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Three Worlds Meet (c. 1450 – 1763) (57)
_______________________________ 1. Time of rebirth. Occurred in Europe in the 1400s with the reawakening of
interest in Classical Greek and Roman culture.
_______________________________ 2. Begun by Martin Luther, it challenged the practices of the Roman Catholic
Church and started many new churches
_______________________________ 3. Sometime around the year 1000 A.D. this people were the first Europeans
to try to settle the New World
_______________________________ 4. The route by which the First Nations migrated from Asia to the Americas
_______________________________ 5. This Amerindian culture (a.k.a. Mississippian) reached its peak at Cahokia
in the 1200s
_______________________________ 6. This Amerindian language group was scattered along the Atlantic seaboard
and included the Narragansett, Powhatan, and Roanoke
_______________________________ This Amerindian language group dominated the Appalachian region and
included the Tuscarora, Cherokee, Seneca, and Mohawk
_______________________________ 7. Formed by Hiawatha, this Amerindian alliance is suggested to have been
influential in the eventual organization of the American colonies
_______________________________ 8. a landform like Florida
_______________________________ a landform like Panama
_______________________________ the name of the mountain chain running from New Hampshire to
Georgia
_______________________________ the body of water that dominates the Maryland-Virginia area
_______________________________ the five bodies of water that straddle the border between Canada and
the U.S. are collectively known as this. Individually, they are:
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________ the large river running from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico
_______________________________ the large river running from the Rockies in Montana to the Mississippi
_______________________________ the large river formed at Pittsburgh and running west to the Mississippi
_______________________________ the large river marking running east from Lake Ontario
_______________________________ the river that flows from north of Albany down to New York City
_______________________________ 9. The blending of New World and Old World organisms
_______________________________ 10. The search for this, the route around the New World, led to
exploration and eventual settlement by many European countries
_______________________________ 11. Place of the first attempt at English settlement in the New World,
a.k.a. “The Lost Colony”
_______________________________ He was the organizer and financier of this settlement
_______________________________ 12. The first successful English colonial settlement in Virginia
_______________________________ 13. The group chartered to create the settlement
_______________________________ the seventeenth-century term for corporation
_______________________________ 14. The crop that made the settlement successful
_______________________________ 15. The land distribution system that helped make the colony successful
_______________________________ 16. Most of the labor of the early Virginia colony (pre-1660) was
provided by these
_______________________________ 17. These were the two groups aboard the Mayflower (a.k.a. “Saints and
_______________________________ Strangers”
_______________________________ 18. Because they had no government in Plymouth, the male settlers
created this agreement to govern themselves
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_______________________________ 19. Puritans, led by John Winthrop, founded this colony
_______________________________ What the colony was supposed to be, according to John Winthrop’s
sermon
_______________________________ 20. The colony of Providence Plantation was founded by Roger Williams
on this legal principle
_______________________________ 21. Term for a colony granted to one person or a family, e.g. Pennsylvania
_______________________________ 22. Religious group that founded Pennsylvania, many later moved to NC
_______________________________ 23. Only colony (at any time) populated by more blacks than whites
_______________________________ 24. (NE, M-A, C, LS) the four regions of the Thirteen Colonies
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________ 25. The return of the Stewart line to the throne of England in the person of
Charles II in 1660
_______________________________ 26. Collection of farming advice, humor, and household hints published by
Ben Franklin
_______________________________ 27. Religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s
_______________________________ Intellectual movement that reaches the colonies in the 1740s, (a.k.a. the
Age of Reason)
_______________________________ 28. British economic theory based on trade and creation of colonies
_______________________________ Series of British laws enacted to regulate trade in the colonies
_______________________________ Policy whereby Britain suspended enforcement of the regulatory acts
_______________________________ 29. a.k.a. the Seven Years War
_______________________________ 30. This young Virginian’s actions in western Pennsylvania caused the war
_______________________________ 31. 1754 proposal by Ben Franklin to unite the colonies for defense
_______________________________ 32. Arguably the most important battle fought on North American soil – the
1759 defeat of the French at Quebec
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Colonial North Carolina and the American Revolutionary Era, (1660-1783): (63)
_______________________________ 1. Term for the edge of settlement, or land at the border between two
countries
_______________________________ 2. first governor of North Carolina
_______________________________ 3. land above the Fall Line in NC, along the Appalachian frontier
_______________________________ 4. Immigrant group that settled the colonial backcountry, from Ulster via
Pennsylvania
_______________________________ 5. Road from Pennsylvania south through the Shenandoah Valley, route
taken by the immigrants to the backcountry
_______________________________ 6. Term for plantation owners (a.k.a. gentlemen)
_______________________________ Term for a small property owner (a.k.a. freeman)
_______________________________ 7. government by the wealthy few
_______________________________ 8. term for the eight oligarchs who governed early colonial NC
_______________________________ 9. (T, CP, P, M) the 4 NC geographic regions from east to west
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________ 10. NC geographical feature that creates the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” and
leads to NC ‘s isolation
_______________________________ 11. Excessive loyalty to region rather than state or country
_______________________________ 12. geographical feature of NC that creates sectionalism
_______________________________ 13. products from pine forests used in shipbuilding, colonial NC’s modus
vivendi
_______________________________ 14. Popular (often violent) movement to restore law and order and end
government corruption in the Piedmont of colonial NC and SC, 1768-1771.
