1. What was the name of the land bridge that once connected Asia and North America?

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Title: 1. What was the name of the land bridge that once connected Asia and North America?

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EOCT
Review
Session
2
1. How did the first inhabitants of North America
get here?
3
2. Besides gold and riches, what were many of the
early European explorers searching for?
4
3. Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the
globe?
5
4. Who conquered the Aztecs?
6
5. What three alliterative words explain why the
conquistadors went to America?
7
6. What is the oldest European settlement in the
present-day U.S.?
8
7. Other than superior technology, what decimated
the Native American population?
9
8. Why were the first English colonies founded?
10
9. What was the first permanent English
settlement?
11
10. What commodity allowed Virginia to become
economically successful?
12
11. Why did the Puritans come to America?
13
12. What colony was to be a city upon a hill?
14
13. What was New York before it was New York?
15
14. Name the man who established Pennsylvania and
his religion.
16
15. What colony was originally founded as a haven
for Catholics?
17
16. What colony was most associated with
religious freedom?
18
17. What was the last English colony to be
established?
19
18. For many years the English neglected their
American colonies, thus fostering a spirit of
self-government here in America. What was this
English policy called?
20
19. What did the economic theory of mercantilism
base a countrys power on?
21
20. England tried to restrict her colonies trade
to only allow them to trade within the British
Empire. What was the name of the acts which
controlled colonial trade?
22
21. How did American colonists try to get around
the restrictive trade laws?
23
22. Which colonies had a diverse economy of
farming and trading?
24
23. Which colonies had an economy based on land
and slaves?
25
24. What movement during the colonial period
emphasized the importance of reason?
26
25. What religious revival stressed the
importance of the individual?
27
26. What economic activity drew French traders to
North America?
28
27. In what war did the French lose its North
American empire?
29
28. How did the British plan to pay the debt from
this war?
30
29. Why did American colonists oppose British
taxation?
31
30. What was the first direct tax placed on the
colonists that taxed virtually all printed
material?
32
31. How did the Sons of Liberty react to the Tea
Act?
33
32. Who said, Give me liberty, or give me death?
34
33. Who was king of England during the American
Revolution?
35
34. Where were the first shots of the American
Revolution fired?
36
35. Who wrote most of the Declaration of
Independence?
37
36. According to the Declaration of Independence,
from what source does the authority for the
government come from?
38
37. According to the Declaration of Independence,
what did citizens have a right to do if a
government was unjust?
39
38. What was the turning point of the American
Revolution?
40
39. What was the name of the United States first
governing document?
41
40. What legislation provided for a system of
governing new territories and admitting them as
states?
42
41. What do you call a government in which
citizens rule through their elected
representatives?
43
42. What meeting was convened to create a new
system of government that would have a stronger
central government?
44
43. What called for three-fifths of slaves to be
counted for tax and representation purposes?
45
44. What was the name of the compromise that
settled the way that states would be represented
in the new Congress?
46
45. What was the name given to the series of
essays written to urge the adoption of the
Constitution?
47
46. What is the name of the power given to the
courts to determine if acts violate the
Constitution?
48
47. What name is given to the 55 delegates who
created the Constitution of the United States?
49
48. What is the name of the system whose purpose
it is to prevent any branch of government from
becoming too strong?
50
49. What is a tariff?
51
50. What determines the number of U.S.
Representatives that a state will have?
52
51. What body holds the legislative power of the
national government?
53
52. What are the first ten amendments to the
Constitution better known as?
54
53. What was the name given to George
Washingtons group of advisors?
55
54. Who set about to restore the credit of the
United States through his financial program as
the first Secretary of the Treasury?
56
55. What was the name of the plan for the
national government to assume the states debts
in order to get the support of the citizens of
every state?
57
56. Name the first two political parties in the
U.S.
58
57. What rebellions suppression during
Washingtons presidency illustrated the power of
the federal government?
59
58. Which political party wanted a strong federal
government?
60
59. Which party supported the interests of small
farmers, the ideas of the French Revolution, and
the Bill of Rights?
61
60. What is the name for the right of a state to
refuse to obey a federal law it considers
unconstitutional?
62
61. From what country did the U.S. buy Louisiana?
63
62. Who shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a
duel?
64
63. What was the practice by which the British
forced Americans to serve in the British Navy?
65
64. What pair of explorers led an expedition
along the Missouri River to reach the Rocky
Mountains?
66
65. What was the major reason for going to war
with Great Britain in 1812?
67
66. Who was President during the War of 1812?
68
67.Who was the hero of the Battle of New Orleans?
69
68. Where did manufacturing first take root in
the United States?
70
69. Who is most associated with the unifying
ideas of the American System?
71
70. What was Eli Whitneys most important
contribution to mass production?
72
71. Who was President during the Era of Good
Feelings, when there was only one political
party in existence?
73
72. What declared that the Western Hemisphere was
no longer open to further European colonization?
74
73. What kept the balance of free and slave
states, but prohibited slavery for any states in
the Louisiana Territory above the 36 30
parallel?
