History I Final Exam (7-9)

Question 1

Name the canal the connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River.

Answer 1

Erie Canal

Question 2

Who is credited with inventing the steamboat?

Answer 2

Fulton

Question 3

Who is credited with inventing the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?

Answer 3

Eli Whitney

Question 4

Name Andrew Jackson’s vice president who became president after Jackson.

Answer 4

Van Buren

Question 5

Name the treaty the U.S. government signed with the Cherokee nation on December 29, 1835.

Answer 5

Treaty of New Echota

Question 6

What did the Cherokee nation call the trail they were forced to march from Georgia to Indian Territory in modern day Oklahoma?

Answer 6

Trail of Tears

Question 7

Name the hero of Tippecanoe that became president after Van Buren and set numerous presidential records.

Answer 7

William Henry Harrison

Question 8

Name the minister who led the Second Great Awakening and rejected predestination.

Answer 8

Charles Finney

Question 9

Who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was later killed by a mob?

Answer 9

Joseph Smith

Question 10

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is better known as what faith/religion?

Answer 10

Mormon Faith

Question 11

Brigham Young led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake in what modern day state

Answer 11

Utah

Question 12

Name Harrison’s vice president who became the first accidental president when Harrison died after only a month in office.

Answer 12

John Tyler

Question 13

In 1848, Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott held a women’s conference in what New York city

Answer 13

Seneca Falls

Question 14

Name the document that was passed at the Seneca Falls conference.

Answer 14

Declaration of Sentiments

Question 15

Name the abolitionist that published the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.

Answer 15

Garrison

Question 16

Ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape on what railroad?

Answer 16

Underground Railroad

Question 17

Abolitionists founded what political party in 1840?

Answer 17

Liberty Party

Question 18

Name the slave that revolted in 1831 and killed fifty-seven whites

Answer 18

Turner

Question 19

Name the author who observed nature at Walden Pond and wrote a book entitled Walden?

Answer 19

Thoreau

Question 20

Name the author who was America’s first horror writer.

Answer 20

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 21

Bonus: What was Harrison’s and Tyler’s campaign slogan during the election of 1840?

Answer 21

“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”

Question 22

What term was coined to express the belief that it was the fate of the United States to extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

Answer 22

Manifest Destiny

Question 23

Name the trail that ran from St. Louis, Missouri to Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Answer 23

Santa Fe Trail

Question 24

Name the trail settlers used that ran from Missouri to Oregon.

Answer 24

Oregon Trail

Question 25

Who is considered the father of Texas because he brought the first 300 families to Texas?

Answer 25

Stephen F. Austin

Question 26

Land agents in Texas such as Stephen F. Austin were called what?

Answer 26

Empresarios

Question 27

Name the Mexican dictator who fought the Texans during the Texas Revolution and the Americans during the Mexican-American War.

Answer 27

Santa Anna

Question 28

Name the treaty that recognized Texas independence and set the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico

Answer 28

Treaty of Velasco

Question 29

Name the commander-in-chief of the Texas army that became the first president of the Republic of Texas.

Answer 29

Sam Houston

Question 30

Name the battle where Texas won its independence

Answer 30

Battle of San Jacinto

Question 31

When Oregon was divided at the 49th parallel, this gave the United States what Pacific harbor?

Answer 31

Puget Sound

Question 32

Mexico claimed what river was the border between Texas and Mexico not the Rio Grande.

Answer 32

Nueces River

Question 33

Name the war fought between the United States and Mexico.

Answer 33

Mexican-American War

Question 34

The war appeared to be fought over the Texas border, but it was really fought to obtain what future state?

Answer 34

California

Question 35

Name the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War

Answer 35

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 36

Name the amendment to the appropriations bill that banned slavery in the territories gained from Mexico

Answer 36

Wilmot Proviso

Question 37

What did James Marshall find at Sutter’s Mill in California in 1848?

Answer 37

Gold

Question 38

People who went to California during the gold rush were called what?

Answer 38

Forty-Niners

Question 39

What blue jean maker began making pants for miners during the California gold rush?

Answer 39

Levi Strauss

Question 40

Name the bill presented to Congress by Henry Clay thatadmitted California as a free state, passed a more stringent fugitive slave act, and compensated Texas for giving up its claim to half of New Mexico

Answer 40

Compromise of 1850

Question 41

When Stephen Douglas presented all the measures of the Kansas-Nebraska Act individually, it became known as what comprise?

Answer 41

Omnibus Bill

Question 42

Bonus: Who was the last president of the Republic of Texas?

