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Despite removal of japanese americans from the west coast,

Japanesr americans, or nisei, served honorably in segregated regiments

What were the consequences of the war and reconstruction

Jim Crow laws and reconstruction amendments

Forms of racial discrimination in the south after reconstruction are

Jim crow laws forcing separation of races in public places, lynching, imposing new voting restrictions like poll taxes and literacy test.

Who made increase support for space programs or space research a national goal

John Kennedy

The United States invasion of Cambodia in 1970 resulted in anti-war protest on some college campuses. National Guard troops shot and killed for students at which university when the God was called in to restore order

Kent State University

in which East Asian country did the United States support anti-communist forces in a conflict during the 1950s aimed at preventing the spread of Communism

Korea

Although officially neutral, the US increasingly helped Britain through actions such as the

Lend-Lease act

The American Revolution began with a battle between British and Colonial troops at

Lexington and Concord

Who were the key leaders of the Civil War

Lincoln was President wanted Union to be together, Jefferson Davis the president of the Confederacy, Robert E Lee a general of the Confederate also oppose succession, Frederick Douglass a freed slave who wanted slaves to fight in the Union, and Ulysses S Grant Union military commander

What were the major military and political events of the Civil War

Lincoln wins election 1860, 1861 Fort Sumter first shots, Bull Run, 1862 Antietam where North win and Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, 1865 Appomattox Court House where Robert E Lee surrender to Ulysses S Grant

The process of assimilation included all of the following except

Living in immigrant neighborhood

a major policy of President Ronald Reagan's Administration was to

Lower federal income tax rates

which president was most closely identified with the passage of significant civil rights legislation

Lyndon Johnson

What impact did the new deal have on the role of the federal government?

Made the government paly a more active role.

How was the Bill of Rights influenced by the Virginia declaration of rights in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

Madison took detailed notes in rewrote ideas of Human Rights founded in Virginia Declaration of Rights by Mason and the perspective of no official government religion based on Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom by Jefferson

Virginia employee drug policy to avoid interdating schools

Massive Resistance

which policy enacted by Southern States after the Brown vs Board decision in the idea of integration of blacks and whites in the same school

Massive Resistance

German-speaking immigrants settled primarily in the

Middle Atlantic region

What did the Missouri Compromise accomplish

Missouri as a slave state

What was an effect of triangular trade on Europe

More trade and wealth

The "Great Migration" of the early 20th century can be described as the

Movement of african Americans to northern cuties for jobs

Which organization saw increase rights by using the courts

National Association for the advancement of colored people NAACP

who said that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind and what was he referring to

Neil Armstrong and walking on the moon

The Virginia House of Burgesses was important to the development of democracy in the thirteen colonies because it

Provided an example of Representative form of government

How did the new deal attempt to address the causes and effects of the great depression?

Provided relief for people (wpa), recovery of depression (aaa), and reform for banks (fdic/social security).

Which territory was acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War

Puerto Rico

Dollar diplomacy was designed to

Purchase new territories in latin america.

Which group did not usually settled the middle colonies?

Puritans

Which group settled in New England?

Puritans.

Early European exploration and colonization resulted in

Redistribution of the world's population

The primary poll factor for European colonization in North America was

Religious freedom and economic opportunities

Which region was most opposed to high protective tariffs

The South

The Virginia House of Burgesses was

The first elected assembly in the New World

Which statement about new technology encouraging westward movement of the population is true?

The reaper made farming in the West more prosperous

What is true about the Treaty of Versailles

The united states failed to ratiy the treaty (senate)

Why did southern states secede

Their right to join you man, also right to leave the union

How did southern states react to the reconstruction laws after reconstruction ended?

They repealed the laws, as black voters were too important to ignore.

The leaders of the democratic Republican party were

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Which English immigrants challenge the rule of the American colonies by the king of England in a pamphlet called common sense?

