US History staar

Question 1

What does EPA stand for?
Who created it? What were its goals?

Answer 1

Environmental Protection Agency, Richard Nixon, to reduce pollution and protect environment, 1970

Question 2

Great depression

Answer 2

economic downturn in the whole world due to stocks market crash of 1929 in the U.S.A

Question 3

What is NATO? When was it created? Purpose?

Answer 3

North atlantic treaty organization. 1949. provide collective security against Soviet union.

Question 4

NATO was created in response to concerns about ____________.

Answer 4

Soviet union and communism.

Question 5

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the ________________________.

Answer 5

women’s national suffrage association (main cause: women to vote)

Question 6

19th amendment

Answer 6

women to vote

Question 7

18th amendment

Answer 7

prohibition of liquor

Question 8

21st amendment

Answer 8

alcohol allowed

Question 9

world war 1 is a total war.

Answer 9

citizens help in all ways with the war effort (metal scraps from citizens used to make weapons)

Question 10

What started WW2?

Answer 10

Germany invades Poland in 1939

Question 11

Dec. of independence.

Answer 11

July 4, 1776
-thomas jefferson
-complaints against English parliament and King George 3rd

Question 12

U.S constitution

Answer 12

1787 - opportunities power in the hands of people. Starts with “we the people..”
- known as supreme law of the land
- Divided in 3 parts
-27 amendments

Question 13

3 branches of gov.

Answer 13

legislative - makes laws
executive - enforce laws
judicial - they decide how laws are enforced into real world

Question 14

(FLIP RoCS) 7 principles of gov.

Answer 14

checks and balances, federalism, individual rights, limited government, population sovereignty, republicanism, separation of powers

Question 15

What was created to avoid the new government to have too much power in the 19th century?

Answer 15

7 principles of government

Question 16

John Jay

Answer 16

• helping create the constitution
• negotiating treaty of paris (end the American revolution)
• wrote federalist papers (support consition)
• first chief justice of supremecourt (chosen by George Washington)
• New York governor (abolish slavery)

Question 17

eminent domain

Answer 17

gov. take ur property and pay you
- take your home to build a road

Question 18

Tocqueville’s take on USA

Answer 18

• individualism

Question 19

manifest destiny

Answer 19

-move west
- occupy “sea to shining sea”

Question 20

The Chinese exclusion act of 1882

Answer 20

10 yr ban on Chinese labors immigrating to USA

Question 21

great depression caused by ______.

Answer 21

-overproduction
-underconsumption
-stock market crash of 1929

Question 22

1929-march 1933? Who was president?

Answer 22

Great depression, Herbert Hoover
-25% unemployment rate

Question 23

FDR New deal

Answer 23

Relief -close banks until they are financially ok
Recovery - put money into economy
Reform - SEC (securities and exchange commission regulate stocks)
-FDIC (Federal deposit insurance corp.) prevent bank deposits from running out
Social Security Act - retired ppl get money

Question 24

women suffrage movement

Answer 24

1848-1920 women vote

Question 25

1830-1865 northern Americans engaged in __________ while southerners did _________

Answer 25

manufacturing, slavery

Question 26

Quotes after the civil war.

Answer 26

"E pluribus unum" - out of many come one "in God we trust" -national motto, has been used since 1864

Question 27

Jim crow laws

Answer 27

1876-1965 indirectly involved segregation (separate restrooms for colored people, buses has special seats)

Question 28

Grandfather clause

Answer 28

didn't allow black people to vote even though they were allowed to (voting only for people before 1867)

Question 29

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 29

-supreme court support and uphold segregation -separate but equal was indeed fair

Question 30

civil rights act of 1964

Answer 30

made discrimination based on race, religion, national origin illegal. -employees should hire with equal opportunity basis

Question 31

Tech. during (1880-1900)

Answer 31

-steel prod. -Bell invents telephone -edison electric light bulb - 180,000 miles of railroad tracks laid -internal combustion engine drives the need for oil refining

Question 32

1880-1900 Rise of Monopolies/Entrepreneurs

Answer 32

Andrew Carnegie -Carnegie steel corp. in 1892 -paid low wages to workers -gave $350 million to libraries/universities John D. Rockefeller -Standard oil company in 1870 -monopolized 90% of oil refining in U.S -gave millions of his fortune to edu. and science

Question 33

In factories it was common to employ ______.

Answer 33

children

Question 34

Workers wanted better pay conditions. Which organization helped them?

Answer 34

Knights of Labor (1869) American Fed. of Labor (1881)

Question 35

From 1800 to 1900 the urban population went from 8% to ____ because of increased jobs in ______.

Answer 35

40%, factories