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American History 2nd Hour
Semester Exam
120
History
11th Grade
03/11/2010

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Term
What is the function of the supreme court?
Definition
To interpret the laws
Term
Where have most immagrints to the U.S. come from since 1970?
Definition
South East Asia
Term
What is the simplest form of business organization?

Define it.
Definition
propriortorship

one person owns the buisness
Term
What type of economic system does the U.S. have?

What are the 4 parts of that economic system?
Definition
Capitalism

1.Free Enterprise
2.Private Property
3.Competition
4.Profit Motive
Term
What was the name of the amendment which failed to pass in refrence to the wome liberation movement of the 1970's?
Definition
ERA- Equal Rights Ammendment
Term
What was Brown vs. Education?

Where did it take place?

Which movement would this have refrence to in American History?
Definition
A black girl named brown wanted to attend an all white school. The U.S. Supreme court ruled you couldn't have seprate but equal schools.

Topeka, Kansas

Desegragation & Civil Rights Movement
Term
When Thomas Jefferson said "Unailenable Rights" what did he mean?
Definition
Rights that you are born with and cannot be taken away from you
Term
What did both Ghandi and MArtin Luther King stand for?
Definition
Equality Amoung all races
Term
Which nationality was rounded up in the U.S. during WWII & sent to security camps?
Definition
Japanese
Term
What is the reason for the U.S. census?
Definition
To determine the size of the U.S. House of Rep. based on population
Term
What did the Sherman Anti-trust act do?
Definition
Outlawed Monopolies
Term
Who was the President during WWI?
Definition
Woodrow Wilson
Term
Who does the president report the state of the union address to?

What does the address deal with?
Definition
The people & congress

Current State of the union
Term
Roe vs. Wade

Miranda vs Arizona
Definition
Right to abortion

Must be read yor rights when arrested
Term
Inflation

Example:
Definition
When prices rise & supply is low & demand is high

Gasoline
Term
Injuction

Who orders one?
Definition
Court ordering making it mandatory for workers to return to work for the betterment of the country

President
Term
How are the Korean & Persian Gulf war similar?
Definition
Both fought over sensless casulaties
fight for democracy
Term
What type of government does the U.S. operate as?
Definition
Democracy
Term
What is the currency of the U.S?
Definition
Dollar
Term
Plessy vs Ferguson
Definition
Black man wanted to ride in a railroad car for whites. Supreme court said yes because seprate but equal is not possible
Term
3 rights guarenteed as a U.S. citizen
Definition
List any of the 1st 10 ammendments
or
voting right ammendments
Term
What was the Tenn Valley authority?

2 ways human activity affected the physical geography of this area
Definition
Tenn Valley Authority put people to work during the great depretion through the building of Dams, the area recieved hydrotedric power

Human activity was affected because people had jobs, electricity, and flooding was controlled
Term
2 ammendments
Definition
19th- women recieved the right to vote

17th- Allowed for the direct election of senators
Term
2 resources to help a high school graduate find a carrer
Definition
Internet, School Counselor, Newspaper
Term
When did the cold war take place?
Definition
End of WWII until the tearing down of the berlin war
Term
When did WWII take place?

Which major countries were affected?

Who were the leaders of the major countries?
Definition
1939-1945

Allies:
Britain-Churchill
U.S.-Roosevelt
France-Clemendean
Russia-Stalin

Axis:
Germany-Hitler
Italy-Mussolini
Japan-Hirohito
Term
When was the NAACP founded?

Who was the founder?
Definition
1909

W.E.B. Du Bois
Term
Urbanization vs Development
Definition
Urbanization- The uilding of cities or small towns around large cities

Development- The putting infrastructure and services in place
Term
What weapon as banned in the 1990's?
Definition
Nuclear Weapons
Term
Expalin 3 ways the passage of the U.S. highways act effected the U.S. economy
Definition
Created the interstate highway system

1.Put people tow ork building the interstate
2.Interstate bypassed cities causing many types of buissnesses to close
3.Made the transportation of goods easier
Term
What were territorial changes in Europe caused WWII
Definition
Germany was destoryed
Berlin was divided
Term
Who was the most recent president elected who didnt recieve popular vote?
Definition
George W. Bush
Term
Which city was last to be urbanized?
Definition
New Orleans
Term
Who was the .S. Senator who accussed many people of being communist in the 1960's?

