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He was a spanish explorer who marched across Mexico and conquered the Aztecs - Correct answer- Hernan Cortes He explored deep in USA, first to discover and cross the Mississippi River and claim it for Spain - Correct answer-Hernando de Soto This man was a member of the English Parliament who founded the colony of Georgia.
- Correct answer-James Edward Oglethorpe Who was Georgia's 3rd and final royal governor who fled the colony after the start of the American Revolution? - Correct answer-James Wright In what year did the 13th amendment abolish slavery and involuntary servitude? - Correct answer- Who settled land in New York along the Hudson River? - Correct answer-The Dutch This man was an African American educator born into slavery who called for black progress through education. - Correct answer-Booker T Washington Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, and granted it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes, and Federal Reserve Bank Notes as legal tender. - Correct answer- Federal Reserve Act In what year was the Federal Reserve Act ratified? - Correct answer- 1913 What machine automated cotton processing and INCREASED the need for slaves? - Correct answer- Cotton Gin This man was a quaker who founded Pennsylvania. He wanted to unite all of the UA colonies and pushed for democracy and religious freedom. - Correct answer-William Penn What was Georgia's fourth capital and seat of the state government during the Civil War (1861 - 1865)? - Correct answer-Milledgeville In 1832 SC argued that the federal tariffs were unconstitutional and President Jackson sent Troops to force SC to pay tariffs. - Correct answer-Nullification Crisis
In 1925 a substitute teacher was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act - Correct answer-Scopes Trial The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union - Correct answer-Reconstruction Era In what years did the Reconstruction Era occur? - Correct answer-1865- 1877 A series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. - Correct answer-The New Deal Between what years was The New Deal enacted? - Correct answer-1933- 1936 An African American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. Former Slave who was the leader of the abolitionist movement and supported women's suffrage. - Correct answer-Frederick Douglass What organization unsuccessfully campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the constitution? - Correct answer-National Organization of Women Who was the 40th President of the United States who worked to lift govt regulations, reduce taxes, and reduce domestic spending by curtailing social welfare. Launched the largest peacetime military buildup in American history. - Correct answer-Ronald Reagan In what years did prohibition take place? - Correct answer-1920- 1933 A national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. - Correct answer- American Prohibition Prohibition ended with the ratification of which amendment? - Correct answer-The 21st Amendment Grayish bug that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton - Correct answer-Boll Weevil This was a house committee on international security looking for alleged disloyalty and communist ties. - Correct answer-Un-American Activities Committee A league of 5 tribes of indigenous people of North America involved in the Beaver Wars.
- Correct answer-Iroquois League In what year did the strike against Pearl Harbor take place? - Correct answer- 1941 This strike against US by imperial Japanese navy that led the US into WW2. Also voided Roosevelt's neutrality act. - Correct answer-Pearl Harbor
What country claimed Quebec? - Correct answer-France An American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Promoted nonviolent civil disobedience. - Correct answer-Martin Luther King, Jr. In what year did MLK win the Nobel Peace Prize? - Correct answer- 1964 Considered "Father of the Constitution" because of his role in its writing and ratification. Wrote Bill of Rights. One of the authors of the Federalist Papers. - Correct answer- James Madison Who was president during the war of 1812? - Correct answer-James Madison An armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England versus the New England colonists and their Indian allies. - Correct answer-King Phillip's War When did King Philip's War take place? - Correct answer-1675- 1678 Who was the VP of Confederate states of America during civil war? - Correct answer- Alexander Stephens In what year did King George II issue the official charter to make Georgia an English colony? - Correct answer- Why did colonists come to the new world? - Correct answer-Religious freedom profit adventure...etc. This man was a US representative from GA, a judge advocate American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He nullified the yazoo sale and destructed records connected with the state. Later the Yazoo lands was given to the Federal Goverment. - Correct answer-James Jackson In what year did Washington give his farewell address? - Correct answer- 1796 What 3 dangers did Washington stress in his farewell address? - Correct answer-1) political parties could divide the nation
- avoid long-term alliances with foreign nations
- avoid sectionalism caused by geography and other differences He was one of the founding fathers and the first US treasurer. Founded the US financial system and the Federalist Party. Father of US coast guard and the New York Post. - Correct answer-Alexander Hamilton
When was the Northwest Ordinance passed? - Correct answer- 1787 The primary effect was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the US out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River. - Correct answer-Northwest Ordinance Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. - Correct answer-Kentucky and Virginia Resolves In what year did the Revolutionary War begin? - Correct answer- 1775 In what year did the Revolutionary War end? - Correct answer- 1783 South's weaknesses during the civil war - Correct answer--weak leadership of Jefferson Davis
- Fewer men and supplies -few factories -less money South's strengths during the civil war - Correct answer--outstanding military officers -fighting on home ground -strong motivation
