American Independence
What are the three major motives driving American settlement and exploration
What is...
Trade/Economy ($$$)
Global Domination (Power)
Freedom of Beliefs/Ideas (Christianity)
What are the three major events contributed to the unification of the colonists?
What is...
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
The Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
What does Nationalism mean?
What is..
A country tries to expend itself by expanding and taking over other places. People who try to make their nation better by conquering other countries and taking their resources for their own good.
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Vice President became president after JFK’s assassination.
What is...
Vice President -Lyndon B. Johnson- became president after JFK's assassination.
When's Abounas birthday
What is...
April 5
Name all 13 colonies
What is...
Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
What year was the continental congress?
How many delegates were there?
What is...
The Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates
Who were the Russian, Italian, and German leaders in WW2?
Benito Mussolini= Italian Dictator
Joseph Stalin= Soviet Union (Now known as Russia)
Adolf Hitler= Germany
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McCarthy began a against Communists in as communism’s popularity expanded in the West.
What is...
-Joseph- McCarthy began a -crusade- against Communists in -America- as communism’s popularity expanded in the West.
Which state is Central High School?
What is...
Central High School (Little Rock, AK)
explain global domination and what it is
What is...
To dominate other lands in order to strengthen and protect one’s own country
what year was the Battle of Lexington & Concord?
What is the meaning of minutemen?
What is.. .
Battle of Lexington & Concord (1775)
minutemen - a specialized militia who were ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
What year did America join the war in WW1?
What is...
1917
What are the 3 key places in the cold war?
Key Places:
Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery, Alabama
Little Rock, Arkansas
Memphis, Tennessee
What's Abounas favorite color?
What is...
green
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Competition among kingdoms in led to exploration and settlement in , and the establishment of the original colonies.
What is...
Competition among kingdoms in -EUROPE- led to exploration and settlement in -AMERICA-, and the establishment of the original -13- colonies.
What was the point of the Boston Tea Party and was the result?
What is...
Colonists argued that they should not need to pay tax on tea, and should not be told which tea they could buy. At midnight, Boston colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded the ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
Result: Britain responded with the Coercive Acts of 1774.
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America joined the because the attacked the naval base in called .
What is...
America joined the war because the -Japanese- attacked the naval base in -Hawaii- called -Pearl Harbor-
What was Karl Marx’s theory called and what was it
What is...
Karl Marx’s theory (Marxism) - labor force would overthrow capitalism for common ownership
When's Mrs. Hanna's Birthday?
if you don't know you can try to guess the month
What is...
November 8th
what are the 4 Freedoms enjoyed in the colonies?
What is...
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Freedom of education
Freedom of religion/worship
What's a Loyalist and what's a patriot?
What is..
Loyalists - American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the rebellion against the soldiers
Patriots - American colonists who wanted to separate from Britain and have independence as a nation rather than a colony
Explain how America joined the war in WW1?
What is...
Because Germany sank allied passenger boats with American passengers- Lusitania, Sussex and when England intercepted the Zimmerman note and showed it to America.
What's the story of Rosa Parks
What is...
Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat in the first row of the “colored only” section. After passengers filled the “whites only” section. Parks was ordered to move further back; she refused. Parks was arrested & fined
What's Abounas favorite doughnut?
What is...
Boston Cream