Colonial
Virginia and Maryland
What year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
What year did the US civil war start?
1861
What year did America enter the Second World War?
1941
Who is the only President to have served more than two terms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What four colonies made up the New England Region?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth
How many colonies were a part of the original constitution?
13
Robber Barons referred to what?
Also known as “Captains of Industry”; Gilded Age Industrial figures who inspired both admirations for their economic leadership and innovation, and hostility and fear, due to their unscrupulous business methods, repressive labour practices, and unprecedented economic control over entire industries
The Age of Reform
By 1919, most states has restricted the teaching of foreign languages; Liberty Cabbage and Liberty Sandwich referred to what German foods?
Sauerkraut and Hamburger
What type of slavery was prominent in the colonies?
Indentured Servitude
What is the importance of the 14th Amendment (1868)?
Guaranteed citizenship for African Americans
What was the most important intellectual movement of the Gilded Age?
Social Darwinism
Brown v. Board of Education is significant, why?
It signalled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.
The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) was founded in what year?
1909
In the aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, it changed the consciousness of the colony from class divisions to what?
Racial divisions
What year was the Constitution ratified?
1789
After the abolition of slavery in the North, what was slavery commonly referred to in the South?
The Peculiar Institution
The New Deal(s) proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt focused on what aspect of American life?
What act by British Parliament started the American Revolution?
The Stamp Act of 1765
What was the Three-Fifths Clause?
That three-fifths of the slave population would be counted in determining each state’s representation in the House of Representatives and its electoral votes for president.
The Gilded Age was named after a novel in 1873 by who?
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Fourteen Points refers to what?
President Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 plan for peace after WW1; at the Versailles peace conference, however, he failed to incorporate all of the points into the treaty
Only serving 32 days, the shortest presidential term belongs to who?
William Henry Harrison