- Correct answer-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1870's tenant farmers, serfs, who worked the land they did not one for a meager share of the crops - Correct answer-sharecroppers In what year did the Battle of Gettysburg take place? - Correct answer- 1863 This was an American terrorist organization which wanted the "purification" of American society. Extremist hate group which advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration. - Correct answer-Ku Klux Klan The 46th Governor of Georgia during Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia. After various allegations of scandal, in 1871 he was obliged by the Ku Klux Klan to resign the governorship. - Correct answer-Rufus Bullock What were the sparsely-populated central and western areas of Georgia, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River. - Correct answer-Yazoo lands This was a massive fraud perpetrated from by several Georgia governors and the state legislature. - Correct answer-Yazoo Fraud
Whig Party, assembled by Henry Clay from the National Republicans and other opponents of Jackson. - Correct answer-Second Party System The political party system existing in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824. It featured two national parties competing for control of the presidency, Congress, and the states: the Federalist Party, created largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the rival Democratic-Republican Party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. - Correct answer-First Party System American Inventor who created the cotton gin - Correct answer-Eli Whitney Rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide. - Correct answer- Women's Rights Movement In what year did the Seneca Falls Convention take place? - Correct answer- 1848 An early and influential women's rights convention. - Correct answer-Seneca Falls Convention Movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. In western Europe and the Americas, movement to end the African slave trade and set slaves free. - Correct answer-Abolition Movement When was the Morrill Act passed? - Correct answer- 1862 Act which states that land-Grants are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges, - Correct answer-Morrill Act An American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history. - Correct answer-Jefferson Davis The 17th president of the US. He presided over the initial Reconstruction era of the United States following the Civil War. His reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen (newly freed slaves), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives; he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate. - Correct answer-Andrew Johnson Raid on Harpers Ferry was an attempt by this white abolitionist to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. Brown's raid was defeated by a detachment of U.S. military - Correct answer-John Brown's Raid The compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. - Correct answer-Conscription
U.S. political party that sought to represent the interests of farmers and laborers in the 1890s, advocating increased currency issue, free coinage of gold and silver, public ownership of railroads, and a graduated federal income tax - Correct answer-Populist Party When did WW1 begin? - Correct answer-July 28, 1914 State and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.
- Correct answer-Jim Crow a general political philosophy advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform. - Correct answer-Progressive Movement The 28th president of the US and a leader of the Progressive Movement. Elected as a democrat in 1912. - Correct answer-Woodrow Wilson Treaty that ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Marked the end of WW1. - Correct answer-Treaty of Versailles When was the Treaty of Versailles signed? - Correct answer-June 28, 1919 Was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. - Correct answer-League of Nations Considered the first American political party. It advocated a strong national government
- Correct answer-Federalist Party Party in the Parliament of England, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s.
- Correct answer-Whig Party Started in 1930 after the passage of the United States' Smoot-Hawley Tariff bill, and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century. - Correct answer-Great Depression When did WW2 begin? - Correct answer- 1939 This war involved a vast majority of the world's nations-including all of the great powers- eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. - Correct answer-WW The relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. - Correct answer-Internment Camps
When was the National Organization of Women founded? - Correct answer- 1966 The 37th president of the US who is the only president to resign the office. - Correct answer-Richard Nixon Political scandal that occurred in the US as a result of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. - Correct answer-Watergate Scandal A revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production - Correct answer-Communism A person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II between the years 1946 and 1964 - Correct answer-Baby Boomers A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. - Correct answer-Brown vs. Board of Education Was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. - Correct answer- Malcom X The 35th president of the US who served until his assassination in 1963. - Correct answer-John F. Kennedy Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to test the United States Supreme Court decisions Boynton v. Virginia (1960)[1] and Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946). - Correct answer-Freedom Riders A seminal episode in the U.S. civil rights movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama - Correct answer- Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 The 38th president of the US. Only president who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College. - Correct answer-Gerald Ford The 39th president of the US and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. - Correct answer-Jimmy Carter Signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem following thirteen days of secret negotiations. - Correct answer-Camp David Accords The 41st president of the US. - Correct answer-George H. W. Bush
