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History of the United States
Find questions about the important events of the United States of America from the US Civil War to US Presidents.
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What factors prompted the large scale migration of English men and women to America?
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The factors that prompted the migration of engilsh men and women to America were mostly economic and religious.The puritain wanted to practice their religion in peace without government interference. Most people came because it meant they could own their own land and take advantage of natural resources They could make a lot of money in ways they couldn't in england
What events happened in 2005?
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January 2005
Thursday 06:
Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
Sunday 09:
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat.
Wednesday 12:
Deep Impact (space mission) launches from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.
Wednesday 26:
A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
Sunday 30:
Amid violence and threats to boycott the results, Iraq holds an election for its National Assembly, the country's first free election since 1953.
February 2005
Thursday 10:
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction: North Korea suspends participation in multi-nation talks to discuss its arms program and officially admits to developing nuclear weapons.
Wednesday 16:
The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.
Friday 18:
The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
Sunday 20:
Jeff Gordon wins his third Daytona 500.
Tuesday 22:
Milford, Connecticut's Mayor James Richetelli Jr. named February 22nd, 2005 as Christy Carlson Romano Day. She also received the "Connecticut's Finest Citizen Award" the same day.
March 2005
Thursday 10:
In Edmonton, Alberta, the largest memorial (of its kind) in Canadian history was held for four RCMP constables who were gunned down March 3, 2005.
Saturday 12:
Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
Monday 14:
The online statistics service SOTKAnet is opened for the public in Finland.
Friday 18:
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a nationwide debate about her.
Tuesday 22:
Pat Summitt, coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols (women's College Basketball), becomes the all-time leader in victories for both men's and women's college basketball, getting her 880th win as coach of the team.
April 2005
Saturday 16:
BBC announces David Tennant's casting as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running science-fiction series, Doctor Who
Friday 22:
Mordechai Vanunu installed as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.
Sunday 24:
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Tuesday 26:
Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
Thursday 28:
The Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.
May 2005
Sunday 08:
The new Canadian War Museum opens, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day.
Friday 13:
The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
Saturday 14:
Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City. They celebrate the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
Saturday 21:
In Kiev, Ukraine, Greece wins the fiftieth Eurovision Song Contest with "My Number One" performed by Elena Paparizou.
Tuesday 31:
W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair published today that he is the anonymous source Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal. The Washington Post would confirm this on June 1st. Felt was at the time (1972) the number two man at the FBI.
June 2005
Thursday 02:
Sun Microsystems announces it will purchase Storage Technology Corporation for US$4.1 billion.
Saturday 04:
First day of Einstein Symposium in Alexandria, Egypt.
Monday 13:
Michael Jackson found not guilty on all 10 counts during his child molestation trial.
Tuesday 14:
Asafa Powell from Jamaica sets a new world record on the 100 m sprint in Athens with 9.77 seconds.
Thursday 23:
The IWW Centennial in Chicago, Illinois
July 2005
Thursday 07:
Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network and on a London Bus.
Tuesday 12:
Prince Albert II is enthroned as ruler of the Principality of Monaco.
Wednesday 20:
Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 received its Royal Assent. See Same-sex marriage in Canada
Sunday 24:
Lance Armstrong wins his seventh Tour de France.
Wednesday 27:
STS-114: NASA makes the decision to ground the Space shuttle pending an investigation of the external tank's continued foam shed problem. During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery shed a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; this foam did not strike the spacecraft.
August 2005
Friday 12:
Civil unrest provoked in the Maldives
Sunday 14:
Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes north of Athens, killing the 121 on board.
Sunday 21:
Pope Benedict XVI concludes World Youth Day with a mass. Over 800,000 people attended the closing liturgy.
Friday 26:
Fiji's High Court rules that the island's sodomy law is unconstitutional.
Monday 29:
Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing thousands and costing over 100 billion dollars in damage.
September 2005
Wednesday 07:
Apple Computer announced iTunes 5.
Tuesday 20:
The Opera Web Browser is rereleased as freeware.
Saturday 24:
Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and Houston, Texas.
Sunday 25:
Fernando Alonso wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 3rd in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Monday 26:
The shock elimination of favoured to win, Teresa Bergman, on New Zealand Idol.
October 2005
Saturday 01:
Another bombing happens in Bali, almost three years to the anniversary of a similar event which occurred in 2002.
Sunday 02:
The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty-one people.
