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| A majority of the early English migrants to the Chesapeake Bay area were |
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| The belief that God has created the world but allowed it to operate by the laws of nature |
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| France decided to aid the North American colonies in their fight for Independence primarily because France |
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| Wanted to weaken the British Empire |
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| In the Eighteenth century, British colonists wishing to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains were mainly motivated by |
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| the low price and avaliability of land |
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| British colonists in North America mainly objected to the Stamp Act because it |
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| taxed them without their consent |
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| African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas were known as |
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| Washington's Farwell Address set a course for the nation by |
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| Discouraging permanent alliances with forgein nations |
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| What did the Supreme Court establish in the ruling Marbury vs. Madison? |
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| The Supreme Court has the power to determine constitutionality of congressional acts |
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| Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on the following |
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-Slaveholders believed slaves were inferior and required white guardienship
-Slavery was condoned in the Bible
-White plantation owners feared abolition would ruin the Southern economy
-Poor white farmers feared the competition of 4 million freed slaves |
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| Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the US during the 1840's potatoe famine settled in |
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| A distinguishing feature of American society in the early 19th century was |
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| Increased newspaper readership |
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| In the last half of the 19th century, New South advocates supported |
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| Expansion of Southern industry |
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| Theodure Roosevelt addressed the following issues during his presidency |
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- Unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry
- Monopolization and consolidation in the RR industry- "trust buster"
- RR freight rates
- Unsafe drug products
- Conservation of forests
- Roosevelt Corollary allowed US to intervene in Latain America and the Carribean
- Mediated the Russo-Japanese War
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| What did city bosses and urban politcal machines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries do? |
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| Provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for politcal support |
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| The US devised the Open Door policy in China in 1899 in order to |
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| Protect US economic interests in China |
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| What was the platform of the Populist Party (People's party) and why did it form? |
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- The Union of the labor forces should be permanent and perpetual
- Wealth belongs to him who creates it- the interests of rural and civil labor are the same
- Demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16:1
- Demand graduated income tax
- Free ballot and fair count in all elections
- Public ownership of Railroads
-Formed in the 1880's and 1890's, as a result of a hard-hitting drought depression farmers profits in the West and South. Many poor farmers harbored resentment toward the RR's and trusts |
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Created in 1874-1889, largely as a result of the Panic of 1873. Fought to keep greenbacks in circulation that were printed to help the Union effort in the Civil war- farmers liked inflation because it meant they could pay back their debts with "cheap" money and price of farm goods would rise.
Anti-monopoly/big business |
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| The Palmer Raids (1919-1920) were most closely related to |
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Fear of communism and radicalism.
In 1919 a series of raids were committed by A. Mitchell Palmer who believed communists agents were trying to over throw the American government after a revolution occurred in Russia. Used the Espionage and Sedition Acts to justify his actions. |
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| A significant demographic development in the two decades following WWII was |
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| Rapid growth of the suburbs |
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| The 1962 book that helped launch the national environmental movement was |
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| Rachel Carson's Silent Springs |
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| Who did Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense attack? |
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| The kind of England and the principle of monarchy |
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| What was the demographical set up of colonial New England |
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| Life was centered in clustered villages with farmland surrounding the villages |
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| Constitutional (Philidelphia) Convention of 1787 |
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Called to revise the Articles of Confederation. Set up a government that was satisfactory to both slave and free states, large and small, and a central government that was strong but did not interfere with state sovereignty, along with establishing a balance btw. the three branches of government. |
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| After the French adn Indian War, the British government was determined to |
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| Require N. American colonies to pay a greater share of Britains administrative expenses |
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| Compromise between anti and pro slavery advocates. Agreed that any state North of the 36, 30 parallel was a free state, other than Missouri (Large majority of the Louisianna Purchase was free) |
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Added on to the Missouri Compromise. Forbade further importation of slaves into Missouri, and children of slaves of states introduced were freed by the age of 25.
SENATE DID NOT PASS THE AMENDMENT. |
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| During the first half of the 1800's, the central and Western areas of NY were called the "burned over districts" because |
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| of intense religious zeal left over from the 2nd Great Awakening |
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| The Monroe Doctorine maintained that |
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| European powers should not pursue any further colonization in the Americas |
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| The Southern Economy before the Civil War increasingly |
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| Produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry |
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| What stance did the Republican party of the 1850's take towards slavery? |
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| Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be allowed to be expanded or spread to new states |
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| What did Thomas Jefferson believe? |
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1. Farmers were the backbone of America
2. The government that governs least is best
3. Presidents should follow Republican simplicity
4. Freedom of speech is essential to the republic
DID NOT believe we needed a standing army |
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| According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, what was a key factor in the development of American individualism and democracy? |
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| Written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889, stressed the importance of the rich being able to hand out money for philanthropic works, instead of unstable or inadequate people being granted their own money |
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| Wrote "How the Other Half Lives", portraying slums in the North. Greatly influenced "muckracking" journalism about squalid living conditions in urban tenements. |
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| During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the |
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| A key goal of the progressive movement was |
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| to use government power to regulate industrial production and labor conditions |
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| During WWII, Japanese Americans were relocated because of |
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| fear of possible subversive activity against the war effort |
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| An attempt by the US to invade Cuba using Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro. Approved by JFK, was unsuccessful. |
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| Soviets were behind the the arms race, their missiles could not reach the US so they stationed missiles in Cuba. Tensions rise, Soviets agree to take missiles out of Cuba if US agrees not to invade the island or attack Castro. |
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| Soviets were behind the the arms race, their missiles could not reach the US so they stationed missiles in Cuba. Tensions rise, Soviets agree to take missiles out of Cuba if US agrees not to invade the island or attack Castro. |
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| Limited power of labor unions, publicized speculations of corruption |
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| What did the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam have in common in the 1960's? |
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| They emphasized developing a greater sense of Black nationalism and solidarity |
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| Why was Annie Hutchinson banned from the Mass. Bay Colony? |
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| She challenged the religious beliefs of the colony's leaders |
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| The government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in solving problems of how to |
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| provide statehood for Western territories |
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