History exam

Question 1

Why did the compromise of 1850 happen

Answer 1

New land was acquired from the Mexican-american war

Question 2

What were the key decisions made in the compromise of 1850 regarding California, New Mexico, and Utah

Answer 2

California became a free state and New Mexico and Utah became slave states

Question 3

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 3

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 4

What was Uncle Tom’s cabin about

Answer 4

It was an anti-slavery book and was banned in the south

Question 5

What land acquisition led to the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 5

The Louisiana purchase

Question 6

What choices did the Kansas-Nebraska Act give citizens

Answer 6

Settlers could vote on whether the states would be slave states or free states

Question 7

Why were Kansas and Nebraska referred to as “Bleeding Kansas”

Answer 7

Since settlers could vote on whether or not it would be a slave state or free, settlers came in from all over to vote. It turned very violent and many died.

Question 8

Who was Dred Scott and what was the Supreme Court’s ruling in his case

Answer 8

He was an escaped slave from Missouri who fled to Wisconsin. He died to gain his freedom and the case went to the Supreme Court. The ruling was slaves were property.

Question 9

What was the purpose of John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry

Answer 9

The purpose was to steal weapons however he was caught and hung

Question 10

Who won the election of 1860 and what was his opinion on slavery

Answer 10

Lincoln won the election-He didn’t like slavery but had no plans to get rid of it

Question 11

What was the first state to leave the United states

Answer 11

South Carolina

Question 12

What was the first conflict between the Union and the Confederacy

Answer 12

The battle at fort Sumter

Question 13

What was general lee’s first invasion of a northern state and what major proclamation followed

Answer 13

Lee’s first invasion of the north was the battle of Antietam. After the union won Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation

Question 14

What was the emancipation proclamation

Answer 14

Freed all people in rebel states

Question 15

What was the largest battle fought in North America during the Civil War

Answer 15

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 16

Who won the civil war

Answer 16

Union

Question 17

What percentage of voters need to pledge loyalty for a southern state to region the Union

Answer 17

10%

Question 18

What organization was established to help African Americans and poor whites in the south

Answer 18

The freedoms Bureau

Question 19

13th amendment

Answer 19

banned slavery

Question 20

14th amendment

Answer 20

gave citizenship to all born in the US expect for native Americans

Question 21

15th amendment

Answer 21

African Americans could vote however women still couldn’t

Question 22

Who became president after Lincoln’s assassination

Answer 22

Johnson

Question 23

What were the black codes, and how did they affect African Americans

Answer 23

The black codes were laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans

Question 24

What were Scalawags

Answer 24

They were southern politicians who joined the republican party after the civil war

Question 25

What were carpetbaggers

Answer 25

Carpetbaggers were northern business men and politicians who flooded the south looking to get rich

Question 26

What were the four main causes of American industrial growth

Answer 26

Growth of a nation, sympathetic government, new sources of power, and innovative spirit of times.

Question 27

Which railroad company stated in Omaha, Nebraska

Answer 27

Union Pacific

Question 28

Which railroad company started in Sacramento, California

Answer 28

Central pacific

Question 29

what was the homestead act

Answer 29

anyone who wanted it could have 160 acres of land for free. They had to stay on the land for five years and farm and build on it

Question 30

What was the goal of the Indian wars (for the Americans), and who won the battle of little bighorn

Answer 30

The goal of the Indian wars was to force native Americans on to reserves. The Indians won the battle of Little Bighorn

Question 31

What tragic event marked the end of the Indian wars

Answer 31

The Wounded Knee Massacre

Question 32

What was the purpose of the Dawes act

Answer 32

Native American land could be handed out to individual families

Question 33

What were the five main causes of WW1 (MAINA)

Answer 33

Militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and assassination

Question 34

Who was president during WW1, and what were the reasons the US joined the war

Answer 34

Woodrow wilson was president during WW1. The Zimmerman telegram, Lusitania disaster, and the sinking of four unarmed merchant ships by German U-boats

Question 35

What act required men to register for military service

Answer 35

The selective service act

Question 36

What treaty ended WW1

Answer 36

Treaty of Versailles

Question 37

What was the name of the panic over fears of a leftist revolution in 1919

Answer 37

the red scare

Question 38

What was the great migration

Answer 38

Movement of African Americans
Went northwest
Reasons: African Americans had trouble finding work in the south

Question 39

18th amendment

Answer 39

prohibition of alcohol

Question 40

19th amendment

Answer 40

gave women the right to vote

Question 41

21st amendment

Answer 41

reversed the 18th amendment

Question 42

What act enforced prohibition

Answer 42

volestead act

Question 43

what industry struggled during the 1920s

Answer 43

agriculture

Question 44

What were some of the reasons the great deprssion happened

Answer 44

Failure of banking system, Americans lived beyond their means, Credit was extended, and the stock market crash

Question 45

What were some of the causes of the dust bowl

Answer 45

serve drought and bad farming practices

Question 46

Who introduced the New Deal

Answer 46

Roosevelt

Question 47

Who was president at the start of the Great Depression

Answer 47

Hoover