FINAL TEST!!!

Question 1

This was a policy of the British government in which trade rules were rarely enforced. This eventually became a cause of the American revolution because it allowed individualism and free land ownership.

Answer 1

Salutary Neglect

Question 2

This was founded by James Oglethorpe as a haven, known as a debtor colony because English prisons were overflowing with debtors. Also known as a buffer colony to keep Spain from expanding north from Florida.

Answer 2

Georgia

Question 3

A short-lived attempt by Richard Henderson and investors to purchase a large chunk of Kentucky and Tennessee(1775, owned by the Cherokee) in order to make a profit in the animal pelt business. The colony ceased to exist when the Virginia General Assembly invalidated the purchase. These events led to the future Watauga Settlements and their petitions to govern themselves independent of British rule.

Answer 3

Transylvania Purchase

Question 4

When the Treaty of Paris was signed Great Britain expected the US to pay back war debt, salutary neglect allowed too much individualism and widespread of land ownership to cause this war. Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first shot of this battle.

Answer 4

Cause of the American Revolution

Question 5

The first governor of Tennessee from 1790 to 1796. He was also one of the first two senators elected from Tennessee in 1796. He served in the revolutionary war and helped negotiate the Treaty of Holston.

Answer 5

William Blount

Question 6

The newer and second version of this law. A white male slave owner only had to say that the African American was an escaped slave and he would become his.

Answer 6

Fugitive slave act of 1850

Question 7

Owned the mill where gold was found.

Answer 7

John Sutter

Question 8

Found the gold nugget while building on Sutter’s mill.

Answer 8

James Marshall

Question 9

Moved because of potato famine in their country. Were usually poor, worked in factories, and were not respected by the Americans.

Answer 9

Irish immigrants

Question 10

Moved because of failed revolution in their country. Usually had some wealth and could buy some land in the Ohio River Valley area.

Answer 10

German immigrants

Question 11

Resulted in the outlawing of slavery in Tennessee. Gave universal voting rights to all males. Adopted the Tennessee State constitution that is in effect today! Contained laws that banned interracial marriage, integration of schools, and allowed poll taxes. Discriminatory laws were eventually overruled by the TN State Supreme Court.

Answer 11

Tennessee Constitution of 1870

Question 12

16th president of the U.S. and was so at one of the worst and bloodiest times in American history. He had a reputation as an honorable man. Before he ran for president he ran for a senate seat against Stephen Douglas and lost. He gave the “house-divided” speech during this time. As president, he always said whatever he did was to preserve the union, He was antislavery and ran as a republican.

Answer 12

Abraham Lincoln

Question 13

Fought in the war of 1812 and is known for how he was during the battle of New Orleans. Received the most votes in the election of 1824 but not the electoral college. against John Quincy Adams. He was the 7th president of the U.S. and was known as the people’s president or common man. He spread voting rights and democratic ideals. He also created the spoils system.

Answer 13

Andrew Jackson Section

Question 14

A minister and editor on a proslavery TN newspaper that wrote about the complicated feelings Tennesseans had about slavery, secession, and such. When the civil war broke out, he was outspoken against TN secession. He went on a speaking tour up north and re-launched his newspaper. He helped get the right to vote for the freed even before the fifteenth amendment.

Answer 14

William Brownlow

Question 15

wrote many pamphlets and books. It used logic and emotion to support the argument for independence and raise the morale of the Conntential Army. He wrote Common Sense which simulated broad support for independence. He also wrote The Crisis which was a series of essays in his ongoing support of the American Revolution

Answer 15

Thomas Paine (crisis and common sense)

Question 16

Created the Kansas-Nebraska act. Ran in the election of 1860 but lost to Lincoln.

Answer 16

Stephen Douglass

Question 17

Unwritten agreement to put Hayes in office if the republicans promised to remove all troops from the south.

