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MTTC - Elementary Ed
U.S. History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This group never succeeded in attracting settlers to their territories; eventually they ceded their southern possessions & New Orleans in 1718 to Spain | French |
| These 2 French men explored the North American coast and the St. Lawrence Seaway for France | Giovanni da Verrazano & Jacques Cartier |
| founded Quebec & set up the fur empire on the St. Lawrence Seaway; also explored the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island between 1604 and 1607 | Samuel de Champlain |
| a Jesuit missionary; one of the first to travel down the Mississippi in 1673 | Fr. Jaques Marquette |
| one of the first Europeans to travel down the Mississippi in 1673 | Louis Joliet |
| explored the Great Lakes and the IL & MS Rivers from 1679-1682; claimed all land from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico & from the Appalachians to the Rockies for France | Rene-Robert de la Salle |
| in 1513, he became the 1st European in Florida; est. the oldest European settlement in Puerto Rico; discovered the Gulf Stream; searched for the fountain of youth | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| he charted the Gulf Coast from Florida to Mexico in 1519; probably the 1st European in Texas, which he claimed for Spain | Alonso Alvarez de Pineda |
| he docked in Tampa Bay with Cabeza de Vaca in 1528, claimed Florida for Spain, and then sailed the Gulf Coast | Panfilo de Narvaez |
| he got lost on foot in Texas and New Mexico; Estevanico (aka Esteban), a Moorish slave, was a companion who guided them to Mexico | Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca |
| while searching for gold in 1540, he became the first European to explore Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona | Fransisco Vasquez de Coronado |
| he was the first European to explore the southeastern U.S. from Tallahassee to Natchez | Hernando de Soto |
| in 1585, this person landed on Roanoke Island and sent Arthur Barlow to the mainland, which they named Virginia | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| The 1st permanent colony was founded by Captain John Smith in 1607 | Jamestown |
| 24 Puritan families sent by the Virginia Company to Virginia via The Mayflower | Pilgrims |
| established and survived with the help of natives; this is where the first Thanksgiving is believed to have occurred | Plymouth Plantation |
| 400 Puritans arrived here in 1629; became an important port and was made famous by the witch trials of 1692 | Salem |
| in 1628, this self-governed company was organized, and the Massachusetts Indians sold most of the land to the English | Massachusetts Bay Company |
| established in 1630 | Boston |
| established in 1636 | Harvard University |
| established by Lord Baltimore in 1632 in the hopes of providing refuge for English Catholics | Maryland |
| banished from Massachusetts in 1636 because he called for separation of church and state; he established the Rhode Island colony in 1647 and had 800 settlers by 1650 | Roger Williams |
| in 1681, he received a royal charter for the establishment of PA as a colony for Quakers | William Penn |
| this was the protest group headed by Samuel Adams that incited the Revolution | Sons of Liberty |
| March 5th, 1770 - soldiers fired on a crowd and killed 5 people | Boston Massacre |
| these were set up throughout the colonies to transmit revolutionary ideas and create a unified response | Committees of Correspondence |
| December 6th, 1773 - the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawks, dumped tea into the harbor from a British ship to protest the tea tax | Boston Tea Party |
| held in 1774; listed grievances and developed a response, including boycotts; attended by all the colonies with the exception of Georgia | First Continental Congress |
| April 1775 - English soldiers on their way to confiscate arms in Concord passed through Lexington, Massachusetts & met the colonial militia aka the Minutemen; a fight ensued, and and in Concord the Minutemen caused the British to retreat | The Shot Heard from Around the World |
| Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia | 13 original colonies |
| this body established the Continental Army and chose George Washington as its commanding general; they allowed printing of money and created government offices | 2nd Continental Congress |
| published in 1776 by Thomas Paine, this pamphlet calling for independence was widely distributed | "Common Sense" |
| written by Thomas Jefferson; was ratified on July 4th, 1776 by the Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia | Declaration of Independence |
| Benjamin Franklin negotiated an agreement with France to fight with the Americans in 1778 | Alliance with France |
| 1782; this signaled the official end of the war and granted independence to the colonies and gave them generous territorial rights | Treaty of Paris |
| designed to protect the states' rights over those of the national government and sent to the colonies for ratification in 1777; had no centralized national government and no centralized power to tac or regulate trade with other nations between states | Articles of Confederation |