What did this come to be called?
Definition
McCarthy

McCarthyism
Term
Which war did 60,000 men die
Young people prtoested
& Lyndon B Johnson was president?
Definition
Vietnam
Term
What was a cultural diffrence between mexico city, mexico, & shreveport LA?
Definition
Language
Term
Which maps get more distorted the further ot moves from the equator?
Definition
Mercator
Term
Describe how the human & physical regions were affected in the mississppi river
Definition
Soil Erosion
Transportation
Jobs
Term
Which pact involves countries from Europe, except France
Definition
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Term
What connected the atlantic to the pacific oceans & the french tried & failed in 1880's?
Definition
Panama Canal
Term
This group tried for equal rights for blacks & worked for civil rights?
Definition
NAACP
Term
When did the harlem renaissance, the rd scare, & black tuesday take place?
Definition
1920's
Term
What's most likley use of state & local taxes?
Definition
Teachers
Term
Who invented the light bulb?
Definition
Edison
Term
Who made his fortune in the petroleum industry?
Definition
Rockefeller
Term
ho made his fortune in the steel industry?
Definition
Carnegie
Term
Why are people in the U.S. loosing jobs as companies down size and close?
Definition
People in foreign countries are willing to work for cheap wages, so companies are having goods made or fixed in other countries.

EX:Tennis shoes all made in forien countries
Computers fixed by people in foriegn countries
Term
What was the cuban missile crisis?

When was it?

Who was president of the U.S. at the time?
Definition
The soviet union placed missiles in cuba which were pointed toward the president said if launched it would ba all out war. Navy surrounded Cuba & missiles were removed.

1962

Pres Kennedy
Term
What is the purpose of the electoral college?
Definition
To elect the President
Term
How do democrats & republicans decide who their presidential candidates will be?
Definition
Through primary elections for delegates in each state. The delegates niminate the candidate at the party convention.
Term
How were Freedom Rides & Sit ins instrumental to aafrican americans during the civil rights movemnent?
Definition
this showed unity amoung blacks and sent the message that they would stay united and not give in
Term
Which decade was mass production 1st used?

In which industry?
Definition
1920's

Automobile
Term
Hardiing, Wilson, & Clinton had what in common?
Definition
Scandals in their administration
Term
3 factors of production
Definition
land
labor
capital
Term
Where did U.S. drop atomic bomb in WWII?
Definition
Japan
Term
What is the function of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Definition
Interpret the laws
Term
Largest # of native americans settled in which part of the country?
Definition
South West
Term
3 things the equal rights ammendment wanted
Definition
Equal Pay
Equal Carrer opportunities
Equal supervisory positions
Term
Ghandi & King
Definition
Passive Reistance
(No fighting)
Term
3 things united nations did
Definition
1.Promoted human rights
2.Peace keeping mission
3.Humanitarian affairs
Term
Which European city was affected by the cold war most?
Definition
Berlin
Term
2 things that contributed to the great depression
Definition
Natural Disaster
&
Foreclosures
Term
Where were most immigrants since 1970's from?
Definition
Latin America
Term
name 3 unailenable rights
Definition
Property
Religion
Liberty
Term
Type of map to read to get over a mountain
Definition
topographical
Term
What are checks & balances?

Name 3 branches of government that do this.
Definition
Judicial- Interprets Laws
Legislature- Makes Laws
Executive- Carries out laws
Term
Purpose of sherman anti trust act
Definition
to curve monopolies to stop them
Term
What was the name given to Franklin Roosevelts talks to the nation over the radio during WWII?
Definition
Fire Side Chats
Term
Why do diamonds cost more than ivory?
Definition
Scarcity
Term
What was the dominoe effect used for?
Definition
Stop Communism
Term
What was the TVA
Definition
Tenn Valley Authority
Term
Who became President upon John F. Kennedys's death?

