FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WGU

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT WGU

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-Guarantee passing score -531 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Located in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. Built large ceremonial mounds and predated the larger collective Mississippian culture

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Adena and Hopewell Question 2: December 7th 1941 - Japanese war planes attacked US naval forces at in Hawaii.Sinking ships and killing 2400. Marks the US entrance into WWII

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Pearl Harbor Question 3: 1793- Eli Whitney- revolutionized the southern economy. Fifty-times as much cotton in a day as someone working by hand. Whitney later became one of the first American industrialists to use the idea of interchangeable parts.

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Cotton Gin

Question 4: Fervent abolitionist, he led raided Harpers Ferry and tried to free slaves to fight for his cause. He was executed for treason.

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John Brown Question 5: American Newspaper magnate. Owner of the New York Journal he warred in the press with Pulitzer. His power and influence through his newspapers and magazines helped push the US into the Spanish American War.

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William Randolph Hearst Question 6: Sixteenth-century religious movement to reform and challenge the spiritual authority of the Roman Catholic Church, associated with figures such as Martin Luther and John Calvin.

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Protestant Reformation

Question 7: 1971- Lowered the voting age to 18

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26th Amendment Question 8: required Congress to give its war-making power to the president. It stated that the US would use armed forces upon request in response to aggression to the US. Furthermore, countries that took stances opposed to Communism were given aid.

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Eisenhower Doctrine

Question 9: 37th President- 1969 -1974- Watergate

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Richard Nixon

Question 10: June 6th 1944 - Landing and invasion at the Beaches of Normandy.

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Battle of D-Day

Question 11: 32nd President- 1933 -1945- the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.

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Franklin

• Roosevelt

Question 12: 1848 - Treaty ending the Mexican-American war. Mexico relinquished claims to Texas, established the Rio Grande as the USE/Mexico border, and ceded California for $15million. The US would assume American citizens claims against Mexico.

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Question 13: The gradual shift fron hunting and gathering to cultivating basic food crops that occurred worldwide from 7000 to 9000 years ago.

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Agricultural Revolution Question 14: 1862 - Legislation granting 150 acres to anyone who paid the $10 fee and pledged to live and cultivate the land for 5 years

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The Homestead Act Question 15: declared U.S. opposition to European interference in the Americas, as well as breaking all ties with France remaining from the War of 1812.

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Monroe Doctrine Question 16: a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific American author. He gained particular fame for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle, which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. Contributed to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

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Upton Sinclair Question 17: A grab bag of duties placed on American imports of paper, glass, paint, and tea.Created by Charles Townshend.

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Townsend Duties

Question 18: The Roosevelt Corollary stated that the US had the right to enforce an "international police power" over the Western Hemisphere and that other countries did not have the authority to referencing Europe and Latin America in the 1900's.

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"Big Stick" Diplomacy

Question 19: Freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and protest

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1st Amendment (BOR) Question 20: the term used to symbolize a migrant who left the South, Midwest, and sometimes, Southeast United States to settle in masses to restart their lives in the region's agriculture and manufacturing industries.

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"Okies" Question 21: 1957 - 1975 Competition of space exploration between the US and the Soviet Union. Satellites, humans into space, land on the moon.

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Space Race Question 22: a high-altitude grassland plant community located in an alpine climate, above the tree line of a mountain.

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Alpine meadow Question 23: (General) commanded the combined U.S. and British forces. Became the first Supreme Commander of NATO

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Dwight D Eisenhower Question 24: the equation of personal happiness with consumption and the purchase of material possessions.

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Consumerism