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• The introduction of horses to the Americas and
  corn to Europe are two examples of what?

Columbian Exchange
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• Name the first permanent English settlement in
  North America.

Jamestown
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• Many colonists, including George Washington,
  fought on which side of the French and Indian War?

The British
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• An African-American named Crispus Attucks was
  killed by British soldiers in the Boston _____.

Massacre
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• What aspect of our government is based on the
  writings of Montesquieu?

Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, Three
Branches
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• Before the Constitution 1787, what document was
  the foundation of our government?

Articles of Confederation
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• Name two things George Washington warned against
  in his Farewell Address.

Political Parties Alliances
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• Where do we find this statement We hold these
  truths to be self evident that all men are
  created equal?

Declaration of Independence
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• Name the five basic rights given to individuals
  by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

Religion, Speech, Press, Petition, Assembly
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• What Constitutional amendments are known as the
  Civil War Amendments and what did each do?

13-freed slaves 14-gave freedmen
citizenship 15-black men right to vote
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• A system of government in which power is shared
  between a national government and several state
  governments is known as what?

Federal System
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• What Constitutional Amendment gave women the
  right to vote?

19th Amendment
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• Who said, Give me liberty or give me death?

Patrick Henry
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• What treaty officially ended the American
  Revolution?

Treaty of Paris 1783
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• What was the main cause of the War of 1812
  between the U.S. and Britain?

British impressment
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• What major land acquisition doubled the size of
  the U.S. in 1803?

Louisiana Purchase
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• In what year did Alabama become a state?

1819
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• What important foreign policy warned Europe
  against future colonization in the western
  hemisphere?

Monroe Doctrine
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• What white abolitionist published a newspaper
  called The Liberator?

William Lloyd Garrison
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• Who led a massacre of Native Americans at
  Horseshoe Bend?

Andrew Jackson
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• What part of the Compromise of 1850 required
  Northerners to help catch and return runaway
  slaves to the South?

Fugitive Slave Act (Law)
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• What Alabama county seceded from Alabama when the
  state seceded from the Union?

Winston Co.
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• What major Southern victory gave the Union
  control of the Mississippi River and the port at
  New Orleans?

Vicksburg
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• American Revolution..
• First battle?
• Turning Point?
• Last battle?

Shots fired at Lexington 1st Battle-Bunker
Hill Turning Pt. - Saratoga Last Battle-Yorktown
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• Name some inventions that enabled farmers to be
  successful on the Great Plains during the age of
  western settlement.

Steel plow, windmill, barbed wire, revolver, etc.
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• Contrast a sharecropper from a tenant farmer.

Tenant Farmer-pays rent and has own tools and
workforce. Sharecropper-pays with share of the
crop no tools no workforce
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• What political party, formed in 1892, was
  supported by farmers and African-Americans?

Populist Party
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• What phrase described the idea of Andrew Carnegie
  that the rich had a duty to improve social
  conditions?

Gospel of Wealth
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• Journalists who exposed corrupt business and
  government practices were called what?

Muckrakers
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• What Constitutional Amendments are known as the
  Progressive Amendments AND what did each do?

16-Income Tax 17-Direct Election of
Senators 18-Prohibition (liquor law)
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• Alabama doctor William C. Gorgas played a big
  role in building what?

Panama Canal
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• The cavalry unit led by Teddy Roosevelt was known
  as what?

Rough Riders
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• What foreign policy was added to the Monroe
  Doctrine that allowed for U.S. involvement in
  western hemispheric affairs?

Roosevelt Corollary
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• What was the proximate cause (or the spark)
  that ignited World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
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• What events led to the U.S. getting involved in
  World War I?

Germany's Submarine Warfare (sinking
Lusitania) Zimmermann Note
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• Why is World War I commonly known as an immobile
  war?

Trench Warfare
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• Who were the opposing powers in World War I?

Britain, France, Russia, USA vs. Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
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• What phrase describes President Woodrow Wilsons
  peace proposal at the end of WWI?

Fourteen Points (League of Nations)
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• What Alabama musicians is known as The Father of
  the Blues?

W.C. Handy
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• In our history, the U.S. has endured several Red
  Scares. What is a Red Scare?

Fear of Communism
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• Name the underlying causes of the Great
  Depression.

Overproduction Wild Investing (speculation) Too
many people buying on credit Foreign trade
problems
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• What happened on Black Tuesday?

The Stock Market Crashed
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• What New Deal program provided jobs and
  electricity to many people in North Alabama?

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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• What New Deal program is still a valuable source
  of income for elderly and disabled people?

Social Security
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• List the remote causes of World War II.

Nationalism Militarism Alliances Bad Economic
Conditions Treaty of Versailles Failed
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• What was the proximate cause (or the spark)
  that started World War II?

Germany invaded Poland
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• What one event brought the neutral U.S.A. into
  World War II?

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941
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• Who were the opposing sides in World War II?

Britain, France, USSR, USA vs. Germany, Italy,
Japan
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• Upon entering Germany, the Allies discovered the
  mass murder of 6 million Jews and 6 million
  others at the hands of Nazis. What was this
  called?

Holocaust
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• What was the secret operation called to create
  the Atomic Bomb?
• On what Japanese cities were the two bombs
  dropped?

Manhattan Project Hiroshima Nagasaki