AP US History Review Flashcards

6746349406	Storm waters flooded the city after the levees broke.	How did Hurricane Katrina affect New Orleans?	0
6746349407	Entrepreneur who designed personal computers and their operating software.	What impact did Bill Gates have on business and technology?	1
6746349408	People grew their own fruits & vegetables at home to conserve food production during war.	What were Victory Gardens?	2
6746349409	19th Amendment	Women, such as the Union for Women's Suffrage, fought for the ratification of what amendment?	3
6746349410	Desegregation (or integration) of public schools.	What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?	4
6746349411	1920s	What decade was characterized by installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers?	5
6746349412	Broke the stalemate created by trench warfare.	How did tanks affect the course of World War 1?	6
6746349413	First female Supreme Court Justice.	Why was the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court important?	7
6746349414	1941	What year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Habor, causing the U.S. to enter World War 2?	8
6746349415	1929	What year did the stock market crash, signaling the beginning of the Great Depression?	9
6746349416	1898	What year did the U.S. fight the Spanish-American War, allowing it to move into the position of a world power?	10
6746349417	Cold War	Which era was defined by conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, as well as dealt with the U.S. attempting to contain communism due to tense relations with the Soviet Union?	11
6746349418	Roaring 1920s	Which era was characterized by consumerism, jazz, speakeasies, and a fear of communists AND immigrants	12
6746349419	Gilded Age	Which era was characterized by industrialization, urbanization, increases in wealth for businesses, and the formation of labor unions?	13
6746349420	Progressive Era	Which era was defined by reforms as people tried to return political power to the people, restore opportunities, and combat the injustices of the Gilded Age?	14
6746349421	Declaration of Independence	Which document begins with the words "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal"?	15
6746349422	Poor farming techniques and drought	What human and physical factors caused the Dust Bowl in the 1930s?	16
6746349423	15th Amendment	What post-Civil War amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote?	17
6746349424	14th Amendment	What post-Civil War amendment defined citizenship and was later violated by the internment of the Japanese?	18
6746349425	18th Amendment	What amendment banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol?	19
6746349426	Expanded voting rights	What is the connection between the 19th, 24th, and 26th amendments?	20
6746349427	17th Amendment	Which Progressive Era amendment allowed for the direct election of senators, leading to an increase in direct democracy?	21
6746349428	New technology, westward expansion, new labor & business practices.	Which factors allow for the rapid industrialization of the U.S. after the Civil War?	22
6746349429	Poor working conditions, long hours, low wages	Why did labor unions form in the late 1800s?	23
6746349430	Pure Food & Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act	What laws did Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel, The Jungle, help to pass?	24
6746349431	Strong navy	According to imperialist Alfred Thayer Mahan, what did the U.S. need to build in order to become a world power?	25
6746349432	Eliminated competition	Why were monopolies and trusts declared illegal under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?	26
6746349433	Factory jobs in North	Why did African Americans migrate north during and after World War 1 in the Great Migration?	27
6746349434	Maintain defense production levels.	Why did women go to work in factories in World War 2?	28
6746349435	Civil disobedience	What method did Rosa Parks and the Greensboro 4 use when they refused to leave their seats on the bus or lunch counters?	29
6746349436	Mistrust in government	What effect did the Teapot Dome, Watergate, and Clinton scandals have on citizens of the U.S.?	30
6746349437	Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt	What were the Camp David Accords?	31
6746349438	Faster shipping routes between Atlantic & Pacific oceans	Why did imperialists believe it was important for the U.S. to build a canal through Panama?	32
6746349439	Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare	Why did the U.S. enter World War 1?	33
6746349440	FDR's Relief, Recovery, Reform programs to end Great Depression	What was the New Deal?	34
6746349441	Overseas territories	What did the U.S. acquire as a result of the Spanish-American War that allowed the U.S. to move into a position of world power?	35
6746349442	Sent them to internment camps.	Why did Executive Order 9066 violate the rights of Japanese-Americans during World War 2?	36
6746349443	Space Race & creation of NASA	What was a direct result of the Soviets launch of Sputnik in 1957?	37
6746349444	Poverty, War, Economy Opportunity, Freedom	What are push and pull factors for immigration in the late 1800s?	38
6746349445	Increased political participation of minorities	What was the impact of the 24th Amendment and the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?	39
6746349446	Intervention in countries is necessary to prevent others from falling to communism.	What was the belief of Domino Theory, which was the basis for involvement in Korea & Vietnam Wars?	40
6746357102	Greed for gold, treasures, and natural resources	What was a motive for the European exploration and colonization of the New World?	41
6746364391	Portugal	Which was the first European nation of sponsor a transatlantic voyage of exploration?	42
6746369511	Sophisticated weapons	Why were the Europeans able to swiftly conquer the Native American tribes?	43
6746373502	Fur trade	What was the primary French activity in North America during the 16th century?	44
6746380282	Intertribal peacekeeping organization	What was the Iroquois Confederacy?	45
6746385530	Virginia	What was the first North American colony claimed by Great Britain?	46
6746389172	hostility	Relations between the Indians and the early Spanish were characterized by	47
6746393652	Theocracy in New England ended	What was an important effect of the Salem Witch Trials of 1690s?	48
6746400121	Unofficial church leader who spoke out against establishment & advocated for education of women	Anne Hutchinson is a significant figure in early colonial history because	49
6746406438	Turned plantation elite away from indentured servants	What was the significance of Bacon's Rebellion	50
6746416235	a refuge for Catholics	The colony of Maryland was originally founded as	51
6746424367	Ignored them & continued smuggling	How did the colonists react to the Navigation Acts of the mid-1600s?	52
6746432303	Worldviews were irreconcilable.	Why did the Indian tribes & European settlers never assimilate into one society?	53
6746439788	Transport of African slaves to North America to be sold	What is the middle passage?	54
6746446653	Restrict trade between British colonies & other nations.	What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts of the mid-17th century?	55
6746450984	Revival of Protestant religious fever	What was the Great Awakening of the mid-18th century?	56
6746466296	territorial expansion	The French and Indian War came about because of a dispute over	57
6746469312	Loose association for mutual security of colonies	What was the Albany Plan of Union?	58
6746475878	Fought for their benefit.	Why did Britain decide that the colonies must assume a share of the British War debt?	59
6746491059	Proclamation Line of 1763	Which law did colonists oppose after the French and Indian War that restricted their westward migration?	60
6746497720	Installation of troops in peacetime.	What was the Boston Massacre a direct result of?	61
6746509631	Intolerable Acts	When British colonists dumped chests of East India tea onto Boston Harbor, what did Parliament pass in response?	62
6746518245	Social Contract	The belief that government is derived by the consent of the governed is what theory?	63
6746524709	Quartering Act	Which 1774 Act started that colonists must allow redcoats to lodge in their houses, when requested to by the army?	64
6746543210	Northwest Ordinance of 1787	Which policy, under the Articles of Confederation, settled, organized, and decided the future statehood of the Northwest Territory?	65
6746696805	Articles of Confederation	What was the early form of U.S. government that required unanimous consent to pass laws, lacked an executive branch, and failed to give the federal government the power to tax?	66