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100
What did the Supreme Court's "Insular Cases" decision declare?
Native peoples in new colonies did not always have the same rights as American citizens.
100
Which city's government was controlled by Tweed's corrupt Tammany Hall?
New York, NY
100
Why was the Missouri Compromise a victory for advocates of antislavery?
The compromise banned slavery within the territories attained in the Louisiana Purchase.
100
Which president abolished the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Nixon
100
What was "radical reconstruction?"
It divided the southern states into military districts, as well as all states must free their slaves, and must ratify the 14th Amendment.
200
What American post-WWII program economically assisted Western Europe?
The Marshall Plan
200
What did the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty do?
Panama agreed to let the United States build a canal that connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ocean in their country.
200
Why did American colonists object to the British stamp act?
Taxed the colonies without consent
200
What was the Republican Motherhood's main goal?
to educate their children so that they can be good citizens
200
What did Henry Clay believe was essential to America's economic growth and expansion?
America should improve transportation in order to develop the national economy.
300
What was declared by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton along with other delegates at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention in 1848?
It was declared that "all men and WOMEN are created equal."
300
The Declaration of Independence was based on who's political philosophy?
John Locke
300
Coxey's Army march on Washington D.C. was meant to...
persuade congressman to increase the paper money supply.
300
Who was the African American Harvard graduate that established the NAACP? (National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples)
W.E.B. DuBois
300
True or False: White and Black soldiers during the Civil War were paid the same amounts because they both performed the same tasks.
False
400
How many times was Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president?
4 times
400
Which president's administration annexed Hawaii?
William McKinley
400
What religion believes that God created the world but allowed it to be controlled by the laws of nature. (Hint: It was Ben Franklin's religion)
Deism
400
The Republican Party of 1850 took what standpoint on the subject of slavery?
Slavery could be continued in the states where it was legal but not extended to newly acquired territories or new states.
400
William Jennings Bryant's "Cross of Gold" advocated for...
the free and unlimited coinage of silver.
500
The Connecticut Compromise settles the Constitutional Convention's deadlock over...
States' representation in congress
500
In which region of the United States would you find adobes built by natives?
The Southwest
500
The "Open Door Policy" of 1899 was primarily created to...
protect America's economic interests in China.
500
The Federalist Papers argued that the federal government...
should be expanded so that minority rights are protected.
500
The Dutch settled New Netherland to...
expand commercial and mercantile work.