Why did the Puritans want to leave England?

1
Why did the Puritans want to leave England?

• religious persecution

2
What religious movement during the 1700s focused
on getting an emotional response from its
audience?

• Great Awakening

3
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of
Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

4
Which Enlightenment thinker pushed for a three
branch government?

• Montesquieu

5
Which enlightenment thinker was an advocate for
the protection of natural rights (life,
liberty, property)? Where did they believe these
rights came from?

• Locke, GOD

6
Which Enlightenment thinker pushed government by
the general will?

• Rousseau

7
What document set up our nations first
government but ended up giving too much power to
the states?

• Articles of Confederation

8
Name two weaknesses of the Articles of
Confederation.

• no power to tax, no power to coin money, no
  executive branch, weak central government

9
How many houses are there in our Congress? What
are their names?

• 2, the Senate and the House of Representatives

10
What were the two major compromises made during
the drafting of the United States Constitution?

• Great Compromise (large states House, small
  states Senate), 3/5 Compromise (5 slaves count
  for 3 men)

11
What part of the government did the Federalists
want strengthened in the new constitution?

• the national (Federal) government, get
  itFederalists

12
What group thought the constitution made the
federal government too powerful and demanded the
inclusion of the Bill of Rights?

• Anti-Federalists

13
What freedoms are guaranteed by the First
Amendment?

• Speech, religion, press, assembly, petition

14
What rights are protected by the Fifth Sixth
Amendments?

• Rights of the accused fair speedy trial, trial
  by jury, dont have to testify against self, etc.

15
What does the 4th amendment protect you from?
The 8th amendment?

• 4th unreasonable search and seizure. 8th cruel
  and unusual punishment

16
What religious movement of the late 1800s
created a desire by Christians to save their
souls by reforming society and by helping the
less fortunate?

• The Second Great Awakening

17
Why did Mormons move west to the Utah territory?

• To escape religious persecution

18
What kinds of conditions did industrial workers
face in the late 1800s? How did they eventually
respond?

• Heat/cold, low pay, long hours, no job security,
  dangerous machinery they formed unions

19
What was the first national labor organization?
Whom did they try and organize? Were they
ultimately successful?

• Knights of Labor all workers no

20
What type of worker did the American Federation
of Labor (AFL) try to organize? Who was their
first leader?

• skilled white male workers, Samuel Gompers

21
What is laissez faire economics?

• a system with little or no government control or
  interference with business/trade

22
Why were new immigrants (between 1870-1940)
subjected to so much discrimination?

• different languages, religions (Roman Catholic,
  Jewish), complexions, cultural differences

23
How did the Americanization Movement attempt to
help immigrants succeed?

• education in the American way of life,
  including public schools, Protestant religion,
  hygiene, English language

24
What was the result of the passage of the 19th
Amendment in 1920?

• Women got the right to vote

25
What organization was responsible for producing
U.S. propaganda during WWI?

• Committee on Public Information (CPI)

26
What two laws passed during World War I curtailed
civil rights and sought to punish enemy spies?

• Sedition Act (prevented speaking out against the
  war) the Espionage Act (spy and die!)

27
Name 2 kinds of people who might have opposed
U.S. involvement in WWI.

• pacifists, socialists, German immigrants, Irish
  immigrants

28
What was the major population shift from rural
areas, especially the South, to urban areas
involved in wartime production?

• Great Migration (many African Americans moved
  North)

29
What kind of revolution took place in Russia in
1917-1919? What kind of scare did this cause in
the United States?

• Bolshevik (communist) revolution, Red Scare

30
What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?

• root out and deport/imprison suspected Communists
  (especially immigrants with connections to
  socialism/anarchism)

31
What organization was formed in response to the
Palmer Raids?

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

32
Identify two examples of anti-immigrant sentiment
from the twenties,

• Sacco Vanzetti, Al Smith, KKK, immigration
  quotas restrictions

33
How did the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act
attempt to change American society?

• Tried to improve American moral values by banning
  the sale and production of alcohol

34
How successful was prohibition? Who took over
distribution of alcohol during prohibition?

• not very organized crime (the mob)

35
Identify three characteristics of urban America
in the 1920s.

• cultural diversity, new immigrants, religious
  diversity, speakeasies jazz, manufacturing

36
What group worked to oppress everybody who was
not a White Protestant? Why did it have a
resurgence in the 1920s?

• KKK, increased ethnic tension in the cities
  (Great Migration Red Scare)

37
How did Marcus Garvey and his followers respond
to increased hostility toward African Americans?

• Back to Africa Movement

38
How did Al Smiths religion help to prevent him
from winning the 1928 Presidential election?

• There was widespread prejudice in the United
  States against Catholics

39
What organization was created by the Wagner Act
to help protect the rights of workers and unions?

• the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

40
What national labor organization rose to
prominence in the Depression by organizing all
types of workers?

• the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

41
Why did President Truman veto the Taft-Hartley
Act in 1947? What happened to the Act?

• It cut back on the power and protection of unions
  .. Congress overrode his veto and it became law.

42
What doctrine vowed to support all resistors of
communism wherever they may be?

• Truman Doctrine

43
In what aspect of American society did President
Truman promise to end segregation in 1948?

• the United States Military

44
What was HUAC? Who were its specific targets?

• House Un-American Activities Committee, suspected
  Communists in the media and government

45
Which U.S. Senator made a name for himself in the
early 1950s by hunting communists?

• Joseph McCarthy

46
How did the fear of Communism during the early
Cold War impact American culture?

• Made it much more conformist - big penalties for
  being suspected of being Un-American