Final 150 Part 2

Question 1

Election of 1800

Answer 1

John Adams vs Thomas Jefferson, the election was decided by the House of Representatives

Question 2

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 2

France sells this territory to the US for 15 million, doubled the size of the United States, federalists threatened to secede from the Union over the Purchase

Question 3

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Answer 3

Both men led an expedition to explore the Louisiana purchase land and western territory, followed Missouri River towards the Pacific

Question 4

Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

Answer 4

The British impressed the US citizens, the US ship was intercepted by a British vessel demanding to search for dissenters

Question 5

War Hawks from the War of 1812

Answer 5

Henry Clay and John C Calhoun were two War hawks that helped during the War of 1812

Question 6

War of 1812 – DC burned, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans

Answer 6

The impressment and attack of the Chesapeake led to the beginning of the War of 1812, During this D.C. Was burned but Dolley Madison took a painting of George Washington, At Fort McHenry, a famous battle, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner, Battle at New Orleans took place after the peace treaty was signed Andrew Jackson becomes war hero

Question 7

The Star Spangled Banner

Answer 7

Written by Francis Scott Key inspired by the War of 1812

Question 8

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 8

The Western Hemisphere was no longer able to be colonized, put in place due to many Latin American nations gaining independence from Spain at this time

Question 9

Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

Answer 9

Citizens from Ireland wanted to leave there because people were dying from a massive potato famine and so many migrated to America

Question 10

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

Answer 10

The first major women’s conference referring to suffrage for women. Elizabeth Candy Stanton led this convention with Lucretia Mott who helped women’s suffrage as well

Question 11

Industrial Revolution

Answer 11

The change from an agrarian society to one based on industry

Question 12

Capitalism

Answer 12

Individuals put their capital into a business hoping to make profit

Question 13

Free Enterprise System

Answer 13

People are free to buy, sell, and produce what they want and can work they wish

Question 14

Supply and Demand

Answer 14

Supply how much you have of a product and the demand is how much you want there is for a certain product. The higher the demand there is for a certain material the larger supply is needed.

Question 15

Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

Answer 15

Cotton because there was a high demand for textiles at the time and this is why more slaves were needed

Question 16

Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin – what it did and why that was important

Answer 16

It created a way to pluck the seeds from the cotton plant and distribute the cotton more efficiently. Helped the production of cotton to fasten but created a higher demand for textiles which means more cotton which means more slaves

Question 17

Urban vs Rural

Answer 17

Urban is city and rural is country

Question 18

Wilderness Road

Answer 18

Created in 1775- route from Kentucky from the Atlantic coast

Question 19

Daniel Boone

Answer 19

He and 30 other skilled foresters blazed the trail that eventually became Wilderness Road. This made him along hunter(an American wilderness explorer for at least 6 months at a time)

Question 20

Cumberland Gap

Answer 20

In the mountains allowed for a path to be created that made passing through the Appalachian Mountains easier

Question 21

The Corrupt Bargain

Answer 21

Speaker of the house, Henry Clay, meets with Adams and agrees to use his influences to help Adams get the vote in the House of Representatives

Question 22

Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

Answer 22

Wins the Election of 1828 to become the 7th president,spoils system-the practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidates supporters,

Question 23

Indian Removal Act

Answer 23

1830- act passed by Congress to relocate Native Americans, Mostly in Oklahoma

Question 24

Trail of Tears

Answer 24

The relocation of Cherokee and other Native Americans from Georgia and other southern states to Oklahoma

Question 25

Sequoyah

Answer 25

A Cherokee leader know for creating the Cherokee language

Question 26

William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

Answer 26

Lasted 32 days, gave inaugural speech that lasted over 2 hours, dies of Pneumonia shortly after presidency starts

Question 27

Manifest Destiny

Answer 27

The theory that God gave America to the settlers to expand, Expansion of the border westward

Question 28

Texas Rebellion

Answer 28

Stephen F Austin recruited 300 American families to help him settle land in Mexico The battle of the Alamo then began

Question 29

The Alamo – battle significance

Answer 29

Davy Crockett fought here, Santa Anna’s Mexico vs. Travis’s Texans, the Texans lost but bought them time to join together to fight, Sam Houston became commander in chief of the Texas force

Question 30

Davy Crockett

Answer 30

Became major aspect of the Battle of the Alamo, who was a back woodsman from Tennessee who volunteered to fight here

Question 31

Oregon Trail

Answer 31

This was used by settlers migrating to the Pacific Northwest

5-6 month trip

Question 32

James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

Answer 32

He fulfilled Manifest Destiny

Question 33

Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

Answer 33

US believed the Texas border was the Rio Grande, Mexico believed it was the Nueces River, Mexican troops attack Zachary Taylor and his troops in the disputed area causing this war, Mexico lost half of its territory and was ended by he Treaty of Guadalupa Hildalgo

