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Court Cases & The Test
100
What crop supported large population growth in Mesoamerica?
Maize/ Corn
100
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
100
What economic theory guided British colonial policy?
Mercantilism
100
What purchase doubled U.S. territory in 1803?
Louisiana Purchase
100
What is the POV of this image?
Manifest Destiny; Americans have the God-given destiny to move across the country.
100
What transportation accomplishment connected the east and west coasts?
Trans-continental railroad
100
What war in 1898 was sparked by the Yellow Journalism and the explosion of the USS Maine
Spanish American War
100
What policy aimed to stop communism from spreading?
Truman Doctrine
100
"We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
Brown v Board of Education, 1954
200
What was the major exchange of plants, animals, and diseases after 1492?
Columbian Exchange
200
Who said this "He that will not work shall not eat" and worked to save Jamestown
John Smith
200
What laws regulated colonial trade for Britain’s benefit?
Navigation Acts
200
What was an immediate military consequence of Britain's impressment of American soldiers?
War of 1812
200
What war added the Southwest to the U.S.?
Mexican-American War
200
What idea spread that justified the income inequalities seen in the Gilded Age?
Social Darwinism- the idea that wealthy people are wealthy because they are superior to poor people
200
Which president became known as a trustbuster?
Teddy Roosevelt
200
What war tested containment in Asia first?
Korean War, 1950-1953
200
How many MCQs are on the test, and how long do you have to complete them?
55 questions in 55 minutes
300
Which Native empire did Hernán Cortés conquer?
Aztecs in Mexico
300
What cash crop drove Virginia’s economy?
Tobacco
300
What two things did George Washington warn against in his farewell address?
Political Parties and foreign entanglements (alliances)
300
What doctrine warned Europe against new colonization in the western hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine
300
What development admitted California as free?
Compromise of 1850
300
What industry was each captain of industry/ robber baron associated with:
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan
V- railroads
C- steel
R- oil
M- banking
300
What events triggered U.S. entry into World War I?
Sinking of Lusitania & unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman telegram
300
What is the historical context for this image
Nixon on Watergate
300
What court case established judicial review?
Marbury v Madison, 1803
400
Which European nation first established a large empire in the Americas?
Spain
400
What representative assembly began in Virginia in 1619?
House of Burgesses
400
What proclamation limited settlement west of the Appalachians?
Proclamation of 1763
400
What was an impact of the War of 1812 for Native Americans?
Loss of British allies, death of Tecumseh, and a shift from fighting Native resistance to forced removal
400
What part of the Compromise of 1850 strengthened the abolition movement in the north by requiring citizens to return freedom seekers to their enslaver?
Fugitive Slave Law
400
What is the POV of this cartoonist?
Businessmen of the Gilded Age= robber barons, crushing workers
400
What amendment gave women the right to vote and when was it ratified?
19th Amendment, 1920
400
What law banned discrimination in public accommodations?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
400
What strategy should you use for answering SAQs?
A (or T)- Answer the question with a clear topic sentence
C (or E)- Cite your specific evidence
E (or A)- Explain/ analyze how the evidence supports your argument
500
What disease devastated Native populations after European contact?
Smallpox
500
Which group founded Plymouth Colony?
Puritans
500
What tax law angered colonists in 1765?
Stamp Act
500
Who won the election of 1828 as a champion of the common man?
Andrew Jackson
500
What was an immediate effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Political violence as migrants flooded into the territories (Bleeding Kansas).
500
What strike occurred at Carnegie’s steel plant in 1892?
Homestead Strike
500
What speech outlined Wilson’s peace goals after WWI?
14 points
500
Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?
Betty Friedan
500
Ruled that segregation was legal if equal facilities were offered for all races.
Plessy v Ferguson, 1896
600
What labor system granted Spanish settlers Native labor?
Encomienda
600
What document established self-government aboard the Mayflower?
Mayflower Compact
600
What was created in 1791 to regulate the national debt?
National Bank
600
What is likely the POV of this image
Against Jackson, saw him as a dictator
600
Who led the raid on Harpers Ferry?
John Brown
600
What led to the decrease in popularity for the Knights of Labor?
Violence at the Haymarket Square Riot
600
What is the historical context of this quote: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach"
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, tried to get people to pay attention to the plight of immigrants, and instead they cared about food.
600
What moment escalated the Vietnam War?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
600
Ruled that enslaved people were note protected by the Constitution
Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857
700
What historical development in 1989 ended the Cold War?
Fall of the Berlin Wall
700
Who founded Rhode Island for religious freedom?
Roger Williams
700
Describe a historical perspective depicted in the picture
British= bad. Firing on a crowd of civilians.
700
What economic plan promoted tariffs, roads, and a national bank?
American System, created by Henry Clay
700
What were the Reconstruction Amendments and what did each accomplish?
13- abolish slavery
14- Birthright citizenship
15- Black male suffrage
700
What massacre symbolized the end of armed Native resistance in 1890?