Thomas Paine

What compromises were reached at the Constitutional Convention

Three-Fifths Compromise. Bill of Rights, ten amendments, checks and balances three equal branches

who served on the legal team for the NAACP in a landmark court case and went on to become the first African American appointed to the United States Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall

What was Lincoln's vision of The American Nation as professed in the Gettysburg Address

To destroy the south in order to keep the north together

Why did the US abandon her traditional isolationist foreign policy?

To gain america more profit with newly announced dollar diplomacy: investment of latin countries in hopes of money support.

How did the depression affect lives of americans?

Unemployment and homelessness (live in hooverville), distrust in banks, and demands for goods declined.

What were impacts of the great depression?

Unemployment and homelessness, collapse of financial system, political unrest as labor unions grew militant.

Which organization was established in 1945 to promote Justice incorporation in solving

United Nations

The Great depression ultimately ended following

United states involvement in WWII

President Taft's dollar diplomacy

Urged american banks and businessess to invest in latin american countries

which Southeast Asian country, part of what was formerly known as French Indochina, became the site of the longest United States military conflict

Vietnam

Why did the US become involved in the world?

Violation of freedoms of the seas: unrestricted of submarine war fare and conflict with Great britain

The concepts used when drafting the Bill of Rights were delivered from which document

Virginia Declaration of Rights and Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

posters are example of us propaganda from World War II encourage the purchase of what

War bonds and stamps

The election of 1800 is significant because it

Was a peaceful transfer of power from one party to another

The main reason the soviet union became an ally of britain and later in the unites states was because the soviet union

Was attacked by germany in spite of their nonaggression pact

US citizens at home assisted the war effort by

Working in wartime industries such as manufacture of airplanes and ammunition, working with worn clothing/ shoes so that new items could be sent to the troops, buying government war bonds and acfeoting higher taxes to support the war effort.

During the Cold War, Virginia's economy

benefited as private companies were awarded large defense contracts

what is the difference between fiscal and monetary policies practice by the US government to regulate the economy

fiscal policy deals with Taxation and spending, while monetary policy deals with interest rates in the supply of money

Issues related 2 immigration policies in the 20th century include

immigrants seen as a strain on government services, America concern about control in the borders, and Americans disagree about how immigrants should become citizens

The economy of the middle colonies was based primarily on small-scale Farming and

trade

African Americans secured passage of civil rights legislation by

working through the court system and using mass protest

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after the battle of

Antietam

The Civil War ended at the Battle of

Appomattox

what regions are the source of the most recent immigration to the United States

Asia and Latin America

Virginia responded to the supreme court order to desegregate their public schools

B y closing some Public Schools

the Cold War foreign policy to stop communist aggression into other countries was known as

Containment

After aligning itself with germany and italy, the island country if japan sought to

Control asia and the Pacific

Why did competing political parties develop during the 1790s

Controversy over Federalists support of Bank of United States, Jay Treaty, and undeclared war on France. Led to opposition party the Democratic Republicans

What fueled the modern industrial economy?

Corporations gaining expansion, rise in labor unions and increase in labor supply (through immigration). America's possession of a wealth of natural resources and naval rivers.

The navajo code talkers were instrumental in

Creating a communication code that the japanese could not break

The invasion of france is also known as

D day

What issues divided America in the first half of the 19th century

Debate of admission of new territory

The principal war strategy that the United States and her allies agreed to pursue was to

Defea Hitler first

Farmers, artisans, and Southern frontier settlers supported Thomas Jefferson and the

Democratic Republicans

Thousands of african americans soliders, including the tuskegee airmen of bkack eagkes, served vraverly in WWII despite

Discrimination at home and segregated units

How did the US expand her influence im the world?

Dollar Diplomacy with China, passed be Semator Hay

What factors influenced american growth and expansion in the late 19th and early 20th century?

Economics opportunities, booming industry, wide variety of natural resources and newly technology/ inventions, and growth of immigration.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purposes of ... Is an expert from which important document

Emancipation Proclamation

The Spanish american war expanded the power of the united states by

Encouraging panama to seek independence from Colombia.

