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Question 1

The Mexican-American War waged over the right to claim

Answer 1

Texas

Question 2

Who were Lewis and Clark?

Answer 2

President Jefferson tasked Lewis and Clark to explore lands of the Mississippi River that was part of the Louisiana Purchase.

Question 3

What was The Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 3

President Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana for $15 million from the French government.

Question 4

In 1846 the _____________________ ended British claims to Oregon Territory.

Answer 4

Oregon Treaty

Question 5

What was the Transcontinental Railroad?

Answer 5

In 1862, workers for the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad companies built a transcontinental railroad that linked the U.S. from East to West.

Question 6

How were Chinese workers involved in the building of the U.S. railroads?

Answer 6

Central Pacific recruited about 20, 000 Chinese workers who earned two-thirds of what Euro-American laborers.

Question 7

How did the railroads devastate the Buffalo Herds—and the Native Americans’ way of life?

Answer 7

The construction of the railroads displaced Native Americans from their lands and got rid of their main resource, buffalo, which was for food, shelter, and trade.

Question 8

What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

Answer 8

any citizen was required to turn in anyone who they knew as a slave

Question 9

What was Kansas-Nebraska Act ?

Answer 9

formalized the idea of popular sovereignty

Question 10

What was the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?

Answer 10

The Dred Scott decision helped convince people that the entire government were in the hands of the dreaded slave power

Question 11

Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom

Answer 11

Underground Railroad

Question 12

Famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, also an escaped slave, who helped many slaves to freedom.

Answer 12

Harriet Tubman

Question 13

The right to vote for or against slavery.

Answer 13

popular sovereignty

Question 14

Slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory.

Answer 14

Dred Scott

Question 15

The Confederate States of America.

Answer 15

Confederacy

Question 16

Union General.

Answer 16

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 17

Confederate general.

Answer 17

Robert E. Lee

Question 18

Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind Confederate lines.

Answer 18

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 19

Drafting of civilians to serve in the military

Answer 19

Conscription

Question 20

The bloodiest battles won during the Civil War in which the Union defeated Robert E. Lee and his forces in Maryland.

Answer 20

Battle of Antietam

Question 21

What were two features of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 21

To please the North, California would be admitted as a free state. To please the South, the Compromise would require Northerners to return fugitives back to their masters.

Question 22

What was one of the reasons in which people took actions against slavery in the mid 19th century America?
a. Novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped many people in the North see the fight to ban slavery as a moral struggle.
b. Antislavery Americans rushed into Nebraska to help ensure there would be enough people to decide the vote on slavery

Answer 22

Novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped many people in the North see the fight to ban slavery as a moral struggle.

Question 23

What major political party was born out of the slavery issue?

Answer 23

The Republican Party formed in 1854 bringing together Free-Soilers, anti-slavery Whigs and antislavery Democrats and antislavery nativists.

Question 24

What major event led to the secession of Southern states from the Union?

Answer 24

Lincoln won the election in 1860 and gave the Republicans control.

Question 25

Four advantages the North had over the South. (Which statement DOES NOT belong?)
a. more people and more food production
b. more factories and better railroads
c. better generals and Southern soldier eager to defend their way of life

Answer 25

c. better generals and Southern soldier eager to defend their way of life

Question 26

What were two effects of the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 26

In the South, people became even more determined to fight to preserve their way of life

Question 27

How did the war affect the economies of the North?

Answer 27

The war caused its economy to grow rapidly.

Question 28

How did the war affect the economies of the South?

Answer 28

The war caused its economy to suffer.

Question 29

An important speech by President Lincoln.

Answer 29

Gettysburg Address

Question 30

How did Gettysburg change the war? (Which statement does not belong?)

a. After 3 days of fierce fighting, Gen. Robert E. Lee and his Confederate Army, retreated to Virginia.
b. The battle in Pennsylvania gave the South advantage over the North.

Answer 30

b. The battle in Pennsylvania gave the South advantage over the North.

Question 31

Why did Lincoln fear he might not get reelected?

Answer 31

Lincoln feared he would not be re-elected in 1864 because many Northerners felt the war had gone on too long and caused too much destruction.

Question 32

What were two ways in which the Civil War changed the nation?

Answer 32

The Northern economy boomed as the region produced goods of many kinds, the Southern economy collapsed.

Question 33

How did the 14th and 15th Amendments improve the lives of African Americans?

Answer 33

14th Amendment gave African Americans citizenship, 15th Amendment banned states from denying the vote to African Americans.

Question 34

How was slavery finally abolished in the United States?

Answer 34

The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery everywhere in the country.

Question 35

An important speech by President Lincoln where he honored the dead and asked Americans to rededicate themselves to preserving the Union.

Answer 35

Gettysburg Address

Question 36

Commander of the Union troops in Georgia and South Carolina.

Answer 36

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 37

Who had control of land and labor in the South?

Answer 37

Many Northern planters wanted to return to the plantation system. They tried to make sure African Americans could not own land.

Question 38

How was Reconstruction undone?

Answer 38

The disputed election of 1876 resulted in the end of Reconstruction.

Question 39

System in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops.

Answer 39

sharecropping

Question 40

Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South.

Answer 40

Freedman’s Bureau