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HISTORY FINAL
Important dates, people, and events
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was Jamestown? | 1st permanent English settlement in North America |
| What was the Magna Carta? | charter of English political and civil liberties |
| What was the French and Indian War? | war between Britain, France, and their allies for control of North America |
| What was the 1763 Treaty of Paris? | treaty that ended the war between France and Britain |
| Who was King George III? | British monarch who reigned during the American Revolution |
| What was the Declaration of Independence? | document that declared American independence from Britain |
| Who was Thomas Jefferson? | wrote the Declaration Of Independence; 2nd VP of America and 3rd Prez. of America |
| Who was George Washington? | commander of the Continental Army and America's 1st president |
| What was the Battle Yorktown? | final battle of the Civil War, in which French and American forces lead by George Washington defeated British general Cornwallis |
| What was the 1783 Treaty of Paris ? | the 1783 treaty that ended the Revolutionary War |
| What was the Constitutional Convention? | 1787 meeting in which the U.S constitution was created |
| What was the Great Compromise? | agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on it's population in the other house |
| What was the 3/5 compromise? | agreement that 3/5 of a states slave population would be counted for representation and taxation |
| What are the 3 branches of government and what do they do? | Executive - enforces laws Judicial - interprets laws Legislative - makes laws |
| What was Federalism? | system of government in which power is shared between the national ( or federal ) government or the states |
| Who were federalists and antifederalists? | Federalists - people who supported the ratification of the Constitution Antifederalists - people who opposed the ratification of the Constitution |
| What were the Bill of Rights? | 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution |
| What are states rights? | idea that states have certain rights that the government cannot overrule |
| What was the Louisiana Purchase? | American purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 |
| What was the Industrial Revolution? | the economic changes of the late 1700's when manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work |
| What is sectionalism? | loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country |
| What was manifest destiny? | belief the the U.S was meant to expand from coast to coast |
| What was abolition? | the movement to stop slavery |
| What was the Underground Railroad? | a series of escape routes used by slaves escaping the South |
| What were the Confederate States of America? | confederation formed by the Southern states after their secession from the Union |
| What are Puritan values? | hard work, education, and representative government |
| What was the English Bill of Rights? | 1689 law protecting the rights of English subjects and Parliament |
| What were the Intolerable Acts? | series of laws meant to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance in other colonies |
| What was the Boston Tea Party | incident in 1773 when colonists protested British policies by boarding British ships and throwing their cargos of tea overboard |
| What was Lexington and Concord? | 1st battles of the Revolutionary War |
| Who was Meriwether Lewis? | Army captain appointed by president Thomas Jefferson to explore the Louisiana territory and lands west to the Pacific Ocean |
| Who was William Clark? | Co-leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition |
| What was Washington's Farewell Address? | warned that political disagreements could weaken the nation and that the nations leader should remain neutral and agreements with foreign nations might work against US interests |
| What was the Federalist Party? Who supported it? What were it's beliefs? | Believed in strong national government, a loose interpretation of the constitution, favored national banks and wanted the economy to be based on trade,led by Hamilton and Adams |
| What was the Democratic- Republican Party? Who supported it? What were it's beliefs? | Believed in limited national government, strict interpretation of the constitution, opposed national bank, and supported agricultural economy, leaders were Jefferson and Madison |
| What political party was Thomas Jefferson in? | democratic - republican |
| What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition? | Group that explored the Louisiana territory in lands West; also known as the Corps of Discovery |
| Who was Andrew Jackson? | Eighth President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 |
| Who was Harriet Tubman? | Conductor on the underground railroad who led enslaved people to freedom |
| What was the Indian Removal Act? | 1830 law that called for the government to negotiate treaties requiring Native Americans to relocate West |
| What was the California Gold Rush? | migration of thousands of settler to California in search of gold |
| What was a "push" factor and what was a "pull" factor? | "Push" - reason or force the causes people to leave their native land " Pull" - a reason or force that causes people to choose to move to a new place |
| What were reform movements? Give some examples? | people who wanted to reform America; temperance movement or social reform or righting workers conditions |
| Who was Abraham Lincoln? | the 16th president who was in office during the Civil War |
| Who was Jefferson Davis? | 1st president of the Confederate states of America |
| Who was Ulysses S. Grant? | Union general who won battles in the west during the civil war and was the 18th president of the U.S |
| Who was Robert E. Lee? | Confederate general, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia |
| Who was William Tecumseh Sherman? | Union general at the Battle of Shiloh |
| Who was Andrew Johnson? | Democrat who became president after Lincoln died |
| Republican v.s Democratic Party? | Republican - political party formed by opponents of slavery Democratic - political party formed by supporters of slavery |
