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War Dates Quiz
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A. 1914-1918
B. 1941-1945
C. 1846-1848
D. 1756-1763
E. 1775-1783
F. 1812-1814
G.1860-1865
H. 1898
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E. 1775-1783
F. 1812-1814
G.1860-1865
H. 1898
Alabama High School Graduation Exam
Flash Cards
Define Crusades:
 Regain Holy lands from Muslims for Christians
Crusades were also called:
 Holy Wars
Crusades led to growth of _____
and ______.
 Towns, trade.
Define Renaissance:
 Rebirth of learning.
Which happened first, Crusades or
Renaissance?
 Crusades
Define Reformation:
 Protestants (Lutherans) breaking away from the
Roman Catholic Church.
Explain the Columbian Exchange:
 Trade of ideas and goods between Africa,
Europe, and America.
Who discovered America?
 Christopher Columbus
Define Conquistadors:
 Spanish explorers.
Name the first successful settlement
in America. What country started it?
 St. Augustine, Spain.
Name the first English settlement:
 Jamestown.
The French Indian War was between:
 The French & Indians vs the English
The French and Indian War was
fought over the:
 Ohio Valley
The British imposed a tax on all
documents, what was this called?
 Stamp Act
The British passed an act declaring
the colonies must use British ships
and buy British goods. What was this
called?
 Navigation Act
The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended
which war?
 French and Indian War
This happened when colonist were
harassing and throwing snowballs
at a British soldier and shots were
fired on the crowd.
 Boston Massacre.
Colonist threw tea overboard to
protest British taxes:
 Boston Tea Party
Who was the leader of the Sons of
Liberty?
 Samuel Adams
What is the significance of
Lexington and Concord?
 First shots and battles of the Revolutionary War.
What is mercantilism?
 Country’s wealth is based on the amount of gold
and silver they had.
Columbus sailed to America looking
for:
 A trade route to Asia.
The British approved an act that
required colonists to house British
soldiers if needed:
 Quartering Act
Day Two
What was England’s constitution
called?
 Magna Carta
What was the Great Awakening?
 Religious Revival
What did the first Continental
Congress propose?
 Boycott English goods.
What did the second Continental
Congress propose?
 Declared Independence.
Who was the commander of the
Continental Army?
 George Washington.
Who wrote the Declaration of
Independence?
 Thomas Jefferson
When was the Declaration of
Independence signed?
 July 4, 1776
States would not ratify the
Constitution until the
___________was added.
 Bill of Rights.
The Elastic Clause of the
Constitution allows:
 For amendments to be added as times change.
Also called the “necessary and proper” clause.
Explain the Great Compromise:
 Senate 2 per state, House of Representatives
based on population.
Explain the Three-Fifths
Compromise:
 5 slaves count as 3 people.
What were the Federalist Papers?
 Newspaper articles explaining how the
Constitution would work.
What did George Washington’s
farewell address say?
 Avoid political parties and avoid foreign
alliances.
Who shaped the Supreme Court?
 John Marshall
What was significant about the
supreme court case Marbury vs.
Madison?
 Allowed for judicial review.
What is judicial review?
 Supreme Court decides if a law is
unconstitutional.
What are the first Ten Amendments
called?
 Bill of Rights
Define Separation of Powers:
 No branch of government is more powerful than
another. Executive: enforce laws, Legislative:
make laws, Judicial: interpret laws.
Who wrote Common Sense?
 Thomas Paine
What theory did Thomas Jefferson
base the Declaration of
Independence on?
 Social Contract Theory
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense said
“it only makes sense to
______________.”
 Declare independence from Britain.
Who made up the Progressive Party
and what did they want to do?
 Made up of Townspeople (city/urban dwellers)
and they wanted to correct the problems in
society.
Who made up the Populist Party?
 Farmers, mainly western farmers.
Day 3
Explain the Social Contract Theory:
 If government is bad, people can overthrow it.
People give up some rights in order to be
governed.
“We the people…” are the opening
words to:
 Preamble to the Constitution
What is the supreme law of the
land?
 Constitution.
What are the three branches of
government?
 Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.
Coining money, regulating trade,
and making treaties with other
countries are powers reserved for
the:
 National government. (Federal government.)
