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5086 100 US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What type of society did many Eastern Woodland peoples have before European colonization? | Agricultural |
| What major crop was central to many Native American agricultural societies? | Maize |
| What Native confederacy included groups such as the Mohawk and Seneca? | Iroquois Confederacy |
| What term describes the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people after 1492? | Columbian Exchange |
| What disease impact devastated many Native American populations after European contact? | Smallpox |
| What European country focused heavily on fur trade in New France? | France |
| What European country created many permanent settler colonies along the Atlantic coast? | England |
| What European country focused early colonization on missions, conquest, and mineral wealth? | Spain |
| What colonial labor system forced people to work for passage to America? | Indentured servitude |
| What cash crop shaped the economy of colonial Virginia? | Tobacco |
| What rebellion showed conflict between frontier farmers and Virginia elites in 1676? | Bacon’s Rebellion |
| What long-term labor change followed Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia? | More slavery |
| What region was most associated with Puritans and town-based settlement? | New England |
| What region was most associated with plantations and enslaved labor? | Southern colonies |
| What colonial region was known for religious diversity and grain farming? | Middle colonies |
| What war between Britain and France helped cause new taxes on the colonies? | French and Indian War |
| What British policy tried to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachians? | Proclamation of 1763 |
| What colonial slogan protested taxes passed without colonial representation? | No taxation |
| What event involved colonists dumping tea to protest British policy? | Boston Tea Party |
| What document declared the colonies independent from Great Britain? | Declaration of Independence |
| What Enlightenment thinker most influenced the Declaration’s ideas about natural rights? | John Locke |
| What war created the United States as an independent country? | American Revolution |
| What treaty ended the American Revolution? | Treaty of Paris |
| What was the first national government of the United States? | Articles of Confederation |
| What major weakness did the Articles of Confederation have? | Weak central government |
| What law organized western lands and banned slavery north of the Ohio River? | Northwest Ordinance |
| What rebellion exposed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation? | Shays’ Rebellion |
| What meeting created the U.S. Constitution? | Constitutional Convention |
| What compromise created a two-house Congress? | Great Compromise |
| What compromise counted enslaved people for representation and taxation? | Three-Fifths Compromise |
| Who supported ratifying the Constitution with a stronger national government? | Federalists |
| Who opposed the Constitution because it lacked protections for individual rights? | Anti-Federalists |
| What addition helped convince Anti-Federalists to support the Constitution? | Bill of Rights |
| What early precedent did George Washington set by stepping down after two terms? | Peaceful transfer |
| What policy warned the United States to avoid permanent foreign alliances? | Neutrality |
| What Supreme Court case established judicial review? | Marbury v. Madison |
| What purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803? | Louisiana Purchase |
| Which president purchased the Louisiana Territory? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What expedition explored the Louisiana Purchase and reached the Pacific? | Lewis and Clark |
| What river became more important to U.S. trade after the Louisiana Purchase? | Mississippi River |
| What war strengthened U.S. nationalism and weakened Native resistance in the Old Northwest? | War of 1812 |
| What doctrine warned European powers not to recolonize the Americas? | Monroe Doctrine |
| What political era expanded voting rights for many white men? | Jacksonian Democracy |
| What policy forced many Native peoples west of the Mississippi River? | Indian Removal |
| What forced Cherokee removal became known as the Trail of Tears? | Indian Removal Act |
| What belief said the United States was destined to expand westward? | Manifest Destiny |
| What war helped the United States gain California and the Southwest? | Mexican-American War |
| What treaty ended the Mexican-American War? | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| What discovery brought thousands of migrants to California in 1849? | Gold Rush |
| What issue became more divisive as the United States gained western territories? | Slavery expansion |
| What transportation project connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic economy? | Erie Canal |
| What term describes the early 1800s growth of trade, roads, canals, and industry? | Market Revolution |
| What invention improved river transportation before railroads dominated? | Steamboat |
| What power source allowed factories to spread beyond water-powered mill towns? | Steam power |
| What system used machines and workers to produce goods in factories? | Factory system |
| What reform movement sought to end slavery? | Abolitionism |
| Who published The Liberator and demanded immediate abolition? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Who escaped slavery and became a leading abolitionist speaker and writer? | Frederick Douglass |
| What movement sought equal political rights for women? | Women’s suffrage |
| What 1848 meeting launched a major women’s rights movement? | Seneca Falls |
| What compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state? | Missouri Compromise |
| What law allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska? | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| What term describes violent conflict over slavery in Kansas? | Bleeding Kansas |
