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1
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What was NOT a cause of British colonization of North America in the 1600s?

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Potato famine in Ireland

2
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The first British colony in continental in North America established in 1607

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Jamestown

3
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An economic philosophy popular with governments in the 1500s through 1700s. Policies were geared to benefit the government

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Merchantilism`

4
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Which colonial economy focused on trade and fishing

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New England

5
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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

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The Great Awakening

6
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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

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The Enlightenment

7
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What was the most important effect of the Seven Years’ Wa

A

Britain was broke

8
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What book was published in 1776 written by Thomas Paine which advocated a complete political break with Britain and American independence?

A

Common Sense

9
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Which battle of 1777 was a turning point in the revolutionary war

A

Saratoga

10
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Which treaty formally ended the Revolutionary War? Britain agreed to recognize American independence

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Treaty if Paris 1783

11
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In 1787 what law established a plan to organize territories gained from the Revolutionary War to prepare them to become states?

A

Northwest Ordinance

12
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Which was NOT one of the compromises that led to a new U.S Constitution?

A

Missouri Compromise

13
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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

A

Marbury v Madison

14
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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

A

Monroe Doctorine

15
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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?

A

Nullification crisis

16
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religious group sprung form second great awakening

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mormons

17
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who is the father of American public education

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Horace mann

18
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In 1848, what was the first major meeting of women’s rights activists in the U.S?

A

Seneca Falls

19
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Where did most of the 4.2 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S between 1840 and 1860 come from?

A

Germany and ireland

20
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Which treaty ended the Mexican American War?

A

Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

21
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What book was published in 1852 and written by Harriet Beecher stove

A

Uncle Tom’s cabin

22
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Which case in 1857 ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and so had no standing to sue in federal court?

A

Dredd Sccott

23
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What was NOT a cause of the Civil War

A

Congress establishment of secondd bank of the us

24
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Which battle in 1863 was a turning point in the Civil War?

A

Gettysburg

25
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Which region was left devastated by the Civil War?

A

South

26
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What is not true of the congressional reconstruction

A

it declared general amnesty except for high ranks cya officials

27
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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

A

Compromise of 1877

28
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What was nota federal law that aided in American settlement of the west

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Sherman silver purchase act

29
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What was NOT one of the three major industries in the Western economy in the 1800s

A

MAnufacturing

30
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What act in 1877 formed the basis of the U.S Indian policy until 1934?

A

Dawes Severalty act

31
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An economic philosophy stating that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market economy

A

Laissez Faire

32
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What act was passed after President Garfield was assassinated by a supporter disappointed that he wasn’t appointed to a government job?

A

Pendleton Service Act

33
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Of the 10 million immigrants who came to the U.S between 1865 and 1890, most were from __________

A

Northeastern and Central Europe

34
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Middle Class values of the Gilded age promoted _____, a belief that the woman’s place is in the home fostering morality and culture.

A

Cult of domesticity

35
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In 1896, what case did the U.S Supreme Court allow racial segregation on the basis of “separate but equal” accommodations?

A

Plessey v. Ferguson

36
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What is NOT true of the Alliance movement of the late 1800s

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They demanded that the US remain on the gold standard

37
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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

A

New Imperialism

38
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Which treaty ended the Spanish American war?

A

Treaty of Paris 1899

39
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Which amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol?

A

18th

40
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Prohibition had its roots in the _____ Movement of the early-to-mid Nineteenth Century

A

Temperance

41
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Which religious group tended to support the Prohibition Movement?

A

Protestants

42
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What was the big problem with Prohibition?

A

21

43
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What religious movement was popular beginning in the early 20th Century? These people believed in the literal truth of the bible

A

Christian Fundementalism

44
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Tennessee v Scopes highlighted the opposition of what issue

A

Darwinism

45
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By 1932, unemployment stood at ___

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25%

46
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The greatest threat to the federal government during Hoover’s term?

A

Bonus Army

47
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What was NOT part of the Democratic Party platform in 1932?

A

Massive federal spending program

48
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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

A

National Industrial Recovery Act

49
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British economist who said that in times of economic downturn, the government should engage in pump-priming and deficit spending

A

John Maynard Keynes

50
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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

A

Social Security Act

51
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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

A

Hay - Bunau Varilla Treaty

52
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Which US foreign policy statement claimed an exclusive policing power over the Western Hemisphere

A

Roosevelt Corollary

53
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What was NOT a reason Wilson maintained neutrality in World War 1?

A

Other progressives welcomed war as a way of strengthening the federal government, making it stronger in enacting reforms

54
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In 1918, what law outlawed any language/expression that brought the U.S Government or military into disrepute?

A

Sedition Act

55
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What case set forward the “Clear and present danger” doctrine?

A

schenck v. U.S

56
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Foreign policy doctrine not to intervene

A

Good Neighbor Policy

57
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How did Hitler justify the Anschluss and the annexation of Sudetenland?

A

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

58
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WW2 in the Pacific started with what?

A

Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931

59
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American isolationist tendencies were highlighted by the ______

A

Nye Commission

60
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Hitler’s true intention of using military aggression was made clear by _______

A

The German invasion of Czechoslovakia

61
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WW2 in Europe started with ___

A

The German invasion of Poland

62
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Congress first signaled its abandonment of the Neutrality Acts with the _____

A

Cash and Carry policy

63
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American isolationism was embodied by the ____

A

American First Committee

64
Q

American military personnel first became directly involved in WW2 __________

A

When the us implemented convoy system and occupied Greenland and Iceland

65
Q

What was the Japanese reaction to the 1940 U.S embargo on the sale of aviation fuel and scrap metal to Japan

A

Japan occupied Indochina and signed the Tripartite Act

66
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What law granted FDR authority over all aspects of the conduct of WW2

A

War Powers Act

67
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What shows how the US military was mobilized to fight WW2?

A

Joint Chiefs Staff

68
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The _______, headed by James Byrnes coordinated the production, procurement, transportation, and distribution of civilian/military supplies

A

office of war mobillization

69
Q

Defense spending was up to ____ in 1945

A

46%

70
Q

Earning of the bottom 20% of workers all rose

A

68%

71
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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

A

War Disputes Labor Act (Smith-Connally)

72
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Which battle was a turning point of WW2

A

Midway