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Dr.Collins Final
Dr.Collins Final-GA STUDIES
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is John Freemont? | The 1856 Republican Party candidate for president |
| What did the 19th Amendment do? | Gave women the rights to vote |
| When did WWI begin? | 1914 |
| What was Herbert Hoover the first president to do? | He was the 1st to use the federal government to help the economy to recover |
| What was the first confederate capitol? | Mongomery |
| Who created the written language of the Cherokee and what was it called? | Sequoyah and it was the syllabary, in 1809 |
| Who was Eugene Jacques Bullard? | He was one of the 1st black fight pilots |
| What happened because American wanted lands in the West and in Canada? | War of 1812 |
| What can travel 30 miles a day? | A stagecoach |
| What is it called when you draft men into the military and when did it first happen? | Conscription and in the Civil War |
| What happened in 1830? | Indian Removal Act |
| Kings Bay Nuclear Sub Bass was not created when | WWII. |
| When and why did European countries change | 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed |
| When was Fort Benning established and what was it known for | During WWI and it was known for training military infantry. Also known as the "home of US infantry" |
| What started the Creek War? | the attack on Fort Mims by the Red Sticks |
| Date of Kennedy’s assassination | November 22, 1963 |
| What are political party’s platforms | Ideas for governing. |
| Causes of the Civil War | Slavery, state’s right, and sectionalism |
| What did NIRA stand for | National Industrial Recovery Act |
| Who resisted the NIRA? | Textile workers |
| What was the 54th Massachusetts volunteers and who was their leader? | A group of black soldiers and their leader was Robert Gould Shaw. |
| What happened in April 1865 and what did it do | Lee surrendered to Grant and it ended the Civil War. |
| Why did Benjamin Franklin invent things | To make life easier |
| Who was John Marshal and what did he do | The judge that said that GA law does not apply to Cherokees |
| Appeasement: | Giving a country something so they will avoid aggression. |
| Who collected $25,000 and why? | Charles Lindbergh, for flying from New York to Paris, the first transatlantic flight. |
| What does the NIRA stand for? | The National Industrial Recovery Act |
| What was the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Corps and who was their leader? | the black division of the Civil War that fought for Union; led by Robert Shaw |
| How did Seutendenland play a role during WWII? | Britain and France gave it to Hitler in appeasement so he would not attack them |
| Who was Booker T. Washington? | black that believed in separation of races but working together for industrial growth |
| During what war did photography come into play? | Civil War |
| Who were the 4 dictators of WWII? | Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito, and Stalin |
| In the Civil War, where was the South’s supply depot? | Atlanta, GA |
| What is an embargo? | When one country stops trading with another |
| What did the discovering of gold in Dahlonega cause? | the gold rush, removal of Cherokees from that area of GA |
| Who was the president of the Confederacy and the Union? | Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln respectively |
| What was the CCC? | the Civilian Conservation Corps |
| Who was Eugene Jacques Bullard? | a black American that fought for France, the first black pilot (French Foreign Legion) |
| What year was the Berlin Wall torn down? | 1989 |
| Who became president after FDR died? | Harry S. Truman |
| What was Lee’s last victory in the Civil War? | The Battle of Cold harbor in Virginia |
| Who was Walter F. George? | Walter F. George was elected to the Senate seat in a special election when the female senator Felton was voted off |
| What did the WPA stand for? | Works Progress Administration |
| What happened in 1865 and what did it do? | Lee surrendered to Grant; ended Civil War |
| Where did Zimmerman telegraph come from and what did it say? | Came from Germany; said that Mexico should attack U.S. |
| Whose last paper was an anti-slavery paper? | Benjamin Franklin |
| What did the Battle of Antietam give Lincoln? | It was one of Lincoln’s first victories, so he could pass the emancipation proclamation. |
| What is propaganda? | Information that is spread for a cause |
| What do some historians believe was the turning point of the Civil War? | Battle of Gettysburg |
| It caused U.S. to enter WWII | What did the bombing of Pearl Harbor cause? |
| What didnt the New Deal Do? | End the depression, increase employment |
| Who did the Italian people overthrow and what did it cause? | Mussolini; caused Italy to join the Allied |
| What was U.S.’s 2nd war of independence and why? | War of 1812; because when they fought Revolutionary war, it was against Britain and War of 1812 was also against Britain |
| What did the cotton gin cause; who invented it; when was it invented? | Need for slaves; Eli Whitney; 1793 |
| How many mill workers were in GA and how many joined the Union? | 45K out of 60K |
| What court case brought in separate-but-equal and when; and which one took it out and when? | Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896); Brown vs. Board of Education (1950) |
| When was the Battle of Ft. Mims? | 1913 |
| What did the tearing down of the Berlin Wall cause? | Unity in Germany |
| Why didn’t Benjamin Franklin use his real name in the newspaper and what was his nickname? | His brother wouldn’t let him write in the newspaper; Silence Dogood |
| What promise did Woodrow Wilson make and why? | To keep U.S. out of the war; was his platform for presidency |
| What were the causes of the Great Depression? | overproduction, bad bank loans, bad stocks |
| What National Leaders spoke out against Indian Removal Act? | Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay |
| What does the REA stand for; what did it do; how much did it cost? | Rural Electrification Authority; gave electricity to rural areas/farms; $300million |
| What cost $15million and who bought it from who? | Louisiana Purchase; Thomas Jefferson bought from France |
| What were soup kitchens? | Places that gave food to homeless/poor during Great Depression; prevented starvation |
| What is a strike? | Refusal to go to work to protest against a certain cause |
| What ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam and who was responsible for it? | Truce was signed; Richard Nixon; 1973 |
| What does separate-but-equal mean? | Can have separate facilities as long as they are equal |
| What was the loyalty oath? | If whites are on Indian land, then they must sign an oath of loyalty to GA. |
| Who invented the mechanical reaper? | Cyrus McCormick |
| When was the Civil Rights Act passed? | 1964 |
| When 2 things brought U.S. into WWI? | Lusitania being sunk off coast of GA & Zimmerman telegraph |
| How did U.S. first start market economy? | Cash crops |
| What was the first thing Roosevelt did to banks? | Closed them |
| What were the Axis powers in WWI? | Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary |
| What started WWI? | Archduke Ferdinand was shot in Austria-Hungary |
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