_______________________________ Author of An Impartial Relation and leader of the movement
_______________________________ NC Governor who was a target of the movement
_______________________________ Battle that ended the movement
_______________________________ 15. founding document, signed at Runnymede in 1215, wherein the king
agreed to share power with the lords
_______________________________ 16. the power to rule or govern
_______________________________ 17. Concept that says government power relies on the consent of the
governed
_______________________________ 18. a type of government that does not protect the rights of citizens
_______________________________ 19. Key event in 1688 that changes how England is governed
_______________________________ 20. Rights that come from God or nature and can’t be taken away from
_______________________________ people (a.k.a.: natural rights)
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________ Political theory that says the people created government to protect
their natural rights
_______________________________ Eighteenth-century English Whig political philosopher who came up
with the theory
_______________________________ 21. calling for the overthrow of government
_______________________________ 22. Government system where citizens elect leaders who represent the
interests of their constituents
_______________________________ 23. This banned colonial expansion west of the Appalachians
_______________________________ 24. Term for British House of Lords and House of Commons
_______________________________ 25. This law placed a direct tax on the purchase of printed documents
_______________________________ Term meaning to revoke or nullify a law – what Parliament did to the Stamp
Act
_______________________________ 26. A tax placed on imports (a.k.a. “duties”)
_______________________________ 27. group of radical “freedom fighters” led by Samuel Adams
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_______________________________ 28. form of political speech that stretches truth to influence audience
_______________________________ 29. Refuse to buy a good or service as a political or moral protest
_______________________________
To end all trade (refuse to buy or sell a good or service) as a political or
moral protest – imposed by the colonies after the Boston Tea Party
_______________________________ 30. Series of laws passed by Parliament after the Boston Tea Party (a.k.a.
Coercive Acts)
_______________________________ 31. Boston lawyer who led the independence movement
_______________________________ 32. main author of the Declaration of Independence
_______________________________ 33. Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army
_______________________________ 34. Term for people who supported independence
_______________________________ Term for people who opposed independence (a.k.a. “Tories”)
_______________________________ 35. An irregular military group made up of citizens, such as The Minutemen
_______________________________ 36. First battle(s) of the War of Independence
_______________________________ 37. Term for when you win a battle, but at such cost it feels like a loss
_______________________________ June 1775 example of this for the British, major battle across the
Charles River from Boston
_______________________________ March 1781 example of this for the British, battle near what is now
Greensboro, NC
_______________________________ 38. Battle that proved the turning point of the War of Independence,
near Lake Champlain, New York
_______________________________ 39. Last battle of the War of Independence
_______________________________ 40. Thomas Paine’s pamphlet
_______________________________41. event in October 1775 in eastern NC, led by Penelope Barker
______________________________ 42. February 1776 skirmish between Loyalists and Patriots near Wilmington,
NC
_______________________________ 43. according to some, the 1st declaration of independence in the colonies
_______________________________ 44. NC’s declaration that it would support independence, if it were
offered by another colony
_______________________________ 45. merchant ship given the authority to attack enemy ships
_______________________________ naval action to stop enemy’s trade
_______________________________ 46. Ratified in 1781, the first constitution of the United States
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The New Nation: Confederation and Constitution, (1783-1824): (54)
