Vocab Quiz 2 Study Guide for Brainscape

Question 1

Man who became extremely wealthy by bringing mass production of steel to the US

Answer 1

Andrew Carnegie

Question 2

Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War

Answer 2

Carpetbaggers

Question 3

Native American tribe forced by Andrew Jackson to move to Oklahoma against their will

Answer 3

Cherokee

Question 4

Agreement that allowing CA into the US as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty in lands from Mexico, ended the slave trade in DC and called for a stricter Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 4

Compromise of 1850

Question 5

This agreement gave the Presidency to the Republicans in exchange for the removal of Unio troops in the South

Answer 5

Compromise of 1877

Question 6

William Jennings Bryan’s famous Populist speech calling for silver to be added to the gold standard

Answer 6

Cross of Gold Speech

Question 7

Law stating that Native Americans could keep their land if they could live like white people for 25 years

Answer 7

Dawes Act

Question 8

Segregation enforced by society rather than by law

Answer 8

De facto segregation

Question 9

Document announcing to the world that the US was no longer a part of Great Britain

Answer 9

Declaration of Independence

Question 10

To be stripped of your right to vote

Answer 10

Disenfranchised

Question 11

Slave who sued for his freedom before the Civil War - he was told he could not sue because he was property

Answer 11

Dred Scott

Question 12

Portion of the Constitution stating that Congress can do anything “necessary and proper”

Answer 12

Elastic Clause

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln was elected President

Answer 13

Election of 1860

Question 14

Reacting against Reconstruction policies that were lenient toward the South, the US voted the Radical Republicans into office

Answer 14

Election of 1866

Question 15

Along with Lucretia Mott, she led the Seneca Falls Convention calling for greater equality for women

Answer 15

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 16

Freedom from slavery

Answer 16

Emancipation

Question 17

Lincoln’s announcement that all slaves in hostile states would be freed after January 1, 1863

Answer 17

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 18

Freed slaves who moved west to Kansas after the Civil War

Answer 18

Exodusters

Question 19

Type of government in which power is shared between states and a central government

Answer 19

Federalism

Question 20

Articles written in the late 1700’s to support the ratification of the US Constitution

Answer 20

Federalist Papers

Question 21

Political party that followed Alexander Hamilton and believed the Constitution should be interpreted loosely

Answer 21

Federalists

Question 22

Political Party that followed Thomas Jefferson and believed that the Constitution should be interpreted strictly

Answer 22

Democratic Republicans

Question 23

Escaped slave who became a prominent abolitionist speaker and author

Answer 23

Frederick Douglass

Question 24

Government organization designed to help poor former slaves and sharecroppers get on their feet after the Civil War

Answer 24

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 25

The position of people who weren’t abolitionists, but didn’t want slavery to spread into any new territories

Answer 25

Free-Soil

Question 26

War between the French and the British that cost so much, England taxed the colonies to pay for it

Answer 26

French & Indian War

Question 27

Site of a Civil War battle where the 54th Massachusetts Regiment proved their bravery by sacrificing their lives

Answer 27

Ft. Wagner

Question 28

Law that northerners must return runaway slaves to their former masters

Answer 28

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 29

Rule in Congress before the Civil War stating that slavery could not be discussed at all

Answer 29

Gag Rule

Question 30

Bloodiest battle of the Civil War - Stopped Lee’s advance into the Union

Answer 30

Gettysburg