Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Anti-Federalist states would not ratify the constitution unless this was offered?
What are the Bill of Rights
Where the Confederates fired the first shots of the Civil War, located in Charleston, South Carolina
What was Fort Sumter?
The sinking of this American warship in Havana, Cuba precipitated the Spanish American War in 1898
What was the U.S.S Maine?
This was the infamous date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese
December 7th, 1941
The quote "The shot heard round the world" was used to describe these battle(s) of the American Revolution
What was the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This war it titled "The Forgotten War" or America's "Second War of Independence" against the British
What was the War of 1812?
The term to describe that the people of a territory decide whether or not to have slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This Cold War plan provided aid to Greece and Turkey to fight the spread of communism after WWII
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Benedict Arnold committed this crime against his the United States for handing over West Point to the British
What is TREASON
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
The Union's plan to suppress the Confederacy at the beginning stages of the Civil War
What was the Anaconda Plan?
The term for elimination of a culture and indoctrinate ones own culture
assimilation
This was the name of the theory that was the pretext to the Vietnam War that stated "if one country fell to communism, others would fall as well"
What was the Domino Theory?
When the patriots staged the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed these harsh laws to punish the people of Massachusetts
What were the Intolerable Acts
Enables one branch of government to limit the power of another branch ex: the president (executive branch) vetoes a bill passed by Congress (legislative branch)
What is the system of Checks and Balances
The Supreme Court ruled that a slave owner could take a slave into free territory, and not have to set the slave free; the slave was his "property" and could be taken anywhere in this case
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
Known as the trust-buster, this president only sued 40 trusts, where as his predecessor sued 90.
Theodore Roosevelt
This court case overruled the previous court case of Plessy v. Ferguson and stated that "Separate but equal" was unconstitutional
What was Brown v. the Board of Education
Battle of Yorktown
He was the hero of the War of 1812 who defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans and later became president
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This Union general led his famous "March to the Sea" destroying much of southern cities, such as Atlanta and Savannah
These were the captains of industry of oil, steel, banking, railroads, and automobiles
Who were John Rockefeller (oil), Andrew Carnegie (steel), J.P. Morgan (banking), Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads), Henry Ford (automobiles)
The alliance pacts between U.S., Canada and western Europe and the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
British Colonel George Washington at Fort Duquesne
What is the French and Indian War
This was the route that the Indians were forced to relocate from the Southeast to the Oklahoma territory. Thousands of Indians perished along the way
What was the Trail of Tears?
The two reconstruction plans are called?
Presidential and Congressional/ Radical Republican
Known as Sewards Folly, William Seward Purchased this land from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.
Alaska
Name of the Allied (3) and Central Powers (3) of WW1, and the Allied (3) and Axis Powers (3) of WWII
WW1: Allies: Britain, France, U.S. Russia, Serbia, Japan, Italy Central: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
WWII: Allies: Britain, France, U.S., Soviet Union Axis: Germany, Japan, Italy, Soviet Union