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1. Easy Name the Five American Founding Ideals. Opportunity, Liberty, Democracy, Equality, Rights (OLDER)

2. Medium What document stands as the most famous expression of America’s founding ideals and who was its author? Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson

3. Hard Put the following three historical movements in chronological order and then underline the one that focused on finding a more rational and logical form of human government. The movements are: The Scientific Revolution, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. The Renaissance, The Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment

4. Easy What kind of government existed in most European states at the time the Enlightenment started? Be specific! Absolute monarchy

5. Medium What is the best evidence that our country was influenced by the ideas of Montesquieu? Three separate and equal branches of gov.

6. Hard What is the KEY difference between Hobbes’ version of the Social Contract and Locke’s version? Hobbes wanted an absolute monarchy while Locke wanted popular sovereignty OR… another way to write this would be Locke believed people had the right to overthrow their government but Hobbes didn’t

7. Easy At the time the Enlightenment started, the land that would eventually become the country of America was controlled by this country: ____________ England

8. Medium The Bill of Rights draws most directly on the ideas of this Enlightenment philosopher. Locke (natural rights)

9. Hard Many American colonists were motivated to expect some natural rights because of crucial factors in British History. One was the earliest European document limiting the power of kings. The second was a revolution in which the kings of England became 2nd in power to the British Parliament. Name each. Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution

10. Easy The Great Awakening Refers to which of the following? A religious movement A political movement An artistic movement A racial movement A military movement An economic movement • Religious Movement

11. Medium Name the major groups on each side of the French and Indian War (4 groups must be named)! French and Indians on one side and British and American colonists on the other

12. Hard The Proclamation of 1763, passed by British Parliament, angered the American colonists. What did the proclamation proclaim? Closed land West of the Appalachians to American expansion

13. Easy American colonists explained their reasons for fighting against the British during the American Revolution with the famous cry, ‘No taxation without _______________________.’ Representation

14. Medium At the Constitutional Convention, held immediately after the end of the American Revolution, what solutions were found to the ‘big state/small state’ problem and the ‘how to count slave as part of the population for taxing and representation’ problem? Bicameral legislature and 3/5ths compromise

15. Hard Define Federalism and tell me whether the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to please Federalists or anti-Federalists. Separation of power between the central (federal) government and local state governments and Bill of Rights pleased anti-federalists

16. Easy What are the three branches of the American government? Legislative, Executive, Judicial

17. Medium Andrew Johnson What vocab term did I introduce with a picture of these three presidents? Impeachment Richard Nixon Bill Clinton

18. Hard Describe, precisely, either of the two ways to amend the American Constitution? 2/3rd vote in house and senate and ¾ of states approve …OR …2/3rds of state legislature can demand it and then ¾ of states must approve the change

19. Easy The U.S. Purchased Louisiana from this country/leader France/Napoleon

20. Medium In the case of Marbury v Madison, supreme Court justice John Marshall established the principle of Judicial Review. What is this principle? The right of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional.

21. Hard As part of the Adams-Onis Treaty, the U.S. got _______ from _____________. Florida/Spain

22. Easy The U.S. came into possession of Texas, Arizona, and large parts of California as a result of our war with ____________ Mexico

23. Medium The removal of the Cherokee Indians to the western parts of the U.S. was achieved by a forced march which was later known as the Trail _________ …of Tears

24. Hard Define the two following terms- Carpetbaggers and Scalawags. Carpetbaggers- northerners who moved to the south after the Civil War in order to make money off of the disadvantaged southerners Scalawags- southern blacks and whites who supported the Republicans after the Civil War (the Republicans were the winners of the war)

25. Easy What is the name for the broad time period after the Civil War during which the U.S. tried to recover from the war and reunite the north and south? Reconstruction

26. Medium What is the vocab term for the 19th century belief that America deserved to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific? Manifest Destiny

27. Hard Match the following inventors (Bessemer, William Jenny, Alexander Graham Bell, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Henry Ford, and Morse) with their inventions ( Cotton gin, steamship, assembly line, the telegraph, more efficient way to make steel, electric gadgets, skyscraper) Bessemer – Steel Jenny- skyscraper Graham Bell- Electric gadgets Whitney- Cotton Gin Fulton- Steam ship Ford- Assembly line Morse- telegraph

28. Easy What was the central economic difference between the north and south immediately before and after the Civil War? North = Industrial South = Agricultural

29. Medium After the Civil War many freed black slaves became sharecroppers. Tell me what this term means and whether the rise of sharecroppers demonstrate the success or failure of Reconstruction. Sharecroppers are very poor farmers who work another’s land. Not much different from slaves- so Reconstruction was not working.

30. Hard What is the French term that can be used to describe a capitalist, ‘hands-off’ economy? Spelling counts! Laissez-faire

31. Easy After the Civil War, the U.S. government’s main interaction with American railroad companies would best be described by the vocab term A) subsidies B) tariffs C) high tax rate D) annoying safety laws A

32. Medium What is the vocab term that is the negative version of ‘Captains of Industry’? Robber Barons

33. Hard What was the name of the most famous political historical American machine in the country (from New York) and who was its most famous boss? Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed

34. Easy What vocabulary term refers to the movement towards cities during the Industrial Revolution? Urbanization

35. Medium Some Robber Barons used a scientific theory to make themselves feel justified in earning so much more than their workers. What is the vocab term for the theory? Social Darwinism

36. Hard Nativism and the Americanization Movement are very similar, but there is a slight difference. What is it? Nativism refers to the desire to keep immigrants out. Americanization refers to forcing the immigrants who do make it to America to abandon their culture and adopt an American one

37. Easy If Nike bought up Reebok and Adidas, and then raised prices, would that be an example of vertical or horizontal monopoly integration? Horizontal

38. Medium If Nike, instead, was a vertical monopoly, what would it own? Give a few examples. Every step in the production of shoes: cow ranches for leather, trains to transport leather, factories to make shoes, stores to sell shoes, etc.

39. Hard What famous book did Upton Sinclair write and how does this book prove he was a muckraker? The Jungle- about poor meatpacking conditions. Muckrakers looked to dig up the ‘muck’ or bad things of society so that they could be improved (part of Progressive Movement)

40. Easy What is the West Coast version of Ellis Island? Angel Island

41. Medium In most of America’s history up until the Great Depression, the U.S. supported _______ taxes and ______ tariffs. Low, high

42. Hard The Meat Inspection Act, the movement for women’s suffrage, and the Clayton Act (which broke up trusts) were all part of a larger movement, which was known as The Progressive Movement

43. Easy What was the name for the very poor section of the ship that most immigrants road in on the boat trip to America? Steerage

44. Medium What country was the first in the world to have its immigration to America totally legally banned? China

45. Hard What president, not shown in the picture here, is being referenced in this political cartoon? Teddy Roosevelt

46. Easy In terms of our course, what do the Philippines, Hawaii, Cuba, and Puerto Rico all have in common? All imperialized by the U.S.

47. Medium What is the electoral college and what is impeachment? Electoral college- people who are selected by voters and who then choose the president Impeachment- a trial in the senate in which a president can be removed from office

48. Hard What country appears in this political cartoon? Cuba

49. Easy In what country did America seek not direct imperialism, but rather an Open Door, to allow all industrial (white) powers trading rights? China

50. Medium What event most significantly ended the Progressive Era? WWI