His025 Test #2

Question 1

John Quincy Adams

Answer 1

statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist, the sixth president of the United States, the eighth United States secretary of state

Question 2

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 2

was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.

Question 3

Monroe Doctrine

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A United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 4

Missouri Compromise

Answer 4

a federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it

Question 5

Panic of 1819

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the first widespread and durable financial crisis in the United States that slowed westward expansion in the Cotton Belt and was followed by a general collapse of the American economy

Question 6

Andrew Jackson

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an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress

Question 7

National Republicans/Whigs

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Anti-Masons, disaffected Jacksonians and people whose last political activity had been with the Federalists a decade before

Question 8

Democrats

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Democratic Party was the party of the “common man”. It opposed the abolition of slavery.

Question 9

Henry Clay

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American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He was the seventh House speaker as well as the ninth secretary of state.

Question 10

John C. Calhoun

Answer 10

an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States, defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.

Question 11

Nullification

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is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal laws which they deem unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution

Question 12

Trail of Tears

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the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the “Five Civilized Tribes” between 1830 and 1850

Question 13

Robert Fulton

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inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially successful steamboat,

Question 14

Erie Canal

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the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes,

Question 15

John Deere

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developed the first commercially successful, self-scouring steel plow in 1837

Question 16

Cyrus McCormack

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invented the mechanical reaper,

Question 17

Cotton Gin

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a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, and was created by Eli Whitney

Question 18

Interchangeable parts

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parts that are identical for practical purposes. They are made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assembly of the same type.

Question 19

Who Invented interchangeable parts

Answer 19

Eli Whitney

Question 20

Sweat Industries

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poverty-level wages, excessive hours of labour, and unsafe or unhealthful workplace conditions.

Question 21

Commonwealth v. Hunt

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was a case in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions.

Question 22

Horace Mann

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He spearheaded the Common School Movement, ensuring that every child could receive a basic education funded by local taxes

Question 23

Abolition

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is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.

Question 24

William Lloyd Garrison

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as an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator

Question 25

Grimke Sisters

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Sarah Moore Grimké and Angelina Emily Grimké, were the first nationally-known white American female advocates of the abolition of slavery and women's rights.

Question 26

Frederick Douglass

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After escaping from slavery in Maryland, became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, during which he gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

Question 27

Harriet Tubman

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using the Underground Railroad, to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends

Question 28

Temperance Movement

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with a goal of changing attitudes towards alcohol consumption in the United States, encouraged drinkers to help each other to resist temptation

Question 29

Seneca Falls Convention

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the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"

Question 30

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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was an American leader in the women's rights movement who, in 1848, formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States

Question 31

Denmark Vesey and Nat turner

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most infamous slave revolts were those led by Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner. Although all three men were ultimately apprehended and executed

Question 32

San Jacinto

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gave Texas its independence from Mexico and opened the door for the continued westward expansion of the United States.

Question 33

Manifest Destiny

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the divinely ordained right of the United States to expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean and beyond

Question 34

Oregon Territory

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all of the present day states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.

Question 35

54 40 or fight

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the United States ought to claim all the territory up to 54 degrees and 40 minutes north parallel or fight Great Britain for the land

Question 36

Ostend Manifesto

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was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain while implying that the U.S. should declare war if Spain refused

Question 37

James Polk

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the 11th president of the United States, He also served as the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives. the ninth governor of Tennessee

Question 38

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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ended the war between the United States and Mexico.

Question 39

Mexican Cession

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Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.

Question 40

Gadsden Purchase

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an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.

Question 41

Forty Niners

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a person who migrated to California in the year 1849 to search for gold

Question 42

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

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agreement that stated that both the United States and the United Kingdom were not to colonize or control any Central American republic. The purpose was to prevent one country from building a canal across Central America.

Question 43

Henry David Thoreau

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American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, He was also an advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay “Civil Disobedience”

Question 44

Wilmot Proviso

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an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War

Question 45

Compromise of 1850

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the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.

Question 46

Fugitive Slave law of 1850

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The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.

Question 47

Popular Sovereignty

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the principle that the leaders of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political legitimacy.

Question 48

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty. It also produced a violent uprising known as “Bleeding Kansas,” as proslavery and antislavery activists flooded into the territories to sway the vote.

Question 49

Stephen Douglas

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Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A senator, he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party for president in the 1860 presidential election,

Question 50

Bleeding Kansas

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a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859

Question 51

Uncle Toms Cabin

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an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Question 52

UnderGround RailRoad

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the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War

Question 53

Dred Scott decision

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was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent

Question 54

Freeport Doctrine

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The Freeport Doctrine was articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Question 55

John Brown

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John Brown was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War.

Question 56

Harpers Ferry

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Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.

Question 57

Republican Party

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The party opposed the expansion of slavery before 1861 and led the fight to destroy the Confederate States of America

Question 58

American Party

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The American Party of the United States is a conservative political party in the United States. The party adheres to its Permanent Principles, which were established in 1969.

Question 59

Know Nothings

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The Know Nothing movement was a nativist political movement in the United States in the mid-1850s. The national political organization of the Know Nothings was officially known as the "Native American Party" prior to 1855; thereafter, it was simply known as the "American Party".

Question 60

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 60

Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States,

Question 61

Crittenden compromise

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an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery.

Question 62

Fort Sumter

Answer 62

What happened at the battle of fort sumter Confederate victory. With supplies nearly exhausted and his troops outnumbered, Union major Robert Anderson surrendered

Question 63

Jefferson Davis

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served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War

Question 64

Robert E. Lee

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his greatest contribution to the United States was his effort to reunite the country following the American Civil War.

Question 65

Ulysses E. Lee

Answer 65

played a crucial role in restoring peace following the war.