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Mr. Kelly Exam
History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| When did the Japanese formally surrender on the USS Missouri and WWII was offically over | September 2, 1945 |
| When was the begining of the Civil War | April 12, 1861 |
| When did Lee surrender to Grant | April 9, 1865 |
| When did Hitler invade Poland | September 1, 1939 |
| Appeasement | accepting demands in order to avoid conflict |
| facism | extreme racism |
| John Brown | believed that God choose him to end slavery |
| Isolationism | a national policy of avoiding involvment in World affiars |
| island hopping | a strategy used during ww2 that called for attacking and capturing key islands. |
| scalawags | southerners who supported republican government during reconstruction |
| popular Soveriengnty | allowing people to deciede |
| reconstruction | a period of time immediately following the civil war that helped rebuild the South. |
| What were the Border States | Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland |
| Strategies of North | block south ports to stop cotton shipments, capture the city capital |
| strategies of South | defend land until north gives up, and have pressure put on the North |
| Abolitionist | people who wanted to get rid of slavery |
| Underground Railroad | a way to get out of slavery, a series of safe houses. |
| anti-semitism | hatred of Jews |
| Henry ford | created model t and started first assembly line and a mass production |
| john d. Rockefeller | started standard oil company, and used vertical integration, and main goal was to create a monopoly, and he was later a philanthroplist |
| Andrew Carnegie | owned Carnegie steel. used vertical integration to help grow buisness. goal was to create a monopoly. later was Philanthroplist. |
| Tenant Farmer | people who rented land to farm on |
| dictator | a leader who rules with total authority |
| dred scott | slave from missouri, and was sued for his freedom after his owner died. |
| why was cotton king in the south | eurpian countries had a high demand. tobacco, rice, and sugar cane all had their draw backs. south believed that they didnt need manufactoring |
| weaknesses of the north | fighting away from home,some people disagreed with the war |
| weaknesses of south | less pop of free white men, no factories, bad railways |