_______________________________ 1. System by which power is divided among the levels of jurisdiction –
as between the national and state governments
_______________________________ 2. Uprising by farmers in Massachusetts during the winter of 1786-87 –
it showed the need to revise the Articles of Confederation
_______________________________ 3. 1785 law that created the plan for organizing new territories
_______________________________ 1787 law organizing territories and banning slavery above the Ohio River
_______________________________ 4. He presided over the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention
_______________________________ 5. He is known as the “Father of the Constitution”
_______________________________ 6. This, not the people directly, elects the President
7. In each of the following ideas select which was supported by the Federalists or Anti-Federalists
_______________________________ strong central government
_______________________________ Bill of Rights
_______________________________ power to remain in the states
_______________________________ 8. Name of the North Carolinian Federalist who was named to the U.S.
Supreme Court
_______________________________ 9. For purposes of taxation and representation, how much did slaves count?
10. There are three branches to the federal and state governments; name them:
_______________________________ the branch that makes laws
_______________________________ the branch that enforces laws
_______________________________ the branch that interprets laws
_______________________________ 11. This system divides power among the three branches
_______________________________ 12. This system empowers one branch to limit the power of another branch
_______________________________ 13. Term meaning to approve, as in what the states did to approve the
Constitution
_______________________________ 14. Term meaning to make a change to a bill or to the Constitution
_______________________________ 15. Term for the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Which amendments do the following:
_______________________________ guarantee speedy and public trial
_______________________________ freedom of religion
_______________________________ freedom of speech
_______________________________ freedom from unwarranted search and seizure
_______________________________ right to bears arms
_______________________________ 16. What did President Washington issue in 1793 to avoid war with
Great Britain and France?
_______________________________ 17. What 1794 event gave the federal government its 1st test of power
to enforce order?
_______________________________ 18. Who was the 1st Secretary of Treasury?
_______________________________ Hamilton insisted that Congress charter this to organize the federal
economy, establish a currency, and as a depository for federal tax revenues
_______________________________ Jefferson argued that nowhere in the Constitution did it give the Federal
government the right to create a bank. What kind of interpretation of the
Constitution is this?
_______________________________ Hamilton’s loose interpretation of the Constitution led to the creation of
what kind of powers?
19. These disagreements led to the formation of the 1st two political parties which were:
_______________________________ led by Jefferson and his supporters and
_______________________________ led by Hamilton
_______________________________ Term for excessive loyalty to a political party rather than the whole country
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_______________________________ 20. What laws designed to hurt the Democratic-Republicans were
passed by the Federalists in 1798?
_______________________________ 21. Who became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1801?
_______________________________ What Supreme Court case established the court’s right to declare a
law unconstitutional?
_______________________________ What is this power called?
_______________________________ 22. To secure the port of New Orleans, what did Jefferson do?
_______________________________ From whom did the US purchase the Louisiana Territory?
_______________________________ Jefferson hired these two men to explore the territory.
_______________________________ She helped them by finding edible plants and acting as an interpreter,
especially with the Shoshone
_______________________________ Although they did not find it (because it doesn’t exist) to find this was
the stated purpose of the expedition
_______________________________ 23. What was the British practice of “kidnapping” sailors from
American ships called?
_______________________________ 24. What law did Jefferson sign using “peaceful coercion” to avoid war
with Britain and France?
_______________________________ 25. What 1811 conflict with the Indians in the Ohio Valley increased
tensions between the U.S. and Britain in the west?
_______________________________ 26. Impressment, shipping rights (freedom of the seas), and the desire to
expand to the west, were all causes of what war?
_______________________________ 27. What were members of Congress who wanted war called?
_______________________________ Name two prominent congressional leaders who wanted war with
Great Britain?
_______________________________ 28. What treaty ended the War of 1812?
_______________________________ 29. What famous battle was fought after the treaty was signed?
_______________________________ Who commanded U.S. troops in that battle?
_______________________________ 30. According to the treaty, which side won the War of 1812?
_______________________________ 31. Term for the time of political comity and national unity ushered in
by the War of 1812.
_______________________________ 32. Foreign policy statement issued in 1823 declaring the Americas to be
off-limits to new European colonies
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Econ 101, Economic Expansion, and Social Reform (1801-1860): (59)
_______________________________ 1. Core economics idea: not having enough for everybody
_______________________________ 2. What you give up to get something else
_______________________________ 3. What are the four factors of production?
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________ 4. The amount of goods and services one has in their life
_______________________________ 5. The ability to get a loan means you have this
_______________________________ 6. In economies without currency, trade of goods and services for goods
and services
_______________________________ 7. Conversion of an economy from agriculture to manufacturing –
resulting from the mechanization of labor
_______________________________ 8. Precise term for a tax on imports to make domestically produced
goods and services more competitive – e.g. the Tariff of Abominations
_______________________________ Term for an income tax wherein rates rise as income rises
_______________________________ Term referring to money you get back if you have overpaid your taxes
_______________________________ Term referring to additional money given to you through the tax code
if you qualify
_______________________________ Term referring to a legal subtraction from your taxable income
_______________________________ 9. A monthly or yearly plan of income and spending
_______________________________ An overage, or when you take in more than you need
_______________________________ A shortage, or what you “run” when you spend more than you take in
_______________________________ 10. Term meaning a steady decrease in the value of money (rise in prices)
_______________________________ Term meaning a steady increase in the value of money (drop in prices)
_______________________________ 11. Type of business organization owned by many people but chartered
by government and treated in law as if it were one person
_______________________________ 12. Organization made up of skilled workers (a.k.a. trade union)
_______________________________ Organization made up of unskilled workers (a.k.a. labor union)
_______________________________ 13. What French term means non-interference in the free market?
_______________________________ 14. What invention greatly increased the profit one could make growing
cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
_______________________________ 15. What artificial waterway became the chief artery for traffic between
the Northeast and the West?
