Westward Expansion & Texas
Question: What concept drove American expansion westward across North America?
Answer: Manifest Destiny
Question: What was the primary economic difference between the North and South before the Civil War?
Answer: North: Factory-based economy; South: Agricultural economy based on cotton, sugar, and tobacco
Question: What four factors increased tensions in Europe before World War I?
Answer: Militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
Question: What totalitarian ideology emphasized extreme nationalism and militarism?
Answer: Fascism
Question: What act provided veterans with education and home loan benefits after World War II?
Answer: GI Bill
Question: Who led settlers into Texas starting in 1821?
Answer: Stephen Austin
Question: What major rebellion in 1831 demonstrated enslaved people's resistance to slavery?
Answer: Nat Turner's Rebellion
Question: What two major alliance systems divided Europe before WWI?
Answer: Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy) and Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia)
Question: Name three dictators who rose to power in the 1930s and the countries they led.
Answer: Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), Hideki Tojo (Japan)
Question: What was the "Iron Curtain," and who used this term to describe it?
Answer: The division between Communist East and free West Europe; Winston Churchill used this term
Question: What three major battles did Texas fight for independence, and which one was a victory?
Answer: Alamo (defeat), Goliad (defeat), San Jacinto (victory under Sam Houston)
Question: What act passed in 1850 allowed slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty in new territories?
Answer: Compromise of 1850 (also mentions Fugitive Slave Law)
Question: What incident in 1915 threatened American ships and increased pressure for U.S. entry into the war?
Answer: The sinking of the Lusitania by German submarines
Answer: Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), Hideki Tojo (Japan)
Answer: Attack on Pearl Harbor
Question: What U.S. policy promised support to anti-Communist governments worldwide?
Answer: Truman Doctrine
Question: What was the name of the independent republic formed by Texas after gaining independence?
Answer: Lone Star Republic
Question: What act promoted by Stephen Douglas overturned the Missouri Compromise?
Answer: Kansas-Nebraska Act
Question: What intercepted message promised Mexico U.S. territory and led America to declare war?
Answer: Zimmermann Telegram
Question: What was the U.S. strategy in the Pacific to avoid frontal assaults on heavily fortified islands?
Answer: Island Hopping
Question: What military alliance of Western nations was formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion?
Answer: NATO
Question: Name one of the three major trails that brought settlers west during westward expansion.
Answer: Santa Fe Trail, Oregon Trail, California Trail, Mormon Trail (any)
Question: Name two of the four major Civil War battles.
Answer: First Bull Run (Confederate victory), Antietam (Union victory), Gettysburg (July 1863—turning point), Vicksburg (Union victory controlling Mississippi River)
Question: What were Wilson's Fourteen Points, and what international organization did he propose?
Answer: A peace proposal including the League of Nations; the U.S. Senate rejected the treaty and America never joined
Question: On what dates were atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Answer: Hiroshima: August 6, 1945; Nagasaki: August 9, 1945
Question: What Cold War crisis in 1962 brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?
Answer: Cuban Missile Crisis