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Final Exam
US History
101
History
11th Grade
12/11/2012

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Term
Federalist
Definition
The first American party. North
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Democratic Republicans
Definition
A country that is both democratic and republic. South
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Washington's Farewell Address
Definition
Avoid political parties. Stay neutral.
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Whiskey Rebellion
Definition
President Washington lead soldiers to enforce our nation's law.
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Impressment
Definition
Cause of the war of 1812 that involved British capturing our ships and sailors.
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Cotton Gin
Definition
Made cotton the cash crop of the south. Made the south want more slaves.
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Marbury v.Madison/Judicial Review
Definition
Established the right of Judicial Review for Supreme Court
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Bill of Rights
Definition
The first 10 amendments.
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Gold Rush
Definition
Gold was found in California and everyone rushed there to make money.
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Telegraph
Definition
The first technology that allowed instant communication across great distance.
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Noah Webster
Definition
Created the first American English dictionary.
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Abolitionist Movement
Definition
A movement to abolish slavery in America
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Indian Removal Act
Definition
Forced the 5 civilized tribes of the Southeast to move West
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Dorothea Dix/Prison Reform
Definition
Discovered that mentally ill people were being tortured in U.S. Prisons
Wanted hospitals for mentally ill patients
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Mormons
Definition
Moved West to Salt Lake City, Utah to escape judgement of their religion.
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Mexican Cession
Definition
Land we got from Mexico after the Mexican-American war (California, Nevada, Utah, part of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming)
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Republican Party
Definition
Opposed expansion of slavery. Radicals. Conservatives. Founded in the 1850s
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Dred Scott v. Sanford
Definition
Dred Scott sued for his freedom because his owner had taken him to a free territory. Ruled slaves as property
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Gettysburg
Definition
Bloodiest battle in the history of the US. The turning point in the war, the south started losing and the north started winning.
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Anaconda Plan (3 Parts)
Definition
Navy blockade, Mississippi river, Caprute Richmond
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13th Amendment
Definition
Abolished slavery
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14th Amendment
Definition
Granted citizenship and "due process of law" to slaves
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15th Amendment
Definition
Grave freed men the right to vote.
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Carpet Baggers
Definition
White northerners who came South to get rich after the Civil War.
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Robert E lee
Definition
was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.
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Abraham Lincoln
Definition
10% plan would grant easy retry to southern states.
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Transcontinental Railroad/Promontory Point
Definition
Railroads that reach coast to coast.
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Homestead Act
Definition
160 acres of free land in the west if it could be made productive after 5 years
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Morrill Land Grant Act
Definition
Established A&M and A&T colleges
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Sod Houses
Definition
Houses made out of mud
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Barbed Wire
Definition
Invented to fence off the plains, created controversy and range wars.
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Helen Hunt Jackson/A Century of Dishonor
Definition
Which described the nation's abuse of the Indians
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Plains Indian Wars
Definition
A series of small wars between Indians and the government. The Indians were fighting for their culture.
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Gilded Age
Definition
The time period where workers were being taken advantage of by their employers. Mark Twain gave this time period it's name.
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Monopoly
Definition
A company that controls an entire market.
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Light Bulb’s Impact on Industry
Definition
Workers could work longer periods of time.
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Nativism
Definition
political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants
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Labor Unions
Definition
Regulated laws in the work places
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Hull House/Jane Addams
Definition
Opened doors to European immigrants
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Sweatshops
Definition
Unsafe factories.
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Robber Barons
Definition
a powerful 19th century American businessman
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Political Machines
Definition
Machines used to vote for politics
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History/Alfred T. Mahan
Definition
is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power throughout history and discusses the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet
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Sinking of the USS Maine
Definition
Sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, she exploded suddenly without warning and sank quickly, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. The cause and responsibility for her sinking remained unclear after a board of inquiry.
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Status of Cuba after the Spanish-American War
Definition
Major General Brooke was appointed Governor-General of Cuba after the withdrawal of the Spanish army.
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Annexation of Hawaii
Definition
He met with three annexationists from Hawaii: Lorrin Thurston, Francis March Hatch and William Ansel Kinney. After negotiations, in June 1897, Secretary of State John Sherman agreed to a treaty of annexation with these representatives of the Republic of Hawaii
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Panama Canal
Definition
is a 48-mile (77.1 km) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean.
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Open Door Policy
Definition
is a concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy in 1899 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country
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Annexation of Alaska/Seward’s Folly
Definition
Purchase was the acquisition of the Alaska territory by the United States from the Russian Empire in the year 1867 by a treaty ratified by the Senate.
