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  • What was the main goal of Progressive Era muckrakers like Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell?
    To expose corruption and social injustices through investigative journalism
  • Who gained control of Canada after the war?
    Britain
  • What symbolic event marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War in 1989?
    The fall of the Berlin Wall
  • What was one weakness of the Articles of Confederation?
    The federal government could not tax
  • What was a major effect of the French & Indian War on Britain’s colonies?
    Increased taxes to pay for the war debt
  • What is the term for a labor system where poor Europeans worked to pay off debt for passage to America?
    Indentured servitude
  • What was the Middle Passage?
    The brutal sea journey enslaved Africans were forced to endure to the Americas
  • What was Wilson’s plan for lasting peace called?
    The Fourteen Points
  • What rebellion exposed the weakness of the Articles?
    Shays' Rebellion
  • What 1906 law was passed largely because of public outrage after the publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
    The Meat Inspection Act
  • What line did Britain establish to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachians?
    The Proclamation Line of 1763
  • Why did the U.S. not join the League of Nations?
    Fear of being drawn into future wars
  • What event brought the U.S. and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war in 1962?
    The Cuban Missile Crisis
  • What treaty formally ended World War I?
    Treaty of Versailles
  • Why was it difficult to pass laws under the Articles of Confederation?
    It required approval by 9 out of 13 states
  • What group founded Plymouth Colony?
    The Pilgrims (Separatists)
  • What treaty ended the French & Indian War?
    Treaty of Paris (1763)
  • What war did the U.S. fight in the 1950s to stop the spread of communism in Asia?
    The Korean War
  • What was the name of the policy that pledged U.S. support for countries resisting communism, starting with Greece and Turkey?
    The Truman Doctrine
  • What document created a form of self-government for the Plymouth Colony?
    The Mayflower Compact
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