unit 1 test review

Question 1

Different cultures and ethnicity’s coming together to form our nation.

Answer 1

Diversity

Question 2

First example of foreign policy. “Stay out of Western Hemisphere.”

Answer 2

Monroe Doctrine

Question 3

To ensure that no one branch became too powerful, the federal government created a system of _________ which gave each branch the power to check the other two branches.

Answer 3

Checks and Balances

Question 4

During its initial years of existence, the United States expanded its boundaries; most notably the _______________ in 1803. This transaction doubled our size and cost $15 million or 4 cents/acre.

Answer 4

Louisiana Purchase

Question 5

The constitution also sought to balance the interests of the “big” and “small” states in matters of representation. Therefore, the ___________ was created to satisfy each state’s representation based on civil liberties. Also known as the first 10 amendments.

Answer 5

Bill of Rights

Question 6

Said “All men are created equal.” Gov should protect citizens rights. Gov exists with consent of the people. Endowed with certain unalienable rights, life liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Answer 6

Declaration of Independence

Question 7

Each individual state had its own constitution as well and this system of “shared powers” between the state and federal government was called _________.

Answer 7

Federalism

Question 8

Executive (President), Legislative (congress), Judicial (US Supreme court).

Answer 8

Branches of Government

Question 9

Established the US Senate: 2 senators for each state. US House of Representatives: Based on state population.

Answer 9

The Great Compromise

Question 10

Became controversial in the early 1800’s. People in the Northeast were in favor of high protective tariffs on imported goods. People in the south opposed tariffs.

Answer 10

Tariff Issue

Question 11

Drawn a line across the country to indicate whether a new territory would allow slavery.

Answer 11

Missouri Compromise

Question 12

Created allowing California to become a “free” state and the rest of the Southwest territories to vote on the issue in the future.

Answer 12

Compromise of 1850

Question 13

Started a slave uprising. Murdered his owners, gained followers to fight against slavery (50) , but failed.

Answer 13

Nat Turner

Question 14

People who supported the immediate end to slavery.

Answer 14

Abolitionists (William Loyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman.)

Question 15

Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Toms Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, John Browns Raid.

Answer 15

5 Causes of the civil war

Question 16

Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.

Answer 16

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 17

Famous conductor from the underground railroad.

Answer 17

Harriet Tubman

Question 18

Escape routes with conductors for slaves on the run.

Answer 18

Underground Railroad

Question 19

Famous case about a slave who sued for freedom because he had traveled with his owner to Illinois and eventually Wisconsin, where slavery was illegal. His owner died, and he thought he should be free.

Answer 19

Dred Scott Case (Dred Scott v. Sanford)

Question 20

Northerners opposed to slavery who went to Kansas hoping to vote for it to become a free state.

Answer 20

Free Soilers

Question 21

5,000 pro slavery voters from Missouri who traveled to Kansas to vote and leave.

Answer 21

Border Ruffians

Question 22

Even though the Missouri compromise stated Kansas and Nebraska were banned from being slave states, this act let people vote to choose through popular sovereignty.

Answer 22

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 23

The right to vote to choose important decisions.

Answer 23

Popular Sovereignty

Question 24

First state to secede from the Union in December of 1860

Answer 24

South Carolina

Question 25

President of the Confederate States of America

Answer 25

Jefferson Davis

Question 26

Republican president in 1860, wrote the emancipation act.

Answer 26

Abraham Lincoln

Question 27

Were the following the advantages of the north or south? Overwhelming edge in population and wealth, 90% of nations factories, better transportation systems, better weapons.

Answer 27

North

Question 28

Were the following the advantages of the north or the south? Home court advantage, more motivation, fighting for their homes, more experienced generals.

Answer 28

South

Question 29

General who led the south in the early stages of the Civil War.

Answer 29

Robert E. Lee

Question 30

White male who started uprisings to revolt against slavery.

Answer 30

John Brown

Question 31

South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

Answer 31

Confederate States

Question 32

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri.

Answer 32

Border states

Question 33

beginning of the civil war.

Answer 33

Fort Sumter

Question 34

killer of Abraham Lincoln in a theater after civil war ended.

Answer 34

John Wilkes Booth

Question 35

President who came after Abraham Lincoln

Answer 35

Andrew Johnson

Question 36

President Johnsons plan for _____ for most of the ex confederates.

Answer 36

Amnesty

Question 37

Southern states passed repressive laws

Answer 37

Black Codes

Question 38

What did the 13th amendment do

Answer 38

Abolished slavery

Question 39

made to care for refugee slaves

Answer 39

Freedman's Bureau

Question 40

what did the 14th amendment do?

Answer 40

Made blacks citizens.

Question 41

what did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 41

Allowed blacks to vote.

Question 42

what laws basically promoted segregation?

Answer 42

Jim Crow Laws

Question 43

What act divided the rebel states into 5 military districts, and stationed 200,000 soldiers in the south.

Answer 43

Reconstruction acts

Question 44

Well respected war hero from the Civil War, who became president thanks to black votes.

Answer 44

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 45

What compromise made Rutherford Hayes the president of the US and ended military rule in the south?

Answer 45

Compromise of 1877

Question 46

Charged a fee to vote

Answer 46

poll tax

Question 47

literacy and trivia quiz required to vote.

Answer 47

literacy test

Question 48

If your grandfather could vote, you could vote, rule.

Answer 48

Grandfather clause

Question 49

Name of case that involved slave sitting down on a bus. He argued segregation violated the 14th amendment.

Answer 49

Plessy V. Ferguson

Question 50

Slave who told his peers not to fight segregation, but to go along with it.

Answer 50

Booker Washington.

Question 51

Trade school for blacks in Alabama

Answer 51

Tuskegee institute

Question 52

Democratic candidate who ran against Rutherford Hayes

Answer 52

Samuel Tilden

Question 53

area that covered west of the Mississippi river to the rocky mountains.

Answer 53

Great Plains

Question 54

Act that allowed settlers to own land that they farmed for 5 years

Answer 54

Homestead act

Question 55

Beginning of the indian wars

Answer 55

Sandcreek Massacre

Question 56

Minister who attacked a peaceful Cheyene camp

Answer 56

Colonel John Chivington

Question 57

vain man who led his men into danger and didn't accept reinforcements, wouldn't retreat.

Answer 57

George Armstrong Custer

Question 58

Name of battle that Custer and his men were ambushed and killed

Answer 58

Battle of Southern Montana

Question 59

Last battle of the indian wars

Answer 59

Battle of the wounded Knee

Question 60

A legal agreement under which several companies group together to regulate production and eliminate competition.

Answer 60

trust

Question 61

Total control of a product, service or trade in a particular area

Answer 61

Monopoly

Question 62

act congress passed to regulate the railroad industry and insure that rates were "reasonable and just."

Answer 62

Interstate commerce