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SOL Places Review
A SOL review of Places for United States History
| Description | Place |
|---|---|
| first permanent English setlement in the New World; 1607 | Jamestown |
| held town meetings (direct democracy); relied on fishing, shipbuilding, small-scale farming; very religious; consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticutt | New England colonies |
| nicknamed the "breadbasket" for growing crops such as wheat and corn; consisted of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland; religious tolerance | Middle Atlantic colonies |
| agrarian (farming) lifestyle; large plantations; slavery; cash crops of tobacco, rice and indigo (purple dye); consisted of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia | Southern colonies |
| Middle colonial cities that developed as seaports | New York, Philadelphia,and Baltimore |
| where the Quakers settled | Pennsylvania |
| where a large amount of Catholics settled | Maryland |
| Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settled west of this geographical feature | Appalachian Mountains |
| the French had to give up land in this area after losing the French and Indian War | Canada and all lands west of the Appalchian Mts |
| New England colony founded by people who didn't agree with the Puritan church and fled Massachusetts | Rhode Island |
| Americans immigrating to this place eventually caused the Mexican War | Texas |
| War of 1812 resulted in Americans to claim this region | Oregon Territory |
| Where the Native American Indians were sent to in the "Trail of Tears" | Oklahoma |
| states acquired as a result of the Mexican American War | Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California |
| entered into the Union as a free state because of the Compromise of 1850 | California |
| these two territories were allowed to chose whether they would enter the Union as slave or free | Kansas and Nebraska |
| entered the Union as a free state because of the Missouri Compromise | Maine |
| beginning place of the Civil War | Fort Sumter |
| where the largest battle of the Civil War took place; marked a turning point in the war--in favor of the North | Gettysburg |
| where the South surrendered to the North | Appomattox Court House |
| Prior to 1871, most immigrants came to America from this region | Northern and western Europe |
| Between 1871 and 1920, most immigrants came to American from this region | southern and eastern Europe |
| where most people entered the US; it is in NYC | Ellis Island |
| first subway system began here at the beginning of the 20th century | New York City |
| the "Great Migration" resulted in many African-Americans moving to these places | Northern cities |
| these 2 areas were annexed to the US following the Spanish American War | Puerto Rico and Phillipines |
| Theodore Roosevelt supported Panama's independence from this country | Columbia |
| Open Door Policy opened trade with this country | China |
| this country helped us win the American Revolution | France |
| where the British surrendered to the American colonists | Yorktown |
| where slavery was outlawed prior to the Civil War | North |
| where slavery existed prior to the Civil War | South |
| Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free all the slaves; it only freed slaves living in the _______________. Thus, allowing slavery to continue in Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia (The border states) | Confederacy |
| two states not part of the Continental US | Hawaii and Alaska |
| built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans | Panama Canal |
| three countries of the Central Powers | Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Ottoman Empire |
| the Zimmerman Note was sent from a German diplomat to this country | Mexico |
| The area the Zimmerman Note offered to Mexico if it joined Germany's side in WWI. | Mexican Secession |
| Their unrestricted submarine warfare resulted in the US entering WWI | Germany |
| WWII began with Hitler's invasion of ______________. | Poland |
| Hitler invaded this country, causing it to join the Allies | Soviet Union |
| Germany quickly conquered this Allied Country which wasn't freed until the Normandy Invasion (D-Day) | France |
| The US aided Britain during WWII in exchange for military bases in these two areas | Bermuda and the Caribbean |
| The US imposed an embargo of oil to this country at the beginning of WWII | Japan |
| Place attacked by the Japanese which resulted in the US entering WWII | Pearl Harbor |
| The WWII battle of El Alamein was fought between Germany and Britain over this strategic waterway | Suez Canal |
| WWII siege in the Soviet Union. | Stalingrad |
| WWII battle in the Pacific that turned the tide of the war in favor of the US in the Pacific | Midway |
| The Normandy Invasion or D-Day freed this country from Germany's control | France |
| the US acquired these two islands from the Japanese; but, there were so many US soldiers killed that Truman later decides not to invade Japan--he drops the atomic bomb instead | Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
| two Japanese cities the US dropped atomic bombs on to end WWII | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| European country divided after WWII | Germany |
| democratic side of Germany during the Cold War | West Germany |
| communist side of Germany during the Cold War | East Germany |
| the Marshall Plan rebuilt this area of Europe | Western Europe |
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