| 1803; purchased for $15million, was arguably Thomas Jefferson's greatest accomplishment; bought to gain the vital port of New Orleans , remove threat of French interference with trade along MS River, and double the territory of the U.S. | Louisiana Purchase |
| these 2 were sent to map out the new territory that the Louisiana Purchase granted the US, and find a means of passage along all the way to the Pacific Ocean | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark |
| war between France and Britain that caused blockades that hurt American trade and caused British attacks on American ships; Native Americans under Tecumseh sided with Britain where they captured D.C.; most of the battles came to a draw; | War of 1812 |
| conceived by Pres. James Monroe in 1823; foreign policy that warned European powers to cease colonization of Central & South Americas or face military intervention by the US; the US wouldn't meddle in political affairs/standing colonies in Europe | Monroe Doctrine |
| 1820; 11 free states, 11 slave states; Missouri petitioned to become a slave state brought about this agreement; southern border of Missouri was the northern-most line of slave territory | Missouri Compromise |
| a popular belief during the 1840s that it was the right & duty of the US to expand westward to the Pacific; the idea became a slogan for the flood of settlers & expansionist power grabs | Manifest Destiny |
| the presidency of this guy brought about the Democratic Party, the Jacksonian Democracy (allowed universal white male suffrage), the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and nullifications | Andrew Jackson |
| existed from 1833-1856; started in opposition to Jackson's authoritarian policies & was concerned with defending Congress' supremacy over the executive branch, states' rights, economic protection, & modernization (members include Abe Lincoln, Henry Clay) | Whig Party |
| a 19th-century writer who was the 1st to write about Native Americans; author of the Leatherstocking series | James Fenimore Cooper |
| an essayist, philosopher, and poet; the leader of the Transcendentalist movement; "The American Scholar" | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| novelist and short story writer who wrote "The Scarlet Letter" | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| novelist, essayist, short story writer; "Moby Dick", "Billy Budd" | Herman Melville |
| a poet, literary critic, and master of short story; "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven" | Edgar Allan Poe |
| she was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| he was a poet, naturalist, and Transcendentalist who wrote "Walden and Civil Disobedience" | Henry David Thoreau |
| a poet, essayist, and journalist who wrote Leaves of Grass and "Oh Captain! My Captain!" | Walt Whitman |
| a women's rights & abolition activist; lectured across the nation for suffrage, property and wage rights, and labor organizations for women | Susan B. Anthony |
| she created the 1st American asylums for the treatment of mental illnesses; served as the superintendent of Army Nurses during the War Between the States | Dorothea Dix |
| an escaped slave who became an abolitionist leader, government official, and writer | Frederick Douglass |
| an abolitionist & the editor of the Liberator (the leading anti-slavery newspaper of the time) | William Lloyd Garrison |
| founded the Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism) in 1829 | Joseph Smith |
| a leader of the common school movement that made public education a right of all Americans | Horace Mann |
| with Lucretia Mott, she held the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848; demanded woman's suffrage and other reforms | Elizabeth Candy Stanton |
| the leader of the Mormons when they fled religious persecution, built Salt Lake City, and settled much of the West; he was the 1st governor of Utah Territory | Brigham Young |
| allowed those who lived in the Mexican cession to decide for themselves whether to be a free or slave territory | Compromise of 1850 |
| allowed slave owners to go into free states to retrieve their escaped slaves | Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 |
| repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 to allow the lands from the Louisiana Purchase to settle the slavery issues by popular sovereignty; outraged Northerners responded by defecting from the Whig Party and starting the Republican Party | Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 |
| the name applied to the state when a civil war broke out between pro- and anti-slavery advocates while Kansas was trying to formalize its statutes before being admitted as a state | Bleeding Kansas |
| decided by the Supreme Court in 1857; ruled that Congress had no authority to exclude slavery from the territories, which in effect meant that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional | Dred Scott vs. Sandford case |
