U.S. History Final Exam

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

What was the decision of Brown v. Board of Education?

first practicing Jew to run on a major presidential ticket

Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008

the department heads who advise the president

a balance of power between the different branches of government

a change or addition to the Constitution

the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

policy of a war objective short of total victory

telegraph

The dominant economic system of the Age of Exploration was

patriot guerrilla called the "Swamp Fox"

What did the French call the territory they claimed along the Mississippi River?

attempt to satisfy a dictator by giving in to his demands

Republican candidate in the 1996 presidential election

What was probably the most effective propaganda tool for abolition?

British general who surrendered his army at Yorktown

What mission became the rallying cry during Texas's war for independence?

What party long claimed to be that of the "common man" and is still in existence today?

What name was given to the clause in the peace treaty making Germany responsible for the war?

relaxation of the US-Soviet tensions

president of the Confederate States of America

The activities of which man were most responsible for encouraging European Exploration of the New World?

British champion of appeasement

first document of self-government in America

steel plow

truce ending WWI

prime minster of Great Britain who won the Seven Years' War

policy of resistance to continuing Communist aggression

first black to serve in the U.S. Congress

Which event sparked World War I?

Nationalist leader in China

a one-house congress

oil-refining entrepreneur

What philosophy advocates the collective or government ownership or regulation of the means of production?

military head of Japan

cotton gin

American general who lead US troops in WWI

the right of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional

massacre of millions of Jews and others the Nazis considered "lesser peoples"

passenger liner that the Germans sung with Americans aboard

allied commander in the Gulf War

US president at the close of WWII

What religion was popular among prominent Patriots, such as Thomas Paine?

steel entrepreneur

dictator of Nazi Germany

Which school of thought supported the existence of God as Creator but denied His involvement in human affairs?

What economic system was based on building national power by amassing a surplus of hard money?

the friend of the common man"

belief that the fall of one nation in Southeast Asia to communism will lead to the fall of other nations there

communists dictator of the Soviet Union

Germany and its allies during WWI

task-force leader in health-care reform

Who became famous for writing short stories and poems that explore the dark side of human nature?

British king who antagonized the colonists

postwar competition between the US and Soviet Union

German plot to give part the United States to Mexico

What was the crucial issue behind the War for Independence?

What were dame schools?

"openness" in Soviet society

a two-house congress

first president to be impeached

“the comeback kid”

belief that each territory can decide on the status of slavery within its borders

indictment of a political officials by Congress

nationalist, totalitarian mass movement

aggressive Republican and Speaker of the House

the representatives who elect the president

the nations that opposed Germany in WWI

Sherman's destruction of Georgia

divided the South into five military districts

the authority specifically given to the national government by the Constitution

the division of government into branches

Soviet leader who introduced glasnost

What dispute was the immediate cause of the Mexican War?

commander in chief of the Continental army

democrats who were for peace, who sympathized with the South, and who opposed Lincoln

British prime minster who attempted to collect new taxes from the colonies

US support of Anti-Communist insurgents

communist leader in Cuba

On what exact date (month, day, and year) did the Germans sign an armistice, ending WWI?

requirement that the colonists help supply the British army

rebellious youth movement of the 1960s

What were the opponents of ratifying the Constitution called?

In what year did the US enter the Great War?

Republican who served briefly as Obama’s secretary of commerce

What event sparked the French and Indian War?

militaristic Iraqi dictator

dictator of Fascist Italy

Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2000 presidential election