_______________________________ What artificial waterway links Albemarle Sound & Chesapeake Bay?
_______________________________ What roadway linked Asheville to the Tennessee state line?
_______________________________ What roadway ran from western Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois
_______________________________ 16. Nineteenth-century term for infrastructure, such as roads, bridges,
and canals
_______________________________ What was Henry Clay’s plan for federal government involvement in
economic development called?
_______________________________ 17. What was the phrase for the belief that all adult white males should
be allowed to vote?
_______________________________ Jackson put his political allies in government jobs without regard to
their qualifications, a practice that became known as what?
_______________________________ 18. What issue caused calls for nullification in the 1820s and 1830s?
_______________________________ What state threatened to nullify a federal law over the issue in 1832?
_______________________________ What politician in that state led the fight?
_______________________________ What law, enacted in 1833, gave Jackson power to make the state
behave?
_______________________________ Who created the Compromise of 1833, ending the controversy?
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_______________________________ 19. What did opponents, such as Andrew Jackson, call the BUS?
_______________________________ Like Jefferson, Jackson thought the BUS was what?
_______________________________ Jackson’s handling of the BUS was disastrous for the economy and
led what 1837 event?
_______________________________ 20. Like many Americans, Jackson viewed American Indians as an
obstacle to what?
_______________________________ 21. What Cherokee leader created an alphabet so that they could read
treaties with the white man?
_______________________________ The forced removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory in 1838,
became known as what?
_______________________________ 22. What party was formed in 1834 in opposition to Jackson’s
Democratic Party policies?
_______________________________ 23. What was the name of the religious movement led by Charles
Grandison Finney?
_______________________________ 24 What term was given to communities, such as Brook Farm, and New
Harmony, created during the 1830s and 1840s?
_______________________________ What principle of social organization was the basis of these societies?
_______________________________ 25. What is the term for Americans who opposed the presence of
foreigners and immigrants particularly in the cities?
_______________________________ What odd-named political party was formed in the 1840’s opposed to
immigrants and Roman Catholics?
_______________________________ 26. What was the 1st women’s rights convention called?
_______________________________ Who was the former slave who also became important in the women’s
right movement?
_______________________________ Name two founders of the National Women’s Suffrage Association?
_______________________________
_______________________________ 27. Who became the champion for reform in the treatment of the
mentally ill, including in Raleigh, NC, in the 1840s?
_______________________________ 28. What fictional character’s name became synonymous with NC’s lack
of progress in the early 1800s?
_______________________________ 29. Who was the North Carolinian who advocated state financing of
internal improvements and public education?
_______________________________ What was his plan for raising money to pay for public education?
_______________________________ It failed because North Carolinians did not want to do this.
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Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1787-1896): (76)
_______________________________ 1. What 1787 law banned slavery in territories above the Ohio River?
_______________________________ 2. For purposes of taxation and representation, how much did slaves count?
_______________________________ 3. What 1793 law ordered states to return runaway slaves to their masters?
_______________________________ 4. What did Congress end in 1808 in relation to slavery?
_______________________________ 5. What invention greatly increased the profit one could make growing
cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
_______________________________ 6. What organization was founded in 1816 to buy slaves freedom and
send them to Africa?
_______________________________ 7. What 1820 compromise temporarily settled differences between
North and South over slavery?
_______________________________ Who created the compromise?
_______________________________ In what government institution was the balance between slave and free
states so important?
_______________________________ 8. What 1828 NC Supreme Court ruling found it was legal for a master to
kill his slave?
_______________________________ 9. What free black from NC wrote An Appeal to the Colored People of the World?
_______________________________ What did the pamphlet suggest blacks should do to white masters?
_______________________________ 10. Whose 1830 rebellion led the South to impose stricter controls on slaves?
_______________________________ 11. What movement sought to end slavery in America?
_______________________________ Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, in 1831?
_______________________________ Which escaped slave was instrumental in the Underground Railroad?
_______________________________ What former slave became an influential abolitionist leader in the 19th
century, even meeting with President Lincoln?
_______________________________ 12. What is the term for the idea that the U.S. was fulfilling God’s will in
taking over the continent?