Thursday 13:
The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 is scheduled to carry two astronauts for five days in orbit.
Tuesday 18:
The Nameless Novel aka Book The Twelfth of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is released to the public.
Saturday 29:
2005-Animusic 2 will be released.
November 2005
Tuesday 15:
DVD release of huge-hit television serial Friends. The One with All Ten Seasons
Tuesday 22:
Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is due to debut in North America.
December 2005
Friday 02:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Europe.
Saturday 10:
Microsoft releases its Xbox 360 video game console in Japan.
Who founded NAACP?
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The founders of the NAACP are W.E.D Du Bois, Mary White Ovington.
W.E.B DuBois
What is the purpose of federalism?
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Federal taxes are used to fund public projects for the benefit of the people. They are used for infrastructure and to provide public programs such as programs for the poor or disabled.
Thomas Paine's common sense?
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Thomas Paine did write Common Sense. It was first published on January 10th, 1776.
Are there more white or red stripes on the flag?
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There are more red.
There are 7 red stripes and 6 white stripes. There are red stripes at the top and bottom of the flag, with seven stripes (6/10 as wide as the flag) next to the blue field and six full-width stripes below, so that the stripe under the blue union field is white.
Explain the process by which a territory became a state?
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The process by which the United States territories attain full statehood is, at best, an inexact art.
What is an elevated boundary between areas that are drained by different river system?
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It's called a divide.
What is an example of a counterculture?
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To name a few: Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Brotherhood, and Elvis Presley's music
Who were puritans?
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The Puritans wanted to purify the Roman Catholic religion. " They believed that man existed for the glory of God, that his first concern in life was to do God's will and so to receive future happiness. They believed that Jesus Christ was the center of public and personal affairs, and was to be exalted above all other names." according to The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Morison.
What happened at the Battle of Bull Run?
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The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28-30, 1862,[1] as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive campaign waged by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia againstUnion Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run(First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground.
Lee had sent Jackson's Corps on independent duty in the area, and Pope sought to end the threat of Jackson's raids. Trapping (he thought) Jackson's men in an abandondoned railroad cut, he sent wave after wave against Jackson's troops, and was repelled each time.
Jackson was running low on ammo, and some men resorted to throwing rocks at the attackers. At the peak of the battle, when it appeared that Pope's superior numbers would finally overwhelm Jackson, Lee sent James Longstreet's Corps in on an attack on Pope's flank. Longstreet hit Pope like a thunderbolt, and the Yankees fled the field.
This battle further added to the aura of Lee's invincibility.
What is centralized government?
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A centralized government is governed by a supreme political authority that has sovereignty over all other governing bodies.
What were the problems with the Articles of Confederation?
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1) Under the Articles there was only a unicameral legislature so that there was no separation of powers.
2) The central government under the Articles was too weak since the majority of the power rested with the states.
3) Congress, under the Articles, did not have the power to tax which meant that they could never put their finances in order.
4) In order to change or amend the Articles, unanimous approval of the states was required which essentially meant that changes to the Articles were impossible.
5) For any major laws to pass they had to be approved by 9 or the 13 states which proved difficult to do so that even the normal business of running a government was difficult.
6) Under the Articles, Congress did not have the power to regulate commerce which will cause competition between states as well as diplomatic issues
Role of government during the great deppression?
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to help keep the money circulating in the great deppression
How did the Iran hostage crisis affect American opinion of their president?
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The lack of resolution to the Iran Hostage Crisis caused the downfall of the Carter presidency. It lead the way for a landslide victory by Ronald Reagan.
When did the construction of the white house begin?
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Hey there! Great question. The construction of the White House began all the way back in 1792. It was during the presidency of George Washington, our first President, that the decision was made to build a new official residence for the Commander-in-Chief. They chose a spot along the Potomac River, which is now Washington, D.C., to build this iconic structure.
Now, here's a fun tidbit for you. The White House wasn't always called the White House. It was originally referred to as the "President's House" or "Executive Mansion." It wasn't until after it was rebuilt following the War of 1812 when British forces burned it down, that it got its distinctive white color, which is how it got the name we know today. So, in a way, the White House's history is not just about its construction but also its transformation over the years. It's not just a symbol of American leadership, but a symbol of resilience too!
What lasting effect did Charles R Drew have on the lives of others?
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Charles Drew helped expand the knowledge of blood banking.
