Question 1

Transcontinental Railroad

Accepted Answer

The railway system that connected the western and eastern coasts of the United States, completed in 1869.

Question 2

Assimilation Policy

Accepted Answer

The U.S. government's policy towards Native Americans aiming to assimilate them into Euro-American culture.

Question 3

Dust Bowl

Accepted Answer

A period of severe dust storms in the 1930s that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies.

Question 4

St. Lawrence Seaway

Accepted Answer

A system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that allows ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Question 5

Nonrenewable Resources

Accepted Answer

Resources that cannot be replaced once they are used, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.

Question 6

Renewable Resources

Accepted Answer

Resources that can be replaced naturally and reused, such as wind, solar energy, and timber.

Question 7

Dakota Access Pipeline

Accepted Answer

An oil pipeline in the United States, starting in the Bakken shale oil fields in northwest North Dakota and extending southeast to an oil terminal near Patoka, Illinois.

Question 8

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Accepted Answer

An expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804 to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

Question 9

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

Accepted Answer

Agreement between the U.S. and the Lakota Nation guaranteeing the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

Question 10

Homestead Act

Accepted Answer

An 1862 law that offered 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government.

Question 11

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Accepted Answer

A work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression.

Question 12

The Public Works Administration (PWA)

Accepted Answer

A large-scale public works construction agency in the U.S. part of the New Deal of 1933.

Question 13

Sheyenne River

Accepted Answer

A major tributary to the Red River, running through eastern North Dakota.

Question 14

International Peace Garden

Accepted Answer

A park located on the international border between Canada and the United States, in the state of North Dakota and the province of Manitoba.

Question 15

Proportional Representation

Accepted Answer

A voting system in which parties gain seats in proportion to the number of votes cast for them.

Question 16

Separation of Powers

Accepted Answer

The division of government responsibilities into distinct branches to limit any one branch from exercising the core functions of another.

Question 17

Manifest Destiny

Accepted Answer

The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the U.S. across the continent was justified and inevitable.

Question 18

Habeas Corpus

Accepted Answer

A legal action that requires a person who has been arrested or imprisoned to be brought to a judge or into court.

Question 19

Vertical Integration

Accepted Answer

An arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is owned by that company, often to ensure control over the quality and delivery of products.

Question 20

Lignite

Accepted Answer

A soft brownish coal showing traces of plant structure, intermediate between bituminous coal and peat.

Question 21

Great Plains

Accepted Answer

A broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, located in the central part of North America.

Question 22

Lake Sakakawea

Accepted Answer

A reservoir in the Missouri River basin in central North Dakota, named for the Shoshone-Hidatsa woman Sakakawea.

Question 23

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Accepted Answer

A United States National Park comprising three geographically separated areas of badlands in western North Dakota.

Question 24

Progressive Era

Accepted Answer

A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Question 25

Wounded Knee Massacre

Accepted Answer

A conflict on December 29, 1890, between U.S. Army soldiers and Lakota Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

Question 26

Conservation Tillage

Accepted Answer

An agricultural practice that helps reduce erosion by leaving a certain amount of crop residue on the field before and after planting.

Question 27

Compromise of 1850

Accepted Answer

A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states.

Question 28

The National Reclamation Act (1902)

Accepted Answer

A United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.

Question 29

Temperance Movement

Accepted Answer

A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Question 30

The Spanish-American War

Accepted Answer

An 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.

Question 31

Non-Partisan League

Accepted Answer

A political organization founded in 1915 in the United States to fight for the interests of farmers and laborers.

Question 32

National Industrial Recovery Act

Accepted Answer

A US law passed during the Great Depression that authorized the President to regulate industry and permit cartels and monopolies.

Question 33

Social Security Act

Accepted Answer

An act passed in 1935 that created the Social Security system in the United States.

Question 34

Works Progress Administration

Accepted Answer

A New Deal agency employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

Question 35

Populist Movement

Accepted Answer

A revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties.

Question 36

Triangle Trade

Accepted Answer

A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

Question 37

Electoral College

Accepted Answer

The process by which the president and vice president of the United States are elected, using electors selected by each state and the District of Columbia.

Question 38

Interstate Commerce Act

Accepted Answer

A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.

Question 39

The First Amendment

Accepted Answer

Part of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits any law limiting freedom with respect to religion, expression, assembly, or the right to petition.

Question 40

The Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

An executive order by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that declared slaves in Confederate territory to be free.

Question 41

The Marbury vs. Madison Case

Accepted Answer

A U.S. Supreme Court case in 1803 that established the principle of judicial review in the United States.

Question 42

Scopes Trial

Accepted Answer

A 1925 trial in which a substitute high school teacher, accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

Question 43

Red Scare

Accepted Answer

The fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents.

Question 44

The Bill of Rights

Accepted Answer

The first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, protecting individual rights and liberties.

Question 45

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Accepted Answer

An intergovernmental military alliance between North American and European countries.

Question 46

Isolationism

Accepted Answer

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 47

Monroe Doctrine

Accepted Answer

A U.S. policy opposing European interference in the Americas, announced in 1823.

Question 48

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Accepted Answer

A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

Question 49

The Marshall Plan

Accepted Answer

An American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe, aiming to rebuild the economies after the end of World War II.

Question 50

The Bretton Woods Agreement

Accepted Answer

A system of monetary management establishing the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states in the mid-20th century.

Question 51

The Vietnam War

Accepted Answer

A long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

Question 52

The Korean War

Accepted Answer

A conflict between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the USA) from 1950 to 1953.

Question 53

The Gulf War

Accepted Answer

A conflict waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

Question 54

Civil Rights Movement

Accepted Answer

A struggle for social justice during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.

Question 55

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)

Accepted Answer

An agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America.

Question 56

NATO Expansion

Accepted Answer

The process of including new member states in NATO.

Question 57

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Accepted Answer

The tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 which symbolized the end of the Cold War.

Question 58

The European Union

Accepted Answer

A political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.

Question 59

The United Nations

Accepted Answer

An international organization founded in 1945 aimed at promoting peace, security, and cooperation among member nations.

Question 60

The Green Revolution

Accepted Answer

A set of research technology transfer initiatives occurring in the late 1960s, which increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world.

Question 61

Globalization

Accepted Answer

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 62

The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

Accepted Answer

A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

Question 63

The War on Terror

Accepted Answer

An international military campaign launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks.

Question 64

Internet and Digital Age

Accepted Answer

The period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry to an economy based on the information computerization.

Advanced Concepts for North Dakota NDSA: A Comprehensive Review