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Question 1

What is the name of the age that ..

• 1870s-1900
• Era of rapid economic growth in North and West
• Followed Civil War and part of Reconstruction Era

Answer 1

Gilded Age

Question 2

What is the name of the war that was a dispute between southern boundary of Texas?

Answer 2

US and Mexican War of 1846

Question 3

What is the name of the dominant agricultural modal in post Civil War (After 1865) in South. Landowner allows tenant to use land in Reuter for share of crop produced on land?

Answer 3

Sharecropping System

Question 3

What is the antebellum period?

Answer 3

Considered to be the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812

Question 4

What is the antebellum period?

Answer 4

1790-1860

Question 5

What crop is best to grow in lower South?

Answer 5

Cotton

Question 6

__________ was an attempt to absolve slavery issue by admitting California as a free state but permitting slavery in the rest of the Southwest

Answer 6

Compromise of 1850

Question 7

What crop was popularly grown in the north?

Answer 7

Wheat

Question 9

____________ provided the means by which new states that were created in Western lands were admitted into the union.

Answer 9

Northwest ordinance of 1787

Question 10

The Treaty of Guadeloupe marked the end of what war?

Answer 10

Mexican-American War

Question 11

The Treaty of Guadeloupe led the _________ purchase.

Answer 11

Gadsden

Question 12

After Texas gained independence from Mexico with the Treaty of Guadeloupe, they wanted to joint he US immediately. What happened?

Answer 12

Congress voted against Texas joining the Union.

Question 13

What was the name of the agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.

Answer 13

Gadsen Purchase

Question 14

Massive foreign immigration from Ireland and Germany greatly increased the size of the cities in the North during what period?

Answer 14

The Antebellum Period

Question 15

In the South, what impeded the development of industry and cities and discourage technological innovation?

Answer 15

Slavery

Question 16

What was the Dred Scott Decision?

Answer 16

Supreme Court rule that slave owners had the right to take their slaves into the Western territories,

Question 17

There were 3 treaties of Paris.what 2 wars did they end?

Answer 17

French and Indian War (1763)

Revolutionary War (1783)

Spanish-American (1898)

Question 18

What admitted California as a free state and abolished the slave trade in DC?

Answer 18

Compromise of 1850

Question 19

What was the fugitive slave law 1850?

Answer 19

any federal marshal who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave could be fined $1,000.

Question 20

During the Civil War, was the North or South more advanced?

Answer 20

North – The only advantage South had was that most battles were fought on their land.

Question 21

The Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony for religious reasons, but the Jamestown founders were mostly looking for _______ and _________.

Answer 21

Gold and adventure

Question 22

Researchers believe that peopel arrived in America between:

A. 3,000 - 10,000 years ago
B. 15,000-30.000 years ago
C. 30,000 - 60,000 yrs ago
D. 80,000 - 100, 00 yrs ago

Answer 22

B. 15,000-30.000 years ago

Question 23

____________ is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants such as armed civilians or irregulars use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and mobility to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military.

Answer 23

Guerilla warfare

Question 24

The _______________ Act of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting southern states into the Union.

Answer 24

Reconstruction