What were consequences of the stock market crash of 1929?

Entire caos caused by people because they all had panic and run to bank to recollect their money, which meant no mote investments.

What were the goals of progressives, and what were their accomplishments?

Equal economic opportunities of wages and working conditions. Eliminate the social injustice; give women suffrage and take away child labor.

The Supreme Court case of Marbury V. Madison is significant because it

Established the power of the courts to declare a law unconstitutional

How did race relations in the south change after reconstruction, and what was the african american response?

Ever since jim crow laws started, it caused many african americans to migrate north: great migration.

Manifest Destiny was used to justify an American desire to

Expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean

Immigrants arriving in the US in the early 1900s

Faced prejudices based on differences

The federal reserve system's actions in the later 1920s

Failed to prevent the collapse of the banking system

Truman's decision to drop tjr atomic bomb on japan was influenced by

Fear that an invasion of japan would mean death for thousands of american soliders, refusal of japan to surrender in spite of their losses, thousands of american lives already lost in the war in the pacific.

which part of the national government controls the supply of money in the economy

Federal Reserve

The standoff in negotiations between the US and Japan involved

Imposition of an embargo on exports of oil and steel to Japan

Why was slavery introduced into the colonies?

Increase the South economy with cheap labor

The initiative, referendum, and recall

Increased voter participation in government

The primary impact of the progressive movement on workers was

Increased wages and improved working conditions

What were the causes of the great depression?

Initial stock market crash of 1929 caused stock prices to collapse, hawley-smoot act of tariffs, and failure of the federal reserve.

The government policy of removing japanese americans from the west coast and otber places into special camps was called

Internment

President Lincoln believed

It is illegal for states to secede

The French and Indian War was it cause of the American Revolution because

It led Great Britain to enforce existing economic policies and create new taxes on the colonies

What best describes the New Deal?

It permanently altered the role of government in the economy into being more active.

Which amendment to the Constitution states neither slavery nor involuntary servitude accepted for punishment for Crime shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their...

13 Amendment

League of nation was established in what year

1949

the Warsaw Pact was established in what year

1955

The author of the Bill of Rights and the Virginia Plan proposed in a federal government with three branches was

James Madison

What is the Monroe Doctrine

A foreign policy in which new colonies in western hemisphere cannot pass into Europe

What was the primary concern of the Anti-Federalists?

A strong national government would take away power from the States

The Articles of Confederation was unsuccessful as a government system because it established

A weak national government

The Bill of Rights can best be described as

A written guarantee of individual rights

How did radio, movies, newspaper, and magazine promote challenges to traditional values?

Adding to social norm from society

The Three-Fifths Compromise was established to

Address a concern of Southern States

following United States military withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, Vietnam

Adopted a communist form of government

The United States occupation of Japan following World War II ended when Japan

Adopted a democratic form of government

Two political groups emerged in the late 1790s. The Anti-Federalists were led by George Mason. The Federalist were led by

Alexander Hamilton

Which amendment to the Constitution guarantees all citizens due process

Amendment 14

How did the Civil War affect African-Americans and the common Soldier

Americans were enlisted in war and soldiers were crushed with destroyed homes and had many injuries

Which is not a reason of the stock mare crash in 1929?

Bank deposits coud not be invested in the stock market

Why did Stalin try to block some Marshall Plan

Because he didn't want any US influence

Sally Ride was the first female to do what in the United States

Become female astronaut

How did their motivations influence their settlement patterns and Colony structures

Begin to kill everyone, more disease, death, and loss of territory

How did the ideas expressed in that meant summation proclamation in the Gettysburg Address support the north War aims

Both emphasize in North need for preservation of the Union

What were the causes of the War of 1812

British interfered with American shipping and western expansion

which Supreme Court case overturned a lower Court ruling and establish a precedent by declaring that separate but equal facilities are unconstitutional

Brown versus Board of Education

How did Chief Justice John Marshall, a Virginian, contribute to the growth of the United States Supreme Court's importance in relation to the other branches of the national government

