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US History
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did | Southern colonies came to America to seek economic prosperity they could not find in Old England. |
| Foundations of American Democracy | Democratic Ideals |
| Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787? | They complained that the new system threatened liberties, and failed to protect individual rights |
| Thomas Paine and Common Sense | He argued for two main points, independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic. |
| Declaration of Independence | A Declaration of Rights, A Bill of Indictment, and A Statement of Independence. |
| Shay’s Rebellion | an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester |
| Louisiana Purchase | The purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
| Compromise of 1850 | five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. |
| Manifest Destiny | the 19th-century doctrine or 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 | Without big farms to run, the people in the North did not rely on slave labor very much. In the South, the economy was based on agriculture. |
| Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | President Lincoln told a New York newspaper that preserving the Union was his main goal of the Civil War |
| Seneca Falls Convention | first women's rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls |
| Reconstruction Period | Cruel and severe black code laws were adopted by southern states after the Civil War to control or reimpose the old social structure. |
| President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period | 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 | In the end, the states that were in rebellion were readmitted to the United States, and the institution of slavery was abolished nation-wide. |
| Black Codes | Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force |
| Native Americans | a member of any of the indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere especially |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. |
| Indian Wars between 1860-1890 | The American Indian Wars, the most famous of which were fought on the great Western plains between 1860 and 1890, were among the most tragic of all conflicts ever fought |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862. On January 1, 1863, Daniel Freeman made the first claim under the Act, which gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, and pay a small registration fee. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | the transcontinental railroad was transporting $50 million worth of freight each year. |
| Development of the Great Plains | The Great Plains were long inhabited by Native Americans, who hunted the teeming herds of buffalo (see bison) that roamed the grasslands and, due to wholesale slaughter by settlers and the U.S. army, were nearly extinct by the end of the 19th cent. |
| Three-fifths Compromise | compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention |
| Reconstruction goals after the Civil War | As a result, by 1865, policymakers in Washington had the nearly impossible task of southern Reconstruction. |
| Economic impact of the Civil War | The Union's industrial and economic capacity soared during the war as the North continued its rapid industrialization to suppress the rebellion. |
| Tenements | a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments. |
| Women's’ Suffrage Movement | The women's suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. |
| Battleship Maine | the American battleship Maine exploded while sitting in the Havana harbor, killing two officers and 250 enlisted men. |
| Why was the North worried about Great Britain during the Civil War? | Northerners were outraged at British tolerance of non-neutral acts, especially the building of warships |
| Impressments | Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice. |
| Trail of Tears | The Trail of Tears is over 5,043 miles long and covers nine states. |
| Why did the South secede from the Union? | 24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina's secession convention adopted a “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The 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? | Radical Republicans believed that Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was not harsh enough. |
| Muckrakers | The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in popular magazines. |
| Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war? | Before the World War I, women typically played the role of the homemaker. After the war began, not only did their numbers increased in common lines of work. very good appearance, whose only support has gone to war would like some |
| Rapid Growth of Cities | Urban growth, also known as urbanization, accelerated dramatically with the advent of industrialization some 200 years ago. |
| Why did US enter WWI? | Wilson cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war. |
| League of Nations | The League of Nations was an international diplomatic group developed after World War I as a way to solve disputes between countries before they erupted into open warfare. |
| Progressivism | Progressivism is a political philosophy in support of social reform. |
| Americans reaction to WWI | What did Americans think of World War I before the US entered the conflict 100 years ago? “Public opinion” was no more universal in 1917 |
| Lusitania sinking | The American public fervently embraced the War once it was declared. There was very little descent or misgivings |
| Zimmermann Telegram | The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. |
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