_______________________________ 13. What term means an excessive loyalty to your locality or region of the
country? It’s a major cause of the Civil War.
_______________________________ 14. What NC-born candidate supported Texas annexation and was
elected president in 1844?
_______________________________ 15. What is the alternate term for “Anti-Slavery”?
_______________________________ 16. With what country did the U.S. go to war in 1846?
_______________________________ What resolution was passed through the House of Representatives
prohibiting slavery in any territories won in the war?
_______________________________ What political party was formed in 1848 specifically to oppose the
expansion of slavery in the west?
_______________________________ 17. What were the forty-niners looking for in California?
_______________________________ 18. What did the Compromise of 1850 do in D.C.?
_______________________________ Supported by the South, what was the most controversial part of the
Compromise of 1850?
_______________________________ 19. What 1852 novel showed inhumanity of slavery? Who wrote it?
_______________________________ 20. What was the view about slavery that a majority of southerners held?
_______________________________ 21. Passage of what law led to the death of the Whig Party in 1854?
_______________________________ What principle of localism was the centerpiece of that law?
_______________________________ What is the term for the conflict that resulted from the law?
_______________________________ What violent abolitionist played a vital role in the conflict?
_______________________________ What new party was formed in response to the law?
_______________________________ 22. What 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling found the Missouri
Compromise unconstitutional?
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_______________________________ 23. Which two powerful politicians competed for the U.S. Senate seat in
_______________________________ Illinois in 1858?
_______________________________ What was Lincoln position on the expansion of slavery?
_______________________________ 24. Who attacked Harpers Ferry in 1859 to arm slaves for a revolt?
_______________________________ 25. Southern states chose to secede after who was elected president?
_______________________________ Which state was first to secede?
_______________________________ Who was president of the Confederates States of America?
_______________________________ What Virginia city became Confederate capital after that state seceded?
_______________________________ 26. What was the term for northern Democrats who wanted to
compromise with the Confederates and criticized the war?
_______________________________ 27. What was the name of the union’s strategy and who developed it?
_______________________________ 28. What Virginian rejected Lincoln’s offer to command Union forces?
_______________________________ 29. At what federal fort in the South did the Civil War begin?
_______________________________ What was the 1st major battle of the Civil War?
_______________________________ What battle marked the “bloodiest day” in U.S. history?
_______________________________ 30. What executive order did Lincoln sign in 1862 to increase northern
_______________________________
morale and stop Britain from helping the Confederacy? What did it do?
31. There were two battles that were turning points in the Civil War:
_______________________________ Which one was a Confederate defeat in Pennsylvania?
_______________________________ Which one gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
_______________________________ 32. What term refers to private ships that made it through the Federal’s
blockade, especially at Wilmington.
_______________________________ 33. Who became General of the Armies and went east to fight Lee in 1864?
_______________________________ 34. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” went through what state?
_______________________________ 35. Where did Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrender?
_______________________________ 36. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
_______________________________ Who became POTUS as a result of the murder?
_______________________________ 37. What abolished slavery in the US in 1865?
_______________________________ 38. What organization terrorized free blacks and white Republicans?
_______________________________ 39. Southern states enacted laws restricting civil rights of former slaves.
What were these laws called?
_______________________________ 40. What government agency was established after the Civil War to
assist former slaves with food, jobs and particularly education?
_______________________________ 41. What NC-born POTUS was impeached in 1868?
_______________________________ 42. Which amendment defined citizenship and granted equal protection
to all persons?
_______________________________ 43. The Radical Republicans reconstruction plan divided the South into
five district governed by what?
_______________________________ 44. What amendment effectively gave black men the right to vote?
_______________________________ 45. What term refers to Northerners who came south during Reconstruction?
_______________________________ Southerners who cooperated with Reconstruction were called what?
_______________________________ 46. What farm tenant system developed in the South after the Civil War?
_______________________________ 47. What industry moved from the North to the South after the Civil War?
_______________________________ 48. After Reconstruction, the South became known as the “Solid South”
because it consistently voted for which party?
_______________________________ 49. What was the name of the laws in the South that segregated the
races and prevented blacks from voting?
_______________________________ 50. What Supreme Court case found these laws constitutional?
_______________________________ What doctrine resulted from this case?
_______________________________ 51. In what North Carolina city did a race riot occur in 1896?
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Industrialization and Its Effects on American Society (1870s-1940): (70)
_______________________________ 1. What law passed in 1862 gave land in the west to people who
promised to live on it and work if for five years?
_______________________________ Who wrote the 1893 article suggesting that it was the West and the
cheap land that made the U.S. unique in its development?
