Vocab Quiz 3 Review Guide For Brainscape

Question 1

Agrement at the Constitutional Convention that created the Senate (to represent all states equally) and the House of Representatives (to represent states based on their populations)

Answer 1

Great Compromise

Question 2

Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded the Seneca Falls Convention.

Answer 2

Lucretia Mott

Question 3

Andrew Carnegie’s belief that rich people are obligated to help out the poor

Answer 3

Gospel of Wealth

Question 4

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 4

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 5

Co-founder of NAACP, but left because she felt it didn’t fight hard enough for equality

Answer 5

Ida Wells Barnett

Question 6

Federal law regulating the prices that Railroads could charge farmers for transporting crops

Answer 6

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 7

Firey abolitionist present at both “Bleeding Kansas” and Harper’s Ferry.

Answer 7

John Brown

Question 8

First battle of the Revolutionary War

Answer 8

Lexington & Concord

Question 9

Great negotiator - worked out the American System between the North and the West

Answer 9

Henry Clay

Question 10

Land purchased by Thomas Jefferson from France even though he didn’t think the Constitution allowed him to.

Answer 10

Louisiana Territory

Question 11

Law giving land in the west to people who would build homes on it

Answer 11

Homestead Act

Question 12

Law stating that the question of slavery would be decided in two midwestern states through the use of Popular Sovereignty.

Answer 12

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 13

Military arsenal where John Brown was captured for trying to provide slaves with stolen weapons.

Answer 13

Harper’s Ferry

Question 14

Period in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s when many African Americans moved north

Answer 14

Great Migration

Question 15

President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War

Answer 15

Jefferson Davis

Question 16

President who completed Manifest Destiny by adding Washington, Arizona, California, etc.

Answer 16

James K. Polk

Question 17

Ritual performed by native Americans to make the white men move off of their land

Answer 17

Ghost Dance

Question 18

Supreme Court Chief Justice who greatly strengthened the power of the Supreme Court and the Federal Government

Answer 18

John Marshall

Question 19

The idea that Government can only do what the Constitution specifically allows it to do

Answer 19

Limited Government

Question 20

The idea that the Constitution should be interpreted in a way that allows maximum freedom and few limits

Answer 20

Loose Interpretation

Question 21

The power of the Supreme Court to review laws to make sure they are in agreement with the Constitution

Answer 21

Judicial Review

Question 22

Virginia’s legislative body during the colonial period - the first representative government in the colonies.

Answer 22

House of Burgesses

Question 23

When one company buys up other companies engaged in the same type of business (one car company buys up another car company)

Answer 23

Horizontal Integration

Question 24

Wrote “Rags to Riches” stories (late 1800’s) about how hard work would lead to success

Answer 24

Horatio Alger

Question 25

Wrote in “The Social Contract” that man has the right to life, liberty, and property.

Answer 25

John Locke