Explain Federalism:
 Sharing of power between Federal, state, and
local governments.
The 13th Amendment:
 Abolished Slavery
The 14th Amendment:
 Made slaves citizens.
The 15th Amendment:
 All men can vote. Including former slaves.
The 18th Amendment:
 Prohibited sale of alcohol.
The 19th Amendment:
 Gave women the right to vote.
Explain Black Codes or Jim Crow
Laws:
 Withheld rights from Blacks and separated
blacks and whites.
Define Suffrage:
 Earning the right to vote.
with 19th amendment.)
(commonly associated
Define Prohibition or Temperance:
 Against the sell of alcohol.
Separation of Powers was used to
keep any branch of government
from gaining too much power. This
is also known as:
 System of “checks and balances.”
Define boycott:
 Refuse to buy or use a product.
Define embargo:
 Restriction of trade.
Define siege:
 To surround by land and attack until they
surrender.
Who said: “Give me liberty or give
me Death?”
 Patrick Henry
Who warned the colonist that the
British were headed to Lexington
and Concord?
 Paul Revere
Where did George Washington and
the Continental Army camp and train
during the winter?
 Valley Forge
What was the turning point of the
American Revolution?
 Saratoga
After Saratoga, who decided to help
the colonies?
 France
George Washington defeated
General ________ at ________.
 Cornwallis, Yorktown
What ended the American
Revolution?
 Treaty of Paris 1783.
Day 4
Explain the Land Ordinance:
 Deed method of dividing and selling land.
Who was President when US bought
the Louisiana Purchase?
 Thomas Jefferson
Who sold the Louisiana Purchase to
the US and where was he from?
 Napoleon, France.
Who did Thomas Jefferson send to
explore the Louisiana Purchase?
 Lewis and Clark
Who was Lewis and Clarke’s guide
and interpreter?
 Sacagawea
The Monroe Doctrine declared:
 No more colonies in the Western Hemisphere
Who invented the Cotton Gin?
 Eli Whitney
Who invented the steam boat?
 Robert Fulton
Settlers moved west to get:
 Free land
Explain the Indian Removal Act?
 Moved Native Americans from the southeast to
the west.
Explain the Trail of Tears:
 The route used to move Native Americans from
the southeast west to Oklahoma. Thousands
died along the way.
Who used the Oregon Trail?
 Fur traders.
Who used the Mormon Trail?
 Religious groups, Brigham Young.
What was discovered in California?
 Gold, at Sutters Mill.
People in the north worked in
______.
 Factories.
People in the south worked on
______.
 Farms, plantations.
Texas gained independence from
_________.
 Mexico.
The belief that the US should own
land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
is known as _______________.
 Manifest Destiny.
In the Mexican War, the US gained
land from _____ to _______.
 Texas, California.
Who were the “49ers?”
 Gold miners who went to California in 1849.
What double the size of the US?
 Louisiana Purchase.
A tax on imported goods:
 Protective Tariff.
Day 5
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
_______ had an anti-slavery
newspaper called The Liberator.
 William Lloyd Garrison
What did Dorothea Dix do?
 Helped people in mental institutions and prisons.
Who were Fredrick Douglas and
Sojourner Truth?
 Former slaves.
Who led the underground railroad?
 Harriet Tubman.
What was the underground
railroad?
 Helped runaway slaves get to freedom.
Define Utopia:
 Ideal, perfect.
What was the Seneca Falls
Convention?
 About women’s rights.
What did Horace Mann heavily
influence?
 Education.
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony fight for?
 Women’s Rights
Who defeated the Native Americans
at Horseshoe Bend?
 Andrew Jackson
Where is Horseshoe Bend?
 East-central Alabama.
Who wrote the “Star-Spangled
Banner?” What war was going on
when he wrote it?
 Francis Scott Key, War of 1812.
Who defeated the British at the
Battle of New Orleans and became a
national hero?
 Andrew Jackson.
Define Nationalism:
 Pride in one’s country.
Explain the Spoils System:
 Placing friends in office regardless of ability.
Who wrote the American
Dictionary?
 Noah Webster
Who was President during the War
of 1812?