Question 34

John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

Answer 34

1st to discover gold nugget on his property. This began the Gold Rush of California that more than doubled the world’s supply of gold

Question 35

Brigham Young

Answer 35

Brigham Young led the migration of mormons to the Great Salt Lake area

Question 36

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

Answer 36

Helped preserve the balance between the North and the South

Question 37

John Brown

Answer 37

Violent abolitionist who thought that God had chosen him to end the chaos between the North and South

Question 38

Harriet Tubman

Answer 38

A famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, she expressed an unselfish concern for the welfare of others

Question 39

Underground Railroad

Answer 39

A network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people

Question 40

Frederick Douglass

Answer 40

Most well known abolitionist, he escaped slavery in 1838, worked hard to become a powerful speaker

Question 41

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 41

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel that explored the issue of slavery

Question 42

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 42

Required all citizens to help locate runaway slaves in 1850, anyone who aided a fugitive slave could be fined or imprisoned, caused more anger in the North

Question 43

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 43

Increased the amount of territory open to slaveholding in the US

Question 44

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 44

Kansas became the first territory to shed blood in a Civil War over slavery

Question 45

Sumner-Brooks Incident

Answer 45

Senator Charles Sumner lashed out against those for slavery including Andrew Butler, Butler’s cousin Preston Brooks walked into the Senate and hit Sumner with a cane

Question 46

Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Answer 46

John Brown led 18 men on a raid to attack a weapon storage facility, he hoped to steal weapons give them to slaves slaves return to plantations plow them down and kill all slavery, Brown FAILED he was executed

Question 47

Dred Scott v Sandford

Answer 47

Dred Scott v Stanford a slave vs his owner
Scott felt he should be free because he was born in free land and then taken to slave area, Court ruled Scott was steal slave and stated that the constitution protected slavery

Question 48

Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

Answer 48

Senate race in Illinois that became the center of national attention, Lincoln gave a speech mainly about slavery that quoted, “I believe that this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free, a house divided against itself cannot stand”

Question 49

Election of 1860

Answer 49

Lincoln becomes the 16th President first republican president, Lincoln promised not to disturb slavery where it already existed but many in the South didn’t trust his word

Question 50

Causes of the Civil War

Answer 50

Attack on Fort Sumter, Lincolns presidency, issue of slavery against states rights, North vs South

Question 51

Fort Sumter

Answer 51

Confederate guns opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, this marked the beginning of the Civil War

Question 52

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 52

The leader of the Union army became the 18th President

Question 53

Robert E. Lee

Answer 53

Leader and chief of the Confederate army

Question 54

Stonewall Jackson

Answer 54

Considered one of the most gifted and tactical commanders in US history

Question 55

First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 55

The confederates let out a loud yell that terrified the Northern soldiers and caused them to flee but the South was too disorganized to continue on

Question 56

Anaconda Plan

Answer 56

A military plan that surrounds the victim and attacks, Specifically the Union war plan to defeat the South by dividing them

Question 57

54th Massachusetts

Answer 57

Group of African Americans who were well known regiments in the War

Question 58

The Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 58

The Union forces were greatly outnumbered and are forced to retreat, after the two days of unsuccessful assaults Lee plans an attack

Question 59

The Battle of Vicksburg

Answer 59

This and Gettysburg are considered the turning points of the war because they were Union victories allowing them to take control

Question 60

Shermans march to sea

Answer 60

General William Tecumseh Sherman led the western army towards Atlanta, they burnt Atlanta and marched towards Savannah afterward

Question 61

Lee Surrendering to Grant

Answer 61

Lee and his troops surrender to Grant in Appomattox VA on April 9 1865

Question 62

13th Amendment

Answer 62

Abolished Slavery in 1865

Question 63

14th Amendment

Answer 63

Gave full citizenship to anyone born in the US including African Americans in1866

Question 64

15th Amendment

Answer 64

Gave AA men the right to vote

Question 65

Lincoln Assassination – theater name, murderer, place of death

Answer 65

In Fords theater by John Wilkes Booth, died at the Peterson House across the street from the theater on 10th street

Question 66

10 Percent Plan and Radical Republican Plans for Reconstruction

Answer 66

Lincoln tried to forgive the South with this 10% plan, radical republicans want a harsh readmission process

Question 67

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 67

Agency that helped African Americans make the transition easier

Question 68

Segregation

Answer 68

The major separation of the races

Question 69

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 69

Laws that separated the races in almost every public place

Question 70

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 70

The largest anti-African American terrorist organization in the South