final

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Potato famine in Ireland

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Jamestown

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Merchantilism`

Question 4

Which colonial economy focused on trade and fishing

Answer 4

New England

Question 5

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

Answer 5

The Great Awakening

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The Enlightenment

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Britain was broke

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Common Sense

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Saratoga

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Treaty if Paris 1783

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Northwest Ordinance

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Missouri Compromise

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Marbury v Madison

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Monroe Doctorine

Question 15

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?

Answer 15

Nullification crisis

Question 16

religious group sprung form second great awakening

Answer 16

mormons

Question 17

who is the father of American public education

Answer 17

Horace mann

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Seneca Falls

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Germany and ireland

Question 20

Which treaty ended the Mexican American War?

Answer 20

Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Uncle Tom’s cabin

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Dredd Sccott

Question 23

What was NOT a cause of the Civil War

Answer 23

Congress establishment of secondd bank of the us

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Gettysburg

Question 25

Which region was left devastated by the Civil War?

Answer 25

South

Question 26

What is not true of the congressional reconstruction

Answer 26

it declared general amnesty except for high ranks cya officials

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Compromise of 1877

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Sherman silver purchase act

Question 29

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

Answer 29

MAnufacturing

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Dawes Severalty act

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Laissez Faire

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Pendleton Service Act

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Northeastern and Central Europe

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Cult of domesticity

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Plessey v. Ferguson

Question 36

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

Answer 36

They demanded that the US remain on the gold standard

Question 37

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

Answer 37

New Imperialism

Question 38

Which treaty ended the Spanish American war?

Answer 38

Treaty of Paris 1899

Question 39

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

Answer 39

18th

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Temperance

Question 41

Which religious group tended to support the Prohibition Movement?

Answer 41

Protestants

Question 42

What was the big problem with Prohibition?

Answer 42

21

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Christian Fundementalism

Question 44

Tennessee v Scopes highlighted the opposition of what issue

Answer 44

Darwinism

Question 45

By 1932, unemployment stood at ___

Answer 45

25%

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Bonus Army

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Massive federal spending program

Question 48

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

Answer 48

National Industrial Recovery Act

Question 49

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

Answer 49

John Maynard Keynes

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Social Security Act

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Hay - Bunau Varilla Treaty

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Roosevelt Corollary

Question 53

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

Answer 53

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

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Sedition Act

Question 55

What case set forward the "Clear and present danger" doctrine?

Answer 55

schenck v. U.S

Question 56

Foreign policy doctrine not to intervene

Answer 56

Good Neighbor Policy

Question 57

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

Answer 57

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

Question 58

WW2 in the Pacific started with what?

Answer 58

Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1931

Question 59

American isolationist tendencies were highlighted by the ______

Answer 59

Nye Commission

Question 60

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

Answer 60

The German invasion of Czechoslovakia

Question 61

WW2 in Europe started with ___

Answer 61

The German invasion of Poland

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Cash and Carry policy

Question 63

American isolationism was embodied by the ____

Answer 63

American First Committee

Question 64

American military personnel first became directly involved in WW2 __________

Answer 64

When the us implemented convoy system and occupied Greenland and Iceland

Question 65

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

Answer 65

Japan occupied Indochina and signed the Tripartite Act

Question 66

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

Answer 66

War Powers Act

Question 67

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

Answer 67

Joint Chiefs Staff

Question 68

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

Answer 68

office of war mobillization

Question 69

Defense spending was up to ____ in 1945

Answer 69

46%

Question 70

Earning of the bottom 20% of workers all rose

Answer 70

68%

Question 71

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

Answer 71

War Disputes Labor Act (Smith-Connally)

Question 72

Which battle was a turning point of WW2

Answer 72

Midway