Vocab Quiz #5: (A: Wednesday 5/6; B: Thursday 5/7)

Question 1

Turning point of the Revolutionary War - The French helped the colonists after this

Answer 1

Saratoga

Question 2

People who work during a strike

Answer 2

Scabs

Question 3

Deragatory term used for Southerners who supported Northern policies during Reconstruction

Answer 3

Scalawags

Question 4

Native American tribe from Florida who fought to keep their land, but were defeated

Answer 4

Seminoles

Question 5

Women’s rights convention held in the early 1800’s

Answer 5

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 6

Principle stating that we should divide the legislative, executive, and judicial functions of Government into separate branches.

Answer 6

Separation of Powers

Question 7

Revolt led by a Rev. War veteran because he wasn’t getting his pension - Demonstrated a major weakness of the Articles of Confederation

Answer 7

Shay’s Rebellion

Question 8

Law passed in the early 1900’s to prevent businesses from controlling all parts of an industry

Answer 8

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 9

Colonial tax on royal notarization - This was the first direct tax on the colonies & angered the colonists

Answer 9

Stamp Act

Question 10

Concept stating that individual states should be able to determine whether they follow a Federal law or not - This was a major cause of the Civil War

Answer 10

States’ Rights

Question 11

People who believe that the Constitution should be followed literally - we cannot do anything unless it specifically states it

Answer 11

Strict Constructionists

Question 12

People who believe that the Constitution can be stretched to apply to different situations at different times - we can do anything it doesn’t specifically forbid

Answer 12

Loose Constructionists

Question 13

Proposed tax in imported goods that the South hated & SC threatened to nullify because it would have greatly increased prices

Answer 13

Tariff of Abominations

Question 14

Farmers created these groups in the late 1800’s to deal with political issues relating to farmers (shipping prices, inflation, etc.)

Answer 14

The Grange

Question 15

Military tactic in which all of an enemy’s territory and propery is burned, looted, destroyed, or killed. Used in Sherman’s March to the Sea.

Answer 15

Total War

Question 16

Treaty ending the Revolutionary War

Answer 16

Treaty of Paris

Question 17

Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to expose the evils of slavery to a northern audience

Answer 17

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 18

Organizations of employees working together to negotiate with management over issues in the workplace

Answer 18

Unions

Question 19

Statements passed in two states explaining why they would not enforce the Alien & Sedition Acts in the early 1800’s

Answer 19

VA & KY Resolutions

Question 20

Plan brought to the Constitutional Convention that would have given states congressional representation based on the size of each state’s population

Answer 20

VA Plan

Question 21

Battle in which the Union gained control of the Mississippi River

Answer 21

Vicksburg

Question 22

Founder of the NAACP

Answer 22

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 23

Uprising over an tax on alcohol during the nation’s early years - George Washington led troops out himself to put it down

Answer 23

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 24

Populist Presidential candidate who gave the “Cross of Gold” speech and later served as prosecutor at the Scopes Monkey Trial

Answer 24

William Jennings Bryan

Question 25

Abolitionist newspaper publisher who called for immediate emancipation, but still held some racist views

Answer 25

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 26

Quaker known for founding Pennsylvania as a well planned, religiously tolerant colony.

Answer 26

William Penn

Question 27

Civil War General remembered for using Total War on his March to the Sea

Answer 27

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 28

Proposed law that would have prohibited slavery in any land purchased from Mexico - It failed & made the South want to keep a balance in Congress between northern & southern states

Answer 28

Wilmot Proviso

Question 29

Site where a number of surrendering Native Americans were massacred at the end of the Indian Wars

Answer 29

Wounded Knee

Question 30

Contracts stating the the employee will not join a Union - These were often used in the late 1800's to prevent unions from organizing

Answer 30

Yellow Dog Contracts

Question 31

Final battle of the Revolutionary War

Answer 31

Yorktown