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41 Cards in this Set
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What king was reigning in England when the colonists decided they wanted to fight for independence?
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George III
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Who was the philosopher that influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence?
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John Locke
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Who write the Declaration of Independence?
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Thomas Jefferson
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In the debate over states representation in Congress, how was the issue of counting slaves in state population handled?
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3/5 of the slave population would be counted for representation purposes
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One factor that led to the formation of the first two political parties in the United States in the 1790s was the conflict over what?
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National vs. State government as authority
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Manifest Destiny was used to justify an American desire to?
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Expand across the North American continent and wage war against Mexico
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The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts to do what?
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create racial segregation
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Who did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory from?
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France
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Andrew Carnegie is well known for his work in what industry?
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Steel
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What were the reasons for European immigration to America?
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1. Adventure
2. Fled religious persecution 3. Economic opportunity |
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Which event of the early 1900's is evidence that Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle had an important impact on the United States?
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The passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
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President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were intended to do what?
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Assure the US that the war was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.
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The migration of African Americans to the North during and following World War I was mainly a result of what becoming available?
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Higher wages in industrial jobs in the North and better social and economic opportunities.
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The Monroe Doctrine declared that the United States would do what in the western hemisphere?
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Not interfere with existing European colonies or interfere with internal concerns of European nations.
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During World War II, the Allied Powers were made up of many countries, but the Big 3 were...
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US, Britain, and Soviet Union
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Which strategy most aligns with what President Hoover did to get the country out of the Depression
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He asked business leaders to not lay people off or lower wages to keep workers employed and make the country appear stable.
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The main purpose of the New Deal measures such as Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was to...
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Protect investors and help maintain public confidence in securities, exchange, investments and banks.
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This dictator was the fascist ruler of Italy during WWII.
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Mussolini
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This dictator started a communist revolution in order to rise to power.
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Stalin
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The German leader during WWII.
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Hitler
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What was the systematic murder of 6 million Jews and more than 5 million other groups across Europe?
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Holocaust
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Jews and other enemies of the Nazi state were sent to what kind of camp?
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Concentration Camps
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During World War II, women and minorities made economic gains mainly because?
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Industries still had to produce products and the men (mostly non-minority men) were at war.
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Which precedent was established by the Nuremburg trials?
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Individual leaders and administrators could be held accountable for actions that violated universal standards of conduct.
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The Lend-Lease Act and the Destroyers for Bases deal were adopted prior to World War II primarily because these actions would?
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Enable the US top provide materials for war without formally entering into war. This was a step away from the US's previous non-interventionist policy.
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The group credited with creating change in work place conditions through strikes was called...
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International Ladies' Garment Worker's Union
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The Homestead Act was a government action to encourage what?
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Western Expansion
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The Civil Service Act was installed to change what?
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The "Spoils System" in which government jobs were based on political affiliations instead of good works or merit.
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The major goals of reformers during the Progressive Era was to?
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End corruption in government, promote the female vote, reform public education, medicine, finance, insurance, and industry.
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Fredrick Taylor was responsible for coming up with the idea to break a process into parts. What was this process called?
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Scientific management (Taylor's term) and later Ford used his concepts to develop assembly line.
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What was Hitler's "final solution"?
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Purify German race by killing Jews, mentally handicapped and any other groups they felt were dirtying the German gene pool.
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What was the outcome of the Nuremburg Trials?
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International authority held political and military leaders accountable for acts committed in the name of state, meaning individuals are responsible for their actions no matter who orders them.
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The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960's was to gain what?
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The same rights as white Americas and end segregation.
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An original purpose of affirmative action programs was to do what?
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Help African Americans become full citizens of the US.
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When necessary to achieve justice, which method did Martin Luther King Jr., urge his followers to employ?
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Civil disobedience
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After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because?
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Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws.
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Martin Luther King Jr. first emerged as a leader of the civil rights movement when he?
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Led the bus boycott in December 1955.
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One reason the US became involved in the Vietnam War was to stop what?
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To prevent communism from spreading.
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The main significance of the Watergate affair was that is caused what?
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Resignation of Richard Nixon
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The beginning of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe is most closely associated with what event?
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
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The widespread use of computers has led to a national concern over what?
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Security and personal privacy.
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