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Potpourri
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This crop allowed communities in the Americas to flourish
What is corn/maize?
100
Turning point battle of the American Revolution. (Convinced the French to join the war)
Battle of Saratoga
100
This was the first of many attempts to keep equilibrium in Congress as America moved West. (36-30 line determined which states would be free and which would be slave)
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
100
The emerging idea in the mid-1800's that the United States should control the land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
100
Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Theodore Roosevelt, Ida B. Wells
All of the above are known as ___________
Muckrakers
100
The U.S. officially declared war on Germany in 1917 as a result of...
The Zimmerman Telegram
100
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
(impeachment trials for Perjury)
Bill Clinton
100
What year describes these events:
-MLK Assassinated
-RFK Assassinated
-Tet offensive
-Anti-war protestors & police clash at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
1968
200
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
200
Give two precedents of Washington's farewell address....
Two Terms
Neutrality in Foreign Affairs
Mr. President
No political parties
200
Henry Clay's plan to improve America through a protective tariff, a national bank, and Internal Improvements
What is the American System?
200
What were the two types of Reconstruction?
Presidential and Congressional
200
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
Jane Addams
200
Which amendment prohibited the sale/use of alcohol AND which amendment repealed it?
18th, 21st
200
Desegregated the military through Executive Order 9981 in 1948
Harry Truman
200
Muckraker who created the National Parks Service, busted the 'bad' trusts, and is on the historical hotties list
Teddy Roosevelt
300
Known as 'A city upon a hill'
What was Massachusetts Bay colony?
300
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
300
This SCOTUS case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
300
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction and allowed _________ to become president.
Rutherford B. Hayes
300
“The People’s Party”. Believed the wealthy had an obligation to help the poor. Many sharecroppers joined this movement
Populists
300
Turning point battle in the PACIFIC theater during WWII
Battle of Midway
300
What was the Patriot Act?
U.S. could hold suspected terrorists for up to 7 days without charging them with a crime
300
Main cause of the War of 1812
Impressment
400
This event displayed an example of increasing class divide between wealthier and poorer colonists
What was Bacons Rebellion?
400
The idea that women should take charge of educating their children in the ways of the new republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
400
This SCOTUS case asserted the federal government has supremacy over the states.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
400
Abraham Lincoln suspended this in order to detain suspected Confederate spies.
Habeas Corpus
400
What country did the U.S. gain as a result of the Spanish-American war, but later relinquished it due to war.
Philippines
400
Key member of protesting the segregation of the defense industry during WWII. He would later march with MLK
A. Philip Randolph
400
Who proposed the Great Society (set of domestic programs) to end poverty and discrimination in the U.S.?
Lyndon B Johnson
400
President campaigned on Manifest Destiny and the idea of "54-40 or fight"
James K Polk
500
A system developed by the Spanish that incorporated, and carefully defined the status of, the diverse population of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in their empire
What is the Casta System?
500
A document sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III, proposing a reconciliation between the colonies and Britain before the colonies officially declared independence
Olive Branch Petition
500
This political group at the time would agree with the sentiment expressed in this cartoon.
Who were the Whigs?
500
Court case that stated that free or enslaved blacks were not American citizens
Dred Scott vs Sanford
500
This reform aimed to increase citizen participation in government by allowing voters to directly propose and enact legislation.
initiative
500
Battle that led to the capture of Germany and the end of WWII in the European Theater in 1944
Battle of Berlin
500
Governor of Alabama that ran for president in 1968 on the American independent Party ticket of Racism & Law and Order
George Wallace
500
Who are the authors of the Federalist Papers?
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
James Madison