Answer 42

Anson Jones

Question 43

Name the purchase in which the United States acquired parts of Arizona and New Mexico for ten million dollars.

Answer 43

Gadsden Purchase

Question 44

Name the act that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and let the people vote for or against slavery.

Answer 44

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 45

What compromise did the Kansas-Nebraska act repeal?

Answer 45

Missouri Compromise

Question 46

Name the new political party that was formed in 1854 by Free Soilers, Whigs, and northern Democrats.

Answer 46

Republican Party

Question 47

Name the new political party that answered every question by saying, “I know nothing.”

Answer 47

Know-Nothing Party

Question 48

Due to the amount of bloodshed and violence, Kansas was called what?

Answer 48

"Bleeding Kansas"

Question 49

Name the senator who gave the speech the Crime Against Kansas and was beat by Preston Brooks

Answer 49

Charles Sumner

Question 50

Name the decision in which the Supreme Court ruled a slave was to remain a slave even if they were brought into a free state or territory.

Answer 50

Dred Scott v. Stanford

Question 51

Name the Kansas state constitution that was passed and then rejected twice, therefore postponing Kansas’ statehood.

Answer 51

Lecompton Constitution

Question 52

Name the Illinois senator who was responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and who Lincoln ran against in 1858

Answer 52

Stephen A. Douglas

Question 53

Name the abolitionist who was responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre and the Battle of Osawatomie in Kansas.

Answer 53

John Brown

Question 54

On May 21, 1856, a group of Border Ruffians raided what Kansas city and Free-State stronghold?

Answer 54

Lawrence

Question 55

John Brown tried to occupy the federal arsenal in what Virginia city?

Answer 55

Harpers Ferry

Question 56

Name the first Republican candidate who ran for president in 1856.

Answer 56

John C. Frémont

Question 57

Name the first state to secede from the Union.

Answer 57

South Carolina

Question 58

The first six states who left the Union formed what independent nation?

Answer 58

Confederate States of America

Question 59

Who was the first and only president of the Confederacy?

Answer 59

Jefferson Davis

Question 60

The first capital of the Confederacy was in what Alabama city?

Answer 60

Montgomery

Question 61

Who did the Republicans choose as their presidential candidate in 1860?

Answer 61

Abraham Lincoln

Question 62

The Civil War began when the Confederates opened fire on what fort?

Answer 62

Fort Sumner

Question 63

Bonus: Name the only other president other than Franklin Pierce that affirmed the oath of office rather than swear it?

Answer 63

John Quincy Adams

Question 64

Executive order issued by President Lincoln during the Civil War that declared all slaves in confederate territories could be set free. (unsuccessful because they didn't want to listen)

Answer 64

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 65

Confederates crossed over _____________ river and took the high ground first. Placed the Union under heavy fire. Stonewall Jackson took position behind a stonewall

Answer 65

Fredericksburg & Rappahannock

Question 66

Costliest confederate victory of the war. Stonewall Jackson dies from infection after unsanitary amputation of his arm

Answer 66

Chancellorsville

Question 67

BATTLE THAT IS TURNING POINT OF THE WAR. Hub of all the war roads. Union gets to the high ground first along with Stonewall.

Answer 67

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 68

Surrender to Grant after 6 week siege. Gives the union control of the Mississippi river

Answer 68

Vicksburg

Question 69

Featured speaker is Edward Evert for two hours. Lincoln delivered a two minute speech. Dedicated Gettysburg as a national cemetery for Civil War Union soldiers.

Answer 69

Gettysburg Address

Question 70

Stonewall Jackson beat who?

Answer 70

Burnside

Question 71

Stonewall Jackson is who's right hand man?

Answer 71

Robert E. Lee

Question 72

Sherman was nicknamed _________.

Answer 72

Black Moses

Question 73

Incredibly racist to black people

Answer 73

Sherman

Question 74

Burnside is present here, with the help of two coal miners, they dig a tunnel to the confederate line and fill it with explosives. Union loses the battle

Answer 74

Petersburg - The Crater

Question 75

____________ is a copperhead

Answer 75

McClellan - D

Question 76

Nickname for people opposed to the war (want a peace negotiation settlement with the south).

Answer 76

Copperhead

Question 77

Wins presidential campaign against McClellan

Answer 77

Lincoln - R

Question 78

Sherman leaves Atlanta and marches to the sea (savannah georgia)

Answer 78

March to the Sea

Question 79

Amendment that eventually abolishes slavery

Answer 79

13th amendment

Question 80

Where Grant and Robert E. Lee met to talk. (robert e. lee)

Answer 80

Appomattox Courthouse