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What contributed most to the American victory in the Revolution?
French military and financial assistance
100
The economy in 1980 shifted from what to what?
industry to service
100
Samuel Gompers adviced
non-involvement in party politics.
100
What were the Anti-Federalists opposed to?
ratification of the Constitution
100
President Kennedy's main goal in the United States' 1962 decision to blockade Cuba was to?
force the Soviet Union to remove its missiles from Cuba
200
What policies did the Intolerable Acts of 1774 enact?
closed Boston ports, made the Massachusetts council and judiciary appointive, allowed trials of accused colonial officials to be moved to England, authorized the governor to limit town meetings to as few as one a year
200
Horace Mann championed for what educational reform?
professional teacher training
200
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs included:
1. Office of Economic Opportunity 2. Head Start 3. Medicare 4. the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
200
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was?
claimed by President Johnson as legal authorization for the military escalation of the U. S. role in the conflict
200
What did the First Great Awakening achieve other than spiritual revival?
First unified movement regarding the colonists
300
The Commission on Civil Disorders adviced for what?
massive spending to improve conditions in the ghettos
300
The Pentagon Papers, published in 1971
exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam War
300
Quakers strongly supported what?
1. religious tolerance 2. women's rights 3. antislavery
300
The Know-Nothing Party's platform included
an end to immigration into the United States, or nativism
300
The Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson upheld what practice regarding African-Americans
What is ¨separate but equal¨ facilities?
400
The War Powers Act of 1973 was passed mainly in response to concern that presidents Johnson and Nixon...
could involve the nation's armed forces in combat without congressional approval
400
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo specify?
The US would gain California and New Mexico
400
Progressives supported greater participation in the political process such as:
1. primary elections 2. recall 3. initiative and referendum 4. direct election of senators
400
What were the problems with the Articles of Confederation?
1. it lacked the power to levy taxes. 2. it lacked the power to regulate commerce. 3. it could not compel the states to abide by the terms of international treaties it had made. 4. it lacked a strong executive.
400
The Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden achieved what?
asserted that only Congress, not the states, possessed the power to control interstate commerce
500
Abraham Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" included:
1. state governments could be formed when at least 10% of those who had voted in 1860 had sworn allegiance to the Union and accepted emancipation 2. Confederate officials and army and naval officers needed presidential pardons before they could participate in the new governments 3. freedmen were excluded from participation because they had not been voters in 1860
500
What were the Progressives' agenda?
1. they favored government regulation of business on behalf of the public interest. 2. they were concerned with the social and economic conditions of the city. 3. they advocated a more orderly and efficient society. 4. they called for a stronger state and federal government.
500
What was Lincoln's primary reason for the Civil War?
to preserve the Union
500
What did Worcester v. Georgia ironically dictate?
that the Cherokees had "an unquestionable right" to their lands
500
What followed Japan's Meiji Restoration?
the creation of a modern political state which paved the way for industrialization