Content Quiz #2

Question 1

1800

Answer 1

• Election of Jefferson; “Revolution of 1800”
• The peaceful transfer of power from the Federalists to the Democratic-Republicans with the election of 1800

Question 2

1815

Answer 2

• End of the War of 1812
• Beginning of “Era of Good Feelings”

Question 3

1828

Answer 3

• Election of Jackson
• Comes after the 1824 “Corrupt Bargain”
• Universal White male suffrage

Question 4

1830

Answer 4

• Antebellum reform movements (women’s rights, education reform, abolition)
• Second Great Awakening

Question 5

1848

Answer 5

• Mexican American War ends; Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
• Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights

Question 6

1861

Answer 6

• Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, SC

Question 7

1865

Answer 7

• End of Civil War
• Assassination of Lincoln
• Beginning of Reconstruction

Question 8

1877

Answer 8

• End of Reconstruction; Compromise of 1877

Question 9

Compromise of 1877

Answer 9

• the agreement between Republicans and Democrats after the contested election of 1876
• Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for withdrawing the last of federal troops from the South

Question 10

Era of Good Feelings

Answer 10

• period between 1815-1828 associated with one-party rule (Democratic-Republicans)
• increased nationalism

Question 11

American System

Answer 11

• the programme of federally sponsored roads & canals, protective tariffs, and a national bank
  
  • govt sponsored infrastructure, protective tariffs, strong natl bank
• advocated by Henry Clay (the Great Compromiser), enacted by President Quincy Adams

Question 12

Nullification

Answer 12

• the theory, advocated in response to the Tariff of 1828, that states could void federal law at their discretion
• built on precedent of VA/KY Resolves in response to Alien & Sedition Acts

Question 13

Free-Soil Party

Answer 13

• a political party that sought to exclude slavery from the Western territories, leaving these areas open for settlement by White farmers
• ensured that White labourers would not have to compete with enslaved labour

Question 14

Antebellum

Answer 14

• a term meaning “before the war”
• used to describe the decades before the American Civil War (1861)

Question 15

Second Great Awakening

Answer 15

• a revival of evangelical Protestantism in the early nineteenth century
• famous sermon: “Sinners Bound to Change Their Own Hearts”, Charles Finney
• led to a series of reform movements

Question 16

Total War

Answer 16

• a stature of war in which the govt makes no distinction between military and civilian targets
• govt mobilises all resources, extending its reach into all areas of citizens’ lives

Question 17

Reconstruction

Answer 17

• 1865: Freedmen’s Bureau, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, Abandoned Lands
  
  • created to ease Black peoples’ transition from slavery to freedom

Question 18

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Answer 18

• 13th: abolished slavery
• 14th: gave birthright citizenship & equal protection to all people born in the US
• 15th: gave Black Americans the right to vote

Question 19

Regional Economic Development (North vs South)

Answer 19

• South: plantation culture
• North: factories (Lowell Mills, MA)

Question 20

Missouri Compromise

Answer 20

• 1820
• allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state
• brought Maine into the Union as a free state
• prohibited slavery N of 36º 30’ latitude

Question 21

Compromise of 1850

Answer 21

• five separate laws passed by Congress in September 1850
• resolved issues stemming form the Mexican Cession & the sectional crisis
• admitted California as a free state
• provided territorial govt from Utah and NM
• established boundary between Texas and USA
• abolished slave trade in DC
• strengthened Fugitive Slave Act

Question 22

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 22

• 30 May 1854
• repealed the Missouri Compromise
• created two new territories; allowed for popular sovereignty in regards to slavery
• result: Bleeding Kansas, violent uprising in Kansas as pro- and anti-slavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote

Question 23

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 23

• 1803
• US purchase of the large territory of Louisiana from France
• doubles the size of the USA

Question 24

Mexican Cession

Answer 24

• lands between West of the Rio Grande ceded to the US by Mexico in 1848
• California, Arizona, NM, Nevada, Utah, parts of Wyoming & Colorado

Question 25

“Indian Territory”

Answer 25

• modern-day Oklahoma
• end point of relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the SE region region of the US
• “five civilized tribes”: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole

Question 26

Erie Canal

Answer 26

• connected Hudson River to Lake Erie & other markets in the West

Question 27

Cumberland Road

Answer 27

• natl highway from Maryland to Illinois

Question 28

Seneca Falls, NY

Answer 28

• location of the first American conference on women’s rights
• signing of the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments”, 1848

Question 29

Harpers Ferry

Answer 29

• site of a federal arsenal in VA
• where radical abolitionist John Brown staged a (failed) effort to end slavery by instigating a mass uprising among enslaved people

Question 30

Fort Sumter

Answer 30

• Charleston, SC
• start of the Civil War

Question 31

Gettysburg & Vicksburg

Answer 31

• PA, MS
• turning points in the war

Question 32

Appomattox

Answer 32

• VA
• end of Civil War; Lee surrenders