 James Madison
Day 6
What was the Compromise of 1850?
 Helped keep the balance between slave and free
states.
Define popular sovereignty?
 People vote on whether to be slave or free state.
Explain the Fugitive Slave Act:
 Northern free states had to return runaway
slaves.
The Republican Party ______ the
spread of slavery.
 Opposed.
Slaves were not citizens, they were
_______.
 Property
This court cased ruled: once a slave
always a slave, unless you bought
your freedom or freedom is given to
you.
 Dred Scot v. Sanford Decision
Who seized the arsenal at Harper’s
Ferry? Why?
 John Brown, Get guns for slaves. Tried for
treason and hanged.
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
debated the issue of slavery.
Lincoln was ________ and Douglas
believed in _________.
 Against the spread of slavery. Popular
sovereignty.
Who was the first state to secede?
 South Carolina
Where were the first shots of the
Civil War fired?
 Fort Sumter, Charleston South Carolina.
The Southern Constitution was
based on ________ and
__________.
 States Rights, Right to own slaves.
Where was the first capital of the
Confederacy? Where was it moved
to?
 Montgomery, AL. Richmond, VA
Who was the first president of the
Confederate States of America
(CSA)?
 Jefferson Davis
This act would give you 160 acres of
land if you lived on it for 5 years.
 Homestead Act.
Helped settle the west.
The act was a land grant to build
colleges.
 Morrill-Land Grant Act
What did the Emancipation
Proclamation do?
 Freed Slaves in the south.
Didn’t actually do
anything, b/c Lincoln was not the president over
the southern states at the time.
Explain the writ of Habeas Corpus:
 Cannot be held more than 3 days without being
charged with a crime.
Who won the Battle of Vicksburg and
why was it important?
 Union, gave the union control of the Mississippi
River.
What battle was the turning point of
the Civil War?
 Gettysburg.
 If on the AHSGE, if they ask for the two battles
that were the turning point of the war, they were
Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
Who marched through Georgia
destroying everything between
Atlanta and Savannah?
 William Tecumseh Sherman
“Four score and seven years ago…”
is the beginning line of
the_________. Who made this
speech?
 Gettysburg address. President Lincoln
Who surrendered to whom to end
the Civil War?
 Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant
Where did the surrender take
place?
 Appomattox Courthouse, VA
During reconstruction, ______
wanted to punish the south.
 Radical Republicans
Northerners who came south to get
rich during Reconstruction were
known as ________.
 Carpetbaggers.
Southerners who helped the north
or sided with Radical Republicans
were known as _________.
 Scalawags.
What was the KKK?
 Secret organization, used violence to control
blacks.
What was the “solid south?”
 The south always voted democratic.
 The election of 2010 is the first time since
Reconstruction that Alabama has had a
Republican controlled state legislature.
Define segregate:
 Separate.
What is the boundary between the
US and Mexico?
 Rio Grande River.
The poll tax, literacy tests, and the
Grandfather clause were methods to
keep _______ from voting. These
are examples of ___________.
 Blacks.
Black codes, Jim Crow laws.
Day 7
Define monopoly (or trust):
 Total control of a product.
Who started Standard Oil Company?
 John D. Rockefeller.
Who started US Steel?
 Andrew Carnegie
Define rural:
 country
Define urban:
 city
What are Muckrakers?
 Writers who exposed corruption.
Who wrote The Jungle? What was
the book about?
 Upton Sinclair.
The unsanitary conditions in
Chicago meat packing plants.
Who wrote the history of Standard
Oil Co?
 Ida Tarbell
Who started the NAACP?
 W.E.B. Dubois
Who started Tuskegee Institute?
 Booker T. Washington, as a trade school for
blacks.
Who was George Washington
Carver?
 Black scientist at Tuskegee Institute that
researched the peanut and its uses.
This court case upheld segregation
on the basis “separate but equal.”
 Plessy vs Ferguson.
Teddy Roosevelt and the “Rough
Riders’ fought in the _________.
 Spanish American War.
Who improved (developed) the
assembly line?
 Henry Ford
Day 8
Define Imperialism:
 When one country takes control of another
country.
