Periods 1-2
What was the transfer of people, plants, animals, and diseases both ways from North America to Europe and Africa?
Columbian Exchange
What book, written by Thomas Paine, changed many Americans minds about breaking away from Great Brittan?
Common Sense
What did Plessy V Ferguson upheld?
Separate but equal
What was the movement of African Americans during WW1 called?
Great Migration
Who created containment?
George Kennan
What region of the US did the Iroquois live?
Northeast
What was the French and Indian war caused by?
English encroachment onto French lands
Name 3 important abolitionists
John Brown, William L Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, etc.
Name one of FDRs failures or mistakes as president.
Court packing, Japanese internment
What was the name of LBJs social welfare program?
Great Society
What religious group made up the British colony of New England?
Puritans
Name 3 acts that the British passed that colonists disliked
Stamp act, Townshend act, intolerable acts, sugar act, etc.
What act overturned the Missouri compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska act
Why did the US not join the league of Nations?
Washington's farewell address saying to avoid entangling alliances.
What did Eisenhower warn about in his farewell address?
The Military-Industrial Complex
What disease ravaged the Native population and what percentage of their population was taken out?
Smallpox. 90%.
What were the 3 parts of Henry Clays American System?
BUS, Tariffs, Internal improvements.
What were 3 advantages that the North had in the Civil war?
Greater population, Improved military leadership (Grant, Sherman), Anaconda plan, Key Victories, Emancipation proclamation, etc.
What three R's did the New Deal focus on?
relief, recovery, reform
What led to the rise of growth of Conservatism during this time period?
Social and moral decay, rise of the Church, political scandals, economic problems, etc.
Name 2 differences between French relations with the natives and Spanish relations with the natives.
French: Sent fewer settlers, established trade alliances, intermarriage, wanted furs and such not gold.
Name the 3 reform movements inspired by the Second Great awakening
Abolitionism, Women's rights, temperance.
What did the compromise of 1877 do?
End reconstruction, military withdrawn from south, Hayes becomes president.
What was the political realignment during this time period?
Hint: Two groups of people
African Americans and Unions/working class began to vote democratic
What was the post WW2 economic boom caused by? (at least 2 reasons)
Federal spending, baby boom, technological advancements.