Units 1&2
What were joint stock companies, and what were they used for?
Businesses owned by shareholders that were investing in exploration and colonization of the western hemisphere.
How was the French and Indian War a cause of the American Revolution?
England went into an incredible amount of debt due to the war. Their solution was to tax the colonies. Additionally, England made the Proclamation Line of 1863 which angered the colonists.
What social idea developed in reaction to women's expanded role in the workforce during the first half of the 1800s, and what did it state?
Cult of Domesticity - Women were supposed to inhabit the private sphere, running the household and production of food (including servants), rearing the children, and taking care of the husband
How did the Gilded Age lead to the development of a middle class?
The rapid industrialization and growth of large corporations created a need for a significant number of white-collar workers like managers, clerks, and professionals.
Eisenhower presided over the largest public works enterprise in American history. What was it, and what effect did it have?
the building of the 41,000 mile interstate highway system. It led to the growth of suburbs.
Why were the years 1491 – 1607 chosen as the dates for APUSH Unit 1?
1491 is one year prior to the arrival of Columbus and Europeans.
1607 is the year England established a permanent settlement at Jamestown.
What were two battles from the American Revolution and why were they significant?
The Battle of Brooklyn: major early loss for Washington, but he saved most of his soldiers
The Battle of Trenton: early victory, helped morale
The Battle of Saratoga: the French joined the war.
The Battle of Yorktown: the French cut off the British supply lines, the US won the war
In your own words, what was the Market Revolution?
A period in the early 19th century where the economy shifted from a largely agrarian, self-sufficient system to a more industrialized, market-based one, driven by new technologies like the steam engine, causing major social and economic changes across the country.
What are two differences between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
Washington: believed that African-Americans should keep their head down, work, and obey Jim Crow laws
DuBois: believed that education would set African-Americans free, should protest Jim Crow Laws, Talented 10th
What were two causes of the Vietnam War? Explain them.
containment, Domino Theory, French Colonialism, Geneva Agreements, Gulf of Tonkin Incident
What effect did Bacon's Rebellion have on race and labor in the British colonies?
After Bacon's rebellion, the Chesapeake region began to codify white supremacy into law, giving white people more rights than Black people. Additionally, it led to enslaved Africans as the preferred labor source over white indentured servants.
What important roles did women have before and after the American Revolution?
Before the revolution, they took part in spinning bees and boycotts. After the revolution, they took part in Republican Motherhood, raising their sons to be good, informed citizens.
Of the following three events, which was most important in causing the Civil War and why? (opinion question, points will be awarded based on strength of evidence):
1. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas
2. Dred Scott vs. Sanford
3. Harpers Ferry Raid
1. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas - first blood spilt, Missouri Compromise repealed
2. Dred Scott vs. Sanford - Black people no longer protected by the constitution, slavery could go anywhere, and Lincoln runs for office
3. Harpers Ferry Raid - first white man/abolitionist sacrificed his life to end slavery
Give 3 causes for the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash of 1929, "buying on the margin," bank failures, consumerism and overproduction, high tariffs and reduced global trade
Who created the Great Society and what was one of it's achievements?
Lyndon B. Johnson;
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare and Medicaid (healthcare access for elderly and low-income individuals), Elementary and Secondary Education Act (federal funding to low-income schools), Head Start (early childhood), War on Poverty (food stamps)
What are two differences between the Chesapeake and New England colonies?
Chesapeake: longer growing seasons, more fertile land, cash crops, majority white single men
New England: shorter growing seasons, rocky soil, majority families, very religious, fishing and trade
What was the Great Compromise (aka The Connecticut Compromise) at the Constitutional Convention? What did it decide?
It gave us three branches of government, one of which, the legislative, which is split into two parts, the house and the senate, the representation of the prior based on population, the latter a fixed number.
Name the rights given by the 13, 14, and 15 amendments.
13. Free the slaves
14. extension of citizenship
15. right to vote for African Americans
What do cash and carry, destroyers for bases, the Lend-Lease Act, and the Atlantic Charter all have in common? Why were they created?
They were all ways FDR gradually shifted the US from neutrality to active support for the Allies before officially entering World War II.
Who was Ronald Reagan, and why is he significant?
Reagan was a conservative president elected in 1980 by a landslide who implemented supply-side economics and increased military spending.
What was the Encomienda System, and what did Bartolome de las Casas have to do with it?
The encomienda system was a system of forced labor in central American where the Spanish could use the indigenous population as slaves in exchange for converting them to Christianity. De las Casas took par tin the system until he saw how horrible it was. He fought the rest of his life to end the ill-treatment of natives by the Spanish.
What arguments did Thomas Paine make for Independence in "Common Sense," and why were they so persuasive?
He argued a mother should not devour their young (Britain shouldn't mistreat the colonies), that just because a baby drinks milk in its first year it shouldn't for the rest of its life ( colonist's dependence on Britain), and that God made the colonies far from Britain for a reason (geographical argument). They were so persuasive because they were simple, or in other words: COMMON SENSE.
Explain the Bargain/Compromise of 1877 and the effect it had on the south.
The Compromise of 1877 gave the presidency to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes, in exchange for federal troops being removed from the south. This enabled the south to enact policies and laws that made life almost identical to how it had been pre-Civil War.
Name one New Deal (alphabet agency) program and what it sought to accomplish.
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) - designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses
NRA (National Recovery Act) - eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices"
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) - provide electricity generation, regional planning, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley
WPA (Works Progress Administration) - employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects
What is globalization?
The increased interconnectedness of the world through trade, technology, and cultural exchange.