history review game round one – 1607 to 1776 1.biggest reason why the new world was explored and...
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History Review Game Round One – 1607 to
17761. Biggest reason why the New World was explored and settled.2. Site of the first permanent European settlement in what is
now the United States.3. Turning point in the struggle for power between Spain and
England.4. Financial system that required colonies to serve the economic
trading interests of the mother nation.5. Name commonly given to the African slave trade.6. Pilgrims + Puritans = this colony.7. Three Colonies - Dutch? Quakers? Roman Catholics?8. This war set the stage for the American Revolution 15 years
later.9. Prohibited westward expansion beyond the Appalachians.10. “Shot heard around the world” was fired here.
History Review Game Round Two –1776 to
18031. Document that stated the reasons behind the decision to break away from Great Britain.
2. Turning point battle of the Revolutionary War.3. Reason why this battle contributed to America’s long term victory.4. Final battle of the American Revolution.5. Treaty that ended the Revolution and extended America’s western
boundary to the Mississippi River.6. Document that organized our very first government.7. Incident that showed the inherent weaknesses in this government.8. Constitutional principle that deals with how power is shared
between the federal government and the states.9. Added to the Constitution in order to secure its ratification.10. Foreign policy principle first stated in Washington’s Farewell
Address.
History Review Game Round Three –1803 to
18501. Doubled the nation’s size overnight.2. British practice that angered the U.S. and became a cause
behind the War of 1812.3. Doctrine that warned European nations to stop interfering in the
Western Hemisphere.4. Its passage in 1820 helped to push the Civil War back 40 years.5. His two-term presidency helped to define the growing democratic
principles of his period.6. Ideology used to support America’s westward expansion.7. Two important ideas attributed to Eli Whitney?8. Reason why the U.S. hesitated to annex Texas.9. Three western states – Gold? The Willamette Valley? Mormon
refuge?10. Reason why slavery emerged as a hot issue again in the late
1840’s
History Review Game Round Four – 1850 to
18761. Proposed solutions to the slavery expansion issue argued by Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln?
2. Solution that appeased the South after California came in as a free state?
3. This abolitionist terrorized Bleeding Kansas.4. Two other events that contributed to Civil War – A book? A
Supreme Court case? 5. This event led directly to the succession of six southern states.6. Two reasons why the Civil War proved to be so deadly.7. Turning point battle of the Civil War.8. What two military principles characterized the last two years of
the Civil War?9. This idea was imbedded in the 14th Amendment and would prove to
be very important a century later.10. Greatest failure of Reconstruction in the eyes of the former slaves.
History Review Game Round Five – 1876 to
19001. Reason why the Industrial Revolution was slow to occur in the U.S. prior to the Civil War?
2. 1869 event that was a milestone in westward expansion?3. Name the three industries – Carnegie? Rockefeller? Vanderbilt?4. Economic system that dominated the U.S. in the late 19th century.5. Father of system proposed as a radical alternative to this system?6. Biggest reason why so many workers lost their late 19th century
labor struggles?7. Corrupt political system that came to dominate many of America’s
largest cities in the late 19th century?8. First group to directly feel the effect of America’s rising nativism
in the late 19th century?9. Congressional act designed to assimilate America’s indigenous
peoples.10. Grass roots reform movement of the 1890’s?
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