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Miscellaneous
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The crossing of the Delaware occurred on

December 24, 1776

100

Louisiana Purchase - Who purchased the land from who and how much did they buy each acre for?

Thomas Jefferson purchased the land from Napoleon Bonaparte for 4 cents an acre. $15 million total.

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Significance: Dred Scott V. Sanford

  • The US Supreme Court decided that no slave or descendent of a slave could be a US citizen.

    1. Can’t file a lawsuit because he is a non-citizen and property.

  • Dred Scott - Slave

100

Codenames of the beaches from D-Day

Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword

100

Henry Clay and the Missouri Compromise of 1820

  1. The Great Compromiser

  2. Missouri enters as a slave state

  3. Maine (still part of Massachusetts) will enter as a free state

  4. 36'30

200

Explain what happened at the Battle of Brandywine

The Americans guarded Chad’s Ford and lost due to the British outflanking them.

200

Where was gold discovered in California leading to the Gold Rush in 1849?

Sutter’s Fort along the Sacramento River

200

What parties did the Whigs split into?

  1. Northern Whigs created the Republicans (Federalists)- Anti-slavery

  2. Southern Whigs joined the Democrats (Anti-federalists) - Pro-slavery

200

What is Fascism?

No unifying theory

Extreme Nationalism
Aggressive foreign expansion

200

When and which state was the first state to secede?

South Carolina, December 20, 1860

300

What battle changed the course of the Revolutionary War? Why did this battle change the course of the war?

Battle of Saratoga was the first major win after the Battle of Trenton. France gave aid

300

What is the Bear Flag Revolt?

Start of California’s annex

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Emancipation Proclamation & The Gettysburg Address

EP

  1. Freed slaves in rebelling states

  2. Accepted black men into the Union militaet


GA: 

  1. The struggle for human equality and a "new birth of freedom,"

  2. The nation’s commitment to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence


300

What is National Socialism?

Form of fascism

  1. Expansionism - Germany must expand to gain “Lebensraum”

  2. Racism - Aryans are the master/superior race

  3. Anti-semitism - Jews are the greatest enemies of Aryans

300

Significance of the Worcester v. Georgia and Marbury v. Madison?

Georgia - laid the foundation for tribal sovereignty


Madison - US Supreme Court can rule on the constitutionality of laws


400

What are the Articles of Confederation?

The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States.

Created the United States of America

400

What came out of the Oregon Treaty of 1846?

The 49th Parallel Line. The present-day boundary between Canada and the US

400

When did the Civil War officially end?

Who surrendered at the battle of Appomattox Court House. Who did he surrender to?

8.20.1865 - The Union won the Civil War

Robert E Lee to Ulysses S. Grant

400

What is Communism?

Unifying theory

  1. Dictatorship of the proletariat.

  2. Collective ownership of property

400

Paris Peace Treaty

February 10, 1947 - Paris Peace Conference

Formally ended World War II in Europe

500

What happened at the Battle of Monmouth? What did this lead to?

Lafayette led the charge and Lee was asked to lead a charge on the British’s flank and instead ordered a retreat. Washington found him and forced the men to not retreat. Won the battle.

Lee = Courtmartialed

500

Treaty of Guadaluope Hidalgo or Mexican Cession of 1848

  1. Ended the Mexican-American War.

    1. Mexico ceded California, Utah, Nevada, parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming and made the border the Rio Grande.

  2. Ended the Bear Flag Revolt

500

  1. Sherman’s March to the Sea

  1. Nov 15, 1864 – Dec 21, 1864; “Crippled Confederates War Effort
    Total War: Any sacrifice of lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory.

    1. Goals

      1. Deny Georgia’s resources to the Confederacy.

      2. Prove the strength of                                                                               North/Union

  2. July 22, 1864: The Battle of Atlanta - Beginning of Sherman’s March to the Sea

  3. Laid siege on Atlanta: Major railroad centre, supply depot, and manufacturing hub for both Georgia and the Confederacy

  4. Union: Gen. William T. Sherman

500

Operations

Husky, Torch, Overlord, Neptune

Avalanche & Slapstick

Husky: The invasion of Sicily was successful

Torch: Allies landed in Morocco and Algeria

Overlord & Neptune: June 6, 1944: D-Day, (Assault phase of Operation Overlord) 

Avalanche & Slapstick: The main Allied landing at Salerno and The British 1st Airborne Division at Taranto 

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Interwar Period

  1. Collapse of three empires - Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian empires

  2. Mass migration (12 million) of various ethnic groups

  3. Famines

  4. 1918 Influenza epidemic - killed over 25 million people worldwide.

  5. Great Depression: 1929 - 1939