_______________________________ 2. The transformation of an economy, from farming to manufacturing,
through mechanization of labor
_______________________________ The transformation of a society from rural communities to cities
_______________________________ 3. Sir Henry Bessemer developed a better way of making what product,
the material out of which the new economy is built
_______________________________ 4. A government license giving an inventor control over his/her invention
_______________________________ 5. The “Wizard of Menlo Park,” inventor of the incandescent bulb, etc.
_______________________________ They were the “first in flight,” successfully flying an airplane
_______________________________ He didn’t invent the automobile; he had a “better idea” of how to
build them, faster and cheaper
_______________________________ 6. What was completed at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869?
_______________________________ After many of its people had helped build it, Congress virtually
banned immigration from what country?
_______________________________ Industrialization and the development of the West had a devastating
_______________________________ effect on what two populations (Hint: one human, one animal)
_______________________________ 7. Term for a company that controls an entire industry
_______________________________ What New Yorker moved west and controlled the oil industry?
_______________________________ What Scots immigrant controlled the steel industry? What was the book he
_______________________________ wrote suggesting the rich were obligated to help the poor
_______________________________ Term for when the very wealthy give large sums away to help the poor
_______________________________ 8. What farmers’ cooperative (a.k.a. Patrons of Husbandry) led the
farmers’ alliance movement to challenge railroad monopolies?
_______________________________ What law created the nation’s first regulatory agency?
_______________________________ 9. Terence Powderly tried to unite workers into a broad union called what?
_______________________________ Samuel Gompers organized what coalition of skilled-workers’ unions?
_______________________________ 10. In the late 1800’s various farmers and labor groups formed a new
political party, a.k.a. the People’s Party?
_______________________________ 11. What 1890 law outlawed business monopolies for stifling competition?
_______________________________ 12. Many Americans thought currency should be based on gold and
silver to inflate the economy. This idea was called what?
_______________________________ 13. Who made the “Cross of Gold Speech” and became the Populist and
Democratic candidate for POTUS?
_______________________________ Which Republican candidate for POTUS beat him in 1896?
_______________________________ What happened to this POTUS in Buffalo in 1901?
_______________________________ 14. What is the name of the famous port of entry for processing immigrants
in NY City which opened in 1892?
_______________________________ Term referring to the reasons why migrants (and immigrants) move
_______________________________ Term for Americans who opposed the presence of foreigners and
immigrants particularly in the cities?
_______________________________ What term means immigrants should give up their ethnic identity and
become like the rest of American society?
_______________________________ What metaphor pictures a blending of “native” and immigrant cultures?
_______________________________ 15. Herbert Spencer argued humans socially evolve using natural selection.
This idea justified class differences and was called what?
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_______________________________ 16. Term for the political reform movement of the early 1900s that wanted
to use government (esp. federal government) to make a better society
_______________________________ What was the name of Progressive Era reformers who wrote books,
magazines and newspapers to promote their cause?
_______________________________ What was the sensational muckraking book about the meatpacking
_______________________________ industry and who wrote it?
_______________________________ What two laws resulted (at least indirectly) from this book?
_______________________________
_______________________________ 17. Workers in what major industry went on strike in 1902?
_______________________________ Which POTUS sided with the workers against the owners?
_______________________________ 18. Name each candidate and his party in the 1912 election for POTUS
_______________________________ (there are four: you may google the fourth.) Circle the winner.
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________ 19. What amendment provided for a federal income tax?
_______________________________ 20. What quasi-governmental institution was created in 1913 to regulate
currency and establish monetary policy?
_______________________________ 21. What amendment provided for direct election of US Senators?
_______________________________ 22. What policy did the 18th amendment impose?
_______________________________ 23. What amendment gave women the right to vote?
_______________________________ Who was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement until her death
in 1906? (Hint: the amendment is sometimes named for her)
_______________________________ 24. Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920 promising what?
_______________________________ 25. The 20’s was known for a new kind of music called what?
_______________________________ 26. What was the name of the trial pitting evolution against creationism?
_______________________________ Philosophical movement of the 1910s and ‘20s that rejected a past
represented by war and religion
_______________________________ 27. Women who boldly flaunted social norms were called what?
_______________________________ 28. James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes
were leaders in what cultural movement in the 1920’s?
_______________________________ 29. One danger signal in the 1920’s economy was the vast expansion of
what brought on by installment buying?
_______________________________ Another calamity in 1930’s was a drought that turned America’s “B
bread basket into what was called the ___.
_______________________________ After the crash, the federal government made the economy worse by
passing this 1930 law.
_______________________________ 30. What was the depression era novel by John Steinbeck about the
“Okies” moving from California to look for work?
