Vocab
what is the Headright system?
Method of attracting settlers to Virginia, after 1618, it gave fifty acres of land to anyone who paid for their own passage or for that of any other settlers who might be sent or brought to the colony.
Joe McCarthy was the Republican Senator of what state?
Wisconsin
Name at least 4 of the 13 original colonies.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
What year did the United States enter World War II ?
1941
What year was Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crashed.
1929
Who are Antifederalists?
People that are opposed to a strong central government.
What year was there a nation-wide revolt against communist uprising in Hungary known as the Budapest Uprising.
1956
What three groups were the colonies divided into?
New England colonies, Middle colonies, and Southern colonies.
Who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945?
President Harry Truman
A trial which took place in Dayton, TN about the teaching of evolution in schools?
Scopes Trial
Who are loyalists?
Also known as Tories, the term refers to those Americans who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolution.
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) launched the first successful what? Called what?
Artificial satellite called Sputnik
Who founded the colony of Virginia in 1607?
John Smith
When did Hitler invade Poland?
September 1939
Who was the first person to fly solo from New York to Paris?
Charles Lindberg
What is the judicial review?
The right of the supreme court to declare a law passed by Congress unconstitutional.
Who was the first person to use the term "Iron curtain"?
Winston Churchill
What Native American tribe did the pilgrims share their first thanksgiving(fall harvest)with?
Wampanoag
The strategy used by the United States to attack Japan was called?
Island hopping
This is a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.
Isolationism
What is the meaning of Blitzkrieg?
German term meaning "lighting war"; Term applied to the rapid German military advance into Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherland, and France in 1939 and 1940.
What year did the Soviet Union detonate its first atomic bomb?
1949
Who was the first American born child with English parents?
Virginia Dare
During World War II who was the commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet?
Chester Nimitz
What is NAACP short for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People