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Social Darwinism/Scientific Racism
Definition
the use of pseudoscientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racism, racial inferiority, or racial superiority, or alternatively the claim of "classifying" individuals of different phenotypes into discrete races or ethnicity
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Definition
was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history.
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Muckrakers
Definition
reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks and patriotism
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Jim Crow Laws
Definition
state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states
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Assembly Line
Definition
a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods.
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Sky Scrapers
Definition
Very very tall buildings
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Prohibition
Definition
The illegalization of any types of consumable alcohol
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Definition
upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal.
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NAACP
Definition
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909
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Booker T. Washington
Definition
was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents. He was the dominant leader in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915
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4 Long-Term Causes of WWI
Definition
1. The alliances between the European countries, all the way from late 1800s to early 1900s
2. Militarism
3. Imperialism and Socialism Darwinism
4. Nationalism
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Sinking of the Lusitania
Definition
was a British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband and briefly the world's biggest ship.
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Russian and Bolshevik Revolutions
Definition
the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR.
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Jeanette Rankin
Definition
Was the first woman in the United States Congress. Only person in congress to vote against WWI and WWII
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Selective Service Act
Definition
authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription.
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Rationing
Definition
the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services.
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New Technologies of WWI
Definition
reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general
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Wilson’s 14 Point Speech
Definition
encompassed war aims as forwarded by Wilson, and a general guideline for a post-war order and frontiers. The address was intended to assure the country, and the world, that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe
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Causes of the Stock Market Crash of 1929
Definition
buying on the margin, buying and selling stock quickly
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Dust Bowl
Definition
Many dust storm in the midwest
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Jazz
Definition
Black musicians played it.
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Hoovervilles
Definition
Shanty towns that popped up while Hoover was president
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Laissez-Faire Economics
Definition
Made private business deals not have taxes
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Scopes Monkey Trial
Definition
High school teacher was charged for teaching evolution in school
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Negative Impacts of Prohibition
Definition
caused organized crime, bootlegging, and death
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Relief, Recover, and Reform Programs (New Deal
Definition
Relief for the poor. Recovery of the economy. Reform of the
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Fireside Chats
Definition
FDR's way of communicating with the public in a calming fashion
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Causes of WWII in Europe
Definition
Political tensions. Germany attacking other nations
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Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
Definition
To destroy our Navy
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
Germany and the Soviets fought over Stalingrad.
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Battle of Midway
Definition
Us Navy beats the Japanese Navy when they attacked the Midway Atoll
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Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
Definition
When the US invaded the beaches of Normandy
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Korematsu v. US
Definition
Supreme court case about Japanese Americans being put in internment camps during WWII
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Levittown
Definition
Suburban towns made up of cookie cutter Levitt houses
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Definition
The Soviet's put missiles in Cuba facing the US
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Duck and Cover Drills
Definition
What the government used to comfort kids in the event of a nuclear attack
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Suburbs
Definition
A mix of a city and the country side
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Joseph McCarthy
Definition
Wisconsin senator that accused people of being Communists
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Definition
Black, non-violent civil rights movement statue.
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Malcolm X
Definition
Black, violent civil rights movement statue.
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Woodstock
Definition
Concert in NY. thousands of hippies anti-war
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Containment
Definition
Us policy of keeping communism in the east
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Kent State Massacre
Definition
Anti-war protesting students are shot at and several are killed and hurt
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Watergate Scandal
Definition
Nixon attempts to cover up the break in at the Watergate building
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Iran Hostage Crisis
Definition
52 Americans were taken hostage when a group of Islamist students and militants take over the US embassy building
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Reaganomics/Trickle-Down Theory
Definition
Theory that helping the rich out will eventually help out the poor
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Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
Definition
were the revolutions which overthrew the communist states in various Central and Eastern European countries.The events began in Poland in 1989
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Cause of the Persian Gulf War
Definition
was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized Coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
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NAFTA
Definition
is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
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Bosnia/Ethnic Cleansing
Definition
Widespread ethnic cleansing accompanied the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), Large numbers of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Bosnian Croats were forced to flee their homes and were expelled by Bosnian Serbs;[1] and Bosnian Croats also carried out similar campaign against Bosnians and Serbs
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Somalia/Operation Restore Hope
Definition
was an American-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia between 5 December 1992 – 4 May 1993.
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Reasons the US was targeted by Islamic extremists on 9-11
Definition
Our dealings in Mideastern problems
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