_______________________________ How did Margaret Burke-White, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange
document the hardships of sharecroppers and the homeless?
_______________________________ What did the homeless sarcastically call their shanty towns?
_______________________________ 31. What did Franklin Roosevelt promise Americans in the 1932 election?
_______________________________ FDR used radio to talk to Americans in what became known as what?
_______________________________ What was created to insure people’s bank deposits?
_______________________________ Term named from an English economist who believed government
should deficit spend its way out of a depression
_______________________________ What landmark New Deal program provided unemployment insurance
and a pension for the elderly?
_______________________________ Although it never became law, what FDR policy caused the U.S. Supreme
Court to accept the New Deal as being constitutional
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_______________________________ 1. Who became POTUS in 1901 and was an advocate of overseas expansion?
_______________________________ 2. Term for when one country dominates the political, legal, social, and/or
economic elements of another country
_______________________________ Imperialism had economic causes in that industrial nations needed what
_______________________________ two things for manufacturing?
_______________________________ What country to which the U.S. wanted an “Open Door” was essential
to one of these
_______________________________ 3. What territory (and future state) did the U.S. annex in 1898?
_______________________________ What organization that included Andrew Carnegie and Mark Twain
opposed its annexation?
_______________________________ 4. In 1898, what war began over Cuba?
_______________________________ The U.S. gained which territories as a result?
_______________________________
_______________________________
_______________________________ What island won its independence, though the U.S. governed it briefly as
_______________________________ this: a term meaning a country under the shield of another?
_______________________________ 5. What did TR build through the Central American isthmus?
_______________________________ 6. Based on TR’s favorite African proverb, it’s what the U.S. wielded
and was the term for TR’s type of “diplomacy”
_______________________________ 7. What four “isms” helped cause World War One?
_______________________________
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_______________________________ What was U.S. policy toward the war when it started?
_______________________________ What German actions in the Atlantic caused the U.S. to change its policy?
_______________________________ What was Wilson’s WWI plan for peace called?
_______________________________ 8. Although not literally true, what term is to describe U.S. foreign
policy in the 1920s and early ‘30s?
_______________________________ 9. What did FDR promise to be to countries in the Western Hemisphere in
1934?
_______________________________ 10. Term referring to British and French policy of giving in to Hitler?
_______________________________ 11. Who was POTUS at the start of WWII?
_______________________________ 12. What “Four Freedoms” did FDR say the U.S. was fighting for?
_______________________________
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_______________________________ 13. The US entered WWII in 1941 when what country attacked us; where?
_______________________________
_______________________________ 14. What was the nickname of the woman representing the work of
American women in the factories during WWII?
_______________________________ What did the government do to reduce consumers’ use of vital products,
such as gas, butter, sugar, coffee, cigarettes, and meat during the war?
_______________________________ Who were put in “internment camps” out of fear they would be disloyal?
_______________________________ What 1944 law gave veterans a package of benefits including lowinterest home loans and aid for college?
_______________________________ 15. The massacre of 12 million people by the Nazis became known as what?
_______________________________ What group made up at least half of these people?
_______________________________ 16. What was POTUS decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan?
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_______________________________ 17. The 30 million American born between 1946-1964 are referred to as
the what generation?
_______________________________ 18. What organization, now headquartered in New York City, was founded
in San Francisco in 1945 to advance the cause of peace globally?
_______________________________ 19. What term refers to the “non-shooting” war between the US and USSR?
_______________________________ In 1946, British PM Winston Churchill declared the East and West
were divided by what?
_______________________________ The Truman Doctrine was committed to preventing further expansion of
communism. This idea became known as what?
_______________________________ What was the plan to aid war-torn Europe between 1948 and 1951?
_______________________________ In 1949 Canada, the US, and western Europe formed what alliance?
_______________________________ Also in 1949, the USSR tested an atomic bomb and China became
communist under whose leadership?
_______________________________ 20. In 1950, what police action started in Asia?
_______________________________ 21. Who led a communist revolution in Cuba in 1959?
_______________________________ 22. What major program of Kennedy’s involved sending volunteers to
developing countries for two years?
_______________________________ 23. Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Communists?
_______________________________ South Vietnamese communist were called what?
_______________________________ In 1964, Congress gave LBJ a virtual declaration of war by passing what
resolution?
_______________________________ What happened in January 1968 that led many American to believe
that we would never be able to win in Vietnam?
