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2011 EOC review
US History Review
148
History
11th Grade
05/10/2011

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Johnathan Edwards and Roger Whitfield
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Leaders of the Great Awakening
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What author and book did Thomas Jefferson most use when creating the Declaration of Independance?
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John Locke's Social Contract
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How did slautary neglect begin the colonists desire for independance?
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They had created their own governments
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Virginia's House of Burgesses, Mayflower compact, New England Town Meetings
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examples of representative governments or self-governments
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What group was created so that the colonies could meet and discuss their grievances with Britian?
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Committees of Correspondance
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Revolutionary leader of the Sons of Liberty; antifederalist
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Samuel Adams
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Cofounder of Hull House, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1931
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Jane Addams
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Who invented the telephone in 1876?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Extreme abolitionist who led the Pottawotamie Massacre and raided Harper's Ferry
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John Brown
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"Cross of Gold Speech" and opposed evolution at Scopes trial. Free silver.
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William Jennings Bryan
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Vice-President and Senator from SC. Nullification theory
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John C. Calhoun
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What man lead the SNCC and coined the term "Black Power?"
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Stokely Carmichael
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What wealthy man pioneered the steel industry while using a system of vertical integration?
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Andrew Carnegie
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Formed the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in 1962
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Cesar Chavez
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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What five-time presidential candidate founded the Socialist Party of America?
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Eugene V. Debs
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What black leader founded the NAACP?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Enlightenment thinker; Revolutionary leader; Printer; Attended the Continental Congress
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Benjamin Franklin
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Wrote "The Feminine Mystique"; National Organization for Women
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Betty Friedan
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British monarch during the American Revolution
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King George III
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Author of the Federalist Papers and the first secretary of the Treasury
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Alexander Hamilton
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Civil Rights leader; I Have a Dream Speech; Nobel Peace Prize 1964
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Leading Confederate General; Army of Northern Virginia
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Robert E. Lee
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US Pacific general during WW2 and the Korean War
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Douglas MacArthur
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African Black Muslim leader and separatist
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Malcolm X
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What is the time period before the Civil War called?
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Antebellum
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NAACP attorney in Brown vs. Board of Education; first Black Supreme Court Justice
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Thurgood Marshall
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Republican Senator from Wisconson; anti-Communist activist; Red Scare
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Joseph A. McCarthy
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What German city was divided by a wall during the Cold War?
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Berlin
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What political cartoonist exploited the corruption of the Tweed Ring in New York
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Thomas Nast
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First woman Supreme Court Justice
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Sandra Day O'Connor
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Standard Oil Company; horizontal integration; philanthropist
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John D. Rockefeller
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Wife of FDR and advocate of social causes
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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What was the name of the Black militant group that combatted police brutality and provided services in the ghetto?
Definition
Black Panthers
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Italian Immigrants and anarchists who were executed during the Red Scare
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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What Muckraker wrote "The Jungle" which publicized abuses in the meat-packing industry?
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Upton Sinclair
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Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852?
Definition
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Alabama governor; 1968 presidential election candidate; opposed to integration of Blacks
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George Wallace
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What was the nickname that Kansas deserved because of its violence over the slavery issue?
Definition
Bleeding Kansas
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Liberal chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1953-1969; individual rights
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Earl Warren
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Five Freedoms- separation of church and state; freedom of speech, press, and assembly; right to petition government
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First Amendment
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WHat was the time period called after WWII when the United States and the USSR were competing for dominance in the world?
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The Cold War
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Rights of the People- rights stated in the Constitution are not the only rights that people have
Definition
Ninth Amendment
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Powers not delegated to the federal government nor denied to the states by the Consitution are reserved to the states or the people
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Tenth Amendment
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Slavery abolished
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Thirteenth Amendment
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Civil Rights- states may not abridge the rights of citizens-equal protection of the law
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Fourteenth Amendment
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Voting Priviliges cannot be denied on the basis of race
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Fifteenth Amendment
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Prohibition
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Eighteenth Amendment
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Repeal of Prohibition
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Twenty-First Amendment
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Established the principle of Judicial Review
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Marbury vs. Madison
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The exchange of plants, animals and disease between the Americas and Europe after Columbus's voyage
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The Columbian Exchange
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What was the US's foreign policy during the Cold War?