Codename Desert Storm. A war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. - Correct answer-Gulf War The 42nd president of the US. He had liberal policies- national health care plan fell under a barrage of lobbying and patisan attacks & republican victories in 94 congressional elections forced him to shift toward republican. - Correct answer-Bill Clinton Refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business", usually justified as countering the effects of a history of discrimination. - Correct answer- Affirmative Action Members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC proclaimed an oil embargo in response to the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military during the Yom Kippur war. - Correct answer-Oil Crisis of 1973 His administration sought to make the government "competent and compassionate" but, in the midst of an economic crisis produced by rising energy prices and stagflation, met with difficulty in achieving its objectives. - Correct answer-Carter Administration A prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right. - Correct answer-Moral Majority Businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $3.9 billion in 2009. - Correct answer-Henry Ross Perot A federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. - Correct answer-Tennessee Valley Authority NAFTA - Correct answer-North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. When was NAFTA created? - Correct answer- 1994 Massacre was committed on December 29, 1890, on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA. - Correct answer-Battle of Wounded Knee
number of votes in that county won all their 'unit votes', under a form of block voting. - Correct answer- County-Unit System A United States federal law of the New Deal era which restricted agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land (that is, to let a portion of their fields lie fallow) and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products. - Correct answer-Agricultural Adjustment Administration The state flag used from 1956 to 2001 featured a prominent Confederate Battle Flag, which some residents found offensive due to its historical use by the Confederate States of America and its contemporary use as a symbol by various white supremacy groups - Correct answer-GA Flag Controversies Code-named Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of a foreign country by the United States in December 1989. It occurred during the administration of U.S. president George HW Bush - Correct answer-US Invasion of Panama An armed conflict between the United States and the British Empire. The British restricted the American trade since they feared it was harmful for their war with France, and took American sailors to serve on British ships. The British also wanted to set up an Indian state in the Midwest in order to maintain their influence in the region, which is why 10,000 Native Americans fought on the side of the British. Since Canada was a British colony back then, Canadians were also British allies. - Correct answer-War of 1812 A tax on imports or exports in and out of a country - Correct answer-Tariffs The 1st president of the US who signed the Tariff act July 1789 which authorized the collection of duties on imported goods. - Correct answer-George Washington A whiskey tax protest in the during the presidency of George Washington. Washington called up the militia and repressing the rebellious farmers—all were later pardoned. - Correct answer-Whiskey Rebellion In what year did the Whiskey Rebellion take place? - Correct answer- 1791 The supreme court's first African American Justice. Lawyer in the Brown vs. Board of Education Case. - Correct answer-Thurgood Marshall Proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. - Correct answer-Strategic Defense Initiative
Battle fought April to May of 1862 as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. - Correct answer-Battle of Yorktown In what year was the Battle of Saratoga fought? - Correct answer- 1777 Turning point in the Revolutionary War. - Correct answer-Battle of Saratoga Armed conflict between the United States of America and Mexico annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory. - Correct answer-Mexican-American War When was the Mexican-American War fought? - Correct answer-1846- 1848 What was the first cash crop in the US? - Correct answer-Tobacco The first colony in North America - Correct answer-Jamestown An in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, burned jamestown. - Correct answer-Bacon's Rebellion The first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. - Correct answer- House of Burgesses crops in large demand and provide bulk of crops in region - Correct answer-Staple Crops Treaty which need the French and Indian War - Correct answer-Treaty of Paris 1763 Ended the american revolution - Correct answer-Treaty of Paris 1783 Made by king george 3 which forbade colonist from moving into territory west of appl. mountians it outraged many colonists - Correct answer-Proclamations of 1763 British tax on printed material in the colonies that outraged colonists, resulted in boycotts aganist british goods, and eventually help lead to colonial calls for independence - Correct answer-Stamp Act Laws passed by Britain after Boston tea party which enclosed the Boston harbor - Correct answer- Intolerable Acts He believed people were born with natural rights and no government can take that away
- Correct answer-John Locke Drafted the declaration of independence. Leader of anti federalist & republican party Served as secretary of state under george washington. Became 3rd president of u.s. - Correct answer-Thomas Jefferson
Belief that it was God's will for the U.S. to conquer and settle territory all the way to the pacific coast - Correct answer-Manifest destiny After this war the US acquired territory that eventually became Arizona and New Mexico
