Vocab Quiz 4 - Review Questions for Brainscape

Question 1

English document that greatly limited the power of the King

Answer 1

Magna Carta

Question 2

The belief that God wanted the US to control all land between the Atlantic and the Pacific

Answer 2

Manifest Destiny

Question 3

Supreme Court decision that gave the power of judicial review to the Court

Answer 3

Marbury v. Madison

Question 4

When Sherman marched Union troops from Atlanta to Savannah and destroyed everything in his way

Answer 4

March to the Sea

Question 5

Agreement signed by the Pilgrims that they would submit to the government

Answer 5

Mayflower Compact

Question 6

Term for the land added to the US after the Mexican-American War

Answer 6

Mexican Cession (land added to US)

Question 7

Agreement that allowed Missouri into the US as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and drew the 36 30 line to divide free/slave territory

Answer 7

Missouri Compromise

Question 8

The concept that Europe should no longer colonize or interfere with the Western hemisphere

Answer 8

Monroe Doctrine

Question 9

Slave who led a violent and bloody uprising - his revolt caused the south to crack down on priveliges for slaves

Answer 9

Nat Turner

Question 10

Hamilton and Jefferson disagreed about whether or not the US Constitution allowed the government to create this

Answer 10

National Bank

Question 11

Proposal at the Constitutional Convention that would have given all states an equal number of representatives

Answer 11

New Jersey Plan

Question 12

River that Mexico claimed was the southern border of Texas

Answer 12

Nueces River

Question 13

Southern states claimed that they could ignore federal laws they disagreed with. This was called __________.

Answer 13

Nullification

Question 14

Law that gave land to the railroads as long as they used it to build a transcontinental railroad.

Answer 14

Pacific Railway Act

Question 15

Southern term for slavery

Answer 15

Peculiar Institution

Question 16

Final battle of the Civil War

Answer 16

Petersburg

Question 17

Case where the Supreme Court declared Jim Crow laws to be legal

Answer 17

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 18

Organizations that set up political officials and secured votes for them (often from immigrants)

Answer 18

Political Machines

Question 19

Another term for a voting fee

Answer 19

Poll Taxes

Question 20

Political movement in the late 1800’s that represented farmers.

Answer 20

Populists

Question 21

Political movement that called for greater government involvement in society to fix issues like poverty and sanitation.

Answer 21

Progressives

Question 22

Religious movement found primarily in colonial New England

Answer 22

Puritans

Question 23

Religious group that believed all people have an “inner light” - As a result, they were some of the first abolitionists

Answer 23

Quakers

Question 24

Republicans after the Civil War who wanted to treat the South like conqured territory & punish them for wrongdoing

Answer 24

Radical Republicans

Question 25

The process of recognizing a law or a Constitution as binding

Answer 25

Ratification

Question 26

Period of time after the Civil War when the South was gradually readmitted to the Union

Answer 26

Reconstruction

Question 27

Political party formed from a combination of former northern Democrats and the Liberty Party - they nominated Lincoln in 1860

Answer 27

Republican Party

Question 28

River that the US claimed was the southern boundary of Texas

Answer 28

Rio Grande River

Question 29

Founder of Standard Oil - Often called a “Robber Baron” or “Captain of Industry”

Answer 29

Rockefeller

Question 30

Belief that even rulers must obey the law

Answer 30

Rule of Law