US Final

The number of Roman Catholics in the American colonies was roughly equal to the number of Protestants.

Special units of militia formed as a quick first line of defense in case the British invaded the countryside.

The Great Wagon Road connected the port cities along the coast.

Who is called the Father of the Constitution?

According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of his debate with Douglas?

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated before he could implement his plans for Reconstruction.

The Pure Food and Drug Act required honest labeling of products.

Most of the Plains Indians made their living by farming.

When the war began, even the British were divided over waging war on the colonists.

Roosevelt opposed raising taxes to support the war effort.

The route to China was dangerous due to Muslim Merchants, forcing adventurers to find a waterway to China.

The national patent law and promise of profits caused inventions to flood the United States.

Which country had the strongest economy following World War I?

Explorer believed the earth was round, sailing west to find the east, and is believed to be the first to land in NA.

What area did the U.S. government buy as a result of the Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain?

Movies were a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s.

All colonies were represented at the First Continental Congress.

William Bradford became the governor of Plymouth in 1621 and wrote Of Plymouth Plantation

New Deal programs brought a quick recovery to the Great Depression.

By requiring literacy tests, Southern states deprived many blacks of their right to vote.

American neutrality in the Great War meant that the United States did not trade with either side.

What is a catechism?

Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 called for the return of runaway slaves to bondage?

The first permanent English settlement in the New World.

Portuguese explorer Bartomolmeu Dias led the charge in 1488, sailing south around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.

The “Anaconda Plan” was a term used to poke fun at Winfield Scott’s plan for war.

The defeat of the Spanish Armada began the English dominance of the seas.

In Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court supported segregation.

Advertisements encouraged people to buy more things even if they did not have the money.

During WWII, the US placed thousands of Japanese-Americans in internment camps without charging them with any crimes.

What term was applied to laws in the South that forced segregation?

The United States joined the Central Powers.

What event occurred on December 7, 1941, officially pulling the US into the war?

The Albany plan was created by Benjamin Franklin to fight for centralized colonial rule.

This English sea captain led his fleet called Sea Dogs to attack Spanish ships.

Chief Justice Roger Taney claimed that the Constitution recognized free blacks as citizens.

First explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe?

 What were opponents of ratifying the Constitution called? 

What was the name given to the trials of Nazi war criminals?

Which leader of the Soviet Union is known for being one of the most savage tyrants of all time?

What “Great Compromiser” helped defuse the crises over the admission of Missouri and tariffs?

The New Mexico campaign in the Mexican War involved a great deal of fighting.

The Puritans’ attitude toward the Anglican Church was that they wanted

Scots-Irish and German settlers

George Washington’s administration was free from internal rebellion.

Washington led 2,400 men across the Delaware river during a snow storm storm, surprising the Hessians at Trenton

What term describes the movement to eliminate slavery?

Portuguese voyage, possibly the first to be profitable, returning with cargo worth 60x the cost of the expedition

Public opinion was greatly influenced by the 1776 publication of a pamphlet called Common Sense. Who wrote it?

The major difference between Pilgrims and Puritans concerned

Economic system where national wealth was measured by how much gold a nation had.

What agreement allowed the admission of a slave state if further slavery was banned north of 36° 30'?

American opinion was united in support of the Mexican War.

What term describes the desire for worldly possessions and the belief that they bring true happiness?

Taft's policy aimed to use economic power and financial investments to influence Latin American and East Asian countries

Colonists were mad about the taxes imposed by the British because they didn’t want to pay that much money.

The first great Spanish conquistador

The Oregon Trail had branches that reached into California.

What paddle-shaped board did the colonists’ children use for reading?

The German invasion of which region sparked World War II in Europe?

What plan proposed a two-house Congress, with representation based on state population?

The great numbers of immigrants during the Gilded Age slowed the expansion of American industry.

The South tried to defend black codes by arguing that blacks were uneducated and could be manipulated easily.

What was the name for a widespread fear of communism that occurred after World War I and after World War II?

What was the location of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France on June 6, 1944, commonly known as D-Day?

What was the largest group of Anabaptists?

George Washington was the first president elected under the Constitution.

What were the first two political parties that arose in America?

“Mugwumps” were Republicans who voted for a Democrat because he stood for reform.

Which preacher during the Great Awakening could preach to thirty thousand people without any amplification?

What plan proposed a one-house Congress, with equal votes for each state?  

With which country did Germany break a non-aggression pact?

What term means the extension of power by one people or country over another?

The framers of the Constitution recognized that man has a sinful nature. 

The Sherman Antitrust Act effectively stopped monopolies in the United States.

