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American History
State Testing Prep Cards
| Term | Definition | Hints |
|---|---|---|
| Credible | Believable. | ABLE. |
| qualifications | Agreeable with other credible sources. | Accomplishment. |
| Thesis | meaningful interpretation and significance of evidence. | Thesis, significance. Rhymes. |
| evidence | artifacts, documents, eyewitness accounts, historical sites, and photographs. | Did you see it or have a video of something happening? |
| Sources | Compare and Site, Use research to support your thesis. | What is the number one _______ a human needs to survive? |
| Cases of American Expansion/Imperialism | Closing the Western frontier, global competition for markets and prestige, an expanded navy, and belief in cultural superiority. | Causes, Closing. Both start with C. |
| Natural Rights | Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. | Rights, Life. Rhymes. |
| Social Contract | Connections between Britain and colonies dissolved. | Contract, connections. Both start with C. |
| Grievance against Great Britain | Violations of Natural Rights breaks Social Contract. | Against, Violation. Means almost the exact same thing. |
| Precedents | Guide for later action. | ACTIONS EEE Vowels Look for the vowels. |
| Schools Encouraged | Basis for National Aid fro Education. | School and Education go hand in hand. |
| Rights of Citizens | Later in the Bill of Rights. | RIGHTS and Bill of RIGHTS. |
| Slavery Prohibited in Northwest Territory | Later Part of Amendment Thirteen. | Slavery/Territory=Later/Thirteen |
| Republican State Governments | Repeated in U.S. Constitution. | REpublican and REpeated. Both Start with RE. |
| Problems of Articles of Confederation | No Separate Executive; No Separate Judicial Branch. | Problems = NO. |
| Constitution | Separate Executive and Judicial Branches. | Constitution and Judicial. |
| New Government | Ability to address the issues. | Governments are the issues. |
| Federalism | Distribution of powers between national and state. | federalisM NatioNal. Alphabetical order. MN. |
| Magna Carta | Protection of Rights and Trial by Jury. | Magna kind of like magnet. Magnet to my Rights. |
| English Bill of Rights | Habeas Corpus and protected against cruel Punishment. | English-Habeas Corpus Not English?? |
| New States Equal with Original States | No Colonization. | New = NO |
| Virginia Declaration of rights (1776) | Protections for Press, religious exercise, and rights of the accused. | Declaration of Right and Rights of the accused. |
| Workers formed Labor Organizations | Address working conditions and wages. | Labor = Working. |
| Violence toward Organized Labor | Great Railroad Strike, Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike, and Pullman Strike. | Violence and Strike are like twins. |
| Great Migration | African Americans Fled North to escape segregation and secure better jobs. | Migrate and Fled. |
| Transportation | Trolleys, and automobiles led to development of suburbs. | Transport and Mobile. |
| "Redemption" of South | Reforms under Reconstruction governments repealed. | RE RE RE RE |
| Jim Crow | State Laws requiring segregation and limiting voting rights. | Crow Laws. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | Affirmed Segregation. | Ferguson and Segregation. |
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | Violence against African Americans. | KKK AA. |
| Federal Reverse | Control Money Supply. | Federal as in government is in control. |
| 16th Amendment | Power of Congress to levy an income tax. | |
| 17th Amendment | Direct Election of U.S. Senators. | |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition of Alcohol. | |
| 19th Amendment | Women's Sufferage. | |
| Race Riots | Great Migration to Northern cities heightened racial tensions. | RACE riots and RACIAL tension. |
| Revival of KKK | Intolerance towards Jews, African Americans, Catholics, and Immigrants. | KKK IJCAA. |
| Red Scare(1919-1920) | Arrest and Deportation of many Aliens. | scARE and ARrEst. |