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History I Final Exam (7-9) Flashcards

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

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Erie Canal

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Who is credited with inventing the steamboat?

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Fulton

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

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Eli Whitney

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

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Van Buren

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

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Treaty of New Echota

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

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Trail of Tears

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

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William Henry Harrison

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

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Charles Finney

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

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Joseph Smith

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

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Mormon Faith

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

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Utah

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

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John Tyler

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

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Seneca Falls

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

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Declaration of Sentiments

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Name the abolitionist that published the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator.

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Garrison

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

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Underground Railroad

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Abolitionists founded what political party in 1840?

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Liberty Party

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

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Turner

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

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Thoreau

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

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Edgar Allen Poe

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

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“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”

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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?

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Manifest Destiny

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

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Santa Fe Trail

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

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Oregon Trail

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

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Stephen F. Austin

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

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Empresarios

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

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Santa Anna

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

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Treaty of Velasco

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

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Sam Houston

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Name the battle where Texas won its independence

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Battle of San Jacinto

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

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Puget Sound

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

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Nueces River

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Name the war fought between the United States and Mexico.

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Mexican-American War

34
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The war appeared to be fought over the Texas border, but it was really fought to obtain what future state?

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California

35
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Name the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War

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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

36
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Name the amendment to the appropriations bill that banned slavery in the territories gained from Mexico

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Wilmot Proviso

37
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What did James Marshall find at Sutter’s Mill in California in 1848?

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Gold

38
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People who went to California during the gold rush were called what?

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Forty-Niners

39
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What blue jean maker began making pants for miners during the California gold rush?

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Levi Strauss

40
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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

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Compromise of 1850

41
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When Stephen Douglas presented all the measures of the Kansas-Nebraska Act individually, it became known as what comprise?

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Omnibus Bill

42
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Bonus: Who was the last president of the Republic of Texas?

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Anson Jones

43
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Name the purchase in which the United States acquired parts of Arizona and New Mexico for ten million dollars.

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Gadsden Purchase

44
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Name the act that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and let the people vote for or against slavery.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

45
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What compromise did the Kansas-Nebraska act repeal?

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Missouri Compromise

46
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Name the new political party that was formed in 1854 by Free Soilers, Whigs, and northern Democrats.

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Republican Party

47
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Name the new political party that answered every question by saying, “I know nothing.”

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Know-Nothing Party

48
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Due to the amount of bloodshed and violence, Kansas was called what?

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“Bleeding Kansas”

49
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Name the senator who gave the speech the Crime Against Kansas and was beat by Preston Brooks

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Charles Sumner

50
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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.

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Dred Scott v. Stanford

51
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Name the Kansas state constitution that was passed and then rejected twice, therefore postponing Kansas’ statehood.

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Lecompton Constitution

52
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Name the Illinois senator who was responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act and who Lincoln ran against in 1858

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Stephen A. Douglas

53
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Name the abolitionist who was responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre and the Battle of Osawatomie in Kansas.

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John Brown

54
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On May 21, 1856, a group of Border Ruffians raided what Kansas city and Free-State stronghold?

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Lawrence

55
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John Brown tried to occupy the federal arsenal in what Virginia city?

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Harpers Ferry

56
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Name the first Republican candidate who ran for president in 1856.

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John C. Frémont

57
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Name the first state to secede from the Union.

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South Carolina

58
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The first six states who left the Union formed what independent nation?

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Confederate States of America

59
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Who was the first and only president of the Confederacy?

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Jefferson Davis

60
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The first capital of the Confederacy was in what Alabama city?

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Montgomery

61
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Who did the Republicans choose as their presidential candidate in 1860?

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Abraham Lincoln

62
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The Civil War began when the Confederates opened fire on what fort?

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Fort Sumner

63
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Bonus: Name the only other president other than Franklin Pierce that affirmed the oath of office rather than swear it?

A

John Quincy Adams

64
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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)

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Emancipation Proclamation

65
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Confederates crossed over _____________ river and took the high ground first. Placed the Union under heavy fire. Stonewall Jackson took position behind a stonewall

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Fredericksburg & Rappahannock

66
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Costliest confederate victory of the war. Stonewall Jackson dies from infection after unsanitary amputation of his arm

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Chancellorsville

67
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BATTLE THAT IS TURNING POINT OF THE WAR. Hub of all the war roads. Union gets to the high ground first along with Stonewall.

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Battle of Gettysburg

68
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Surrender to Grant after 6 week siege. Gives the union control of the Mississippi river

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Vicksburg

69
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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.

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Gettysburg Address

70
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Stonewall Jackson beat who?

A

Burnside

71
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Stonewall Jackson is who’s right hand man?

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Robert E. Lee

72
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Sherman was nicknamed _________.

A

Black Moses

73
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Incredibly racist to black people

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Sherman

74
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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

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Petersburg - The Crater

75
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____________ is a copperhead

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McClellan - D

76
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Nickname for people opposed to the war (want a peace negotiation settlement with the south).

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Copperhead

77
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Wins presidential campaign against McClellan

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Lincoln - R

78
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Sherman leaves Atlanta and marches to the sea (savannah georgia)

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March to the Sea

79
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Amendment that eventually abolishes slavery

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13th amendment

80
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Where Grant and Robert E. Lee met to talk. (robert e. lee)

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Appomattox Courthouse

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