Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war? | Women and African Americans |
| Treaty of Versailles | A Treaty that Ended World War I |
| Why did US enter WWI? | because Germany treatended to sink the US ships. |
| League of Nations | an international organization ,to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. |
| Americans reaction to WWI | They didnt want it to happen. |
| Lusitania sinking | A ship that the Germans caused to sink |
| Zimmermann Telegram | a secret diplomatic communication |
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