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What happened at the Battle of Little BigHorn?
Custer and the 7th calvary are slaughtered after choosing to be impatient with not waiting for their reinforcements. They were quickly swarmed and outnumbered by the Native American tribes waiting for them to attempt to push them onto a reservation.
Most important product to repair the southern economy after the Civil War?
Cotton
The British and Mark One
Who won the Korean War?
Nobody. There was no clear winner. It would have started another World War to achieve a winning outcome.
How did Zebulon Pike die during the War of 1812? Also, who is he?
He was the explorer that discovered Pikes Peak. He was blown up with ammunition barrels after the United States stormed the British in Canada. British were on the retreat and were blowing up their powder, so the Americans could not get to it.
What is the X,Y,Z affair?
Pro-British United States is having problems with the French raiding their ships. This results in Adams sending over diplomats to France. They are met rudely by X,Y,Z french men who tell us to pay 250,000 dollars to see French foreign minister Talleyrand. We are insulted and outrage happens when diplomats return to the United States.
Cherokee
Who invented chemical warfare and what was the first type they used?
The Germans and chlorine gas
What are Jim Crow laws?
Racist laws that introduce segregation as normalcy in the south. (Separate but Equal)
What territory do we gain from the Adams-Onis Treaty?
Florida
X,Y,Z affair
Midnight Judges
Alien and Sedition Acts
What is 40 aces and a mule? Who is involved?
The first broken promise to African-Americans. Lincoln promises about 200,000 freedmen 40 acres and a mule. After his assassination, Johnson breaks the promise and returns all the land to southerners. He is a southern sympathizer.
What is The Tripartite Pact?
When does the Red Scare begin?
After WWI when the Bolsheviks turn Russia to communism and create the Soviet Union, there is worry about communism spreading to the U.S.
What are the terms of the Homestead Act of 1862?
Settlers west could acquire 160 acres, if they were able to agriculturally produce on the land for 5 years.
Name all three members that we discussed from Washington's cabinet and their roles.
Thomas Jefferson (Secretary of State), Henry Knox (Secretary of War), and Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of Treasury)
Civil War battles we discussed in order.
Pearl Harbor is nicknamed.
"A date which will live in infamy."
What were the two main points of the Monroe Doctrine?
1. Isolationism as foreign policy precedent for the U.S. until the world wars.
2. Europe stay out of our backyard, a.k.a. the western hemisphere
Where doe the silver rush take place and what is it called?
Comstock Lode and Virginia City, NV.
They were made in the final hours of his presidency. Adams created circuit courts to replace a traveling supreme court and appointed several judges to these new courts. It is an issue because all the judges are federalist or part of his political party. Jefferson who will be in office after is an antifederalist. He will work to immediately undo these.
Southern slaves that had ran away to the north needed to be returned by the northerners to the south or they would face federal consequences.
Fugitive Slave Act
Aspects of Teddy Roosevelt's foreign policy.
1. Environmental Conservation
2. Anti-Monopoly (Fair Deal-Fair and Square)
3. Imperialism
Progressive Era Politics
What do Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover have in common with politics?
Laissez Faire or Hands Off Strategy for Political Action
Details of the Louisiana Purchase
15 million dollars, Napoleon is waging war in Europe and needs funds. He is also too distracted to control the area. Thus, he sells to a motivated U.S. that wants the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans.