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History FINALS
American History Final Study guide
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8th Grade
05/20/2010

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What did enslaved Africans provide?
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Labor for the Southern rice fields
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Who was the largest fighting force in the colonies in 1977?
Definition
The British
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Who did the Enlightenment influence? and what was it?
Definition
a movement that influenced the Constitutions architects
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What is national debt?
Definition
The amount the nations government owes
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Who decided the election of 1800?
Definition
The House of Representatives
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Where did Americans Industrial Revolution begin to take root in?
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New England
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What did Stephen A. Douglas propose?
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letting the people decide about slavery through popular sovereignty
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Who is the author of Uncle Toms Cabin?  and what is it about?
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Harriet Beech Stowe is the author and its about the brutal, cruel system of slavery
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What battle was named after a small church?
Definition
The battle of Shiloh
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Who guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed?
Definition
Habeas Corpus
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What was Reconstruction?
Definition
The period of rebuilding after the Civil War
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What does the 14th Amendment state?
Definition
The 14th Amendment states that no state could take away a citizens life liberty and property without due process of the law
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Who founded The National Negro Business League?
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Booker T Washington
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Where did the first action of the Spanish-American war take place?
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the Phillippines
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How much did World War I cost the US?
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$ 32 billion
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What is The gross national product?
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Its the total value of all goods and services produced in a country
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What year did Herbert Hoover win the presidential election?
Definition
the presidential election of 1928
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What is a recession?
Definition
An economic downturn
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Who made the promise " your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars" when speaking about WWII ?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In the Middle East, Who claimed the Palestine?
Definition
The Jews and Arabs
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What did The Marshall Plan help with?
Definition
rebuilding the countries of Western Europe
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What ' refroze ' the Cold War?
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The U-2 incident
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What was the first foreign crisis President JF Kennedy faced?
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Cuba
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Where was the first of a series of racial riots that hit cities on 1965 located at?
Definition
Watts in Los Angelas
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Who was the Polish leader of Solidarity?
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Lech Walesa
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What was NAFTA?
Definition
the trade agreement with Canada, Mexico and the US
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what was the largest empire in early American civilizations?
Definition
The Inca
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Who were the native people that were skilled in riding horses?
Definition
The People of the Plains
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Who were the leaders of the War Hawks?
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Clay and Calhoun
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What did The Battle of New Orleans do for A. Jackson?
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Helped him win the Presidency election of 1828
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What was the South Pass?
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It was the main route settlers took to Oregon
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What was Sam Houston named?
Definition
Commander in chief of the Texas' forces
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Why was the telegraph invented?
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To help communications
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What state had a both pro and anti slavery government?
Definition
Kansas
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What did the " Dred Scott" case decision mean?
Definition
It meant the constitution protected slavery
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What did the House of Representatives do when President A. Jackson violated the Tenure of Office Act?
Definition
The House of Representatives voted to impeach him
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What would Wovoka, a prophet, for the Sioux Indians do to help them regain their former greatness?
Definition
The Ghost dance
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What was the network of farmers that rallied against railroads and "money power" ?
Definition
The Southern Alliance
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What did Grace Abbott and Julia Lathrop found?
Definition
The immigrants' protective League
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What did the Treaty of Versailles Wilson do to rally support?
Definition
Went on a national speaking tour
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What did Hoover authorize?
Definition
Spending on public works to combat The Great Depression
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What did Harry Truman win?
Definition
The 1948 presidential election
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What did people call the generation gap of the 1950's?
Definition
the differing attitudes of the old and young
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what did Ngo Dinh Diem's gov't take?
Definition
the rights away from the Buddhist of South Vietnam
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What is the draft?
Definition
The selective service system that supplies soldiers for war
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What kind of division did the generation gap create?
Definition
a division in America
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What caused Arab oil producing states to impose an embargo on oil shipments to the US?
Definition
The Yom Kippur War
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What is it called when the value of foreign imports exceeds the value of domestic exports?
Definition
A trade deficit
Term
What was not part of the C. Columbus' fleet?
Definition
The Tierra
Term
Who became the leader of Education Reform?
Definition
Horace Mann
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Why did Texas struggle with Mexico?
Definition
to gain its independence
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What did the 13th Amendment do?
Definition
It abolished slavery
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How did the US expand into the Pacific?
Definition
by acquiring Midway and Hawaii
Term
What are groups that seek to correct injustice and solve social probems called?
Definition
Reformers
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What did the New Deal do?
Definition
It helped the nation to pull out of the Great Depression
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What is the American Indian Movement?
Definition
Its a Native American organization that protest broken treaties and civil right violations
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In the 2000 presidential election, how many electoral votes did Al Gore or G. Bush need? And from which state?
Definition
25 electoral votes from Florida
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Through what did political balance in the South restore full rights to people who supported the Democrates?
Definition
the Amnesty Act
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To who did the question of becoming a free state or a slave state apply to?
Definition
New states entering the US
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