Random Category #1
The most likely speaker of the following quote would come from (this) country:
"It is a matter of too great notoriety to need any proofs that the arrival of his Majesty's troops in Boston was extremely obnoxious to its inhabitants. They have ever used all means in their power to weaken the regiments, and to bring them into contempt by promoting and aiding desertions, and with impunity, even where there has been the clearest evidence of the fact, and by grossly and falsely propagating untruths concerning them."
What is England/ British?
True or False:
Prior to and including 1492, Native American cultures were so diverse that they defy easy and simple description?
True
The scarce natural resource that Southwestern Native Americans became experts in utilizing effectively.
What is water?
True or False:
Indigenous practices and religious ceremonies became common in Western Europe after European contact with indigenous American peoples.
False
Whose plan for reconstruction mandated that to be readmitted to the union, at least 10% of voters had to take an oath of allegiance: Lincoln or Johnson?
Lincoln
Growing colonial resentment of British authority during the 1760s could largely be attributed to the increased implementation of this common government practice.
What is taxation?
The Supreme Court decision that set the precedent that the supreme court can declare a law passed by the U.S. Congress as unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The president whose election started the first wave of state secession beginning the U.S. Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A doctrine that stipulated the United States would help on behalf of any country that was under threat of being taken over by a totalitarian state.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The terms proprietary, royal, and self-governing can be used to describe these political/economic structures.
What are the American Colonies?
The figures who helped shape Henry's idealized concept of courage in The Red Badge of Courage.
Who are ancient heroes of myth?
A mysterious figure, who in The Great Gatsby, is described as having eyes that are "blue" and "gigantic".
Who is Dr. T.J. Eckleburg?
The place to which Jim Burden tells Antonia he thinks her father's soul traveled.
What is the 'Old Country'?
This action caused Huck Finn to grapple with an internal moral dilemma.
What is helping Jim escape slavery?
The supreme court case that overturned the 1896 decision of Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
Workers in the early 19th century Massachusetts factories faced this economic hardship because workers were easily replaced.
What are low wages?
Prior to the Civil War, the southern economy was based almost solely on agriculture; by contrast, the northern economy could be described as this.
What is a mixed economy? (based on agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing)
A term used to describe the movement of slaves from Africa to the West Indies, Molasses from the Indies to N. America, lumber from N. America to England, and manufactured goods from England to N. America
What is the 'Triangle Trade'?
Alexander Hamilton is honored on the U.S. $10 bill because he...
a. ... designed the first U.S. national bank.
b. ...planned the establishment of the credit of the first U.S. government through the assumption of Revolutionary War debts.
c. ...encouraged the development of the American economy with his "Report on Manufactures"
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
The amendment to the U.S. Constitution that made "involuntary servitude" illegal in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
The U.S. president who was opposed to ALL of the following:
1. the Mexican American War
2. the expansion of slavery into U.S. territories
3. the secession of southern states from the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The civil rights event(s) that is commonly agreed to have helped propel Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to prominence.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The wealthy newspaper publisher who was accused of "Yellow Journalism" during coverage of the events in Cuba during the 1890s, further characterized as spreading "sensational news"
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
The passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 and the completion of the transcontinental Railroad helped to fulfill the United States' commitment to this growth ideal.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A collusive governance system that was sought to be dismantled by the Civil Service Commission by administering competitive exams to all applicants for federal jobs.
What is the spoils system?
Of the following, which was the only government action that did NOT add a LARGE amount of land to the U.S.?
A. the Louisiana Purchase
B. the Kansas Nebraska Act
C. the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
B. the Kansas Nebraska Act
A document that outlined a government structure, a strength of this document is that it created provisions for equal state representation.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Article 1 of the U.S. constitution addresses this branch of U.S. Federal Government.
What is the legislative branch?
A system of governance that is characterized by the following: the right of initiative, the right of referendum, the right to recall elected officials.
What is 'direct democracy?
(Owning a gun is not part of this system)
Some scholars claim that this president's approach to foreign policy was based on his belief that the United States had a moral duty to champion self-determination, peaceful free trade, and democracy.
Who is President Wilson?
The character from the play Our Town who discovers, by the end of the play, that her life had more value than she realized.
Who is Emily?
These are two of the core reasons that Thoreau wanted to move to Walden pond.
What is 'live simply' and 'fully experience life'?
These things served as a symbol for freedom for Frederick Douglass while he was still a slave in the city.
What are boats on the Chesapeake Bay?
What are "The Grapes of Wrath"?
The character, whose actions against Othello could be best described as being rooted in seeking revenge for a perceived slight.
Who is Iago?
Burgoyne's defeat at the Battle of Saratoga was a decisive moment in the Revolutionary War because it brought this country onto the side of the 'patriots'.
What is France?
Of the following, all are arguments against the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, EXCEPT...
a. the nation is too large
b. the population is too diverse
c. the Federal Government will become tyrannical
d. does not address the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
d. does not address the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
The man who delivered the famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
The stated purpose o the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was to remove this group.
Who is the Taliban/ Al Quaeda?
(Initially, it was stated that the invasion had NOTHING to do with Saddam Hussein or Iraq, despite the U.S. later becoming involved in conflict there too.)
A conflict in which Native Americans defeated a famous U.S. Cavalry General and killed all of his soldiers in 1876.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?