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History Exam

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Which country lies on the western border of Pickens County?
Oconee
Which county lies between Chester and Chesterfield counties.
Lancaster
Which county touches both Laurens and Newberrry
Union
Which county lies between Saluda and Richland counties
Lexington
Which county lies between Fairfield and York counties
Chester
Which county lies on the southwestern border of Aiken county
Barnwell
The "New Deal" to end the Depression was proposed by
Franklin Roosevelt
The New Deal consisted of three initiatives. Mark all of them.
Reform, Recovery, Relief
The Stock Market crashed during the presidency of
Herbert Hoover
When the Stock Market crashed, What really crashed was
amount of products
The Stock Market crashed in
...
New Deal government agencies put unemployed people to work doing what
building road and bridges
making weapons for WW2
Building libraries & courthouse
Minimum Wage
The least amount of money an employer can pay there employee
Name a New Deal program which is still in place today
Social Security
How did WWII end the Great Depression
...
How did americans back home support the war
Victory Gardens, War Bonds, and Rationed products
Name a SC Building built by New deal workers
Court House
When did Germany and Japan surrender
1945
When was D Day
1944
When was Pearl Harbor
1941
When was the Battle of Britain
1943
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
1945
Roosevelt's death
1945
Germany invades Poland
1939
What officially started WWII
Poland attack
What country was taken over by fascism in 1923
Italy
The United Stats was brought into WW2 by an attack on our ships by
...
The African American pilots that were trained in SC
Tuskegee Airmen
Hitler planned to do this a a certain group.
Genocide
When a government suppresses all opposition controls the economic and social lives of citizens and stresses nationalism at the expense of human rights, the government is called
Imperialist government
The war ended when the US dropped bombs on
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
What event left 6 million jewish people dead
Holocaust
Food was _________ Because of war
rationed
Who succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Why was the cold war "cold"
fear of atomic bombs
The guiding beliefs of a country are its
ideology
The containment policy was the idea of
Harry Truman
What was the goal of the containment policy
Communism
What does NATO stand for
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Which President instituted the interstate highway system
Eisenhower
Th Cold War began with the____ controlling much of Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
Capitalism is the ___ of our nation's economy
ideology
Harry Truman's approach to stopping communism was called
containment
Which one of these Cold War events did not directly affect South Carolina
The Berlin Airlift
The alliance among the US, Canada and free Europeon nations known as NATO is for
protection
The sudden rise in the population after WW2 was called the
Baby boom
The economic boom resulted in the growth of unions and __laws
...
The US helped returning soldiers by
passing the GI Bill
South Carolina state government helped returning soldiers by__
passing the GI Bill
In 1949 a new group was identified in our culture. This group was called____
teenagers
Which of these is not one of the five effects of the Cold War on the US.
The baby boom
Identify the bases that stayed open South Carolina after WW2
McEntire Air National Guard Base , Shaw Air Force Base
The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift implemented what Us policy
The Containment Policy
Explain how the Cold War affected South Carolina's school children
student had regular bomb drills
Strom Thurmond
...
Harry Truman
...
James Byrnes
...
Harry Briggs
...
Dwight Eisenhower
...
Willie Earle
...
Brown vs. Board of Education
...
Plessy vs. Ferguson
...
Briggs vs. Elliot
...
Smith vs. Allwright
...
The years between the War of 1812 and Civil War
antebellum
to force someone into public or military service
impressment
government projects to improve transportation and trade
internal improvement
an import tax that protects American manufactured goods from competition
protective tariff
allegiance to one region of the country
sectionalism
Worked for 40 years to get South Carolina to leave the Union
Robert Barnwell Rhett
What did radical Republicans want
Civil rights for freedmen
A small percentage of people needed to pledge loyalty to be readmitted
Presidential
Bourbons
were in charge in the south
Radical Republicans
Set the strict requirements for coming back into the union
Why were scalawags hated in the south during Reconstruction
They were considered traitors in the south
After the civil war Black codes ________
Limited the rights of freedmen
13th Amendment
freed all slaves
If there was a railroad depot in your town it meant you were
Going to get more business
What 2 restrictions were put on SC Labor laws
Time and age
Time zones were created because?
People could travel faster than the sun
Who lowered taxes as governor
Ben Tilman
When did Rutherford Hayes become president
In 1876
During reconstruction in SC had a ________________
Black Lt. Governor
16th Amendment
Gov. will tax your income
21st Amendment
Prohibition is reapealed
the ability to remove an elected official before his term had ended
recall
The NAAC was founded by
W.E.B. Dubois
...
Richard Manning
...
Theodore Roosevelt
...
