Social Studies Semester 2 Final

Question 1

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 1

published an abolitionist newspaper called “The Liberator”

Question 2

What did Abraham Lincoln mean by “A house divided” statement?

Answer 2

The U.S. would become either all slave or free states.

Question 3

What was “the great task” in the Gettysburg Address?

Answer 3

Preserving freedom and democracy.

Question 4

How did Lincoln want to add the southern states back into the union after the civil war?

Answer 4

He wanted to admit them back into the union without punishing them.

Question 5

What contributed to Andrew Carnegie’s success as a business owner

Answer 5

He controlled the nation’s steel industry and bought out his competitors/suppliers

Question 6

Andrew Jacksons beliefs about the national bank

Answer 6

Believed that it was too powerful

Question 7

Andrew Jacksons beliefs about the Native Americans.

Answer 7

Forceful and coersive removal of the Native Americans to the West.

Question 8

What did Daniel Websters speech about liberty and union refer to?

Answer 8

The break up of the union.

Question 9

Suffrage

Answer 9

A movement so women could have the right to vote. Elizabeth Stanton.

Question 10

Manifest Destiny

Answer 10

God given right to extend the Nations boundaries from the east to west coast.

Question 11

Homestead Act

Answer 11

Pulled many newly freed slaves west

Question 12

Nullification

Answer 12

States ignore or refuse to follow the federal law.

Question 13

Appomattox

Answer 13

General Lee surrendered to Grant and it ended the civil war.

Question 14

Unions

Answer 14

Industrial workers created these for better pay, working conditions, and hours.

Question 15

What change did the election of 1828 bring to the average American?

Answer 15

A shift in political power from elites to the average American.

Question 16

What is one of the causes of War between the U.S. and Mexico?

Answer 16

Mexico resented the annexation of the Lone Star Republic (Texas) by the U.S.

Question 17

Where were the textile mills located in the Northeast during the 1800s?

Answer 17

Near Rivers

Question 18

What did the growth of railroads contribute the most to in the U.S. in the mid-1800s?

Answer 18

The contributed to the development of U.S. cities

Question 19

What are some of the causes that pushed people to the U.S from Europe?

Answer 19

Population Growth, crop failures, and the Industrial Revolution

Question 20

Why did most immigrants settle in the Northeast in the mid-1800s?

Answer 20

Most manufacturing jobs were in the North.

Question 21

How did African Americans respond to the discrimination in white churches in the mid-1800s?

Answer 21

They created their own churches.

Question 22

The cotton Gin sped up the process of what?

Answer 22

Removing seeds

Question 23

What led to an increase in cotton production by increasing the profitability of the crop?

Answer 23

The invention of the Cotton Gin

Question 24

Who controlled Southern society before the civil war?

Answer 24

Wealthy plantation owners

Question 25

What was the difference between free African Americans in the north than the African Americans living in the South?

Answer 25

The North had the right to gather in groups as abolitionists.

Question 26

What was the political debate over the states’ rights?

Answer 26

Regional differences between the Northern and Southern states.

Question 27

Why was the North willing to outlaw slavery compared to the south?

Answer 27

The south depended on the slaves for labor.

Question 28

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott ruling in 1857?

Answer 28

Slaves were property of their owners and not considered citizens.

Question 29

What was one result of the Emancipation Proclamation on the progress of the civil war?

Answer 29

200,000 African Americans joined the union army.

Question 30

What advantages did the North have that helped them win the civil war?

Answer 30

More railroads, more soldiers, more factories, and more supplies.

Question 31

What are 3 restrictions the Black Codes prevented Black people from doing?

Answer 31

Owning real estates, being part of the militia, and testifying in court.

Question 32

What laws limited the rights guaranteed to African Americans?

Answer 32

Jim Crows Laws

Question 33

What tactics did the KKK use to prevent African Americans from gaining power in the South after the civil war?

Answer 33

Intimidation and violence

Question 34

How did the Freedman’s Bureau help African Americans gain independence?

Answer 34

Taught them skills to find jobs and vote.

Question 35

What is one failure of the reconstruction period?

Answer 35

Slaves lost freedoms they gained when slavery ended.