US helped overthrow Queen
Liliuokalani and annexed ______.
 Hawaii
Hawaii provided the US with _____
and _______.
 Sugar, naval bases.
Writing sensational (wild) stories
that may be untrue is known as
____________.
 Yellow journalism.
The Battleship Maine was sunk in
Cuba’s harbor in this war:
 Spanish American War.
The opinion of the US that all
countries should be able to trade
with China is known as:
 Open Door Policy.
The Panama Canal connects:
 The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
Teddy Roosevelt’s belief that the US
should be the “policeman” of the
world is known as:
 Roosevelt Corollary
What event started WWI?
 Assassination of Francis Ferdinand.
Who sank the Lusitania? How?
 Germany, U-Boat
The Zimmerman Note was sent from
________ to ________.
 Germany, Mexico.
Define the Selective Service Act:
 Draft US men.
Machine guns, submarine warfare,
poison gas, airplanes, and tanks
were all first used in what war?
 World War I
The Treaty of Versailles ended
_______.
 World War I
_______ had to accept
responsibility for starting the war.
 Germany
Germany had to pay _______,
payments for starting the war.
 reparations
Germany invaded France in WWI
through the neutral country of
________.
 Belgium.
President Wilson’s peace plan for
WWI was called ____________.
 14 points.
Who built the tank in WWI?
 Great Britain.
Day 9
The stock market crash of 1929 led
to the _____________.
 Great Depression.
The day of the crash is known as
_____________.
 Black Tuesday.
Farmers out west plowed up grass
that held soil and great winds blew
it across the US. This is known as:
 The Dust Bowl.
FDR created the TVA to provide:
 Cheap electricity.
The FDIC:
 Insures bank deposits up to $100K
What three things did Social
Security provide?
 Unemployment insurance, Old age pensions,
Helped handicapped.
What three things did the Fair Labor
Standards Act provide?
 40 hr work week, Must be 16 to work, minimum
wage.
Who created the Civilian
Conservation Corp (CCC)?
 Franklin D. Roosevelt
What did the CCC do?
 Put young men to work in national parks.
FDR talked to Americans over the
radio about how he was going to
help Americans during the
depression, what were these
called?
 Fireside chats
President ______ was blamed for
the depression.
 Hoover
When was the Jazz Age?
 1920s
What other name is given to the
1920s?
 Roaring 20s.
Who was the “Father of the Blues?”
Where was he from?
 W.C. Handy, Florence, AL.
Who made the first nonstop flight
across the Atlantic? What was the
name of his plane?
 Charles Lindbergh, Spirit of St. Louis.
What was the red scare?
 Fear of the spread of communism.
Define lynching:
 Death by hanging.
In which period would you find
flappers?
 Jazz Age 1920s.
Day 10
What event started WWII?
 Germany invading Poland.
Who attacked the US at Pearl
Harbor?
 Japan
What event led the US to enter
WWII?
 Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
Explain rationing:
 Limited amount of goods you could buy.
When the men left for the war, who
worked in the factories?
 Women.
What was Japanese internment or
relocation?
 Japanese-Americans were forced to live in
camps.
Who was the president of the US
during WWII?
 Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Who was the leader of Russia during
WWII?
 Joseph Stalin
Who was the leader of Great Britain
during WWII?
 Winston Churchill
Who was the leader of Germany
during WWII?
 Adolf Hitler.
What was the name of Hitler’s
political party?
 Nazi
Who was the leader of Italy during
WWII?
 Benito Mussolini
What was the turning point of WWII
in the Pacific?
 Battle of Midway.
Was a naval battle, in which
the US got the upper hand over Japan.
What was D-Day?
 Allied invasion of Europe in Normandy, France.
 General Dwight D. Eisenhower was in charge,
later became President.
Who was the commander of the
forces in the Pacific?
 General Douglas MacArthur
Hitler’s plan to exterminate all of the
Jews is known as:
 Holocaust.
Where did Hitler put the Jews during
the Holocaust?
 Concentration camps
What two Japanese cities did the US
drop atomic bombs on?
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Who was “Rosie the Riveter?”
 Fictional character representing women who
worked in factories during WWII.
The End.
 You better pass the AHSGE!!!!