75
74. Who was known as the Great Compromiser?
76
75. Who created a new Democratic movement named
for him that had central beliefs that office
holding should be open to as many ordinary
citizens as possible?
77
76. What was the practice of Andrew Jackson and
others of rewarding political supporters with
jobs known as?
78
77. What was the end result of Jacksons policies
concerning the Native Americans?
79
78. What was the belief that the United States
was destined to extend its territory to the
Pacific Ocean?
80
79. Who was President during the Mexican War?
81
80. Where did the discovery of gold in 1848 lure
forty-niners?
82
81. Who tried to save the Union by negotiating
the Compromise of 1850?
83
82. What Act caused antislavery families from the
North to rush to Kansas to try to gain a majority
over the proslavery families and repealed the
Missouri Compromise?
84
83. What new political party developed from many
antislavery forces in the 1850s?
85
84. What was the main goal of this new party?
86
85. What was the policy of favoring native-born
Americans over the foreign born called?
87
86. What Supreme Court decision declared the
Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because it
restricted the movement of property?
88
87. Who became President in 1860, sparking the
secession of many Southern states?
89
88. What was the name of the argument that the
secessionist states cited as their reason for
leaving the Union?
90
89. Where were the first shots of the Civil War
fired?
91
90. What was the turning point of the Civil War?
92
91. What was the name of the period after the
Civil War?
93
92. Who was impeached, but acquitted by one vote
for his failure to cooperate with the Radical
Republicans and violating the Tenure of Office
Act?
94
93. What was the name of the compromise that
ended military occupation of the South in 1877?
95
94. What industry was first regulated by the
federal government as a result of the Interstate
Commerce Act?
96
95. What concept was used to justify the
existence of poverty, the success of big
business, and the power of millionaire
industrialists?
97
96. What laws were passed in the South to
separate whites and blacks in private and public
places?
98
97. What is separating people on the basis of
race known as?
99
98. What Supreme Court decision ruled that
separating the races in public places was legal?
100
99. What African American leader argued that
blacks should not insist on full legal equality?
101
100. What African American leader demanded legal
equality immediately, and later became a founding
member of the NAACP?
102
101.What was the name of the movement from
1900-1917 that sought to solve the political and
social problems created by industrialism?
103
102. What was the name given to journalists who
tried to inform the public about abuses in
business and corruption in politics?
104
103. What did the 16th Amendment make possible?
105
104. What did the 17th Amendment allow for?
106
105. What did the 18th Amendment establish?
107
106. What did the 19th Amendment grant?
108
107. What was the name of Teddy Roosevelts
domestic program?
109
108. What was the name given to Teddy Roosevelts
action of eliminating certain large businesses
that limited competition?
110
109. What was set up to control the nations
money supply and interest rates?
111
110. What led to Americas participation in the
Spanish-American War?
112
111. What was the name of the regiment of
volunteers led by Teddy Roosevelt during the
Spanish-American War?
113
112. What is the name of the policy in which
stronger nations extend their economic,
political, or military control of weaker nations?
114
113. What was the name of the policy pursued by
the U.S. to keep Chinas markets open?
115
114. What name was given to Teddy Roosevelts
type of foreign policy?
116
115. What was the name of the addition to the
Monroe Doctrine that established the practice of
the United States policing countries in the
Western Hemisphere?
117
116. What type of warfare characterized the
Western Front in WWI?
118
117. Who were the two leading nations of the
Central Powers in WWI?
119
118. What did Germany use to stop neutral
countries from trading with Great Britain?
120
119. What Presidents presidential campaign
slogan was a return to normalcy?
121
120. What plan was established by many businesses
as the American economy grew during 1920s and
1930s to allow consumers to buy now, pay later?
122
121. What did the 21st Amendment repeal?
123
122. What trial concerning the teaching of
evolution in public schools was a clash of ideas
and values between science and religion?
124
123. What is the name used to describe the stock
market when it is rising?
125
124. What event marked the beginning of the Great
Depression?
126
125. In addition to the financial crisis, what
was the name of the natural disaster that further
hurt farmers during the Depression?
127
126. As farmers lost their farms during the
Depression, many headed to California to find new
opportunities. What was the name given to these
migrants?
128
127. What was the name of FDRs program to deal
with the Depression?
129
128. What were the three general goals of the New
Deal, known as the Three Rs?
130
129. What New Deal program established old-age
and disability insurance?
131
130. What pulled the United States out of the
Great Depression?
132
131. What is the name of the type of government
that teaches that the individual exists to serve
the government?
133
132. Where was the first government like this
established?
134
133. What three nations formed the Axis Powers in
WWII?
135
134. What is the name of the policy of giving
into an aggressors demands to avoid war?
136
135. Following WWI, how would you describe the
United States foreign policy?
137
136. WWII officially started after Germany
invaded what country?
138
137. What was the name given to hide-and-seek
game between American convoys trying to supply
Great Britain and the German U-boats trying to
prevent it?
139
138. What event brought the United States into
WWII?
140
139. What was the name for the deliberate murder
of over 11 million people across Europe during
WWII?
141
140. In what year did WWII end?
142
Answers
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