1800s US History

Question 1

What was the Indian Territory?

Answer 1

Established in 1830, land in modern day Oklahoma where Congress plan to move Native Americans.

Question 2

What is the definition of impressment?

Answer 2

The taking by force of military or naval soldiers; forced recruitment. The British manned many ships with the “pressed” men taken from American sailors.

Question 3

What is Gilded Age?

Answer 3

A term coined by Mark Twain describing 19th century America meaning that it looked good on the surface but was filled with conflict and trouble.

Question 4

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 4

A terrorist white supremacist hate group created during Reconstruction to prevent African-Americans from gaining political power that would go on to attack immigrants and Catholics.

Question 5

Was John Deere?

Answer 5

He designed a steel plow in 1837.

Question 6

What was Worcester vs. Georgia?

Answer 6

A ruling by the Supreme Court in 1832 that said the Cherokee nation was a distinct community.

Question 7

What was USS Maine?

Answer 7

A battle ship that was sunk in the port of Havana; the US blamed the Spanish and declared war.

Question 8

What is American Imperialism?

Answer 8

The desire to extend America’s political, economic, and cultural influence beyond the boundaries of the US.

Question 9

What was the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?

Answer 9

The sweeping social, economic, political reforms passed by Republicans in Congress.

Question 10

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

Answer 10

He was the 16th President of the United States. He was president during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 11

What are Nativist?

Answer 11

Americans who opposed immigration.

Question 12

What was the Taft-Hartley Act?

Answer 12

Restricted many powers and activities of labor unions; also called the labor-management relations act of 1947.

Question 13

What was Captains of Industry?

Answer 13

Men who had profited off of the industries most needed during the war and during the second industrial revolution. (Steel, oil, and the railroad)

Question 14

What was the Women’s Rights Movement?

Answer 14

Focused on women’s right to vote, own property, retain their earnings, and participate in labor organizations.

Question 15

Who was Abby Kelley Foster?

Answer 15

Feminist, abolitionist, and speaker. Worked hard with abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and was a spokesperson for the anti-slavery society and the women’s right movement.

Question 16

Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

Answer 16

Women’s rights advocate; created the Seneca Falls Convention and the declaration of rights and sentiments with the Lucretia Mott.

Question 17

What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?

Answer 17

1896: The Supreme Court ruled in this case that racial segregation for public facilities was constitutional, as long as they were “separate but equal.”

Question 18

Who was Lucy Stone?

Answer 18

Gifted speaker; a spokesperson for the women’s rights movement and the anti-slavery society.

Question 19

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 19

The declaration by President Lincoln that freed slaves in rebelling states.

Question 20

What is National Labor Union?

Answer 20

Created in 1866, its goal was to improve working conditions through legislative reform instead of through negotiations between workers and employers.

Question 21

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 21

Held in New York in 1848, this convention is seen as the first organized step in the women’s suffrage movement.

Question 22

What is an Internal Combustion Engine?

Answer 22

Began to challenge the steam engine and led to the development of petroleum.

Question 23

What is the Wagner Act?

Answer 23

Guaranteed the basic rights of workers to organize into unions, engage in collective bargaining, and strike if necessary; also known as the National Labor Relations act of 1935.

Question 24

What was the Spanish-American War?

Answer 24

Conflict in 1898 that ended the Spanish colonial rule in American territories, also resulted in the US acquiring territories in Latin America and the western Pacific.

Question 25

What was the Pullman Strike?

Answer 25

A nationwide railroad strike organized in 1894 by workers of the Pullman company to protest their treatment.

Question 26

What is Secession?

Answer 26

A formal withdraw from the union.

Question 27

What was the Radical Reconstruction?

Answer 27

Refers to the social, economic, political reforms passed by Republicans in Congress.

Question 28

Who was Susan B. Anthony?

Answer 28

Advocated for women’s rights, specifically suffrage and property rights.

Question 29

What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

Answer 29

Authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.

Question 30

Who was Sarah G Bagley?

Answer 30

Founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association in 1844.

Question 31

Who was Henry Ford?

Answer 31

Engineer who established Ford motor company in Detroit and created the worlds first moving assembly line for cars.

Question 32

What are the Confederate States of America?

Answer 32

An organization formed when South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas seceded from the union. ended after the Civil War.

Question 33

What is Know-Nothing Party?

Answer 33

A political organization which wanted to make it difficult for foreign-born people to become citizens or hold office.

Question 34

What did electricity do for the United States?

Answer 34

Became widely available in the Second Industrial Revolution and increased the number of hours people could work in a day.

Question 35

What is the 14th Amendment?

Answer 35

Declared that all persons born or naturalized in the US would be US citizens and citizens in the state in which they live. Gave all citizens due process.

Question 36

Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

Answer 36

He invented the telephone.

Question 37

What is the 15th Amendment?

Answer 37

Gave the right to vote to every male citizen regardless of race, color, or previous servitude.

Question 38

What is Suffrage/Franchise?

Answer 38

The right to vote in political elections.

Question 39

What is the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments?

Answer 39

Created at the Seneca Falls Convention, detailed social injustices toward women and resolution to fight for, including the the time vote.

Question 40

Who were Lewis and Clark?

Answer 40

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the first Europeans to explore the Louisiana territory.

Question 41

What is Spoils System?

Answer 41

Power held by the president to practice political patronage.

Question 42

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 42

Laws written after Reconstruction that enforced segregation in the South. Restricted the civil rights of black citizens such as voting and educational equalities.

Question 43

What was the Era of Good Feeling?

Answer 43

A period after the War of 1812 during which there was a desire for unity and optimism about the future.

Question 44

What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Answer 44

The treaty signed in 1848 that ended the Mexican-American war, sparked by the Texas Revolution. Gave the US an additional 525,000 mi.² for $15 million.

Question 45

Who was Cyrus McCormick?

Answer 45

Invented the mechanical reaper in 1831.

Question 46

What is the 19th Amendment?

Answer 46

Ratified in 1920, it gave the women the right to vote (known as women’s suffrage).

Question 47

What was Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 47

An agency developed by the War Department in 1865 to assist former slaves with food, housing, education, healthcare, and employment.

Question 48

What was the Civil War?

Answer 48

1861-1865. Fought between the northern and southern states of the US. Causes of the war centered on the issue of slavery and the rights of the states vs. the federal government.

Question 49

Was Sarah Grimke?

Answer 49

Argued for equal educational opportunities an equal pay for women.

Question 50

Who was Robert E Lee?

Answer 50

Commander of the confederate states army during the American Civil War.

Question 51

Who was Robert Fulton?

Answer 51

Invented the steamboat in 1807.