U.S History 1st sem

Question 1

What connected Asia to North America and brought the first Americans to the continent?

Answer 1

land bridge the bering straight

Question 2

Who was Christopher Columbus?

Answer 2

He discovered the Americas and the Indians.

Question 3

What was Jamestown?

Answer 3

First permanent english settlement

Question 4

What was the Triangle Trade?

Answer 4

Trading system between Europe Africa and america

Question 5

What was the French and Indian War and what did it Lead to?

Answer 5

French and British = war debt = british impose taxes = taxation w.out representation

Question 6

What was the Boston Massacre?

Answer 6

British troops killed 5 americans

Question 7

What was the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 7

Declared independence from Britain - july 4 1776

Question 8

What were the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 8

First constitution

Question 9

What is the system of Checks and Balances?

Answer 9

Allows for on branch to check/ limit the power of another

Question 10

What is the Constitution?

Answer 10

Framework for our government

Question 11

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 11

First 10 amendments/ a change to the constitution

Question 12

When and what was the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 12

Doubled the land of the U.S - 1803 T jeff

Question 13

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 13

Force migration of native americans - perilous route - death

Question 14

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 14

Birth of the women’s right movement - first women’s right convention

Question 15

What was the Abolitionist Movement?

Answer 15

Attempts the eliminate slavery

Question 16

What is manifest Destiny?

Answer 16

America should control whole continent - from sea to shining sea

Question 17

What was the Gold Rush and when?

Answer 17

Gold is discovered in california - leads to mass immigration 1848

Question 18

What was the Dred Scott Decision

Answer 18

african americans were not citizens

Question 19

What was the Civil War?

Answer 19

War between north and south over slavery

Question 20

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 20

Slaves are free in all states that are in a state of stated rebellion

Question 21

13th Amendment

Answer 21

ended slavery

Question 22

14th Amendment

Answer 22

equal protection under the law and everyone is a citizen

Question 23

15th Amendment

Answer 23

all men can vote cannot be denied based on race

Question 24

What was Reconstruction

Answer 24

rebuilding of the south - post civil war

Question 25

What was the Homestead Act?

Answer 25

1862 - government gave land 21+ have to WORK the land for 5 years

Question 26

What was the Transcontinental Railroad?

Answer 26

Railroad goes across the continent

Question 27

What is Laissez Faire?

Answer 27

Let you be - let it be - government is hands off business. No regulation true capitalism

Question 28

What is Capitalism?

Answer 28

Profit - private ownership/individuals own

Question 29

Who were Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and what were they known for?

Answer 29

Business lords - industrialists - industrialist - tycoons - monopolist - oil - steel - banking

Question 30

What are Jim Crow Laws

Answer 30

legal segregation

Question 31

What is a muckraker?

Answer 31

Investigative journalist - dear diary - meatpacking bad

Question 32

What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire?

Answer 32

Trapped workers in burning building 8th floor - jump or burn - managers locked the door the prevent theft. Leads to safety labor laws

Question 33

What is Prohibition?

Answer 33

No booze - illegal to manufacture distribute

Question 34

What was Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal?

Answer 34

Government gives a fair deal to workers, consumers, owners

Question 35

What was significant about the 1912 presidential election.

Answer 35

Teddy Roosevelt creates a third party = bull moose party = splits republican party = wilson wins as a democrat

Question 36

What was the 19th Amendment?

Answer 36

Women can vote

Question 37

Define Imperialism

Answer 37

big country take over small country

Question 38

What was the Open Door Policy?

Answer 38

All countries can equally screw over china. No spheres of influence

Question 39

What is the significance behind “Remember the Maine”

Answer 39

triggered the spanish american war - uss maine blew up in Havana cuba to hell with Spain

Question 40

What was the Lusitania?

Answer 40

British liner had some Americans on it. Sunk by german U-boat

Question 41

What was the Zimmerman Note?

Answer 41

Germany to mexico - tell mexico to link up

Question 42

What was the selective service act?

Answer 42

draft

Question 43

Who was Woodrow Wilson and what were his 14 points?

Answer 43

President during WWI - 14 points was a peace plan - league of nations

Question 44

What was the Red Scare? What led to it?

Answer 44

Fear of communist after the Bolshevik revolution. Palmer raids hunting communist/socialist also leads quota system to limit immigration

Question 45

Who Was Henry Ford and what was the Assembly Line?

Answer 45

Automotive lord - work comes to the worker - more efficient - more production - cheapers goods

Question 46

What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

Answer 46

Condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies

Question 47

What was the Scopes Trial?

Answer 47

Monkey trail - evolution vs fundamentalism

Question 48

What were Flappers?

Answer 48

Young women who went against traditional ideas of proper dress and behavior

Question 49

What was Fundamentalism

Answer 49

literal interpretation of religious text

Question 50

What was the 18th Amendment?

Answer 50

Prohibition of booze

Question 51

What were Bootleggers?

Answer 51

Sold booze illegally also manufactured booze

Question 52

What were Speakeasies?

Answer 52

Secret bars

Question 53

What was the Great Migration?

Answer 53

African Americans move from south to north for economic opportunity - WWI industrial jobs

Question 54

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 54

Cultural birth of African American culture jazz poetry art

Question 55

Who was Charles A. Lindbergh?

Answer 55

First man to fly across the Atlantic ocean