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1942A US History
Final Exam study
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did | They wanted economic opportunities, political liberty, religious freedom |
| Foundations of American Democracy | The Constitution- popular sovereignty,limited government, separation powers, |
| Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 1787? | They feared that the new national government would be too powerful and threaten people liberties |
| Thomas Paine and Common Sense | Persuade the colonist to declare their independence from Great Britain |
| Declaration of Independence | The document, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the Continental Congress declared the colonies independence from Britain. |
| Shay’s Rebellion | Uprising of farmers(1787) |
| Louisiana Purchase | Treaty with France in 1803 that allowed the U.S.to acquire vast extent of land |
| Missouri Compromise of 1820 | A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820- 1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states |
| Compromise of 1850 | The acts called for the admission of california as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico established a boundary between Texas and the United States, |
| Manifest Destiny | Idea that Americans had a right to all of the land between the east and west coast |
| Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War | Northern economy relied on manufacturing and agricultural Southern economy depended on the production of cotton |
| Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War | save the union, |
| Seneca Falls Convention | women right meeting(1848) |
| Reconstruction Period | Rebuilding that follows the civil war, during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union. |
| President Andrew Johnson and the Reconstruction Period | Wanted to return the south to its prewar status |
| Result of the Civil War | U.S defeated the Confederate states, Slavery was abolished nationwide, Rebellion states were remitted |
| Black Codes | Designed to return African Americans to positions of semi-slavery |
| Native Americans | were not recognized as U.S. citizens , their land was taken they were being slaughter |
| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 | a law enacted in 1882 that prohibited all Chinese except teachers, students, merchants, tourist,and government officials from entering the U.S |
| Indian Wars between 1860-1890 | Sioux Wars. Battle of the Little Bighorn |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | Any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U,S, government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. |
| Transcontinental Railroad | A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the U.S., completed in 1869. |
| Development of the Great Plains | population grew after the civil war, farming methods,agricultural region |
| Three-fifths Compromise | Agreement at the constitutional convention that allowed slaves to count a 3/5th of a white person. |
| Reconstruction goals after the Civil War | bringing the southerners states back into political participation the union, rights to former slaves and defining nre relationships between African americans and whites |
| Economic impact of the Civil War | Modern Economy through industrialization and taxation, banking and the use of paper currency |
| Tenements | A multifamily urban dwelling, usually overcrowded and unsanitary. |
| Women's’ Suffrage Movement | People who taught that the women should have the same rights as men |
| Battleship Maine | A US warship that mysteriously exploded and sancked in the harbor of Habana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898. |
| Why was the North worried about Great Britain during the Civil War? | Britain was neutral North was worried because they thought they would side with the South due to economical inetest |
| Impressments | The forcible seizure of men for military service |
| Trail of Tears | Enforced journey by Cherokee Indians in 1838-1839 from their lands in the east to the west. |
| Why did the South secede from the Union? | The Southerner states desire to preserve the institution of slavery |
| Emancipation Proclamation | An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863 , freeing slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines. |
| Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction? | Because it was too lenient on the south and didn't guarantee rights beyond freedom for former slaves |
| Muckrakers | One of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s |
| Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war? | women |
| Treaty of Versailles | The 1919 peace treaty at the end of World War I which established new nations, boarders, and war reparations |
| Rapid Growth of Cities | Urbanization |
| Why did US enter WWI? | Germanys attempt to ally with Mexico, Submarine warfare |
| League of Nations | An association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. |
| Progressivism | An early-20th-century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people to restore economic opportunities, and to correct injustices in American life |
| Americans reaction to WWI | Americans adopted a policy of neutrality |
| Lusitania sinking | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat off the Southern coast of Ireland in 1915 |
| Zimmermann Telegram | A message send in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico and Arizona if the United States entered World War I. |
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