1st Quarter Exam Terms

Question 1

Mercantilism

Answer 1

The idea that colonies exist to benefit the Mother Country.

Question 2

The Battle of Saratoga

Answer 2

(1778) Resulted in French Aid; the reason America won the revolution.
Benedict Arnold saved New England by slowing British invasion

Question 3

Copperheads

Answer 3

Northern Democratic farmers who relied on the south for trade and hated Lincoln

Question 4

Common Sense

Answer 4

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued that an island shouldn’t control a continent and that British only protect America for trade and dominion

Question 5

Rush-Bagot Treaty

Answer 5

Limited naval armaments on the Great Lakes

Question 6

Wilmont Proviso

Answer 6

House proposal to ban slavery in land of the Mexican session (did not pass Senate, but fueled slavery debate)

Question 7

Ostend manifesto

Answer 7

Proslavery folks supported this plan to acquire Cuba and make it a slave state, but the Northerners blocked it

Question 8

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 8

(1819) America acquires Florida

Question 9

Where the border states slave or free?

Answer 9

Slave

Question 10

Which states were border states?

Answer 10

Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland

Question 11

Where the border states Union or Confederate?

Answer 11

Union

Question 12

What was the proclamation of 1763?

Answer 12

Prohibited colonists from going west of the appellation Mountains

Question 13

What are carpetbaggers?

Answer 13

Northerners working for the Freedman’s bureau who moved south to enforce reconstruction