Act that allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30 (instead of public land being sold primarily for revenue, it was now being given away to encourage a rapid filling of empty spaces and to provide a stimulus to the family farm, turned out to be a cruel hoax because the land given to the settlers usually had terrible soil and the weather included no precipitation, many farms were repo'd or failed until 'dry farming' took root on the plains, then wheat, then massive irrigation projects)

_____ is a foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved nation through negotiation, in an attempt to prevent war.

All of the following are economic hardships faced by people all across the world during the Great Depression except:

Fascism grew as the central form of government in the 1920s and the 1930s in all of the following countries except:

Which of the following was NOT a major cause for the "Dust Bow" in Texas and Oklahoma in the 1930s?

In the 1800s what helped homesteaders to build farms on the Great Plains?

The Nation between India and Tibet; Himalayan mountains and Mt. Everest are here; filled with temples and Hindu and Buddhist Shrines

Hinduism and Buddhism are religions where?

Where is Islam a main religion?

A large portion of North Africa's population is ?

This is known as the Holy City by the world's major religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Siberia is _______ in East Russia.

Turkey is geographically and politically part of both _____ and _____.

Only City in the world considered part of two continents

"If three years ago, any person had of told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws and constitutions of our own making as now appears, I should have thought him a bedlamite (insane person)—fit subject for a madhouse..." Who said this?

Rebellion in which ______ led a group of slaves through Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow planter families.

In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on _______ (spirits), and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders. In October, 1794, the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast to the inability of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with Shay's Rebellion.

He was the leader of Shay's Rebellion- an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades; the fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787.

_____ is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved.

"I remember, in the vessel in which I was brought over, in the men's apartment, there were several brothers . . . sold in different lots; and it was very moving on this occasion, to see and hear their cries at parting."

A worker who is bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination is ?

Monroe Doctrine *Key to foreign policy* (select all that apply)

"With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." (check all that apply)

King George III was the King of England during the _____?

"I am of the opinion that when once these rebels have felt a smart blow, they will submit; and no situation can ever change my fixed resolution...."

"The Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added." (1789)

What document resolved the issue in the quote above?

_________ was written to raise public support for the ratification (to make officially valid) of the United States Constitution.

Woodrow Wilson's reason to enter into WWI. This was in response to unrestricted German submarine warfare.

"The decision by U.S. policymakers to annex (acquire) the Philippines was not without domestic controversy."

-1898

The quote above is related to which war?

The compromise solution was to count three out of every five slaves as people in voting (1787) This was called?

Addition to a legal document

In 1820, Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state. All states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

A pivotal event in the Texas Revolution when Mexican troops invaded the Alamo, Killing all of its Texan defenders.

What was this battle called?

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

This battle was also known as the Battle of Manassas, it was the first major battle of the American Civil War and was a Confederate Victory.

A battle fought by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.

This battle ended with the Confederates being driven out of Maryland. Lincoln felt comfortable enough with this to issue the Proclamation five days after the battle.

The _______ declared ''that all persons held as slaves'' within the rebellious states ''are, and henceforward shall be free''

This siege was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.

What advantage did the South have over the North in the Civil War?

What was used in the South to deny African Americans voting rights?

The Cherokee refuse to leave land; sue for their rights but are forced to relocate to the western United States in 1838 and 1839 in a migration know as the Trail of Tears.

Because of the fear of nuclear attacks during the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s Americans built private what?

The power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II is called?

This is a communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991.

Why was it called the Cold War? ( select all that apply)

In 1898, a conflict between the U.S. and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence.

Who did the U.S. gain control of after the Spanish-American War?

What treaty or purchase had a great impact on the size of the United States?

In 1803, ________ increased the size of the U.S. by 828,000 square miles for only $15 million dollars.

The agreement to add the provision that any runaway slave (fugitive) found in a non-slave state had to be sent back to the South.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed?

What led to the start of the Spanish- American War? (1908 Havana, Cuba)

This declared ' separate but equal' unconstitutional.

Former slave was free since he lived in a free state.

Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke upheld

The wartime internment of American Citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional (1944)

An American pilot who made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

He built a steel mill empire, US STEEL.

He was the founder of a motor company, father of modern assembly lines.

The Organization was the most responsible for the increased tensions over the shortage of a natural resource during the 1970s?

A government ruled by a king or queen is called?

A form of government in which the leader has absolute power and authority.

A form of government in which citizens choose their leaders by voting.

Union of several countries with some or most power shared between them is a ?

The right to participate in the electoral process

This protects the security of citizens in a democracy.

What European nation was the first to colonize the United States?

(___ explored and colonized the Southwestern U.S. in the mid 1500s)

The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia (Leader : John Smith)

The formation of a caldera (type of sinkhole) is related to which of the following events?

Which continent is also an island?

Which type of water feature is almost always artificially created by man?

All of the following are components of the water cycle except:

Which canal creates a water route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?

Which canal creates a water route from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean?

Which ocean separates North America from Asia?