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US History Semester 1 Finals
US History
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Social Studies
11th Grade
01/16/2013

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This implemented the draft during WWI
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Selective Service Act
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This trial pitted fundamentalists against revolutionists
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Scopes monkey trial
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this is the term for writers of the 1920's who were disillusioned with the consumerism and materialism of the age
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the lost generation
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this happened to union membership in the 1920's
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it went down (declined)
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when the people that live in a territory get to decide whether to allow slavery or not
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popular sovereignty
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this general and all his troops were killed when he misjudged the strength of the native american forces
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Custer
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this law passed in the late 19th century prohibited a certain group of people from entering america
Definition
Chinese exclusion act
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Mother Jones led the fight against
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Child Labor
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This was the colonial response to the tea act
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Boston Tea Party
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After the death of Sitting bull, the US army rounded up 250 starving Sioux. The army ended up firing on the men, women and children killing 300 in minutes
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wounded knee
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this territory became part of america after Jackson invaded it and kicked out Spanish Troops
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Florida
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this battle is considered the turning point of the civil war. It happened on July 4th 1863
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Battle of GEttysburg
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This prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains
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Proclamation line of 1763
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this act put Boston under martial law. it was a response to the Boston Tea Party
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Coercive acts (Intolerable Acts)
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this court case said that separate facilities were equal
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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this book exposed the terrible working conditions in the meat packing industry
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The Jungle
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This Part of the economy struggled during the 1920's
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farming or steel
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this man argued that America needed a stronger navy, and then built it
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Alfred Mahan
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Famous female blues signer of the Harlem Renaissance
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Bessie Smith
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This broke up Indian reservations and gave individual plots to Native American households
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Dawes Act
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Gave African American males the right to vote
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15th Amendment
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A radical organization that wanted everyone to join a big union and overthrow the capitalist system
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IWW
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This was sent by Germany to Mexico encouraging them to attack the US
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Zimmerman Note
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Allowed for free trade with China
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Open door policy
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this group was in charge of propaganda during WWI
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Committee on Public Information
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this branch of government enforces the law
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Executive branch
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the name of the right of the supreme court to declare a law unconstitutional
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Judicial Review
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Journalists who exposed corruption to the people during the progressive era
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muckrackers
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Branch that decides whether the law is unconstitutional
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Judicial (Supreme Court)
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Who was president during the Mexican American War?
Definition
James Polk
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Chronological Order: Thomas Jefferson; Theodore Roosevelt; Andrew Jackson; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Woodrow Wilson
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George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; Andrew Jackson; Abraham Lincoln; Theodore Roosevelt; Woodrow Wilson
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Guerilla WArfare
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Surprise attacks
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Foreign support during the Revolutionary war
Definition
French help
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How the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution
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Fighting over over the Ohio territory
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How did America get Louisiana
Definition
Jefferson purchased the land
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How did America get Texas
Definition
Texas alamo (war with Mexico)
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How did America get Oregon
Definition
44, 40 after the Oregon Trail
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How did America get the American Southwest
Definition
Gained from Mexico
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Marbury v. Madison
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Involved Judicial review
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Causes of the Civil War
Definition
Firing at fort sumter
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What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Definition
Told about slavery and made impact to see the lives Africans were living
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Dred Scott
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African Americans (free and slaves) were not US citizens
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Abraham Lincoln did what to stop rebellion during the Civil War
Definition
Called for Americans to join the army
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What did Lincoln do to provoke the Southerners?
Definition
sent supply ships
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Robert E Lee was a ____ during the ____
Definition
Confederacy army leader during civil war
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Jefferson Davis
Definition
Leader of the confederacy during civil war
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Ulysses S Grant
Definition
general in the second part of the civil war
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this law allowed gov't to arrest anyone speaking out against the war
Definition
espionage and sedition act
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Sensational and irresponsible news
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Yellow Journalism
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why did the US join WWI
Definition
Spain was killing innocent americans
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Reasons for US imperialism
Definition
wanted to be a growing power and nation
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Charlie Chaplin
Definition
1st silent movies
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Babe Ruth
Definition
baseball player in the 1920's
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effects of the automobile
Definition
build roads, garages, gas stations, malls, oil, steel and rubber industry growth
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Charles lindberg
Definition
first person to cross the Atlantic ocean
Term
Harlem REnaissance
Definition
The time period when blacks and whites began to be more together due to talents the blacks had and the whites liked
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Louis Armstrong
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famous black singer during the harlem renaissance
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Prohibition during the 1920's
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it went down, people wanted complete freedom to do anything
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Immigration acts
Definition
americans took the freedom to deport anyone and lynch African americans
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Henry ford
Definition
Started the car industry, employed many
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Marcus Garvey
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black nationalism; african americans must build a separate society
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Langston Hughes
Definition
Literature and art movement celebrating african american culture
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F Scott Fitzgerald
Definition
wrote during literature during the 1920's
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Impact of installment plans
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debt
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which amendment prohibited use of alcohol
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18th amendment
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Margaret sanger
Definition
(A nurse) that specialized in birth planning
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georgia o'keefe
Definition
artist during the 1920's
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Palmer raids
Definition
raids that captured foreign us citizens and deported them
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"the business of america is business"
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Calvin coolidge
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Quota Laws
Definition
Limited the number of foreign immigrants
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what industries did not prosper in the 1920's
Definition
Railroad
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fundamentalists during the 1920's
Definition
Christians, atheists, etc
Term
NaACP
Definition
Protect the rights of colored people
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Ernest Hemingway
Definition
writer during the 1920's
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KKK
Definition
Lynched and got rid of anyone who they didnt like, specially colored people
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Roosevelt's Progressive reform successes
Definition
Big stick policy
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Robert La Follette
Definition
Big voice in the senate during the progressive era
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Pullman Strike
Definition
the railroads weren't being built due to a strike because a cut in their payments
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