1491-1763
The prosecutors of the Salem Witch Trials belonged to what religion?
Puritanism
The Intolerable (or Coercive) Acts were a response to what colonial action?
Boston Tea Party
Who was the founder of Hull House?
Jane Addams
Name the three Progressive Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson
What was the name of the main policy of the U.S. during the Cold War? (It meant we wanted to stop the spread of Communism)
containment
Who was the fiercest opponent of the abuses of the encomienda system in Spain?
Bartolome de las Casas
What event precipitated the call for a Constitutional Convention?
Shays' Rebellion OR Annapolis Convention
The federal government announced the closing of the frontier in 1890. What major event in the Indian Wars also happened that year?
Wounded Knee massacre
What was the name of the trial where a biology teacher was taken to court for teaching evolution?
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial (John T. Scopes)
Name the civil rights leader who originally believed that integration was not the solution and criticized nonviolent civil disobedience.
Malcolm X
Name one of the nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy
Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, or Tuscarora
What document granted the United States the right to trade on the Mississippi?
Pinckney's Treaty
What were the two companies that constructed the Transcontinental Railroad?
Why did the U.S. join World War I?
sinking of the Lusitania and violation of the subsequent Sussex Pledge, Zimmerman Telegram, unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans
What president sold weapons to Iran and funneled the money to anti-communist revolutionaries in Nicaragua?
Ronald Reagan (Iran-Contra scandal)
Who gave the famous First Great Awakening sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
Jonathan Edwards
The first political party convention was held in 1832 to nominate this candidate for president.
Andrew Jackson
The Supreme Court, in U.S. v. Cruikshank, said the 14th amendment did not protect the rights of the 150 black men who were killed by the White League in this event.
Colfax Massacre
he believed in individualism (people should help themselves); he believed in laissez faire economics (government shouldn't interfere with business)
What TWO post-war policies provided assistance to Europeans as an effort to expand American influence (and resist Soviet expansion)?
Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
Leisler's rebellion in New York is an example of the colonial response to what European event?
Glorious Revolution
What was the first federal law banning slavery?
Northwest Ordinance
Two events triggered the secession of the South. First, the deep south seceded (Texas to Florida); later, they were joined by Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. What were the two events?
Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860) and the attack on Ft. Sumter
What battle marked a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II?
Battle of Midway
Name ONE policy success and ONE policy failure of the Carter administration.
Successes: Camp David Accords, Panama Canal Treaty, Alaska Lands Act;
Neutral: New Energy Policy, grain embargo, 1980 Olympics boycott;
Failures: Iran Hostage Crisis, continuing inflation, OPEC embargo and oil shock, SALT II