REVIEW EXERCISE TERMS AND EVENTS

Directions Identify the terms and events being described in each of the following groups

Group 1 Exploration Colonization and the Revolution(

boycott Revolutionary War Sons of Liberty Declaration of Parliament writs of assistance Intolerable Acts Independence Jamestown Mayflower Compact town meeting Committees of Puritans Northwest Passage New Netherland Correspondence charter Line of Demarcation Boston Massacre Fundamental Orders Pilgrims House of Burgesses Navigation Acts of Connecticut mercantilism French and Indian War Toleration Act Lexington and Concord

(1 ) the colonists yelled insults and threw snowballs at some British soldiers the redcoats fired into a crowd killing five patriots

(2) Maryland law giving religious freedom to all Christians

(3) warrants permitting the British to search colonial homes for smuggled goods

(4) members exchanged letters telling of local anti-British activities in the years before the Revolutionary War

(5) they separated from the Church of England and came to America for religious freedom before landing at Plymouth Massachusetts the people set forth rules for their colony in the Mayflower Compact the colonists and Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621

(6) Paul Revere and William Dawes warned the minutemen that the redcoats were marching out of Boston the colonists met the British and fought the opening battles of the American Revolution in these towns

(7) when the patriots staged the Boston Tea Party Parliament passed these harsh laws to punish the people of Massachusetts

(8) a refusal to buy goods in order to force a change in policy the colonists used this tactic to get Parliament to repeal some of its strict trade and tax policies

(9) it was the first permanent English settlement in America because of the strict rules set forth by John Smith - no work no food - the colonists survived the starving time

(10) the British and the Americans together drove the French from North America after winning the Battle of Quebec

(11 ) lawmaking body in Great Britain which taxed the colonies and limited trade

(12) left England and settled in the Boston area started the Massachusetts Bay Colony in order to enjoy freedom of religion

(13) document granting permission to start a colony in America

(14) the gathering of people in a New England town for the purpose of making their own local laws

(15) announced that the new United States of America was an independent country free of British rule

(16) agreement among the Pilgrims which set up their own government

(17) first representative government in America voters in Virginia elected their own lawmakers

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(18) harassed British tax collectors and other officials dumped tea into Boston harbor

(19) Dutch colony seized by the English and renamed New York

(20) a short-cut through North America to Asia which the explorers hoped to find

(21 ) the first constitution - written plan of government - in America

(22) it separated newly discovered lands around the world between Spain and Portugal it was drawn by the Pope in order to avoid disputes over land claims which might lead to war

(23) conflict in which the Americans defeated the British and became an independent nation

(24) economic system used by the British government to force the Thirteen Colonies to trade mostly with the mother country

(25) laws which required the colonies to trade mostly with England

Group 2 The Nation Grows Stronger

First Amendment Oregon Trail War of 1812 separation of powers Oregon Country spoils system amendment Industrial Revolution manifest destiny Spanish Cession veto House of Representatives executive branch Mexican Cession constitution Articles of Confederation reserved powers political party Alamo checks and balances legislative branch Monroe Doctrine Congress United States Constitution federal government Homestead Act President Land Ordinance of 1785 delegated powers judicial review Cabinet concurrent powers Electoral College convention Senate Marbury II Madison Trail of Tears Bill of Rights Erie Canal Gadsden Purchase Inauguration Day Supreme Court War Hawks Critical Period judicial branch impressment nationalism

(1 ) the lawmaking body consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives

(2) a written plan of government

(3) gave 160 acres in the West to people who agreed to occupy the land for at least five years

(4) used by President Andrew Jackson to give government jobs to friends and loyalsupporteffi

(5) divided western lands into townships of 36 sections settlers could purchase land for $1 per acre

(6) it was caused by the impressment of American seamen by the British and by the British encouragement of Indian raids against frontier families this two-year conflict between the United States and Great Britain ended with neither side achieving victory

(7) head of the executive branch of the federal government chooses Cabinet members and Supreme Court justices serves a four-year term with a two-term limit

(8) during the early 1800s it was the main route of trade and travel

( between New York City and the Great Lakes region

(9) house of Congress with two members from each state

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(10) route of the Indians who were forced to move from the Southeast to the Oklahoma Territory

(11 ) it became a US territory after a lengthy period of joint occupation ( between the United States and Great Britain

(12) branch of government that makes the laws this branch of the federal government is called the Congress consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives

(13) amendment which guaranteed freedom of religion speech press assembly and petition middot

(14) the refusal of the President to sign a bill into law

(15) strong loyalty or support for ones nation

(16) the group of advisers to the President (Secretary of State Secretary of the Treasury etc)

(17) seizure of American sailors by the British in the early 1800s this became a cause of the War of 1812

(18) powers shared by the national (federal) government and state governments such as the power to collect taxes

(19) bought from Mexico and used for a railroad route south of the Rocky Mountains

