Unit 1

Question 1

When was the Sugar act?

Answer 1

1764

Question 2

When was the townshend act?

Answer 2

1767

Question 3

When was the Boston massacre?

Answer 3

1770

Question 4

When was the Boston Tea Party?

Answer 4

1773

Question 5

When was the intolerable act?

Answer 5

1774

Question 6

When was the Quebec act?

Answer 6

1774

Question 7

What did the 13th amendment do?

Answer 7

End slavery

Question 8

What did the 14th amendment do?

Answer 8

Provided full citizenship for African Americans

Question 9

What did the 15th amendment do?

Answer 9

Provided voting rights for African Americans

Question 10

What was the intolerable act?

Answer 10

King George angered by Boston Tea party -so closed Boston harbor, quarter. Soldiers in empty homes/buildings

Question 11

What was Thomas Paine’s Common Sense pamphlet about?

Answer 11

Attacking the king and argued independence, free trade, and foreign aid

Question 12

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and what was it?

Answer 12

•Thomas Jefferson
•Formal statement of separation

Question 13

What was the Treaty of Paris? When was it created and signed?

Answer 13

•Confirmed US independence
•Created in 1782 - signed 1783

Question 14

What did Thomas Jefferson do when he became president?

Answer 14

•Doubled US territory w/Louisiana purchase

Question 15

What did the Judicial Act of 1789 do?

Answer 15

Created the judicial branch and executive branch

Question 16

How did Hamilton’s stance differ from Jefferson’s? Who supported him?

Answer 16

•believed in strong central government led by the wealthy + educated
-had the northeastern support

Question 17

How did Jefferson’s stance differ from Hamilton’s? Who supported him?

Answer 17

•believed in strong state, local government, people’s participation
-had southern & western support

Question 18

What was the Northern economy like?

Answer 18

More production (machinery, factories textile mills, etc.)

Question 19

What was the south like?

Answer 19

• More farms, plantations
•cotton gin allowed farmers to grow cotton for profit

Question 20

What was “Manifest Destiny?”

Answer 20

•encouraged Americans to head west

Question 21

When was the Indian removal act? What was it?
Who enforced it?

Answer 21

•1830
•The displacement or assimilation of Native Americans
•Andrew Jackson

Question 22

In 1838, 20,000 Natives still remained, who ordered a final removal?

Answer 22

•President Martin Van Buren

Question 23

What was the impact of Mexican independence?

Answer 23

•Trade was encouraged between US & Mexico, as well as moving west to Texas

Question 24

When did Texas go from an independent nation to a state?

Answer 24

•1845

Question 25

What did president James K. Polk want?

Answer 25

•War w/Mexico
^believed US would get Texas, New Mexico and CA

Question 26

What did abolitionists support?

Answer 26

• The abolition of slavery

Question 27

What did John Brown plan? How did he pay for his actions?

Answer 27

•To start a slave uprising
•He was hung

Question 28

What happened during the election of 1860?

Answer 28

Democrats split over slavery and Lincoln won

Question 29

What was Lincoln’s 10% plan?

Answer 29

Reconstruct after civil war 1865-1877

Question 30

What did the radical republicans want to do?

Answer 30

Destroy power of former slave holders and give full citizenship to African Americans

Question 31

Who took over after Lincoln was assassinated?

Answer 31

Andrew Johnson

Question 32

What did Andrew Johnson plan?

Answer 32

Ratify amendments 13-15

Question 33

How was the South doing by 1870?

Answer 33

Farms destroyed, bonds worthless, people dead -BAD

Question 34

What’s the difference between share cropping and tenant farming?

Answer 34

•Sharecropping: owner gives land, seed, tools for part of crops
•Tenant Farming: rent land from owner, buys tools

Question 35

What did the KKK want to do?

Answer 35

•Force republican state governments out of power

Question 36

When were the 14th and 15th amendments undermined?

Answer 36

1870’s

Question 37

When did the democrats return back to power in the south?

Answer 37

1869-1875