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World History Exam 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did colonists come to America? | They came to America to escape poverty, warfare, political turmoil, famine and disease. |
| Foundations of American Democracy | Fundamental worth of every person, Equality of all persons, Majority rule and Minority rights, Necessity of compromise, and Individual Freedom |
| 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 | Thomas Paine argues for American independence |
| Declaration of Independence | Ideals that all men are created equal, and rights about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| Shay’s Rebellion | Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry |
| Louisiana Purchase | The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
| Compromise of 1850 | The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion |
| Manifest Destiny | Manifest destiny was a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America. |
| Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War | In the South, the economy was based on agriculture, in the North, they wanted the new states to be “free states.” |
| Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it," |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States. |
| Reconstruction Period | The Reconstruction era was the period in American history that lasted from 1863 to 1877 following the American Civil War |
| President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period | In 1865 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 | The United States defeated the Confederate States |
| Black Codes | Laws governing the conduct of African Americans |
| Native Americans | The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States |
| 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 | 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, improve it, and pay a small registration fee |
| Transcontinental Railroad | The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line |
| Development of the Great Plains | For 15 million years, a massive flow of sediment poured out of the mountains, down the river valleys and into the plains. Sediment the rivers transported formed huge alluvial fans at the foot of the mountains |
| Three-fifths Compromise | Agreement that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives |
| Reconstruction goals after the Civil War | Reconstruction encompassed three major initiatives: restoration of the Union, transformation of southern society, and enactment of progressive legislation favoring the rights of freed slaves. |
| 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 | A decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States |
| Battleship Maine | On February 15, 1898, 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 | In the year 1838, 16,000 Native Americans were marched over 1,200 miles of rugged land. Over 4,000 of these Indians died of disease, famine, and warfare. |
| Why did the South secede from the Union? | an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery |
| 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? | The Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's plan because they thought it too lenient toward the South |
| Muckrakers | The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. |
| Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end; The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
| Rapid Growth of Cities | better paid jobs in the cities, an expected higher standard of living , and more reliable food are all pull factors - reasons why people are attracted to the city |
| 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 | The American people had not wanted to go into World War One |
| Lusitania sinking | The death of so many innocent civilians at the hands of the Germans galvanized American support for entering the war, which eventually turned the tide in favor of the Allies. |
| Zimmermann Telegram | The Zimmermann Telegram 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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