(20) followed by wagon trains from Independence Missouri to the Northwest

(21 ) Santa Anna killed American defenders of this mission in San Antonio

(22) a new President takes the oath of office on January 20

(23) it was given by Spain to the United States in return the US canceled Spains $5 million debt

(24) it has been the plan of government of the United States since 1789 consists of articles and amendments

(25) powers given to the states by the Constitution

(26) the Senate and this lawmaking body make up the Congress in Washington DC population determines the number of members from each state

(27) people with similar ideas who support certain candidates for office

(28) it was the constitution of the United States from 1781 until 1789 because it created a weak central government it was replaced by the United States Constitution

(29) the making of goods by machines in factories it began in the 1790s

(30) division of power between the executive legislative and judicial branches

(31 ) powers given by the Constitution to the federal government

(32) group that casts electoral votes for the presidential candidates based on the popular vote results in each state

(33) Congressmen at the time of the War of 1812 who wanted to capture Canada from the British and Florida from the Spanish

(34) branch of government which interprets (explains) laws it includes the Supreme Court other federal courts and state and local courts

(35) US policy aimed at keeping European nations out of Latin America

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(36) an addition to or change in the Constitution

(37) slogan of Americans who wanted the United States to expand to the Pacific coast

( (38) power is shared by the federal government and state governments

(39) case in which the Supreme Court acquired the right of judicial review

(40) branch of government which enforces laws at the federal level is headed by the President

(41 ) highest US court consists of the Chief Justice and eight associate justices can declare laws unconstitutional

(42) the first ten amendments to the Constitution

(43) enables one branch of government to limit the power of another branch such as when the President (executive branch) vetoes a bill passed by Congress (legislative branch)

(44) meeting at which a political party chooses its presidential candidate

(45) land in the Southwest taken from Mexico after the United States won the Mexican War

(46) difficult years after the Revolutionary War when the plan of government of the United States was the weak Articles of Confederation

(47) power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional

Group 3 The Civil War and Reconstruction

Bull Run impeach segregation Emancipation Proclamation Ku Klux Klan states rights Republican Party Thirteenth Amendment poll tax Solid South Reconstruction Appomattox Court House tariff Vicksburg sectionalism Fourteenth Amendment Fort Sumter Black Codes Fugitive Slave Law Underground Railroad Civil War Gettysburg Freedmens Bureau Missouri Compromise abolitionist plantation Dred Scott decision Fifteenth Amendment secede nullification Jim Crow laws popular sovereignty

(1 ) the withdrawal of a state from the Union as was done by the Confederate states

(2) the first battle of the Civil War fought near Washington DC it was a stunning Confederate victory and showed that the war would not be over soon

(3) it imposed heavy fines on people who helped slaves escape from the South

(4) Southerners (mostly blacks) who could not pay it were not allowed to vote

(5) where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant at the end of the Civil War

(6) where the Confederates fired the first shots of the Civil War it was located at Charleston South Carolina

(7) the people of a territory decide whether or not to have slavery

(8) large farm in the South where slaves worked in the fields and cotton was the leading cash crop

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it gave citizenship to blacks and equal protection of the laws to citizens of the United States

it abolished slavery in all parts of the United States

the Supreme Court ruled that a slaveowner could take a slave into free territory and not have to set the slave free the slave was his property and could be taken anywhere

belief that a state can ignore a federal law it thinks is unconstitutional

period after the Civil War when the former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union

helped provide the former slaves with food clothing shelter and jobs

laws made by Southern state governments to keep whites and blacks apart

founded to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories

the Union defeated the Confederacy and the nation was reunited lasted from 1861 until 1865 and is sometimes known as the War Between the States

members wore white robes and hoods they scared many blacks away from the polls

a person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

a belief in the South that a state should have power over the federal government

tax on cheap foreign goods to protect Northern manufacturers

during the Civil War President Lincoln freed the slaves in states fighting against the Union

General Robert E Lees invasion of the North was stopped by Union troops in Pennsylvania this battle became the turning point of the Civil War

separation of the races in housing schools transportation etc

laws passed by Southern states to limit the rights of blacks

system whereby escaped slaves were moved northward to Canada

a person cannot be denied the right to vote because of race or color

captured by General Ulysses S Grant giving the Union control of the Mississippi River

the North South and West often held different views on various issues

to accuse a government official of misconduct the House of Representatives has the power to take this action against the President

a compromise between the North and South whereby Maine became a free state Missouri a slave state and slavery was outlawed in the northern part of the Louisiana Territory

after the Reconstruction Period ended in 1876 Southerners voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates for some 75 years

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Group 4 Modern America Takes Shape

labor union naturalization mass production corporation suffrage muckrakers injunction

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workmens compensation strike quota system Temperance Movement civil rights referendum Pure Food and Drug Act depression conservation collective bargaining arbitration civil service Sixteenth Amendment reformer system Seneca Falls Convention primary Sherman Anti-Trust Act ethnic group

it replaced the spoils system government jobs were given to people with the highest test scores