| What is secession? | to withdraw; in the South's case, from the United States of America |
| What were the Confederate States of America? | Confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the Union |
| What was Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address? | He assured the South that he would not try to end slavery in the South; spoke against secession ; appealed to friendship |
| What was the siege of Fort Sumter? | an attack on a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina that was the beginning of the Civil War; South won |
| What was the Anaconda Plan? | Union strategy to defeat the Confederacy ; included a naval blockade on Southern coastline, controlling the Mississippi River, and capturing Richmond, Virginia |
| What are some examples of military technology in the Civil War? | Ironclads, railroads, cannons, rifles, grenades, minié balls, and trenches |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | A document issued by Lincoln that declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory were free |
| What was Sherman's March to Sea? | Union general Sherman's destructive march across Georgia |
| What was the Surrender at the Appomattox Court House? | Where Confederate general Lee surrendered to Union general Grant; official end to the Civil War |
| What were the costs of the Civil War? | 620,000 soldiers died; 275,000 soldiers wounded; the South was in terrible shape physically and economically |
| What are some details of Lincoln's assassination? | Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre ; 1st president to be assassinated |
| What was Reconstruction? | a period from1865 to 1877 in which the U.S government attempted to rebuild Southern society and governments |
| What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments? | 13th - ended slavery 14th - made all people born in the U.S (including former slaves) citizens 15th - said citizens could not be stopped from voting on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude |
| What were some challenges to freedmen's lives? | Violent racism ( e.g Klu Klux Klan ), unfair sharecropping |
| What was the transcontinental railroad? | A railroad that spanned the U.S continent |
| What was the Gilded Age? | late 1800's era of fabulous wealth |
| What was urbanization? | The growth of cities resulting from industrialization |
| What was Jim Crow? | Laws enacted in Southern states designed to separate white and black people |
| What was Progressivism? | Reform movements that sought to raise living standards and correct wrongs in American society |
| What was prohibition? | legal ban on the production, possession and sale of alcohol |
| What was Imperialism? | Policy by which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker nations |
| Who was Theodore Roosevelt? | President who led progressive reforms |
| Who were the Allies in WWI? | WWI alliance of Great Britain, France, Russia , Italy, Serbia, U.S.A and Bulgaria |
| Who were the Central Powers in WWI? | WWI alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and others |
| What were the causes of WWI? | A Serbian man assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo; archduke was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary so Austria declared war on Serbia |
| What were some examples of new military technology in WWI? | Tanks, poison gas, quick-firing artillery, airplanes, U-boats |
| Why did the U.S enter WWI? | The sinking of the American ship Lusitania( killed 128 Americans) by a German U-boat; the Zimmerman Telegram which was when a German ambassador told Mexico to declare war on the U.S; Americans furious |
| What is propaganda? | Opinions expressed for the purpose of influencing the action's of others |
| What was the League of Nations? | An organization set up after WWI to settle international conflicts |
| What was the Harlem Renaissance? | A burst of African-American culture in the 1920's and 1930's |
| Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( FDR ) ? | Democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression |
| What are the Axis Powers in WWII? | Italy, Germany, and Japan ; originally also Soviet Union but Hitler betrayed Stalin so Stalin switched sides |
| Who is General Dwight D. Eisenhower? | Supreme allied commander in Europe during WWII |
| Who was Harry S. Truman ? | U.S president from 1945- 1953 |
| What was the Great Depression? | The serious and worldwide economic decline of the 1930's |
| What was the New Deal? | 1933-1935 program created by FDR to fight the Depression |
| What was the Manhattan Project ? | top-secret government project to develop the atomic bomb |
| What were some strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation? | Strengths: 1st government to unite the colonies Weaknesses: gave to much power to the state government and not enough power to the federal government |
| What are some of Washington's precedents ? | - wasn't a king / dictator - didn't stay until he died; left after 2 terms - had a cabinet ( advisors ) |
| What was the War of 1812? What are some details? | brits were sinking American trade ships and the brits wanted America b/c still annoyed over Rev. War ; British burned down White House'; Francis Scott Key wrote the Star- Spangled Banner |
| What was the Mexican- American war? | fighting over Southern territories; U.S got Texas; Alamo- famous battle |
| What were some right's women were fighting for after the Mexican - American War? | -fought for the right to vote - abolition |
| What were some differences between the North and South? | North - industry based ; no slaves South - plantation/ farming based ; slavery |
| Republican Party v.s Democratic Party? | Republican - wanted to stop the spread of slavery Democratic - wanted to spread slavery |
| What was the Gettysburg Address? | speech that Lincoln gave after the Battle of Gettysburg |
| What were the costs of the Civil War? | - death - destruction ( mainly South ) - deeply damaged Southern economy |
| What was the Zenger Trial? | trial of John Peter Zenger that gave the colonists the ability to criticize the government without punishment |
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