| of Mississippi; former US Senator & cabinet member who was the president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| of Illinois; the President of the US; his election triggered the secession of the South; he was assassinated shortly after winning the 2nd term | Abraham Lincoln |
| of Virginia; offered the position of commanding general of the Union Army, but declined because of loyalty to his home state; led the Army of Northern VA and central Confederate force; still considered a military mastermind | Robert E. Lee |
| of Ohio; wasn't appointed to command the Union Army until 1864; received Lee's surrender at the Appomattox Court House in VA (April 1865), & went on to become President from 1869-1877 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| the period from 1856-1877, when the South was under strict control of US government; this is the time period where the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were formed/passed | Reconstruction |
| declared slavery illegal | 13th amendment |
| made all persons born or naturalized in the country US citizens; forbade any state to interfere with their fundamental civil rights | 14th amendment |
| made it illegal to deny individuals the right to vote on the grounds of race | 15th amendment |
| 1870s-1890s; named because of the enormous wealth and grossly opulent lifestyle enjoyed by a handful of powerful families; major industries owned by robber barons | Gilded Age |
| 1906; reinforced the Interstate Commerce Commission | Hepburn Act |
| 1902; Roosevelt used the Justice Department and lawsuits to try breaking monopolies and enforce this act | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| 1898-1910; this guided lumber companies in the conservation and more efficient use of woodland resources under the direction of Gifford Pinchot | Forest Service |
| 1906; passed to protect consumers from fraudulent labeling and alteration of products | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| 1913; this was established to supervise banking and commerce | Federal Reserve System |
| 1914; established to ensure fair competition | Fair Trade Commission |
| When WW1 broke out in 1914, America declared _________. | neutrality |
| this person campaigned on the slogan "He kept us out of war" in 1916 | Woodrow Wilson |
| this ship torpedoed in 1915 by a German submarine; many Americans were killed, and Woodrow Wilson had warned the Germans that the U.S. would enter war if Germany interfered with neutral ships at sea | Lusitania |
| this war took place as a result of Germany trying to incite Japan and Mexico into attacking the US; Wilson declared this war in 1917 even though America was unprepared. The Allies got the W in 1918 | World War 1 |
| this person ran for president after WW1 with the slogan "return to normalcy" and concentrated on domestic affairs | Warren Harding |
| this caused a "red scare" that strengthened the already strong Ku Klux Klan that controlled some states' politics | Russian Revolution |
| this was a trial that took place in Tennessee where a high school teacher was convicted of presenting Darwinian theories in 1925 | Scopes Trial |
| this rocked the Harding administration | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| 1947; this was a policy designed to protect free peoples everywhere against oppression | Truman Doctrine |
| 1948; this devoted $12billion to rebuild Western Europe and strengthen its defenses | The Marshall Plan |
| 1948; this was established to bolster democratic relations in the Americas | the Organization of American States |
| 1948-49; the Soviets tried to starve out West Berlin, so the US provided massive supply drops via air | The Berlin Blockade |
| 1949; this was formed to militarily link the US and western Europe so that an attack on one was an attack on both | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| 1950-53; this divided the country into the communist North and the democratic South | Korean War |
| 1950-54; Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin held hearings on supposed Communist conspiracies that ruined innocent reputations and led to the blacklisting of suspected sympathizers in the government, Hollywood, and the media | The McCarthy Era |
| 1961; this was a stand-off between the US and the Soviet Union over a build-up of missiles in Cuba; the Soviets eventually stopped their shipments and a nuclear war was averted | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| President Kennedy was assassinated in | 1963 |
| Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in | 1968 |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in | 1968 |
| protest marches were held across the nation to draw attention to the plight of black citizens; 1964-1968, race riots exploded in more than 100 cities | Civil Rights Movement |
| 1964-73; this resulted in a military draft; there was heavy involvement of American personnel and money; there were also protest demonstrations, particularly on college campuses | Vietnam War |
| legislation passed during this decade included the Civil Rights Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Water Quality Act; this decade also saw the Peace Corps, Medicare, and the War on Poverty | 1960s |
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