Mid-Term

Question 1

Whiskey Rebellion showed….

Answer 1

the strength of the federal government

Question 2

Marbury v Madison established….

Answer 2

judicial review

Question 3

Federalists supported…

Answer 3

Industry

Question 4

Alexander Hamilton was a….

Answer 4

Federalist

Question 5

Alien and Sedition Acts were meant to…

Answer 5

Silence the critics of federalism

Question 6

The VA and Kent Resolutions argued for…

Answer 6

states’ rights to nullify a law

Question 7

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 7

Thomas Jefferson, from Napolean, 15 million dollars, expanded the US

Question 8

When the country was founded, who was given the right to vote?

Answer 8

White male landowners

Question 9

Impact of cotton gin

Answer 9

Sped up the process of harvesting cotton, increasing profitability and the need for slaves

Question 10

Lowell system

Answer 10

Textile mills employing young women that worked and lived there

Question 11

George Washington warned against…

Answer 11

Political parties, alliances, and foreign affairs

Question 12

XYZ Affair

Answer 12

Between the French and Americans, French tried to get a bribe from American officials

Question 13

President during Era of Good Feelings

Answer 13

James Monroe

Question 14

Causes of War of 1812

Answer 14

Impressment, border disputes, supplying Indians, and War Hawks

Question 15

Where were War Hawks from?

Answer 15

South and West

Question 16

Policy towards Indians in 1820s and 30s

Answer 16

Removal and relocation

Question 17

Worcester v Georgia

Answer 17

Cherokee fighting Indian Removal Act, recognized by court as independent nation and could stay in Georgia

Question 18

Lewis and Clark occurred after…

Answer 18

the Louisiana Purchase

Question 19

Essential belief of Transcendentalism

Answer 19

Inherent goodness of people and nature

Question 20

Eerie Canal connected…

Answer 20

Hudson River and Great Lakes

Question 21

Eli Whitney’s two greatest inventions

Answer 21

Cotton gin and Interchangeable parts

Question 22

Tarriff of 1828 concerned….

Answer 22

States rights to nullify national laws

Question 23

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott fought for…

Answer 23

Woman’s rights and suffrage

Question 24

Seneca Falla Convention supported…

Answer 24

Women’s suffrage and abolition

Question 25

Liberator

Answer 25

Abolitionist Newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison

Question 26

North Star

Answer 26

Abolitionist Newspaper by Frederick Douglass

Question 27

Response to Nat Turner

Answer 27

Many states adopt black codes

Question 28

Leaders of Transcendentalism

Answer 28

Emerson and Thoreau

Question 29

Slave Issue Compromises

Answer 29

Missouri, 1850, Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott

Question 30

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 30

Stopping the extension of slavery into land received from the Mexican war, never passed

Question 31

Dred Scott v Sanford

Answer 31

Slaves were property, had no rights, slavery could exist everywhere

Question 32

Significance of caning of Charles Sumner

Answer 32

Increasing sectionalism

Question 33

Compromise of 1850

Answer 33

Cali free, NM and Utah popular sov, slavery abolished in DC, Fugitive Slave Act

Question 34

Republican's view on slavery

Answer 34

Did not want it in territories

Question 35

Underground Railroad leader

Answer 35

Harriet Tubman

Question 36

1850s views on slavery

Answer 36

North: evil South: necessary evil

Question 37

Views of John Brown

Answer 37

North: hero South: radical

Question 38

Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin "little lady who started the big war"

Answer 38

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 39

Election of 1860 Map

Answer 39

North: Lincoln South: split among democrats, no votes for Lincoln

Question 40

North's strategy for Civil War

Answer 40

Anaconda plan

Question 41

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 41

Freed slaves in the confederate states, properties of war, did not affect border states

Question 42

Sherman's Philosophy

Answer 42

Total War

Question 43

Which branch receives increased power during war time?

Answer 43

Executive

Question 44

Suspend writ of habeas corpus

Answer 44

Go to jail w/o a trial

Question 45

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 45

Laws to limit the rights of black people

Question 46

Northerners who settled in the South after Civil War

Answer 46

Carpetbaggers

Question 47

14th ammendment

Answer 47

Defined a citizen, recognized freed slaves

Question 48

Purpose of poll taxes and grandfather clauses

Answer 48

Limit those who could vote

Question 49

Compromise of 1877

Answer 49

Ended Reconstruction

Question 50

Morrill Land Grant

Answer 50

Created colleges focused on technology and agriculture

Question 51

Transcontinental Railroad Workers

Answer 51

Irish and Chinese

Question 52

Why were so many Americans racist towards immigrants?

Answer 52

They were taking jobs

Question 53

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 53

Regulated railroads

Question 54

It was hard to make money in the 1870s and 80s for farmers due to....

Answer 54

the high prices of transporting their goods

Question 55

Why did farmers want silver to be coined

Answer 55

Expand money supply, create inflation

Question 56

Political Machines

Answer 56

Helped immigrants, gave them jobs and housing in exchange for political support

Question 57

What did the US Gov't do to encourage western settlement?

Answer 57

Homestead Act

Question 58

Gov't Economic policy 1865-1900

Answer 58

Non-regulations

Question 59

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 59

Populist leader, supported bimetallism

Question 60

Who supported WJB?

Answer 60

Farmers

Question 61

Transcontinental Railroad and Homestead Act fulfilled

Answer 61

Manifest Destiny

Question 62

People who supported Gov't regulation in the 1800s

Answer 62

Laborers and farmers

Question 63

Where did most immigrants come from before the 1900s?

Answer 63

Eastern Europe

Question 64

Nativism

Answer 64

Natives > Immigrants

Question 65

Reforms needed during Gilded Age

Answer 65

Labor, wages, hours