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U.S. History FEStudy
| Topic | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did | To build a better economic life for themselves and to have religious freedom. |
| Foundations of American Democracy | The Declaration of Independence provided a foundation for popular sovereignty. The Constitution provided the structure and foundations for a unique form of political democracy and a republican form of government. |
| Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787? | The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution because 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 | Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. |
| Declaration of Independence | A very important document in U.S. History where the colonists declared independence against Britain. |
| Shay’s Rebellion | A rebellion started in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. |
| Louisiana Purchase | The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution. |
| 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 | A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. |
| 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 | The North had an industrial economy, an economy focused on manufacturing, while the South had an agricultural economy, an economy focused on farming. |
| Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | Preserving the Union was his main goal of the Civil War. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The Seneca Falls Convention was the first woman's rights convention in the United States, and ensured women the right to vote decades later. |
| Reconstruction Period | The United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans. |
| 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 | The United States defeated the Confederate States, and in the end, the states that were in rebellion were readmitted to the United States, and the institution of slavery was abolished nationwide. |
| Black Codes | Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. |
| Native Americans | After Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, Native American populations were diminished in size and territory by the end of the 19th century. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | 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 Indian Wars were a protracted series of conflicts between Native American Indians and white settlers over land and natural resources in the West. |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | 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 | Was the first transcontinental railroad in America, and allowed exports between West and Eastern markets better than ever. |
| Three-fifths Compromise | Was about the counting of slaves in determining a state's total population. |
| Reconstruction goals after the Civil War | 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; The South used slave labor, which made obtaining resources much more difficult. |
| Tenements | A type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. |
| Women's’ Suffrage Movement | A decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. |
| Battleship Maine | A U.S. Navy ship which sunk due to an unknown explosion, and contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. |
| Why was the North worried about Great Britain during the Civil War? | Because the South received support from Great Britain simply for economic interests. |
| Impressments | The taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice. |
| Trail of Tears | Part of an Indian removal process which forced displacements and ethnic cleansing of approximately 60,000 Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. |
| Why did the South secede from the Union? | Southern states seceded from the union in order to protect their states' rights, the institution of slavery, and disagreements over tariffs. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An order issued by President Abraham Lincoln, which read 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 many thought it too lenient toward the South, and was criticised for not being harsh enough. |
| Muckrakers | Muckrakers were journalists who provided detailed, accurate accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in the United States. |
| Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war? | Women, who found employment in transportation including the railroads and driving cars, ambulances, and trucks, nursing, factories making ammunition, etc. |
| Treaty of Versailles | The treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies. |
| Rapid Growth of Cities | Urbanization was abundant during post WWI days, and was accompanied by health problems, poor sanitization, and poor housing conditions. |
| Why did US enter WWI? | The U.S. entered WWI mainly due to the several attacks made on passenger/merchant ships by Germany. Especially because of the sinking of the Lusitania. |
| League of Nations | The first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. |
| Progressivism | The idea where advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization are vital to the future of humanity. |
| Americans reaction to WWI | They were shocked by the news, but were not inclined to participate in the war, mainly because they had no real reasons to. |
| Lusitania sinking | A UK-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915. |
| Development of the Great Plains | As settlers moved on the Great Plains, the landscape changed drastically due to mining, farming, trappers, etc. |
| Zimmermann Telegram | An intercepted note which detailed Germany attempting to join forces with Mexico and Japan if the U.S. entered WWI; The note was then intercepted by the British and passed along to the U.S. and caused massive outrage across the states. |
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