Definition
Containment
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Recognized the Cherokee tribe as a political entity
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Worcester vs. Georgia
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Ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US; declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
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Dred Scott vs. Sandford
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What was the WWII allied invasion of occupied France called?
Definition
The Battle of Normandy or D-Day
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Established the principle of "separate but equal"
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Police required to inform all criminal suspects of their constitutional rights
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Miranda v. Arizona
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racial separation based on tradition rather than law
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de Facto Segregation
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Signed by many Pilgrims on their way to the New World; agreed to create a new government and abide by its laws
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Mayflower Compact
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Influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine; urged Americans to declare independence
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Common Sense
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The theory that if one Southeast Asian country fell, the others would quickly fall with it.
Definition
Domino Theory
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Series of essays about the nature of government by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
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The Federalist
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What "bird" described people who were against the Vietnam War?
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Doves
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Presidential message that called for non-intervention by European powers in Latin America
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Monroe Doctrine
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Militant Newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison; antislavery
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The Liberator
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What happened at the same time as the Great Depression that left mid-western farmers with useless, dry, soil-less land?
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The Dust Bowl
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What executive order given by Lincoln freed all the slaves in the Confederacy?
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Emancipation Proclamation
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WHat term mean 'the freeing of slaves'
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Emancipation
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Addendum to the Monroe Doctrine; stated that US would use force to protect its interests in Latin America
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Roosevelt Corollary
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Which government branch enforces the law?
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the Executive Branch
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Telegram from Germany to Mexico offering help in recovering territory in the US Southwest
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Zimmerman Note
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US would support free people resisting takeover from Communist hostiles
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Truman Doctrine
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What New Deal program ensured federal protection of the money that people deposited into banks?
Definition
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Secretary of state's plan to provide aid to help Europe rebuild after WW2
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Marshall Plan
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British agreed to leave the forts they occupied on the US frontier
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Jay's Treaty
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What early political party supported the Constitution and a strong national government
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Federalist
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Spain allowed Americans to travel freely among the Mississippi River and use the port of New Orleans
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Pickney's Treaty
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What is the name used for religious people who believe in the literal translation of the Bible?
Definition
Fundamentalists
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Louisiana territory that doubled the size of the US; given by France
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Louisiana Purchase
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Ended the war with Mexico; Mexican Cession
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Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
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Ended WW1; League of Nations
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Treaty of Versailles
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Mutual defense pact among US, Canada, and ten Western European allies
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NATO
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What did the Gentlemen's Agreement limit?
Definition
Japanese immigration to America
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Divided Vietnam among the 17th Parallel into communist North and anticommunist South
Definition
Geneva Accords
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What Federal law gave WWII war veterens low interst home loans and low cost college educations?
Definition
the G.I. Bill
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President Carter helped negotiate Middle East peace agreements between Jorda, Egypt, and Israel
Definition
Camp David Accords
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US, Canada, and Mexico drop all trade barriers
Definition
NAFTA
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What did farmers and the Populist Party want to be included into teh gold standard to help the problem of deflation?
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Silver
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Established a government fot the Northwest Territory and described rules that a territory would follow in order to become a state
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Northwest Ordinance (1787)
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What term is used to describe the mass movement of African Americans to Northern cities in teh early 20th century?
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The Great Migration
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Restricted the rights of immigrants and freedoms of speech and the press
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Alien and Sedition Act
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Preserved balance in Congress between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
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Missouri Compromise
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Indians east of the Mississippi River were to be moved to the west
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Indian Removal Act
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What was President Johnson's domestic policy called, which focused on racial equality and poverty?
Definition
The Great Society
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Repealed Missouri Compromise and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether they would allow slavery; popular sovereignty
Definition
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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What was the term used for a supporter of US involvement in Vietnam?
Definition
Hawks
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Fugitive slaves had to be returned to their owners; Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Law
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Offered 100 acres of land free to anyone who would farm it for five years
Definition
Homestead Act
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Attempt by government to regulate corporations and monopolies
Definition
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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What did HUAC (House of Un-American Activites) investigate?