By extending power of supreme court with three court cases Marbury V Madison is judicial review, McColly V Maryland is implied powers and Gibson V OG Den

The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba was an attempt

By the united states to overthrow the castro government

Bill Clinton can best be described as a

C e n t r i s t or moderate Democrat

What did the Compromise of 1850 accomplish

California as a free state and new territories from Mexican secession decided on own also known as popular sovereignty

Durning WWII, the US government controlled information about the war through

Censorship

A large number of workers on the transcontinental railroad came from

China

As the nation's industrial growth continued, which cities grew rapidly as manufacturing and transportation centers?

Cleveland and Detriot

Examples of methods used to maintain public morale and keep Americans focused on winning the war are

Collections of tin cans and aluminuim foil, ad and poster campaigns, and patriotic movies.

In what ways did the cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Americas into react

Columbian Exchange

The end of reconstruction in the South came with the

Compromise of 1877

over the last three decades, the American Workforce has had to acquire and improve skills in

Computer technology

What were the consequences of the interactions of European, African, and American cultures

Conflict over land, death, diseases

Which is not a key principle of the Declaration of Independence?

Constraint

Which group opposed the Bill of Rights because it believed the Constitution adequately protected basic rights?

Federalist

Who were the leading Federalists and Anti-Federalists in the pivotal ratification debate in Virginia

Federalist are Adams and Hamilton. Anti-Federalist are Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Mason, Madison

President FDR's radio broadcast were known as

Fireside chats

The American victory in the War of 1812 increase American migration into

Florida

President Ronald Reagan appointed justices to the Supreme Court who

Followed a strict interpretation of the Constitution

How did the institution of slavery influence European and African life in the colonies?

For Europeans it open up trade but for Africans and made their lives harder

Opening Conflict of the Civil War was at

Fort Sumter

Woodrow wilson plan to Endo all cause of war was known as the

Fourteen points

The contribution of which country's Army and Navy help the colonists win the American Revolution?

France

Which former slave became a prominent abolitionist encouraged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight for the Union

Frederick Douglass

Which country was divided into four zones following World War 2

Germany

During world war I, two of the central powers were

Germany and austria-hungary

The immediate event that started WWII was

Germany invading Poland on September 1, 1939

All men are created equal in our rule by a government of the People, by the people, and for the people is from a speech given by President Lincoln after the battle of

Gettysburg

Why did Europeans settle in the English

God gold Glory

The mobilization in the United States for the war in Europe and Asia was possible because of the close working relationship between

Government and Industry

What were the causes of the Civil War

Government issue, slavery, balances of power, tariff, sectionalisation

What were the post-war contributions of Ulysses S Grant, Robert E Lee, and Frederick Douglass

Grant became US president, Lee was important from the education aspect by becoming president of Washington College, and Douglass was able to gain the right to truly wanted towards the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments for African American equality

What was the colonial religious movement that was a social foundation for the American Revolution?

Great Awakening

Germany encountered no successful resistance from any europena country until it sought to defeat

Great Britain

How did visions of the postwar world differ?

Great Britain and france had the main mind set on punishing germany. The league of nations was created as well as new borders and countries. All that was set to open for future wars.

What factors influenced American Westward Movement

Growth of railroads and Canal

Why was George Washington important to the American Revolution?

He was a strong commander of the Continental Army

What was not an impact of the great depression?

Higher demands for goods

How did the excesses of the gilded age contribute to the development of the progressive movement?

Huge gap of income found within the poor and rich causingthe labor supply to go on strike; decreasing labor.

The 3rd geneva convention held in 1929 provided rules for

Humane treatment for prisoners of war

Which colony did the Virginia Company of London established in 1607?

Jamestown

How did the economic activity and political institutions of the three colonial regions reflect the resources and or the European origin of the settlers?