_______________________________ 24. Noted as President Carter’s greatest foreign policy achievement, heads
_______________________________ of what two countries signed the Camp David Peace Accords in 1978
_______________________________ Noted as President Carter’s lowest foreign policy point, revolutionaries in
what country took the U.S. Embassy and held Americans hostage
_______________________________ 25. Who became POTUS in 1981 promising to win the Cold War?
_______________________________ Who became Soviet Premier in 1985 promising reform?
_______________________________ What symbol of tyranny was torn down, beginning on November 9, 1989,
marking the end of the Cold War?
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______________________________ 1. Who founded the Tuskegee Institute to bring vocational education and
economic advancement to blacks after the Civil War?
______________________________ 2. What author of The Souls of Black Folk led the Niagara Movement?
______________________________ 3. What middle-class black organization was founded in 1909 to advance civil
rights, end lynching and segregation?
______________________________ 4. What racist organization was reborn in Atlanta in 1915 to promote a 100%
white America?
______________________________ 5. The mass movement of blacks from the South during World War I
______________________________ What northern city saw a massive race riot in the summer of 1919?
______________________________ 6. Who threatened a March on Washington for job opportunities for blacks
in war industries in 1941?
______________________________ 7. What was the name of the drive to gain rights for blacks by helping to
defeat Adolf Hitler in WWII?
______________________________ 8. Using the power of an Executive Order, what did President Truman
desegregate in 1948?
______________________________ 9. Brown v. Board of Education overturned what Supreme Court case?
______________________________ The Brown decision ruled what doctrine to be unconstitutional?
______________________________ Who argued the case for the NAACP?
______________________________ What term refers to the South’s attempt to block enforcement of the
______________________________ Court’s ruling? What document expressed the policy?
______________________________ What NC case in the US Supreme Court gave courts broad powers,
including “busing”, to end segregation in public schools?
______________________________ 10. What kind of protest occurred in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955
______________________________ Whose actions led to this protest?
______________________________ 11. To what southern city did President Eisenhower send troops in 1957
to enforce integration?
______________________________ 12. What method specifically did SNCC use to integrate lunch counters?
______________________________ What North Carolina city saw an early version of this tactic in 1960?
______________________________ 13. Who was the leader of the non-violent approach to civil rights protest
in the 50’s and 60’s?
______________________________ What was the name of his organization?
______________________________ 14. Who was the vocal black nationalist murdered by members of his
own organization (Nation of Islam) in 1965?
______________________________ 15. In what two areas did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban discrimination?
______________________________
______________________________ 16. What amendment abolished the poll tax?
______________________________ 17. What 1965 law abolished literacy tests and other impediments to suffrage?
______________________________ 18. LBJ appointed the 1st black man to the SCOTUS. Who?
______________________________ 19. Which Chief Justice wrote the Brown decision and led the SCOTUS in
expanding civil rights in numerous areas between 1954 and 1969?
______________________________ According to what 1963 case does an accused have a right to publiclyfunded attorney if they can’t afford one on their own?
______________________________ In Escobedo v. Illinois, the Warren Court ruled that an accused has the right
to an attorney during this.
______________________________ What case found the police must inform you of these rights upon arrest?
______________________________ 20. What 1963 book inspired many women to demand greater rights?
______________________________ Who wrote it?
______________________________ What organization did she help found?
______________________________ Although it was never ratified, what constitutional change did it advocate?
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______________________________ What term refers to what blocks women from advancing higher in
employment?
______________________________ The right of a woman legally to have an abortion was conferred in what
1973 Supreme Court case?
______________________________ Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 requires gender equity in
what specific educational areas? (Hint: think STEM and WNBA)
______________________________ 21. President Lyndon Johnson’s domestic agenda was called what?
______________________________ What term refers to its main “fight”?
______________________________ What was the name of the government’s program to provide preschool
for low-income families called what?
______________________________ What two healthcare program were part of LBJ’s plan? (Hint: 1 for the
______________________________ elderly, the other for the poor)
______________________________ 22. Who led a Consumer Rights Movement with his book Unsafe at Any Speed?
______________________________ 23. What organization formed the “New Left” to campaign against the
Vietnam War and in 1968 tried to take over colleges?
______________________________ 24. Who was elected POTUS in 1968?
______________________________ What term refers to the group of “non-activists” that elected him?
______________________________ 25. What constitutional amendment lowered the voting age to 18?
______________________________ 26. Which group took over Alcatraz and Wounded Knee to demand
rights for Amerindians?
______________________________ 27. Who led boycotts of California grape growers to demand better
working conditions for Mexican migrant laborers?
______________________________ What political party, a.k.a. United Race Party, resulted from MexicanAmerican activism?
______________________________ 28. What 1990 law signed by George H.W. Bush involves “accessibility”?
______________________________ 29. Elected in 2008, who became the first black POTUS?
______________________________ 30. Actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, this law is
better known as what?