American Expierence

Question 1

Alexander Hamilton

Answer 1

American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and promoter of the U.S. Constitution

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson

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American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence

Question 3

Checks and balances

Answer 3

counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.

Question 4

Constitution

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a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

Question 5

Articles of Comfederation

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the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777.

Question 6

Federalists

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an advocate or supporter of federalism.

Question 7

Anti-Federalists

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opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government

Question 8

Plessy vs Ferguson

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U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and private institutions

Question 9

Brown vs the Board of Education

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landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

Question 10

Sit-Ins

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a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.

Question 11

13th amendment

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declared that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Question 12

14th Amendment

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citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.

Question 13

15th Amendment

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prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen’s “race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Question 14

19th Amendment

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prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex

Question 15

Literacy Test

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a test that determines the qualification of a voter based on his/her his ability to read and write or ability to read and understand any section of the State or Federal Constitution

Question 16

Poll Tax

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a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.

Question 17

MLK JR

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American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who first rose to prominence as leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott challenging segregated public transportation.

Question 18

Malcom X

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An African-American political leader of the twentieth century. A prominent Black Muslim

Question 19

Patriot Act

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Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001

Question 20

Defense of Marriage Act

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United States federal law that, prior to being ruled unconstitutional, defined marriage for federal purposes as the union of one man and one woman

Question 21

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

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commonly referred to as The Stimulus or The Recovery Act, was a stimulus package enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009 and signed into law on February 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama.

Question 22

African Slavery

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the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century. Origin of slave trade Expand

Question 23

Middle Passage

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the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

Question 24

Slave Auction

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a platform from which an auctioneer sells: the old courthouse where slaves were sold from the auction block.

Question 25

Flappers

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fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

Question 26

Prohibition

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the action of forbidding something, especially by law

Question 27

Scopes Trial

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formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act

Question 28

Mormons

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member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a religion founded in the US in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr.

Question 29

Speakeasies

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(during Prohibition) an illicit liquor store or nightclub.

Question 30

Catholics

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a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

Question 31

Chicago Race Riots

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The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3. During the riot, thirty-eight people died (23 African American and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured.

Question 32

Al Chapone

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United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion

Question 33

Bootleggers

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to carry (alcoholic liquor) on one’s person illegally

Question 34

Zoot Suit Riots

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a series of racial attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, between Mexican American youths and European American servicemen stationed in Southern California.

Question 35

Sacco and Vanzetti

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Two anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were convicted of a robbery and two murders in Massachusetts in the early 1920s and sentenced to death.

Question 36

Charles Lindbergh

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United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Question 37

Chivington Massacre

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was a massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864

Question 38

Dawes Plan

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was an attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 39

Ghost Dance

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a religious ceremony introduced by the Paiute tribe in an area that is now present-day Nevada.

Question 40

Sitting Bull

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A Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century.

Question 41

Wounded Knee

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located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota,was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government.

Question 42

Crazy Horse

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A Sioux chief of the nineteenth century. Crazy Horse was one of the leaders of the Native American forces at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.