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US HIstory Midterm
Exam
68
History
11th Grade
12/07/2010

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Term
2 Events that brought US into WWI:
Definition

- Zimmerman note (Germany to Mexico)

- Germany announcing unrestricted warfare

Term
3 Things that helped finance WWI:
Definition

-raised income tax

-raised other tazes

-selling war bonds

Term
Biggest hero of WWI
Definition
York from TN
Term
Wilson's Peace Plan
Definition
14 Points
Term
Invented daylight savings time
Definition
Fuel Industry
Term
Causes of WWI:
Definition

-Militarism

-Military Alliances

-International Rivalries

-Nationalism

Term
New weapons in WWI:
Definition

-hand grenade

-flame throwers

-submarines

-machine guns

-tank

Term
Germany sunk Lisitania
Definition
- a British passenger boat because it was carrying military weapons
Term

2 Laws Eliminating Dissent

(talking bad about gov)

Definition

-Epionage Act

-Sedition Act 

Term
Treaty of Versailles effects
Definition

-League of Nations

-Redrawn map

-Germany lost all colonies

-German military weakened

Term
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Definition
-ended slavery
Term
Civil War began at
Definition
Fort Sumter
Term
Where was the 1st permanent English colony in the New World?
Definition
Jamestown
Term
Who led Sons of Liberty?
Definition
Sam Adams
Term
Who founded Pennsylvania?
Definition
Penn
Term
US bought Louisiana Territory from:
Definition
France
Term
What does the 1st amendment protect?
Definition
Religious Freedom
Term
Where did the Revolutionary War start?
Definition
Massachussetts
Term
Last battle of Revolutionary War:
Definition
Yorktown
Term
President during Mexican War:
Definition
James K. Polk
Term
Who created first mental hospital?
Definition
Dorthea Dix
Term
3 common traits of Native Americans:
Definition
-land, religion, & family
Term
1st Explorer
Definition
Columbus
Term
1st rep. government in New World:
Definition
House of Burgesses
Term
Who founded Boston?
Definition
Puritans
Term
Father of the Revolution:
Definition
Thomas Paine
Term
How many were killed in Boston Massacre?
Definition
5 People
Term
Who led Sons of Liberty?
Definition
Sam Adams
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Where was the first shot fired in the Revolutionary War?
Definition
Lexington, Massachussetts
Term
Who wrote Common Sense?
Definition
Thomas Paine
Term
Author of Declaration
Definition
Thomas Jefferson
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"Shot heard around the world" was at:
Definition
Bunker Hill
Term
Turning Point of Revolutionary War was at:
Definition
Saratoga
Term
Final battle of Revolutionary War?
Definition
Yorktown
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5 Freedoms protected by first amendment?
Definition

-free speech

-freedom of religion

-free press

-free assembly

-free petition of gov

Term
Father of Constitution:
Definition
James Madison
Term
How many senators are there?
Definition

-100 senators

(2 per state)

Term
Powers of Congress:
Definition

-punish money counterfeiters

-regulate foreign trade

-tax & borrow money

 

Term
Leader of Congress is called:
Definition
Speaker of the House
Term
Executive Branch:
Definition
-enforces laws
Term
Presidential Requirements:
Definition

-natural born citizen

-US resident for 14 years

-35 or older

Term
How many judges in Judicial Branch?
Definition
9
Term
Judicial term lasts for:
Definition
lifetime
Term
Who was the guide for Louis & Clark?
Definition
Sakajwea
Term
What war did the Treaty of Gent end?
Definition

War of 1912

on Christmas Eve

Term
Who invented the cotton gin?
Definition
Eli Whitney
Term
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?
Definition
Francis Scott Key
Term
Who held the Sentica Falls Convention?
Definition
Mott & Stanton
Term
Main route taken west during manifest destiny:
Definition
Oregan Trail
Term
Another word for American Texans:
Definition
Anglo-Texans
Term
Who were two militant abolitionists?
Definition
Brown & Garrison
Term
California enters the union as a ____ state.
Definition
Free
Term
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Definition
Stowe
Term
Who was the leader of the Confederacy?
Definition
Jefferson Davis
Term
Who invented the lightbulb?
Definition
Edison
Term
Who invented the oil well?
Definition
Drake
Term
Who invented sleeper cars?
Definition
Pullman
Term

ICC

Interstate Commerce Commission did what?

Definition
Oversaw railroad operations
Term

Profit off of-

 

Vanderbilt:

Carnegie:

Rockefeller:

Definition

Vanderbilt: railroads

Carnegie: steel

Rockefeller: oil

Term
Who was defeated during the Battle of Little Big Horn?
Definition
Custer
Term
What did the Dawes Act do?
Definition
-divided reservations into induvidual land holdings
Term
What did the Homestead Act do?
Definition
-to own land, had to live there for 5 years
Term
Exodusters is a nickname for:
Definition
former slaves
Term
Sodbusters is a nickname for:
Definition
homesteaders
Term
What was the last land rush?
Definition
Oklahoma Land Rush
Term
What two groups build the railroad?
Definition
Irish & Chinese
Term
Nickname for cheaters:
Definition
Sooners
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