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Period 3 (1754 - 1800)
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Period 6 (1865 - 1898)
Period 7 (1890 - 1945)
Period 8 (1945 - 1980)
100
What document was written and sent to the King of England in order to declare independence? Who wrote this document and in what year?


BONUS: What are the first 3 words of this document?

Declaration of Independence -- Thomas Jefferson, 1776


When in the

100
What is the name of the movement that was trying to end slavery?


Name ONE person or event from this movement

Abolition Movement


Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe), John Brown's Raid, Underground Railroad (Harriet Tubman), Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth

100
What white terrorist organization grew out of the Reconstruction period? Why did this organization start?
Ku Klux Klan
100
What is the name for the period of vast economic growth in between World War I and the Great Depression?


Name ONE thing that happened during this period

Roaring 20's
100
Name the THREE American policies towards the USSR that guided America's engagement with the USSR during the Cold War.
Containment

Détente

Roll Back



200
Name ONE of the taxes placed on colonists that led to the eventual outbreak of the Revolutionary War? What did that tax do?
Stamp Act

Sugar Act

Tea Act

Townshend Act

200
What is the term that describes America's purpose to expand west?


Name ONE conflict that arouse from this expansion

Manifest Destiny
200
What laws were passed in Southern states (at both the local and state level) to control freedmen? Describe ONE of these laws.
Black Codes
200
What is the name of the series of laws passed by FDR and Congress to alleviate the disaster of the Great Depression (also known as alphabet soup)?


Name ONE program that came out of these laws AND what "R" it addressed

The New Deal



Relief, Recovery, Reform

200
What TWO conflicts in Cuba led to the demise in US/Cuban relations during the Cold War? Describe each.
Bay of Pigs (1961)

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

300
What pamphlet was heavily circulated that ultimately persuaded colonists to rebel against the British? Who wrote this pamphlet?
Common Sense - Thomas Paine (1775)
300
What executive order (issued by Abraham Lincoln) declared slaves in REBELLING states free?


BONUS: what was the other huge change this order made to the lives of Black men?

Emancipation Proclamation


Allowed Black men to join the army

300
What transportation achievement, finished in 1869, made movement to and from the east coast way faster?


BONUS: what two immigrant groups were responsible for building this project

Transcontinental Railroad



Irish and Chinese

300
What intercepted telegram caused the United States to finally get involved in World War I?


BONUS: What other event also led to the US's late entry into the war?

Zimmerman Telegram (1917)


sinking of the Lusitania (1915)

300
Name ONE social movement of the 1960s/1970s (other than the Civi Rights Movement):

1) what problems was it trying to address?

2) what strategies did this movement use to address these problems?

American Indian Movement

LGBTQ Movement

Chicano Movement

United Farm Workers Movement

Black Power Movement

Women's Movement

Environmental Movement

400
What two state plans were able to reach a compromise in order to create a bicameral legislature?


BONUS: What was the name of the compromise?

New Jersey Plan and the Virginia Plan



Connecticut Compromise

400
What were the Reconstruction Amendments (name the #s as well)? Describe what ONE of these amendments achieved.
13th: no more slavery

14th: equal protection + citizenship

15th: right to vote for Black men

400

Name ONE labor uprising/conflict from this period--describe what happened and who was involved.

Haymarket Affair (1886) -- Knights of Labor

Railroad Strike of 1877 


Rock Springs Massacre (1885)


Pullman Strike (1894)

400
What was the name for the institutions that provided housing, education, and job training to immigrations during the late 18th/early 19th century? 


BONUS: name an example of one of these houses

Settlement Houses


Hull House

400
What is the name for LBJ's set of domestic programs that focused on education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation?


Name ONE of these programs

Great Society
500
What were the names of the TWO gatherings at which the leaders of the colonists gathered, discussed their unhappiness with the British, and ultimately planned for war? 
The 1st Continental Congress and the 2nd Continental Congress: 
500
What president took office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? Describe ONE thing he did as president in regards to Reconstruction.
Andrew Johnson
500
What is the name of the thesis/theory that argued that American culture, democracy, and progress was built by the frontier and westward expansion?


BONUS: who wrote this essay?

Frontier Thesis, 1893 ("The Significance of the Frontier in American History")-- Frederick Jackson Turner
500
What is the name for the exaggerated journalism during the time of imperialism and the Spanish-American War?
Yellow Journalism
500
What incident (and later resolution) allowed for:

A) the president to make war decisions (without Congress) when dealing with issues of Communism in South East Asia

B) increased American troop presence in Vietnam? 

Gulf of Tonkin incident --> Gulf of Tonkin resolution