| What Supreme Court case denied citizenship to enslaved people and limited Congress’s power over slavery? | Dred Scott |
| What new party formed mainly to oppose slavery’s expansion? | Republican Party |
| Who was elected president in 1860, leading Southern states to secede? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What event began the Civil War? | Fort Sumter |
| What was the main cause of the Civil War? | Slavery |
| What Union strategy used a blockade to weaken the Confederacy? | Anaconda Plan |
| What river did the Union seek to control to split the Confederacy? | Mississippi River |
| What battle helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi River? | Vicksburg |
| What battle is often seen as the turning point in the eastern theater? | Gettysburg |
| What proclamation declared enslaved people free in rebelling states? | Emancipation Proclamation |
| What amendment abolished slavery? | 13th Amendment |
| What amendment granted citizenship and equal protection? | 14th Amendment |
| What amendment protected voting rights for Black men? | 15th Amendment |
| What period attempted to rebuild the South after the Civil War? | Reconstruction |
| What agency helped formerly enslaved people after the Civil War? | Freedmen’s Bureau |
| What white supremacist group used terror to oppose Reconstruction? | Ku Klux Klan |
| What system trapped many Southern farmers in debt after Reconstruction? | Sharecropping |
| What laws enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction? | Jim Crow laws |
| What Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal” segregation? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| What term describes the post-Reconstruction Southern economy based heavily on agriculture? | New South |
| What group of immigrants arrived in large numbers from southern and eastern Europe after 1890? | New immigrants |
| What process describes rapid growth of cities during industrialization? | Urbanization |
| What term describes powerful business leaders who dominated industries in the late 1800s? | Industrialists |
| What business practice combines companies to reduce competition? | Trusts |
| What law was passed to limit monopolies and trusts? | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| What labor union accepted skilled workers and focused on wages and conditions? | AFL |
| What 1894 strike showed major conflict between labor and big business? | Pullman Strike |
| What political movement represented farmers who wanted currency reform and railroad regulation? | Populism |
| What reform movement addressed problems caused by industrialization and corruption? | Progressivism |
| What journalists exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era? | Muckrakers |
| What Progressive reform let voters remove officials from office? | Recall |
| What Progressive reform let voters approve or reject laws directly? | Referendum |
| What amendment allowed a federal income tax? | 16th Amendment |
| What amendment required direct election of senators? | 17th Amendment |
| What amendment established Prohibition? | 18th Amendment |
| What amendment gave women the right to vote? | 19th Amendment |
| What president was closely associated with conservation and trust-busting? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| What event pushed the United States into World War I? | Zimmermann Telegram |
| What policy did the United States follow before entering World War I? | Neutrality |
| What treaty ended World War I but was rejected by the U.S. Senate? | Treaty of Versailles |
| What international organization did Woodrow Wilson support after World War I? | League of Nations |
| What 1920s cultural movement celebrated Black art, music, and literature? | Harlem Renaissance |
| What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression? | Stock market crash |
| What environmental disaster worsened the Great Depression for Plains farmers? | Dust Bowl |
| What president created the New Deal? | Franklin Roosevelt |
| What New Deal program provided jobs for young men in conservation projects? | CCC |
| What New Deal program created retirement benefits for older Americans? | Social Security |
| What New Deal idea expanded the federal government’s role in economic relief? | Government assistance |
| What attack brought the United States into World War II? | Pearl Harbor |
| What policy placed Japanese Americans in camps during World War II? | Internment |
| What was the Allied invasion of Normandy called? | D-Day |
| What project developed the atomic bomb during World War II? | Manhattan Project |
| What postwar policy tried to stop the spread of communism? | Containment |
| What doctrine promised aid to countries resisting communism? | Truman Doctrine |
| What plan provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II? | Marshall Plan |
| What military alliance formed to oppose Soviet expansion? | NATO |
| What war ended in an armistice and a divided peninsula? | Korean War |
| What Cold War conflict involved U.S. efforts to stop communism in Southeast Asia? | Vietnam War |
| What 1954 Supreme Court case ruled school segregation unconstitutional? | Brown v. Board |
| What civil rights strategy used peaceful lawbreaking to challenge segregation? | Civil disobedience |
| What law banned segregation in public places and employment discrimination? | Civil Rights Act |
| What law protected voting rights from discriminatory barriers? | Voting Rights Act |
| What Cold War event brought the world close to nuclear war in 1962? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| What Great Society program provides health insurance for older Americans? | Medicare |
| What Great Society program provides health coverage for low-income Americans? | Medicaid |
| What scandal led President Nixon to resign? | Watergate |
| What 1990s trend increased global trade and economic connection? | Globalization |
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