Colonial Period & American Revolution
- What was the cash crop that saved Jamestown from ruin?
- How did the Stamp Act/Sugar Act cause tension in the colonies?
- Tabacoo
- They caused financial strain, stricter British assemblies, increased smuggling, and led to the creation of the Sons of Liberty
- What machine allowed for various kinds of cotton to grow?
- The cotton gin
What 1863 battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
- The Battle of Gettysburg
What was the most pivotal change that sparked the start of the Industrial Revolution?
- The railroad
- What were the communities of homeless people during the Great Depression called?
- Who was the poster woman symbolizing working women during WWII?
- Hoovervilles
- Rosie the Riveter
- What foreign country aided the colonists in the American Revolution?
- Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution unless BLANK was added to it?
- France
- The Bill of Rights
- Who was Harriet Tubman? BONUS: What did she do during the Civil War?
- Tubman was an abolitionist and escaped slave who took 13 missions to help slaves escape through the Underground Railroad
- She served as a spy, nurse, and scout for the Union Army and advocated for women's rights during and after the war.
- Why did South Carolina secede when Abraham Lincoln was elected president?
- What year was Abraham Lincoln elected?
- Due to the fear that slavery would be abolished and they would be forced to become a free state -> this led to the formation of the Confederate States of America
- 1861
- Which innovation in production was used by Henry Ford and drastically lowered manufacturing costs?
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- The assembly line
- What international organization was created in 1949 to promote world peace, and what opposing organization was made to counter it in 1955?
- What was the 1944 court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese-American internment camps?
- NATO and the Warsaw Pact
- Korematsu v. The United States
Why did the Puritans occupy Massachusetts Bay, and who founded the colony?
JOHN WINTHROP founded the Massachusetts Bay colony because:
- It allowed for them to follow their religion peacefully
- It was founded on principles of the bible (predestination)
- The Puritans believed in the "City upon a Hill," wanting to create a society representing a beacon of spirituality.
- In 1820, what compromise was created to maintain the balance of free and slave states?
- The Missouri Compromise
- What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
- Who was the Ku Klux Klan, and what were their values?
- The act FORMALLY equated the rights of free people (guaranteed to all Americans with the abolition of slavery) with the natural rights of citizens and provided for the federal protection of those rights.
- They were a white supremacist group that used intimidation and violence, including murder, to suppress Black political participation and restore white dominance in the South.
- What was the name of the secret Serbian nationalist group responsible for the assassination of which leader in Sarajevo?
- What was the concept consisting of deep loyalty to one’s nation that strengthened due to tensions and aggressive foreign policies in the pre-war years, and only grew MORE aggressive in Germany post-WWI?
- The Black Hand and Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Nationalism
- What was the 1947 report which warned that the U.S. must stop Soviet expansion using containment?
- What. was the conference held in February 1945 that Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin discussed post-war Europe?
- The Truman Doctrine
- The Yalta Conference
- Jon Locke's Enlightened quote of "life, liberty, and prosperity" led to Thomas Jefferson's altercation of the same one in the Declaration of Independence. What did Jefferson alter the quote to include?
- What seven-year war led to further tension between Great Britain and the Colonists?
- "life, liberty, and happiness" OR "life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness."
- The French and Indian War
Who was the famous general for the Confederacy, and also surrendered at the Appomattox Court House?
- Robert E. Lee
- What did the Treaty of Versailles achieve, and which country received what repercussions?
Germany received the following repercussions:
- Military restrictions in both their navy and army (shrinking both and cutting funding)
- Lost territory (including overseas colonies)
- Led to financial restrain to Germany's economy and to its citizens -> Led to lower country moral
- Who did Bill Clinton appoint as justice to the Supreme Court in 1993?
- This domestic policy was created by Nixon that promoted giving more control and funding to states. What was it called?
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- New Federalism
- What did the colonists do in Jamestown? What were indentured servants and why did African slaves replace them?
- What was the Continental Congress?
- The colonists worked for themselves and traded goods. Indentured servants were people who worked for their own benefit/sent from Great Britain to pay off fees/debts. Slaves replaced them because they didn't have to pay them and could treat them poorly.
- A group formed by the colonists to fight against the British and to declare independence.
- What THREE amendments were added to the Constitution during Reconstruction? What did they enforce?
-13TH: Abolished slavery in the United States (1865)
-14TH: Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people (ENSURED protection under the law)
-15TH: Granted right to vote for men regardless of skin color and past status of servitude (slavery)
- What was the deadly chemical weapon first used in WWI that caused severe blisters and blindness, and was later labeled as "Chemical Warfare?"
- What communication invention was developed by Samuel Morse, and was used to connect businesses and railroads across long distances?
- Mustard Gas
- The Telegraph
- Which influential economist criticized austerity during economic downturns and promoted deficit spending?
- John Maynard Keynes