Wounded Knee
700
What led to the Great Depression?
Lack of government regulation of stock market and excessive buying on the margin (use of credit)
700
What is the phrase that explains the arms race, and why neither the Soviet Union or the US would reduce arms?
Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD
700
Ruled that abortion is protected under the right to privacy in the 14th Amendment
Roe v Wade, 1973
800
What political movement grew in power and influence in the 1980s?
Conservatism
800
Who founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker colony?
William Penn
800
What battle began the American Revolution?
Lexington & Concord
800
Who published the abolitionist periodical The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
800
Who became President after Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
800
What was the effect of the Dawes Act?
End of the reservation system, forced Native Americans to farm individually instead of communally. The goal was to end tribal unity and community.
800
List these events in the correct order: WWII, Roaring Twenties, WWI, Spanish American War, Great Depression
Spanish American War, WWI, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, WWII
800
What historical development marked the closest point the world has come to nucelar war?
Cuban Missile Crisis
800
Describe each SAQ question on the exam.
1: Dueling historians
2: Primary Source (periods 3-8)
3 OR 4: Choose 1, Question 3 is from first half of the course, Question 4 is second half of the course
900
What trade agreement was created between Canada, USA, and Mexico in the 1990s?
NAFTA
900
What rebellion exposed tensions between frontier farmers and elites in Virginia?
Bacon's Rebellion
900
Why did America with the Revolutionary War? Name at least 2 reasons
French support, superior knowledge of the terrain, George Washington's leadership, and a desire to fight for their homes.
900
What transportation route connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic?
Erie Canal
900
Who did the Emancipation Proclamation apply to?
States currently in rebellion (so not border states)
900
What SFI would you use to identify a change in economic policy in this time period?
Sherman Anti-trust act
900
Name and describe 2 New Deal Programs
CCC, WPA, TVA, AAA, etc
900
What historical development led to the credibility gap widening?
Release of Pentagon Papers, and revelation that the US knew the Vietnam War was a losing battle.
900
Describe the LEQ Questions
Choose one of the three options: #1 from Period 1-3, #2 from Periods 4-6, #3 from Periods 7-9
1000
Which region relied heavily on irrigation and settled villages?
Southwest
1000
What religious revival swept the colonies in the 1730s–1740s?
Great Awakening
1000
What document served as the first national government?
Articles of Confederation
1000
What document did the Declaration of Sentiments draw language from?
Declaration of Independence
1000
What agency was created to support newly free African Americans?
Freedmen's Bureau
1000
Where are "new" immigrants coming from in this time period?
Southern and Eastern Europe
1000
What event highlighted the divide between rural, religious Americans and urban, secular Americans?
Scopes Monkey Trial
1000
What was the effect of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?
Rise of environmental movement, Clean Air Act, EPA
1000
What Supreme Court case supported Cherokee rights but was ignored?
Worcester v Georgia, 1832
1100
What term describes Reagan's economic policies?
Supply side economics
1100
Which preacher became famous during the Great Awakening?
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
1100
Which political party favored agriculture and limited federal power?
Democratic Republicans
1100
What was the immediate result of Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Less freedoms and harsher treatment for enslaved people.
1100
Compare the strengths of the Union and Confederacy
Union: more people, more manufacturing, more railroads
Confederacy: fighting mostly in their own territory, fighting to defend way of life, superior military leadership
1100
Who made a speech in Atlanta in which they advocated for African Americans to gain economic strength and not fight for immediate equality?
Booker T Washington
1100
Which amendment is passed in this time that confirms the founders' idea of popular sovereignty?
17th Amendment, popular election of senators
1100
How did the Civil Rights movement change from the 50s to the 70s?
Earlier movements emphasized non violence, while later movements emphasized immediate change and did not rule out violence as a response to violence
1100
Chief Justice John Marshall established federal supremacy over states, ruling that Congress had implied powers under the "necessary and proper" clause to create a national bank
McCulloch v Maryland, 1819
1200
What Native confederacy influenced later ideas of political unity?
The Iroquois Confederacy
1200
Which colony became known for religious tolerance and diversity?
Pennsylvania
1200
What document replaced the Articles in 1787?
The Constitution
1200
What earlier documents was the Nullification Crisis based on?
The Kentucky and Virginian Resolutions created by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts
1200
Describe the historical context of this image
Political cartoon is created shortly after Reconstruction, political violence, such as the KKK, has limited the freedom of Black Americans, and the 'lost cause' myth has taken hold stating that slavery wasn't the real cause of the Civil War.
1200
How did the development of railroads lead to the growth of the Populist party?
Railroads had a monopoly and charged farmers high prices to ship goods, farmers united to form alliances, which became the grange movement, which joined the Populist party
1200
Describe a change and continuity within the Roaring 20s
Changes: women were more free to participate in society, rampant consumerism, new technology such as radio and cultural changes, shift back to laissez faire
Continuity: Nativism (red scare), Racism (violence inspires Great Migration), life as a worker is not great
1200
Use Intended audience to analyze this image
Goal was to promote the trauma caused by the government, and emphasize the peaceful nature of the protestors. Photographer is likely anti-Vietnam war.
1200
How do you earn each point in the DBQ?
1- Contextualization
2- Thesis
3- Summarize at least 3 docs
4- Use at least 4 docs to support an argument relevant to prompt
5- Outside evidence to support argument
6- HIPP
7- Complexity (HIPP 4, Use all 7, offer nuance)
1300
What was Spain’s main goal in early colonization?
Gold
1300
What region was known for shipbuilding and small farms?
New England
1300
Identify the document this quote comes from, and use the Intended Audience from HIPP to analyze: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
Declaration of Independence, Intended Audience in King of England, but also colonists. Trying to explain to colonists the rights that the Enlightenment taught them they could have; inspirational.
1300
What philosophy emphasized self-reliance and individualism, with a focus on simplifying life and connecting to nature?
Transcendentalism
1300
Compare Lincoln's Reconstruction plan to the Radical Republicans' plan
Lincoln's required 10% of the population of a state to swear loyalty to the Union and abolish slavery before they could rejoin.
Wade-Davis bill- required 50% to swear loyalty and banned Confederate officers from holding office
1300
What is the difference between tenement houses and settlement houses?
Tenements were cramped quarters for immigrants, while settlement houses focused on helping immigrants assimilate into American culture
1300
Use Intended Audience to analyze this
Prohibition poster, uses children and morality to make temperance a family issue and guilt people.
1300
What were the goals of the feminist era in comparison to earlier feminism:
1st wave:
2nd Wave:
1st: vote, political equality
2nd: economic equality such as equal pay
1300
Federal law takes precedence over state law regarding navigation, breaking a New York monopoly and establishing that "commerce" includes navigation, thereby promoting a national, free-market economy
Gibbons v Ogden, 1824
1400
How does Reaganomics represent a continuity in governmental economic policy?
Similar to Laissez faire policies of Gilded Age and 1920s
1400
Which colony was founded by Catholics?
Maryland
1400
Who likely would have agreed with this: "you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself"
-Thomas Jefferson
-Alexander Hamilton
-Loyalist
-John Adams
Alexander Hamilton, quote from the Federalist papers
1400
Analyze the historical context for this map:
Indian Removal Act and government refusal to abide by the court case Worcester v Georgia
1400
How did Lincoln expand the powers of the federal government during the Civil War?
Suspended habeas corpus, so people in the border states could be jailed if they were suspected of betraying the Union
1400
Who is associated with the idea of the "talented tenth"
WEB DuBois
1400
Use historical context to analyze this speech
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan"
Attack on Pearl Harbor, America joins WWII
1400
Name one action taken by the American Indian Movement
Occupation of Alcatraz, Occupation of Wounded Knee, Trail of Broken Treaties
1400
How do you earn each point on the LEQ?
1- Contextualization
2- Thesis
3- Identifies 2 SFI relevant to topic
4- Uses 2 SFI to support your argument
5- Uses historical thinking skill (cause/ effect, CCOT, Comparison) to make your argument
6- Complexity with good use of 4 SFI, nuance, multiple perspectives, etc.
1500
Compare the Patriot Act with another moment in American history.
Alien and Sedition Act, Red Scare, HUAC
1500
Who challenged Puritan religious leadership and gender roles in Massachusetts Bay?
Anne Hutchinson
1500
Describe the historical context of this image
Originally created by Benjamin Franklin to gather support for the British during the French and Indian War, soon afterwards this was used to gain support for the colonies to unite for independence from Britain. Previously, the colonies were seen as independent from each other.
1500
Describe a difference between the First Great Awakening and the Second Great Awakening?
First focused on Calvinism, revival of personal connection to God, and challenge to authority
Second: individualism, more social reforms like temperance, education, and mental health reforms
1500
How was the New South both a change and continuity from Antebellum era?
Continuity- agriculture based, African Americans controlled through Jim Crow, Black Codes, and sharecropping agreements
Change- slavery has ended, some industrial growth, African Americans could vote initially, but are limited quickly.
1500
Analyze this speech using the Intended audience part of HIPP
"If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world... we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
WJB is trying to incite people to join the populist cause against the gold standard, by linking it to the "common man" and also giving it moral and religious ties by bringing the cross/ crown of thorns symbolism
1500
What major change did the New Deal represent in governmental policy?
A shift from an emphasis on rugged individualism to social safety nets created by the government
1500
Compare/ Contrast the Great Society and the New Deal
New Deal: focused on economic programs such as jobs programs and social security; after Great Depression; main goal was to get US out of Depression, and it left out minorities
Great Society: some focus on economic programs, but more about equity within economic programs; Medicare, Medicaid, and education for poor; during Civil Rights era
1500
Upheld the exclusion of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast Military Area during World War II, an exclusion that led to the internment of Japanese Americans.
Korematsu v US, 1944