William Taft
created income tax
Woodrow Wilson
the ability to over-rule laws passed by the state legislature
referendum
the practice of voting in private
secrete ballot
the people, instead of the party leaders, choose the party's candidate
direct primary
18th Amendment
Manufacture & sale of alcohols is illegal
separate public facilities
Segregation
the people, instead of the representatives, vote for senators
direct elecion
Prohibition
Progressive idea
Eight Boc Law
Disfranchisement
Chain gangs
1895-1960
work crews
1995- present
convict leasing
1873-1895
14th Amendment
free men are now citizens
Assumed leader of the slave revolt which never happened
Denmark Vesey
Quaker abolitionist; driven form SC
Sarah Grimke
Famous for urging SC to nullify the Tariff of Abominations
John Calhoun
Father or of Greenville; gave and for four churches and a college
Vardry McBee
The eastern end of the world's longest railroad at the time
Charleston, SC
A major victory here after the end of the war of 1812
New Orleans
Invaded by Andrew Jackson; ceded by Spain
Florida
Oliver Perry became a national hero here
Lake Eri
Became part of the Union at the same time as Maine
Missouri
What SC industry grew along the Savannah River during during the antebellum perriod
Pottery
The first one of these was built in 1849 in Granitville, SC
Textile mill
The Methodist opened this college for men in Spartanburg
Wofford college
New heros, New industries, and new respect in the world were the results of this important event.
The War of 1812
Slave states vote to un-ratify the US Constitution
secession
Wearing them out or waiting them out
attrition
control the ports; control the Mississippi River
Anaconda Plan
The bloodiest battle of the war occurred in this state
Antietam
The three day Battle Gettysburg which occurred in _________ ended Lee's second invasion of the North
Pennsylvania
The Civil ended when General lee surrendered to General Grant in the town of _____,Va
Appomattox Court House
The Emancipation Proclamation resulted in freeing the slaves
in the Confederate states
Where was Abraham Lincoln When he was assassinated on April 14,1865
Ford Theater
"Juneteenth" remembers the announcement of the end of
...
He was sent to Texas to make sure they knew that all the slaves were free
Gordon Granger
He shot Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday, five day's after the war's end
John Wilkes Booth
He lowered flag over Fort Sumter and raised it again four years later
Robert Anderson
Grant, Sheridan and Sherman were all generals involved in
the War of Attrition
34 hours of shelling resulted in the surrender of
Fort Sumter,SC
Sherman's March to the Sea started here
Atlanta
Lee's First invasion of the North occurred in state
Maryland
Completed in owning Texas. California and Organ
Manifest destiny
the first land battle of the war happened here
Manassas
This start experienced its own civil war in the 1850
Kansas
pushed for Popular Sovereignty in the territories
Steven Douglas
Sued for his freedom; insulted by the Supreme Court
Dred Scott
Raided a federal arsenal in an attempt to end slavery
John Brown
Elected in 1860 in a four way race
Abraham lincoln
Wrote a novel exposing the cruelty of slavery
Harriet B. Stowe
This church stood firmly against slavery, and was driven out of SC
The Quakers
He was Greenville's most famous carriage-maker, as well as its mayor, and the organizer of its school
Thomas Gower
four slave states which did not secede from the union
Border States
The March on Washington took place in August of
1963
The main speaker for the March on Washington was
Martin Luther King
The main purpose of the March on Washington was
support the passage of the Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act was signed in
1964
Leader of North Vietnam was
Ho Chi Minh
People likely to get drafted were the uneducated and
unmarried
Lee Harvey Oswald was killed in
1963
The _______ Act authorized federal action against segregation
Civil Rights
Why did South Carolina experience less civil rights violence than other states
The opposition to civil rights was strong
We learned that Greenville experienced civil rights protests at
1. department stores
2. libraries
3. drug stores
4. airport
The suit of AJ Wittenberg in Federal Court led to the desegregation of the Greenville
Schools
Where was JFK when he was assassinated
Dallas, TX
To escalate mean to increase in intensity or size
1. civil rights movement
2. American involvement in Vietnam
3. the war protest
4. the Vietnam Conflict
A conscientious objector is one who refuses to
take up arms on moral or religious grounds and serve in the military
The US government's goal in sending soldiers and advisors to Vietnam was to
contain communism and protect China
What was the goal of the Vietcong
contain communism and end Western control
What event was used to justify sending American soldiers to South Vietnam
The attack on ships in the Gulf of Tonkin
What is the South Carolina's connection to the Vietnam Conflict as mentioned in the lesson
SC sent more soldiers than other states
What was each cause of the growing oppositions to the war in Vietnam
1. Live TV coverage of the war
2. Thousands of American deaths
3. Billions of dollars spent
What was the effects of the Vietnam Conflict on the presidential elections of 1968
1. The president didn't run
2. It was the topic of debates
Winner of the Presidential Election in 1968
Richard Nixon
No part in the Presidential election in 1968; Us Commander in Vietnam
William Westmoreland
Decided not to run for re-election (Presidential election of 1968)
Lyndon Johnson
Presidential election of 1968 - died just before winning the nomination of his party
Robert Kennedy
Who was the president during Cuban Missile Crisis
JKF
Who was the president during Arab Oil Embargo
...
Who was the president during Watergate
Nixon
Which president was The Peanut Man
Carter
Who was the president during Bay of Pigs
JFK
Who was the president that visited China while being president
Nixon
Who was the president on 11/22/63
JFK
Who was the president that pardoned Nixon
Ford
Who was the president during the 1964 Civil Rights Bill
LBJ
Who was the president that released the hostages of the Arab terroists
Reagan
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