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Colonial Period
Civil Rights Movement
Impact of WWII
Great Depression
100
Who served as the western boundary for British colonial settlements prior to the Revolutionary War?
Appalachian Mountains
100
What led directly to the increased importation of enslaved Africans to the Western Hemisphere?
Triangular Trade
100
What Required the integration (desegregation) of all public schools in the U.S. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson ruling of “separate but equal.” Says that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” Demonstrates that the Supreme Court can change an earlier decision?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
100
Who Held to make German leaders accountable for the Holocaust. Established the principle that leaders of a nation may be held accountable for crimes against humanity/ war crime?
Nuremberg Trials
100
Considered the start of the Great Depression. Largely caused by speculators that purchased shares of stock on margin with borrowed funds?
Stock Market Crash
200
What Border established by Great Britain in order to avoid conflicts between American colonists and Native Americans?
Proclamation Line of 1763
200
What Economic policy used by the British in which the American Colonies served as a source of raw materials and a market to sell goods. British buy raw materials from the colonies and sell them finished products. Limited manufacturing in America. Limited colonies’ trade with other nations. This policy would eventually become one of the reasons for the American Revolution?
British Mercantilism
200
Who was the Leader of the civil rights movement during the 1960’s?
Martin Luther King Jr.
200
What Replaced the League of Nations in order to prevent international disputes from escalating into major wars. Unlike the League of Nations, the U.S. joined the United Nations because it recognized that efforts to achieve world peace required U.S. involvement?
United Nations
300
Influenced by good harbors, abundant forests, rocky soil, and a short growing season. What Geographic factors influenced the economy of New England by promoting the growth of trade and manufacturing. Developed villages with town-hall meetings. Had small farms, commercial fishing, and the first American college?
New England Colonies
300
What Period of time when the British ignored the colonies because they only wanted to benefit from the economic prosperity of the colonies. Led to the development of independent colonial trade practices?
Salutary Neglect
300
Who was the Civil right leader during 1950’s and 60’s that advocated black separatism?
Malcolm X
300
What in the U.S. provided economic aid in order to help Europe’s economic recovery after WWII?
Marshall Plan
400
What was the climate and topography of the southeastern U.S. had a major impact on the history of the U.S. before 1860 because the region provided agricultural products that were processed in the North and in Europe. Developed plantations (large farms that used slave labor) because of fertile land and a long growing season?
Southern Colonies
400
Caused by disputed land claims in the Ohio River valley between the French and the British War led to the end of the period of Salutary Neglect, because of the British need to tax the American colonists in order to pay for the war. This increase in taxes became one of the major causes of the Revolutionary War?
French and Indian War
400
Who Practiced civil disobedience by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks
400
Who Helped create the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the decade after WWII, rapid growth in personal income contributed to the expansion of the middle class?
Eleanor Roosevelt
500
The relatively flat, grassy region of the U.S. between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains is known as the Great Plains. The states with the largest percentage of land used for agriculture are located in areas with relatively flat terrain. Known for producing grain crops?
Great Plain
500
What was the Early attempt to unify American colonies but under British rule. Many colonies objected to it because colonial assemblies did not want to give up their individual power?
Albany Plan of Union (1754)
500
What Passed in an effort to correct racial and gender discrimination. Ended the Jim Crow laws?
Civil Rights Act 1964
500
What years were the Marshall Plan invented?
1948-1952