Chronological Quiz

Place the following philosophical movements in chronological order.

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Answer explanation

Enlightenment - philosophical movement of the of the late 17th to early 19th century

Great Awakening - 18th C. - a turn toward more religious conservatism (New Lights) than the original religious colonist (Old Lights)

Republican Motherhood (Revolutionary Era) defined women as caretakers and teachers of republican values to their children and husbands

2nd Great Awakening (1790-1840) God offers salvation to all who embrace it.

Transcendentalism - (1830-1855) emphasized self-reliance, individualism

Place the following uprisings in chronological order.

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Answer explanation

Bacon's Rebellion (1676) → declining indentured servitude because they were tired of being exploited

Boston Massacre (1770) → persuades Boston patriots that British should be removed from power in the colonies

Shays' Rebellion (1786) → convinces future framer that Confederation is not workable

Whiskey Rebellion (1794) → a movement against taxation and bank loans that forces President Washington to intervene

NYC Draft Riots (1863) - the Civil War draft privilege wealthy whites and did not include blacks

Place the activism of the following women in chronological order.

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Answer explanation

Susan B. Anthony - women's suffrage activist, but also abolition and temperance

Jane Addams - most known for social work and settlement house movement

Carrie Chapman Catt - suffrage activist campaigned for the 19th amendment

Dorothea Lange - progressive era photo journalist who chronicled life during the Great Depression

Dolores Huerta - active in the farm workers movement and in motivating other Latinas into public service

All of the following images refer to economic theory or principles. Place them in their order of use or influence in United States History.

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Answer explanation

mercantilism - use by Europeans to economically compete and hold control of their colonies markets

capitalism - although Adam Smith proposed his theories during the Enlightenment, the "invisible hand" of supply and demand did not stick until the market revolution and capitalist eras

vertical & horizontal integration was used by capitalists (i.e. Rockefeller, Carnegie, et al.) to construct monopolies

Keynesian economic theory was used by FDR to pump $ into the economy in order to stimulate it

Reaganomics - a "trickle down" approach to stimulating wealth

Place the following technological developments in chronological order.

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Answer explanation

cotton gin - 1793

Erie Canal - 1825

mechanical reaper - 1831

1st drilling of oil - 1859

telephone - c. 1876

Reorder the following

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Answer explanation

NW Territory - 1787 (as Treaty of Paris, American Revolution)

Louisiana Purchase - 1803 (Jefferson from Napoleon)

Texas Annexation - 1845 (under President Polk)

Mexican Cession - 1848 (part of Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Mexican-American War)

Alaska Purchase - 1867 (under President Andrew Johnson)

Reorder the following

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All of the following individuals participated in seeking rights for African Americans. Place them in chronological order.

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Answer explanation

Frederick Douglass - abolitionist before/after the Civil War

Booker T. Washington - founded Tuskegee Institute for Africa Americans (1881)

A. Phillip Randolph - civil rights and union rights activist during late 19th until the mid-20th century; pressured FDR to increase rights for African American and had a role in organizing the March on Washington

Medgar Evers - NAACP activist influential to the movement especially in the Deep South (Mississippi)

Stokely Carmichael - influential in SNCC freedom rides; lated embraced Black Power movement

The following are excerpts from famous political speeches. Put them in chronological order.

• However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people

• We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all REPUBLICANS: We are all FEDERALISTS.

• "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved

• we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist

• the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance

Answer explanation

George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)

Thomas Jefferson's 1st Inaugural (1801)

Lincoln's 1st Inaugural (1861)

FDR's 1st Inaugural (1933)

Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)

Reorder the following American conflicts.

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Answer explanation

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

American Revolution (1775-1783)

War of 1812 (1812-1815)

Civil War (1861-1865)

Spanish American War (1898(