New England adopted the economy of shipbuilding, fishing, Lumber in, in manufacturing. Middle colonies had shipbuilding, agriculture goods, and trade. South was based on agriculture

In the mid-1800s, which group supported high tariffs to raise the price of imported manufactured goods?

Northern factory owners and workers

In the government provided by the Articles of Confederation states had

One vote regardless of size

What caused the stock market crash of 1929?

Overspeculation, credit expansion, bankruptcies due to fail of businesses.

The stock market crashed in 1929 for the following reasons

Overspeculation, excessive expansion by investors, business failures leading to bankruptcies

According to Locke, if a government failed to fulfill its social contract with its citizens, they could

Overthrow the government for a new one

What was a result of President Andrew Jackson's bank veto?

Panic of 1837

The role of women in america changed most significantly in the 1920s due to the

Passage of the 19th amendment

to enhance law enforcement investigation tools as high security, punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, and for other purposes describe the purpose of the

Patriot Act

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 accomplished what

People gave Kansas and Nebraska the choice to allow slavery in States known as popular sovereignty. Kansas was known as Bleeding Kansas

The colony of Rhode Island was established as a result of

Persecution by Puritans in Massachusetts

From the Mayflower Compact. Which early colony describes it

Ply mouth

in the 1950s, dr. Jonas Salk created, introduce and administrated a vaccine for

Polio

The philosopher John Locke influence the American belief in self-government through his writing that

Power belong to the people, who consented to form a government

In a federal system of government

Power is shared between the state and National levels of government

In what ways did political democracy change in the Years following the War of 1812

President Jackson known as the age of the Common Man increase voters, raised interest of political groups and sectional issues and changes of campaign-style. Expansion of democracy

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, or national origin

The number of eligible voters increased prior to the election of 1828 when

Property qualifications were eliminated

The open door policy

Proposed equal trading rights in China for all countries

What was not a form of racial discrimination in the south after reconstruction

Requiring blacks to find jobs on farms or on the railroads

The open door policy was proposed by

Secretary of State John Hay

Most individuals settling in VA were

Seeking economic opportunities

What is Plessy V. Ferguson decision?

Separate but equal

The economy of New England colony was partially based on

Shipbuilding and fishing

Hurt world trade after the stock market crash of 1929?

Smoot- Hawley

What was the war's impact on the homefront

South was found in Ruins, devastated by War. West was contributed with the Transcontinental Railroad

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigrants to the US came mostly from

Southern and eastern europe

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO, a defensive Alliance of the United States and Western European countries, was formed to prevent invasions from the

Soviets

The practice of rewarding party loyalists with government jobs is called

Spoils system

What weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation led to the effort to draft a new constitution

States hold all power, state had one vote didn't matter size, tax, no common currency

What was the legacy of the new deal?

Stronger belief in government responsibility to deliver public services and to intervene in the economy

Medium of communication and expansion of popular culture in the 1920s did not include

Television

How did American feel about immigrants?

That immigrants took advantage and stole all their jobs.

How did America's pre-revolutionary relationship with Britain influence the structure of the first national government

The Articles of Confederation

President Andrew Jackson represented which newly enfranchised segment of the population

The Common Man

What were the major Arguments for and against the constitution of 1787 in the lead in Federalist and Anti-Federalist writings and in the ratification debates

The Federalists wanted a strong national government which is why they pursued the Constitution. While the Anti-Federalist wanted a weak government to give all power to the states

How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention balance competing Interests

The Great Compromise. Meaning, the house equals population and Senate equal vote

Which event best completes the timeline? -end of wwI -harlem renaissance -stock market crash - - WWII -United Nations Begins

The Great Depression

which economic recovery initiative, a response to American concerns about communist expansion, provider grants and Loans to war-torn European countries following World War

The Marshall Plan

The colony region whose economic was based on shipbuilding, Lumber in, and small-scale substances farming was

The New England

America abandoned her policy of isolationism in the late nineteenth Century in order to

obtain overseas markets for goods

Rosie the Riveter symbolize

the role of women in the workforce


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