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  • Why did the colonists oppose the Stamp Act?
    Answer: "No taxation without representation"
  • What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
    Answer: The Bill of Rights
  • What is laissez-faire capitalism?
    Answer: Government does not interfere in the economy
  • What was the main goal of Radical Republicans during Reconstruction?
    Answer: To punish the South and protect rights of freedmen
  • What was the Red Scare?
    Answer: Fear of communism spreading in the U.S.
  • What economic policy was used by Britain to control colonial trade?
    Mercantilism
  • Who was the steel industry tycoon known for philanthropy?
    Answer: Andrew Carnegie
  • What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
    Answer: To rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism
  • What group used terror to prevent African Americans from voting during Reconstruction?
    Answer: Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
  • What was the first representative government in the American colonies?
    Answer: Virginia House of Burgesses
  • What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
    Answer: No power to tax, no executive branch, weak central government
  • Who warned against political parties and foreign alliances in his Farewell Address?
    Answer: George Washington
  • What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?
    Answer: To free slaves in Confederate states
  • What law outlawed discrimination based on race, sex, religion, or national origin?
    Answer: Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Why did the U.S. want to build the Panama Canal?
    Answer: To shorten shipping routes between oceans
  • What terrorist attack occurred on September 11, 2001?
    Answer: Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
  • What scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation?
    Answer: Watergate
  • What treaty ended World War I?
    Answer: Treaty of Versailles
  • What policy warned Europe to stay out of Latin America?
    Answer: Monroe Doctrine
  • Which compromise created a two-house legislature during the Constitutional Convention?
    Answer: The Great Compromise
  • What court case ended segregation in public schools?
    Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
  • What law banned Chinese immigration for 10 years?
    Answer: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
  • What was Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle about?
    Answer: Poor conditions in the meatpacking industry
  • What event led to the secession of Southern states?
    Answer: Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
  • Mercantilism
    Answer: The Declaration of Independence
  • What was the goal of the Progressive Movement?
    Answer: To fix problems caused by industrialization and urbanization
  • What court case established judicial review?
    Answer: Marbury v. Madison
  • What was the significance of the Transcontinental Railroad?
    Answer: Connected the East and West, boosted trade and migration
  • What is a monopoly?
    Answer: One company controls an entire industry
  • What amendment abolished slavery?
    Answer: 13th Amendment
  • Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense, urging independence from Britain?
    Answer: Thomas Paine
  • What amendment gave women the right to vote?
    Answer: 19th Amendment
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