Definition
Communism in America
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Welfare program; retirement and unemployment insurance
Definition
Social Security Act
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Education benefits, unemployment insurance, low-interst loans
Definition
GI Bill of Rights
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What act forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to move west?
Definition
Indian Removal Act (1830)
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Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or gender
Definition
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Under what President was the Indian Removal Act passed?
Definition
President Andrew Jackson
Term
Increase in prices and decrease in purchasing power are effects of what economic term?
Definition
inflation
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What was America's foreign policy after WWI?
Definition
Isolation
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What "laws" separated blacks and whites in the South?
Definition
Jim Crow Laws
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Which branch of the government interprets laws and the Constitution?
Definition
the Judicial Branch
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The white supremacist group who rose during Reconstruction and focused on the hatred of immigrants, Catholics and Blacks.
Definition
the Ku Klux Klan
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Which branch of the government makes the laws
Definition
Legislative
Term
What term is used to describe the distribution of government power between the Federal, state and local levels of government
Definition
Federalism
Term
What did a Loyalist Support during the American Revolution?
Definition
Britain
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Teh 19th Century belief that America must span from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
Definition
Manifest Destiny
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What term was named after a Senator in the 1950's who scared America into thinking that the governemnt and country were being overrun by Communists?
Definition
Joseph McCarthy
Term
What Black Association was created by W.E.B DuBois?
Definition
NAACP
Term
what term describes favoring the interests of native-born Americans over those of immigrants?
Definition
Nativism
Term
What was America's foreign policy before WWI?
Definition
Neutrality
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What era did the New Deal try to fix?
Definition
the Great Depression
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What was JFK's Domestic Policy called?
Definition
New Frontier
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What was JFK's Domestic Policy called?
Definition
New Frontier
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Who was contained in internment camps on the West coast during WWII?
Definition
Japanese-Americans
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What term describes a state's refusal to follow a federal law?
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Nullification
hint: it is unconstitutional and never worked :)
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What policy opened up American trade with China?
Definition
Open Door Policy
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What waterway opened up in 1914 and connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Definition
The Panama Canal
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What movement was after the Industrial Revolution focused on quality of life as well as an end to politcal and buisness corruption?
Definition
the Progressive Movement
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What political party controlled Reconstruction?
Definition
Radical Republicans
Term
What was the period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War Called?
Definition
Reconstruction
Term
What term was used to describe the fear of a communist takeover in the 1920's which focused on the wave of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe?
Definition
The Red Scare
Term
Where did most of teh immigrants come from during the "first wave" of immigration?
Definition
Western and Northern Europe (Irish and Germans)
Term
Term used of England relaxed policies concerning it's american policies in return for their loyalty.
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Salutary Neglect
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1925 trial over the teaching of evolution in the public schools?
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the Scopes Trial
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what term is used for a region placing its own interest over national interests?
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sectionalism
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Jane Addams created the first one, where immigrants could go to find education, services and support.
Definition
settlement houses
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What did most blacks and poor farmers do to make a living after the Civil War?
Definition
Sharecropping
Term
boycotts, sit ins and marchesare all types of what?
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Non-violent protests
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What New Deal program provides support to the retires, disabled, unemployed and poor mothers and children
Definition
the Social Security Act
Term
What ws Richard Nixon's plan to take America out of Vietnam called?
Definition
Vietnamization
Term
What ws Richard Nixon's plan to take America out of Vietnam called?
Definition
Vietnamization
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What agreement was created between Israel and Egypt, with the help of President Carter?
Definition
Camp David Accords
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How was Malcom X different from Martin Luther King Jr.?
Definition
Malcolm X beleived that violence was necessary for blacks to gain equality
Term
What previous court case did Brown v. Board of Education overturn
Definition
Plessy V. Fergeson
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What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Definition
Busses were desegregated
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Which 1960's president passed the Civil Rights Act?
Definition
President Johnson
Term
What president was best known for slowing down segregation, helping the environment and vietnamization?
Definition
Richard Nixon
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Who wrote the Feminine Mystique?
Definition
Betty Freidan
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What aggreement split Vietnam along the 17th parallel?
Definition
The Geneva Accords
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