What was NOT a cause of British colonization of North America in the 1600s?
Potato famine in Ireland
The first British colony in continental in North America established in 1607
Jamestown
An economic philosophy popular with governments in the 1500s through 1700s. Policies were geared to benefit the government
Merchantilism`
Which colonial economy focused on trade and fishing
New England
A religious event that took place in the British North American colonies from the 1730s through 1760s. It emphasized a personal relationship with God that animates all one’s actions
The Great Awakening
A European intellectual movement that started in 1650 that believed human societies operate according to natural laws that are the same under all conditions and can be discovered by humans using reason and observation
The Enlightenment
What was the most important effect of the Seven Years’ Wa
Britain was broke
What book was published in 1776 written by Thomas Paine which advocated a complete political break with Britain and American independence?
Common Sense
Which battle of 1777 was a turning point in the revolutionary war
Saratoga
Which treaty formally ended the Revolutionary War? Britain agreed to recognize American independence
Treaty if Paris 1783
In 1787 what law established a plan to organize territories gained from the Revolutionary War to prepare them to become states?
Northwest Ordinance
Which was NOT one of the compromises that led to a new U.S Constitution?
Missouri Compromise
In 1803 what case did the U.S Supreme Court deny itself the authority to issue writs of mandamus, but established its power of judicial review
Marbury v Madison
Which U.S foreign policy statement was issued in December 1823 whereby the U.S pledged not to interfere in European affairs, but forbid any attempts at European recolonization of the Western Hemisphere
Monroe Doctorine
What occurred during Jackson’s presidency when South Carolina asserted the right to ban the operation within that state of any federal law that the South Carolina Legislature seemed unconstitutional?
Nullification crisis
religious group sprung form second great awakening
mormons
who is the father of American public education
Horace mann
In 1848, what was the first major meeting of women’s rights activists in the U.S?
Seneca Falls
Where did most of the 4.2 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S between 1840 and 1860 come from?
Germany and ireland
Which treaty ended the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
What book was published in 1852 and written by Harriet Beecher stove
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Which case in 1857 ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and so had no standing to sue in federal court?
Dredd Sccott
What was NOT a cause of the Civil War
Congress establishment of secondd bank of the us
Which battle in 1863 was a turning point in the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Which region was left devastated by the Civil War?
South
What is not true of the congressional reconstruction
it declared general amnesty except for high ranks cya officials
The terms of the ________ were that Southern Democratic congressmen would cast their votes for Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, and in turn, Hayes would withdraw troops from the South, thus ending Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
What was nota federal law that aided in American settlement of the west
Sherman silver purchase act
What was NOT one of the three major industries in the Western economy in the 1800s
MAnufacturing
What act in 1877 formed the basis of the U.S Indian policy until 1934?
Dawes Severalty act
An economic philosophy stating that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market economy
Laissez Faire
What act was passed after President Garfield was assassinated by a supporter disappointed that he wasn’t appointed to a government job?
Pendleton Service Act
Of the 10 million immigrants who came to the U.S between 1865 and 1890, most were from __________
Northeastern and Central Europe
Middle Class values of the Gilded age promoted _____, a belief that the woman’s place is in the home fostering morality and culture.
Cult of domesticity
In 1896, what case did the U.S Supreme Court allow racial segregation on the basis of “separate but equal” accommodations?
Plessey v. Ferguson
What is NOT true of the Alliance movement of the late 1800s
They demanded that the US remain on the gold standard
In the ______ of the late 1800s, European powers and the U.S sought to establish political and economic dominance over parts of Asia and Africa in order to draw out raw materials and provide markets for finished goods
New Imperialism
Which treaty ended the Spanish American war?
Treaty of Paris 1899
Which amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol?
18th
Prohibition had its roots in the _____ Movement of the early-to-mid Nineteenth Century
Temperance
Which religious group tended to support the Prohibition Movement?
Protestants
What was the big problem with Prohibition?
21
What religious movement was popular beginning in the early 20th Century? These people believed in the literal truth of the bible
Christian Fundementalism
Tennessee v Scopes highlighted the opposition of what issue
Darwinism
By 1932, unemployment stood at ___
25%
The greatest threat to the federal government during Hoover’s term?
Bonus Army
What was NOT part of the Democratic Party platform in 1932?
Massive federal spending program
Law that allowed businesses in an industry to form boards that were authorized to write codes for that industry that allowed things such as price-setting, wage-setting, and regional syndicates
National Industrial Recovery Act
British economist who said that in times of economic downturn, the government should engage in pump-priming and deficit spending
John Maynard Keynes
In 1935, what was the landmark law that established a system of old-age, disability, and workmen’s compensation pensions, and unemployment insurance, all paid for by both the employer and employee via payroll deductions
Social Security Act
Which treaty gave the U.S a 10 mile wide right of way across the Isthmus of Panama for the purpose of building a canal linking the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean
Hay - Bunau Varilla Treaty
Which US foreign policy statement claimed an exclusive policing power over the Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt Corollary
What was NOT a reason Wilson maintained neutrality in World War 1?
Other progressives welcomed war as a way of strengthening the federal government, making it stronger in enacting reforms
In 1918, what law outlawed any language/expression that brought the U.S Government or military into disrepute?
Sedition Act
What case set forward the “Clear and present danger” doctrine?
schenck v. U.S
Foreign policy doctrine not to intervene
Good Neighbor Policy
How did Hitler justify the Anschluss and the annexation of Sudetenland?
He cited the pro-nationalist portions of the Fourteen Points, stating he was simply allowing his German brothers and sisters to live in one German nation
WW2 in the Pacific started with what?
Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931
American isolationist tendencies were highlighted by the ______
Nye Commission
Hitler’s true intention of using military aggression was made clear by _______
The German invasion of Czechoslovakia
WW2 in Europe started with ___
The German invasion of Poland
Congress first signaled its abandonment of the Neutrality Acts with the _____
Cash and Carry policy
American isolationism was embodied by the ____
American First Committee
American military personnel first became directly involved in WW2 __________
When the us implemented convoy system and occupied Greenland and Iceland
What was the Japanese reaction to the 1940 U.S embargo on the sale of aviation fuel and scrap metal to Japan
Japan occupied Indochina and signed the Tripartite Act
What law granted FDR authority over all aspects of the conduct of WW2
War Powers Act
What shows how the US military was mobilized to fight WW2?
Joint Chiefs Staff
The _______, headed by James Byrnes coordinated the production, procurement, transportation, and distribution of civilian/military supplies
office of war mobillization
Defense spending was up to ____ in 1945
46%
Earning of the bottom 20% of workers all rose
68%
In response to the United Mine Workers strike, in 1943 Congress passed the __________, which empowered the president to take over any facility where strikes interrupted war production
War Disputes Labor Act (Smith-Connally)
Which battle was a turning point of WW2
Midway