Question 1

Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did

Accepted Answer

Economic gain and religious freedom.

Question 2

Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787?

Accepted Answer

Because it gave too much power to the national government at the expense of the states.

Question 3

Thomas Paine and Common Sense

Accepted Answer

A book published in 1776, in which Thomas Paine argues for independence for Great Britain.

Question 4

Declaration of Independence

Accepted Answer

The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government.

Question 5

Shay’s Rebellion

Accepted Answer

August 1786–February 1787, uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. Armed bands forced the closing of several courts to prevent execution of foreclosures and debt processes.

Question 6

Louisiana Purchase

Accepted Answer

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 brought into the United States about 828,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.

Question 7

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Accepted Answer

The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It was meant to appease both the pro- and anti-slavery factions of the country

Question 8

Compromise of 1850

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850, a series of measures proposed by the ’ Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.

Question 9

Manifest Destiny

Accepted Answer

In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term 'manifest destiny' to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.

Question 10

Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War

Accepted Answer

North: 3x population of the South, 90% of industry and railroads  located in the North, Anti-Slavery. South: Close with France and Britain (confederates), had 3 million slaves out of the 9 mill large population, economy was based on cotton production.

Question 11

Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Lincoln used the anti-slavery fight as a call to defend the Union, which was his main ambition and purpose in the Civil War.

Question 12

Seneca Falls Convention

Accepted Answer

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.

Question 13

Reconstruction Period

Accepted Answer

(1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.

Question 14

President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period

Accepted Answer

17th U.S. President, after the death of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson presided over the Reconstruction era,  four years after the Civil War. He favored the South, and was under political attack and his vetoes of civil rights bills put him against Republicans.

Question 15

Result of the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Slavery was abolished, Northern economy improves, Southern economy grows weak, the Union is reunited.

Question 16

Black Codes

Accepted Answer

Any of numerous laws enacted in the states of the former Confederacy after the Civil War and intended to insure the continuance of white supremacy. Enacted in 1865 and 1866, the laws had their roots in the slave codes that had formerly been in effect.

Question 17

Native Americans

Accepted Answer

Native Americans, also known as American Indians and Indigenous Americans, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

Question 18

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Accepted Answer

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), U.S. federal law that was the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.

Question 19

Indian Wars between 1860-1890

Accepted Answer

During the 19th century, America began expanding westward. People began traveling west in search of new life and free land. The land that American settlers were claiming as their own had for centuries belonged to the Native Americans. This led to the wars

Question 20

Homestead Act of 1862

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862. On January 1, 1863, Daniel Freeman made the first claim under the Act, that gave citizens up to 160 acres of public land, provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee.

Question 21

Transcontinental Railroad

Accepted Answer

The First Transcontinental Railroad was built crossing the western half of America and it was pieced together between 1863 and 1869. It was 1,776 miles long and served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail.

Question 22

Development of the Great Plains

Accepted Answer

The Great Plains was intended to be made into an agricultural hot spot due to the excessive amount of grain as well as the free land.

Question 23

Three-fifths Compromise

Accepted Answer

The three-fifths compromise was an agreement reached by the state delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.Under the compromise, every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes.

Question 24

Reconstruction goals after the Civil War

Accepted Answer

To reunite the Union as one whole as well as repair cities and their damaged buildings that were broken due to the War.

Question 25

Economic impact of the Civil War

Accepted Answer

1.5 Billion worth of property destroyed in the South, 1.8 billion lost of human capital, 600,000 people died, 9% of the male population.

Question 26

Tenements

Accepted Answer

The NYC Tenement House Act of 1867 defined a tenement as any rented/leased dwelling that housed more than three independent families. They were first built to house the waves of immigrants that arrived in the US during the 40's and 50's.

Question 27

Women's’ Suffrage Movement

Accepted Answer

The movement  was the fight for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the women’s rights movement. In the mid-19th century, women in several countries—most notably, the U.S. and Britain—formed organizations to fight for suffrage.

Question 28

Battleship Maine

Accepted Answer

One of the first American battleships, the Maine weighed more than 6,000 tons. Ostensibly on a friendly visit, the Maine was   sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans there after a rebellion against Spanish rule broke out in Havana in January.

Question 29

Impressments

Accepted Answer

Impressment was the practice of forcibly inducting men into military service.

Question 30

Trail of Tears

Accepted Answer

100,000 indigenous people were forced from their homes during that period, which is sometimes known as the removal era, and that some 15,000 died during the journey west.

Question 31

Why did the South secede from the Union?

Accepted Answer

The Northern states failed to return fugitive slaves, in violation of their obligations under Article Four of the Constitution. The Northern states tolerated abolitionists and insurrectionists (such as John Brown) who incited slaves in the South to rebel.

Question 32

Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

Issued after the Union victory at Antietam on September 22, 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation carried moral and strategic implications for the ongoing Civil War.

Question 33

Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

The South joined back the Union.

Question 34

Muckrakers

Accepted Answer

Muckraker, any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War 1 reform and expose literature. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption

Question 35

Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war?

Accepted Answer

Women were most commonly offered jobs that were initially filled by man before the War. Once the War had begun, people were in desperate need of workers and women were there to fill their shoes.

Question 36

Treaty of Versailles

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied powers and Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920.

