Concepts for US History Final Review.
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| 812961474 | When someone dies of a good cause | Now my good sir, could you please kindly define the word "martyr" | |
| 812961475 | Jamestown | Which town out of the following grew Tobacco? Jamestown, Roanoke Island, Providence, or Providence? | |
| 812961476 | The idea of stopping slavery | What is abolitionism? | |
| 812961477 | British trade laws weren't enforced on the colonists. | You win a cookie if you can tell me what Salutary Neglect is. While the cookie might be invisible, it's a cookie. | |
| 812961478 | Demonizing | Using propaganda to make people think badly of others | |
| 812961479 | Internment | Punishment by being stored in a camp | |
| 812961480 | 25 | How old do you have to be to be a Representative? | |
| 812961481 | 30 | How old do you have to be to be a Senator? | |
| 812961482 | 35 | How old do you have to be to be President? | |
| 812961483 | 100 | How many people were sent to jail for suspected witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials? | |
| 812961484 | 20 | How many people were convicted with the death penalty in the Salem Witch Trials? | |
| 812961485 | Legislative, Judicial, Executive | Name the three branches of government (if you get the order wrong but still have it right there is a button that says, "Override, I was right") | |
| 812961486 | domino theory | When China became communist, the US was worried that other countries would turn communist too. What did they call that? | |
| 812961487 | iron curtain | After WWII Soviet communist influence cut off Eastern European countries from the rest of the world. What was this called? | |
| 812961488 | the big three | What were the allied powers known as? | |
| 812961489 | 13 | What amendment banned slavery (just put number)? | |
| 812961490 | manifest destiny | What was the name of the belief that God gave them the right to the entire continent, it led them to find land? | |
| 812961491 | 2,000 | Over how many people lost their jobs from accusations from Joseph McCarthy? | |
| 812961492 | Checks and Balances | How the government balance each others powers | |
| 812961493 | 270 | How many votes are required to win the electoral college? | |
| 812970162 | Holocaust | What was the event in which Jews were persecuted and killed? | |
| 812970163 | stare decisis | Used by the Supreme Court, means "to stand by things decided." | |
| 812970164 | Indentured Servents | People who agreed to work for a period of time in exchange for transport to the New World | |
| 812970165 | Baby Boom | After WWII, lots of babies were born and families created when soldiers came home from the war | |
| 812970166 | Marshall Plan | Plan which included giving money to rebuild European economies after WWII to try to keep them from wanting to become communist | |
| 812970167 | Mutually Assured Destruction | Abreviated "MAD," means that if one country used nukes, they would be blown up as well | |
| 812970168 | Axis Powers | Name of group of allied countries in WWII that included Germany | |
| 812978976 | "separate but equal" | the policy of segregation used after the civil war | |
| 812978977 | Popular Sovereignty | The process of letting states vote on whether to become slave or free states | |
| 812978978 | inflation | When prices rise, a state of the economy | |
| 812978979 | deflation | Whe prices lower, a state of the economy | |
| 812978980 | Freedman's Bureau | A bureau which was created to help recently freed slaves | |
| 812978981 | isolationism | keeping uninvolved in other countries affairs, adopted by the US prior to WWII | |
| 812978982 | Buffer Zone | A zone which is a land buffer that would protect a country | |
| 812978983 | Jim Crow | A fictional character which was a unkind portrayal of African Americans, many segregationist laws were called "Jim Crow Laws" | |
| 812978984 | Propaganda | Advertizements that were used to advocate a cause | |
| 812978985 | Warsaw Pact | A pact that was made by soviet governments during the Cold War | |
| 812978986 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization | Abreviated "NATO," a act Western countries made to protect each other during the Cold War |