Thousands of slaves escaped via the Underground Railroad.

Frontier Fueds began with a series of wars between the British-controlled colonies and the French.

Parliament's first direct tax on the American colonies, enacted to raise money for Britain. 

What was the first religious group to settle in America?

The raiders of the Boston Tea Party damaged several ships and made a huge mess while dumping the tea into the harbor.

Puritans emphasized education primarily because they wanted children to

What road did settlers take from Philadelphia to the backcountry

Why did Washington’s fort, Fort Necessity, show his lack of experience?

At the outset of the Civil War the North had vastly superior resources but less talented military leaders than the South

Other than encouraging optimism, Herbert Hoover made little effort to alleviate the Depression.

Thomas Edison’s inventions include the phonograph, the motion-picture projector, and the incandescent light bulb.

Geneva’s most influential teacher and was instrumental in the Protestant Reformation

What popular idea held that it was America’s destiny to stretch from “sea to shining sea”?

Hoover’s efforts to fight the Depression were a combination of voluntary cooperation and government involvement.

What was the name for the Catholic mission that was used as a fort during Texas’s war for independence?

The Articles of Confederation was a great success and is still in effect today

The Monroe Doctrine still affects America’s foreign policy today.

What group became known as Congregationalists?

What term refers to the period during which the national government attempted to rebuild the South after the war?

The Treaty of Paris (1763) drastically changed the geography of North America.

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.

After gaining independence, the Second Continental Congress voted to join the colonies into a Confederation

By the mid-1800s, what was America’s most important export?

Protestant settlers from Northern Ireland

What were the Great Plains called during the devastating drought of the 1930s?

What two factions opposed each other over the issue of representation in Congress? 

Which general was sent with 1000 seasoned troops, but didn’t listen to Washington's warnings, leading to his defeat?

The Pilgrims were Separatists, not Puritans.

Who warned the Colonists that the British were coming?

Issued by Parliament. Prohibited the colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

The Treaty of Paris was signed on Sep. 3, 1783, and acknowledged that the colonies were indeed independent.

Proposed that representation in the House be based on state population and in the Senate be equal for all states

Marco Polo inspired Europeans to travel to Asia to experience growth in wealth and power.

The Great Awakening was a revival in American history that lasted from the 1720s to the early 1770s

What was Roosevelt's foreign policy that emphasized negotiating peacefully while also showing military strength

Pickett’s Charge was the final attempt by Confederates to win at Gettysburg.

Pennsylvania Dutch were German immigrants in Pennsylvania

Hoover called the economic downturn a “depression” because he wanted to avoid more alarming descriptions.

The United States was militarily prepared when it entered the War of 1812.

The first Africans in Jamestown were treated as indentured servants who could gain their freedom after a period of work.

The French & Indian War was unlike earlier conflicts and began in Europe.

 The 1800 election between Jefferson and Adams was a gentlemanly contest that rose above party differences.

Roosevelts domestic policy that focused on consumer protection controlling corporations & conserving natural resources

Appeasement was a great success.

Walter Raleigh persuaded Queen Elizabeth I to attempt to colonize part of the New World

Act placed a tariff, or tax, on goods imported into the colonies, such as sugar, molasses, and coffee.

America purchased the Louisiana Territory at a cost of about two cents an acre.

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for all the following reasons except

The famous work Description of the World was about whose adventures?

The South felt little need to develop manufacturing because cotton growing was so profitable.

The Battle of Midway was a major turning point of the war in the Pacific.

The reservations on which the American government tended to place Indians were arid, barren lands.

What was the main provision of the Selective Service Act?

What document of self-government did the Pilgrims sign when they first arrived in America?

The colony on Roanoke Island became known as the “Lost Colony” because its inhabitants disappeared.

What was the South’s basic strategy for victory during the war?

The Pony Express went broke due to the invention of the telegraph.

Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards is considered to be one of the greatest theologians in American history.

Which of the following pieces of legislation was designed to make monopolization in business illegal?

Who became the fascist dictator of Italy in 1925?

The Cold War was sparked by a nuclear attack on Japan.

What agreement was necessary before California could be admitted as a free state?

What was the name of the former slave who the Supreme Court denied was a citizen with rights?

Who was generally considered the leader of the early Republican Party?

What was the main theme of America’s foreign policy during the 1920s?

The American colonies attracted numerous religious groups.

What American policy banned European intervention in the Western Hemisphere?

Which term is not associated with fascism?

Who was appointed Chancellor in Germany in 1933?

During the sixteenth century, which country dominated the exploration of the New World?

Who was generally considered the leader of the early Republican Party?