Question 37

League of Nations

Accepted Answer

League of Nations, organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers after World War I

Question 38

Progressivism

Accepted Answer

A Political and social-reform movement that brought major changes to American politics and government during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Question 39

Lusitania sinking

Accepted Answer

On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) began in Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.

Question 40

Zimmermann Telegram

Accepted Answer

In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.

Term	Definition
Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did	Economic gain and religious freedom.
Foundations of American Democracy
Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787?	Because it gave too much power to the national government at the expense of the states.
Thomas Paine and Common Sense	A book published in 1776, in which Thomas Paine argues for independence for Great Britain.
Declaration of Independence	The Declaration of Independence was the first formal statement by a nation’s people asserting their right to choose their own government.
Shay’s Rebellion	August 1786–February 1787, uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. Armed bands forced the closing of several courts to prevent execution of foreclosures and debt processes.
Louisiana Purchase	The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 brought into the United States about 828,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.
Missouri Compromise of 1820	The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It was meant to appease both the pro- and anti-slavery factions of the country
Compromise of 1850	Compromise of 1850, a series of measures proposed by the ’ Sen. Henry Clay of Kentucky, and passed by Congress in an effort to settle several outstanding slavery issues and to avert the threat of dissolution of the Union.
Manifest Destiny	In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term 'manifest destiny' to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.
Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War	North: 3x population of the South, 90% of industry and railroads located in the North, Anti-Slavery. South: Close with France and Britain (confederates), had 3 million slaves out of the 9 mill large population, economy was based on cotton production.
Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War	Lincoln used the anti-slavery fight as a call to defend the Union, which was his main ambition and purpose in the Civil War.
Seneca Falls Convention	The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention in the United States. It was organized by a handful of women who were active in the abolition and temperance movements and held July 19–20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.
Reconstruction Period	(1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period	17th U.S. President, after the death of Abraham Lincoln. Johnson presided over the Reconstruction era, four years after the Civil War. He favored the South, and was under political attack and his vetoes of civil rights bills put him against Republicans.
Result of the Civil War	Slavery was abolished, Northern economy improves, Southern economy grows weak, the Union is reunited.
Black Codes	Any of numerous laws enacted in the states of the former Confederacy after the Civil War and intended to insure the continuance of white supremacy. Enacted in 1865 and 1866, the laws had their roots in the slave codes that had formerly been in effect.
Native Americans	Native Americans, also known as American Indians and Indigenous Americans, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882	Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), U.S. federal law that was the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality.
Indian Wars between 1860-1890	During the 19th century, America began expanding westward. People began traveling west in search of new life and free land. The land that American settlers were claiming as their own had for centuries belonged to the Native Americans. This led to the wars
Homestead Act of 1862	Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862. On January 1, 1863, Daniel Freeman made the first claim under the Act, that gave citizens up to 160 acres of public land, provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee.
Transcontinental Railroad	The First Transcontinental Railroad was built crossing the western half of America and it was pieced together between 1863 and 1869. It was 1,776 miles long and served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail.
Development of the Great Plains	The Great Plains was intended to be made into an agricultural hot spot due to the excessive amount of grain as well as the free land.
Three-fifths Compromise	The three-fifths compromise was an agreement reached by the state delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention.Under the compromise, every enslaved American would be counted as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation purposes.
Reconstruction goals after the Civil War	To reunite the Union as one whole as well as repair cities and their damaged buildings that were broken due to the War.
Economic impact of the Civil War	1.5 Billion worth of property destroyed in the South, 1.8 billion lost of human capital, 600,000 people died, 9% of the male population.
Tenements	The NYC Tenement House Act of 1867 defined a tenement as any rented/leased dwelling that housed more than three independent families. They were first built to house the waves of immigrants that arrived in the US during the 40's and 50's.
Women's’ Suffrage Movement	The movement was the fight for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the women’s rights movement. In the mid-19th century, women in several countries—most notably, the U.S. and Britain—formed organizations to fight for suffrage.
Battleship Maine	One of the first American battleships, the Maine weighed more than 6,000 tons. Ostensibly on a friendly visit, the Maine was sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans there after a rebellion against Spanish rule broke out in Havana in January.
Why was the North worried about Great Britain during the Civil War?
Impressments	Impressment was the practice of forcibly inducting men into military service.
Trail of Tears	100,000 indigenous people were forced from their homes during that period, which is sometimes known as the removal era, and that some 15,000 died during the journey west.
Why did the South secede from the Union?	The Northern states failed to return fugitive slaves, in violation of their obligations under Article Four of the Constitution. The Northern states tolerated abolitionists and insurrectionists (such as John Brown) who incited slaves in the South to rebel.
Emancipation Proclamation	Issued after the Union victory at Antietam on September 22, 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation carried moral and strategic implications for the ongoing Civil War.
Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction?	The South joined back the Union.
Muckrakers	Muckraker, any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War 1 reform and expose literature. The muckrakers provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption
Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war?	Women were most commonly offered jobs that were initially filled by man before the War. Once the War had begun, people were in desperate need of workers and women were there to fill their shoes.
Treaty of Versailles	Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied powers and Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920.
Rapid Growth of Cities
Why did US enter WWI?
League of Nations	League of Nations, organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied powers after World War I
Progressivism	A Political and social-reform movement that brought major changes to American politics and government during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Americans reaction to WWI
Lusitania sinking	On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) began in Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.
Zimmermann Telegram	In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.

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