(2) right to vote

(3) money given to a worker who has been hurt on the job (4) manufacturing large quantities of goods at low cost using an assembly

line

(5) when labor and management cannot agree on a contract a third party recommends a settlement

(6) it set a yearly limit on the number of immigrants who could enter the United States from various foreign countries

(7) the process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen of the United States

(8) it established an income tax (9) voters in a state choose the candidate that they want to represent their

party in an election (10) an organization of workers which tries to bargain for higher wages

fringe benefits and improved working conditions (11 ) banned harmful foods and medicines required labels on containers (12) basic rights which are guaranteed to all citizens (13) people are allowed to vote for or against a proposed law (14) the preserving of forest lands soil water and other natural resources (15) an economic downturn in which company profits decline unemployment

increases and consumers have less money to spend it is the low point of the business cycle

(16) wrote about trusts child labor impure food slums and corruption (17) it attracted people who were against the manufacture and sale of

alcoholic beverages (18) a refusal to work workers set up a picket line (19) the process by which labor and management negotiate a new contract (20) people with cultural similarities who differ from other groups (21 ) first federal law to restrict monopolies it was later strengthened by the

Clayton Anti-Trust Act (22) a court order often used by the federal government during the late

1800s and early 1900s to end strikes (23) a person who wants to change conditions for the better (24) the first womens rights meeting in the United States the organizers

included Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (25) a business owned by many stockholders which allows it to raise large

sums of money

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Group 5 Modern America

stock market crash Third World Truman Doctrine Korean War Nineteenth Amendment World War II Great Depression Cold War Twenty-Second Amendment Vietnam War United Nations NATO Eighteenth Amendment integration Plessy If Ferguson Prohibition Twenty-First Amendment containment Social Security Act Watergate Spanish-American War Warsaw Pact League of Nations NAACP Good Neighbor Policy World War I communism Holocaust Cuban Missile Crisis Marshall Plan discrimination detente Brown If Board of Education Lusitania Pearl Harbor New Deal

of Topeka

(1) amendment which outlawed the making and selling of alcoholic beverages

(2) peacekeeping organization formed at the end of World War II all member nations have a representative in the General Assembly 15 countries belong to the Security Council which works to solve international crises

(3) it began after Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and involved the Allied Powers and Axis Powers the US joined the Allies after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor after the D-Day invasion of northern France on June 6 1944 the Nazis were forced to retreat and eventually surrender Japan surrendered soon after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945

(4) did not take sides with either the Free World nations or the communist countries during the Cold War

(5) economic and political system in which the government has strict control the government owns factories farms and businesses there is only one political party the Communist Party human rights are limited

(6) provided aid to Greece and Turkey to fight the spread of communism after World War II

(7) it occurred in October of 1929 and marked the beginning of the Great Depression

(8) US base in Hawaii attacked by Japan on December 71941 Congress responded by declaring war on the Japanese the United States entered the war on the side of the Allied Powers

(9) in 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was legal

(10) in this 1954 case the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were illegal

(11) it was the worst depression in American history lasting from 1929 until the US entered World War 1 in 1941

(12) ended when the Twenty-First Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment it was a period of speakeasies bootleggers and moonshine

(13) bringing together groups - especially blacks and whites - which had been kept apart in schools housing transportation etc

(14) period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union began at the end of World War II and lasted until the early 1990s

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Franklin D Roosevelts program to fight the Great Depression the Civilian Conservation Corps Works Progress Administration and Tennessee Valley Authority created jobs for the unemployed

the United States fought against the Vietcong and North Vietnam anti-war demonstrations in the US became widespread

alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe

it lasted from 1914 until 1918 and involved the Allied Powers and Central Powers many Americans died when a German U-boat sank the unarmed British passenger liner Lusitania American troops were sent to Europe in 1917 and helped the Allies win the war

American and United Nations forces fought against the North Korean and Chinese Communists between 1950 and 1953

founded to end discrimination through new laws and court decisions

this break-in at Democratic headquarters and subsequent cover-up led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon

a US blockade ordered by President John F Kennedy forced the Soviet Union to withdraw offensive weapons from the island of Cuba

Cuba revolted against Spain and the United States entered the conflict on the side of the Cubans the yellow press turned out sensational news stories which aroused support for the war among the American people Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders captured San Juan Hill after Spains defeat the US took possession of Cuba Puerto Rico Guam and the Philippines

denying equality to blacks and other minorities in jobs housing schools etc

gave aid to help Western European nations rebuild and fight communism after World War II

it limited Presidents to two terms

the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II

law providing payments to retired or jobless workers

it was sunk by a German U-boat and convinced many Americans that the United States should end its neutrality and enter World War I on the side of the Allies

amendment which gave women the right to vote

US policy for limiting the spread of world communism

the Senate rejected President Woodrow Wilsons plan to join it this organization failed to prevent World War II

a thawing of Cold War tensions during the 1970s

repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and thereby ended Prohibition

the United States Canada and many Western European nations formed this alliance to oppose the spread of communism

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