Answer 17

Compromise of 1877

Question 18

The Continental Congress created a plan for the nation as a whole. Instead of having three branches of government it only had one branch and a one-house legislature, called Congress. There was NO executive branch and no system of national courts. The framers of the ____________ kept in mind their complaints against Britain. The new states did not want to risk giving too much power to the central government. Thus, the __________ provided for a limited central government. In the __________, most of the power was in the hands of the state. Congress could NOT regulate trade, collect taxes, or enforce a common currency. It could, however, make laws, declare war, coin or borrow money, and run a postal service. It failed because there was more power to the state than the central government.

Answer 18

Articles of confederation

Question 19

Said that no one could be denied the right to vote, no matter race, color, or past servitude.

Answer 19

15th amendment

Question 20

A meeting of delegates to revise the Articles of Confederation. However, by the end of the convention, our country had a new Constitution. George Washington was quickly voted the leader of the convention and James Madison wrote everything down during the convention. It had 3 branches of government and gave more power to the central government.

Answer 20

Constitutional Convention

Question 21

Was the Cotton Capital of the South because of its fertile land and was next to the Missippi river.

Answer 21

Memphis, TN.

Question 22

The Cherokee and the British became allies during the French and Indian war. The relationship soon began to deteriorate, and the two sides became hostile. In 1760, the Cherokees led by Attakullakulla laid siege to Fort Loudoun in Tennessee. The colonial troops surrendered but the Cherokees killed 25 and enslaved 200 more. This led to the Cherokee War.

Answer 22

Massacre at Fort Loudoun

Question 23

Took place near Memphis, TN. General Grant moved down southwest from Kentucky to gain control of the Mississippi. Albert Johnson met him before he could get to the major railroad town of Corinth. At this confrontation, the Union won and gained control of the Confederate railroads and the northern part of the Mississippi. And, as you have read, since Farragut got the southern part later, cutting them off, the Union would soon finish out the War here.

Answer 23

Battle of Shiloh

Question 24

Adams was being criticized heavily by Republicans for avoiding war with France. Congress passed 2 laws in 1798 in the wake of this outcry for war. One act, the ______ increased the duration from 5 to 14 years that a person had to live in the United States to become a citizen. The other act, the ________ made it a crime for anyone to write or say anything insulting or false about the President, Congress, or the government in general.

Answer 24

Alien acts/Sedition act

Question 25

The first major battle of the Texas Revolution Santa Anna’s forces surrounded the Alamo killing Tejano and American forces inside. Although Mexico was ultimately victorious in this battle, it was a major turning point of the revolution and led many Americans to join the Texan army.

Answer 25

Battle of the Alamo

Question 26

Was a document written to govern the colony of Connecticut. It set up the government structure and powers of various officials.

Answer 26

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Question 27

A document that allied many colonies in New England in a defensive stance against the Native Americans.

Answer 27

New England Articles of Confederation

Question 28

allowed the Puritans to begin settling in New England. This changed the landscape of the English colonies.

Answer 28

Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 29

Scott had been enslaved by an Army doctor, and this doctor had moved about from slave territory into free territories. Scott actually spent most of his life as a slave in free lands like Wisconsin and Illinois. For this, Scott sued the government, becoming the first slave ever to do so. Judge Roger B. Taney was the presiding justice over the case, and these are the four things that he said: Scott shouldn’t even have been suing because he wasn’t an official citizen being an African American. Since slaves are mere property, moving from a slave territory into free territory did not make him free. Property rights are protected under the Constitution, so…the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional since it prohibited people from owning property.

Answer 29

Dred Scott v. Standford

Question 30

In 1819, there were exactly 11 slave states, and 11 free states. Missouri had been asking to join the Union as a slave state since 1817. Northerners, of course, were strongly against this proposition. Therefore, the _______________ was created. This compromise consisted of three parts. The first part was that Missouri would enter the union as a slave state and Maine would enter the union as a free state. The second part was that anything north of the southern border of Missouri, in the Louisiana Territory, was automatically a free state. And lastly, the third part of the _____________ was the Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed any slave owner to pursue slaves into a free territory and return them south.

Answer 30

Missouri Compromise

Question 31

David Wilmot created a plan that would ban all slavery in any territory that might become part of the United States. Although this plan didn’t pass, it scared the South greatly.