- Correct answer-Mexican American War Practice by Andrew Jackson rewarding political supporters with government positions - Correct answer- Spoils System Time during late eigteenth century and early nineteenth when advances in technology led to massive economic change. - Correct answer-Industrial Revolution When was the Mexican-American War? - Correct answer-During the 1840's She supported temperance and abolitionist movements joined Elizabeth Staton to fight for women's rights and women's suffrage - Correct answer-Susan B. Anthony This social movement aimed at restricting and eventually banning alcohol - Correct answer- Temperance Movement This legislation provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South - Correct answer- Missouri Compromise Major turning point in the war that ended the souths hope of succesfully invading the north. Many beleived that if gen. stonwall would have been alive the south would have won - Correct answer-Gettysburg This man was the 18th president of the US. Before this he served as the commanding general of the union army during the civil war. - Correct answer-Ulysses S. Grant This allowed the previously free and unorganized territories of Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to permit slavery by popular vote. Its guidelines replaced the Missouri compromise and reignited slavery , resulting in a bloody civil war with Kansas - Correct answer-Kansas Nebraska Act This guaranteed that a person will see a judge before being imprisoned. Abraham Lincoln suspended this right during the civil war to protect the union - Correct answer- Writ of Habeas Corpus This was issued by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1863 stating that all persons had as slaves within the confederacy are free. - Correct answer-Emancipation Proclamation It was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North
regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War - Correct answer- Compromise of 1850 Union fort in Charleston where the first shots of the civil war were fired after confederate forces fired on union soldiers. - Correct answer-Fort Sumter This amendment recognized African Americans as Citizens - Correct answer-14th Amendment Dominated oil industry by establishing a trust - Correct answer-John D. Rockefeller Special taxes passed in the south after reconstruction to prevent blacks from voting by requiring them to pay money to vote - Correct answer-Poll Taxes mass black migration from south to west following the emanicipation - Correct answer- Black Exodus Laws designed to help the poor and less educated whites still vote by exempting them from literacy test and poll tax if their ancestors had voted or served in the confederate military - Correct answer- Grandfather Clause The US felt obligated to respond to unrestricted U boat attacks against its ships by the German Navy. Also public support of the war had rise because of zimmerman telegram
- Correct answer-Why the US entered WW This secret diplomatic communication proposed a military alliance between Mexico and Germany during WW1 and was intercepted by US intelligence. - Correct answer- Zimmerman Telegram An American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros.
- Correct answer-PT Barnum u.s. policy to promote iran and saudi arabia as local gaurdian of u.s. in persian gulf war - Correct answer- Twin Pillars Policy When did the spanish American war take place? - Correct answer- 1898 US and spain in cuba and phillipines. lasted less than 3 months and resulted in cubas independence as well as us annexing puero rico,guam and phillipines - Correct answer- Spanish American War When was the Platt Amendment passed? - Correct answer- 1901
critical of, the govt., the const., or the us military - Correct answer-Espionage and Sedation Acts A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought combined with farming methods that did not include crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques such as soil terracing and wind-breaking trees to prevent wind erosion. - Correct answer-Dust Bowl The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout. - Correct answer-Black Tuesday law passed by congress in which prohibited the sale of weapons to warring nations and was meant to keep the US from forming alliances that might drag the nation into war - Correct answer-Neutrality Act When was the neutrality act passed? - Correct answer- 1935 Fear of communism that swept the IS following WW1 - Correct answer-Red Scare First man to successfully market the automobile - Correct answer-Henry Ford One of the most impactful 1st ladies who was a friend to the common citizen - Correct answer-Eleanor Roosevelt Invasion of western Europe launched by allies on June 6 1944 that eventually led to germanys surrender. - Correct answer-D Day 33rd president of the US who authorized the use of the atomic bomb against Japan - Correct answer-Harry Truman Executive Order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry. - Correct answer-Fair Employment Act Leader of the Soviet Union during WW2 - Correct answer-Joseph Stalin US general who planned and commanded allied forces during D Day and the allied march to Berlin which followed - Correct answer-Dwight Eisenhower Mayor of Atlanta from 1936 to 1961; targeted Democrats and Blacks and offered improvements. Airport is named after him. - Correct answer-William B. Hartsfield Horrific POW camp infamous for atrocities and prisoner mistreatment - Correct answer- Andersonville
book by Robert Elliott Burns chronicling his imprisonment and escape - Correct answer- I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang Number of slaves freed during and after the war - Correct answer-460, German-speaking Protestant colonists that founded Ebenezer and New Ebenezer - Correct answer- Salzburgers Built by the Spanish and attacked by James Oglethorpe - Correct answer-St. Augustine Victory for Oglethorpe over the Spanish on St. Simons Island in 1742 - Correct answer- Battle of Bloody Marsh The first governor of Georgia - Correct answer-John Reynolds Amount of land needed to be a legislator in Royal Georgia - Correct answer-500 acres amount of land needed to vote in royal Georgia - Correct answer-50 acres The lower legislative body in Georgia's Royal Government - Correct answer-Commons House of Assembly The upper legislative body in Georgia's Royal Government - Correct answer-Governor's Council When was Savannah founded? - Correct answer- 1733 When did Georgia become a royal colony? - Correct answer- 1752 The University of Georgia was founded in - Correct answer- 1785 The largest discovery of gold east of the Mississippi in 1828 - Correct answer-Gold Rush This prohibted further immigration from china to us for 10 years it was extended and lasted till 1943 - Correct answer-Chinese Exclusion Act
