Final 150 Part 2

Question 1

Election of 1800

Answer 1

First election decided by the House of Representatives. (John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson)

Question 2

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 2

15 million

Question 3

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Answer 3

Missouri to organ coast. Traveling out west

Question 4

Impressment and the attack of the Chesapeake

Answer 4

One of the main causes of the war of 1812

Question 5

War Hawks from the War of 1812

Answer 5

People that pushed for war with GB

Question 6

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

Answer 6

All major events in the war of 1812

Question 7

The Star Spangled Banner

Answer 7

Wrote during the battle of fort McHenery

Question 8

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 8

The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823.

Question 9

Irish Potato Famine’s relationship to Immigration

Answer 9

Made the Irish come to the us

Question 10

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s convention

Answer 10

Helping women’s suffrage

Question 11

Industrial Revolution

Answer 11

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes

Question 12

Capitalism

Answer 12

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Question 13

Free Enterprise System

Answer 13

a government places very few restrictions on the types of business activities or ownership in which citizens participate

Question 14

Supply and Demand

Answer 14

Drives cost up and down

Question 15

Number One Crop in the South in the 1800’s

Answer 15

Tobacco

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Made cotton way easier to pick

Question 17

Urban vs Rural

Answer 17

Urban=city rural=country

Question 18

Wilderness Road

Answer 18

Easier passage to the west

Question 19

Daniel Boone

Answer 19

Daniel Boone was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman,

Question 20

Cumberland Gap

Answer 20

Passage through the Appalachian mountains

Question 21

The Corrupt Bargain

Answer 21

To the surprise of many, the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. It was widely believed that Clay, the Speaker of the House at the time, convinced Congress to elect Adams, who then made Clay his Secretary of State. Jackson’s supporters denounced this as a “corrupt bargain.”

Question 22

Andrew Jackson – spoils system, fight with the bank

Answer 22

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Question 23

Indian Removal Act

Answer 23

Took all Indians out of lands the us wanted

Question 24

Trail of Tears

Answer 24

Trail that the Indians took to Oklahoma

Question 25

Sequoyah

Answer 25

Cherokee language

Question 26

William Henry Harrison’s Presidency

Answer 26

Shortest term served by a president

Question 27

Manifest Destiny

Answer 27

Belief that the US should stretch from Atlantic to pacific

Question 28

Texas Rebellion

Answer 28

The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico

Question 29

The Alamo – battle significance

Answer 29

Gave the rest of the army time to regroup and win the rest of the war

Question 30

Davy Crockett

Answer 30

frontiersman, soldier, and politician

Question 31

Oregon Trail

Answer 31

The Oregon Trail is a 2,170-mile historic East–West, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon

Question 32

James K Polk – President that fulfilled what?

Answer 32

Grew the country by 1/2

Question 33

Mexican War – Border dispute, Mexican Cession

Answer 33

Fight over we're the border of Texas should be

Question 34

John Sutter and the California Gold Rush

Answer 34

Gold was found in California and everyone went to California to mine for it

Question 35

Brigham Young

Answer 35

American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

Question 36

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

Answer 36

Helped decide what states could have slaves or not

Question 37

John Brown

Answer 37

John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

Question 38

Harriet Tubman

Answer 38

Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends

Question 39

Underground Railroad

Answer 39

Way of freeing slaves to the north

Question 40

Frederick Douglass

Answer 40

Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

Question 41

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 41

is an anti-slavery novel

Question 42

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 42

Tracking of runaway slaves

Question 43

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 43

allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

Question 44

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 44

was a series of violent confrontations in the United States

Question 45

Sumner-Brooks Incident

Answer 45

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Question 46

Raid on Harper’s Ferry

Answer 46

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

Question 47

Dred Scott v Sandford

Answer 47

Dred Scott sued because he was taken to a free so that made him free. He lost the case

Question 48

Lincoln-Douglass debates – House Divided Speech

Answer 48

The debates were about slavery

Question 49

Election of 1860

Answer 49

Lincoln vs Douglass

Question 50

Causes of the Civil War

Answer 50

States rights over slavery

Question 51

Fort Sumter

Answer 51

site of the first shots fired in the American Civil War.

Question 52

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 52

United States Army general during the American Civil War

Question 53

Robert E. Lee

Answer 53

commander of the Confederate States Army.