Answer 31

Wilmont Proviso

Question 32

Was held when a New York printer published criticism of the royal governor. He was found not guilty because his statements were true. He established the first important victory for freedom of the press in the English colonies of North America.

Answer 32

John Peter Zenger Trial

Question 33

Stated that the United States would not allow European countries to create colonies in the Americas or to interfere with newly formed Latin American colonies. The United States would consider any act to do so an act of hostility.

Answer 33

Monroe doctorine

Question 34

The 11th President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, the last strong President until the Civil War. He was called the “Dark Horse Candidate” because he intended to run for Vice President but was nominated as president at the convention. He ran against Henry Clay and won. He was also the president of the Manifest Destiny. Polk led the charge to acquire land in the Southwest from Mexico.

Answer 34

James K. Polk

Question 35

Congress passed this to establish rules for how the territory would be governed. It guaranteed basic rights for settlers and banned slavery there. The Northwest Ordinance set a three-step process for admitting new states. When a territory was just starting to be settled, Congress would appoint a governor, a secretary, and three judges. Once a territory had 5,000 free adult male settlers, it could elect a legislature. When a free population reached 60,000, the territory could ask to become a state. In time, five states-Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin- were carved out of the Northwest Territory.

Answer 35

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 36

Another influential man of the abolitionist movement. His religion strongly opposed slavery, but he was even more so than most. He published an abolitionist newspaper as well called the Liberator in 1831. The paper did not end until the practice of slavery itself did. He also co-founded a society called the New England Anti-Slavery Society, which was later named the American Anti-Slave Society. Once, during an attack on a society meeting, Garrison was actually targeted and was dragged through the streets of Boston, Massachusetts with a rope tied around his neck. The state of Georgia also offered a $5,000 reward for his arrest and conviction, and as an indirect result of his actions a “gag act” was passed, which made it illegal to discuss any antislavery petitions

Answer 36

William Loyd Garrison

Question 37

An emotion-packed Christian movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. Spread the idea of religious freedom and tolerance and sparked the growth of new churches.

Answer 37

First Great Awakening

Question 38

These people treated native Americans differently than other immigrants. Instead of treating them differently they helped each other out and were nice!

Answer 38

Pilgrims

Question 39

?-Earliest settlements were in Virginia and Massachusetts but soon spread all along the Atlantic coast, from Maine to Georgia, and into the continent’s interior as far as the Mississippi River.
?-Trading posts in Newfoundland; others followed in wake
of exploration of the St. Lawrence valley, parts of Canada, and the Mississippi River. Settlements include Quebec (1608) and Montreal (1642). Louisiana settled in the late 1600s.
?-gained riches for Spain and expanded its empire. Most of the southern and southwestern regions were claimed, as well as sections of the California coast.

Answer 39

English, French, Spanish colonies

Question 40

This person was a federalist, the secretary of the Senate and he created a three-part plan to bring the nation out of debt. He supported a loose interpretation of the Constitution to provide for a National Bank. The other man was a draftsman of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president. He was also responsible for the Louisiana Purchase and he argued the National Bank was unconstitutional.

Answer 40

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas jefferson

Question 41

What was the letter Geroge Washington wrote to Benjamin?

Answer 41

George Washington’s Farewell Address- In 1796, George Washington voluntarily left the office of President of the United States. He gives the United States two pieces of advice in his farewell address. He warned against political parties and advised the United States to stay away from permanent alliances with European countries.

Question 42

This was an area where people tried to rebuild the south after the civil war happened. Andrew johnson proposed this idea and it was the idea that the land of white Southern landowners should be given to ex-slaves as compensation. Many disagreed with the proposal

Answer 42

Reconstruction/Radical Republicans

Question 43

One group believed in a strong central government. They also believed that the wealthy are most fit to govern the people. The other advocated for a stronger state government. They also believed everyone had the right to hold office, regardless of how much money they had. then a meeting occurred to revise the articles of confederation, by the end, there was a new constitution.

Answer 43

Federalists and Anti federalists,Constitutional convention stuff