What Civil rights act did he sign?
Definition
Johnson

1964
Term
The automobile was responsible for:
Definition
Selling of more gas
Building of more restraunts
Creation of more jobs
Term
Who said "Survival of the fittest"?
Definition
Darwin
Term
What is possession of a drivers license an example of?
Definition
Priviledge
Term
What does federal law require of all males at age 18?
Definition
Register for the draft
Term
What was the only reason that made a president resign?
Definition
Watergate - Nixon
Term
Which economic policy does the federal reserve control?
Definition
Amount of money in circulation
Term
Where did most immigrants from 1880-1914 come from?
Definition
Europe
Term
Type of leader whose title is handed down or inherited
Definition
monarchy
Term
The policy of containment refers to
Definition
stop the spread of communism
Term
Which type of government is the U.S. similar to?
Definition
Great Britain - Parliment
Term
Who was the writer that pushed for reform by exposing poor conditions?
Definition
Upton Sinclair - The jungle
Term
What type of tax is placed on luxuries?
Definition
Excise Tax
Term
The ideal place to establish a settlement in the best physical & human regions would include
Definition
Fresh Water
Cool Temp
Wildlife
Term
Who was the senator from wisconsin who accused many americans of being communist?

What did this become known as?

What was his downfall?
Definition
McCarthy

McCarthyism

Accused members of the U.S. army of being communist
Term
What was the bonus army?
Definition
WWI vetrans were promised a bonus to be paid in 1945. However during the depression everyone needed money. The vetrans marched to Washington D.C. demanding Hoover gove them their bonuses. They were run out of town.
Term
Name 3 actions taken by the U.S. or the people that have made the U.S. more democratic
Definition
19th- gave the women the right to vote

26th- Gave 18 year olds the right to vote

20th- Limited terms of Pres thus not allowing 1 person to have to much power
Term
How could the scale of justice become unbalanced?
Definition
Get more power than anoher branch
Term
2 reasons why the U.S. enter WWI
Definition
Sinking of U.S. merchant ships
Sinking of the Lusitania
Term
What was President Wilson's 14th point?
Definition
League of Nations
Term
Which government body must approve a law?
Definition
Senate
Term
List 3 ways the vietnam conflict was fought on the home front
Definition
1. Demonstartions in nations cities
2. Burning of draft cards
3. Dodging the draft - move to canada
Term
What was Wilson's view on the U.S. & WWI?
Definition
U.S should stay nuetral
Term
The 4 time zones
Definition
Eastern
Central
Rocky Mt.
Pacific
Term
Why did the U.S. begin to use time zones?
Definition
To keep railroad times clear toa ll people
Term
When & why did the U.S. begin to use daylight savings time?
Definition
WWI to save energy
Term
Name the allied powers in WWII
Definition
Germany
Japan
Italy
Term
Which nation began the cold war?
Definition
Russia - Soviet Union
Term
Who proposed the program "Share Our Wealth"?
Definition
Huey P. Long
Term
What was the time period of WWII?
Definition
1939 - 1945
Term
Which country was mostly affected by the "Open Door Policy"?
Definition
China
Term
Who was an aggressive civil rights leader?
Definition
Malcom X
Term
What is supply & demand?
Definition
Amount of a prodution
Term
What did the virginai plan & the 3/5th compromise have in common?
Definition
Country slaves as population
Term
Driving
Definition
IS a privlegde
Term
The religion of Isreal
Definition
Jewish
Term
What was the purpose of the new deal?
Definition
To bring immidiate relief to the needy
Term
What is tax impoted goods called?
Definition
Tariff
Term
What is tax impoted goods called?
Definition
Tariff
Term
Where do monsoons mostly occur?
Definition
Asia
Term
What did Plessy vs Fergeson deal with?
Definition
Seprate but equal
Term
When did Vietnam conflict begin?
Definition
U.S. had combat troops involved from 1955 until the official withdrew in 1973
Term
In which state would a person campaigning for president spend the most time & money?
Definition
California
Term
What are 2 effects of an assembly line?
Definition
Less time to build something more of product can be produced. Things are more productive today because technology has repalced the human element of production
Term
Communism

Imperialism

Nationalism

Isolationism
Definition
bad!

taking land of anothe country

Pride in ones country

To remain neutral
Term
What is the language of Saudi Arabia?
Definition
Islam
Term
Describes a gasoline shortage
Definition
Inflation
Term
Date of WWI

Date of WWII
Definition
1914 - 1918

9/1/1939 - 8/14/1845
Term
Under which president was the peace corp established?
Definition
John F. Kennedy
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