American Hstory 1877

Question 1

Jefferson Davis

Answer 1

He was president of the confederacy. He refused to surrender after his defeat was inevitable in the civil war.

Question 2

Northwest passage

Answer 2

The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Question 3

Andrew Jackson

Answer 3

Major general in in the Tennessee militia, he had a lot of military success. Then president of the US.

Question 4

John C. Calhoun

Answer 4

Served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate for South Carolina before becoming secretary of war under President Monroe and then John Quincy Adam’s Vice President.

Question 5

Manifest destiny

Answer 5

The widespread belief that t America was “destined” be God to expand westward across the continent into the lands claimed by Native Americans as well as European nations.

Question 6

Texas revolution

Answer 6

Conflict between Texas colonists and the Mexican government that resulted in the resulted in the Republic of Texas in 1836.

Question 7

Fredrick Douglas

Answer 7

Escaped from slavery and became a writer against slavery. In 1845 he published his autobiography entitled Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas.

Question 8

Free soil coalition

Answer 8

A political party created in 1848 that opposed the expansion of slavery into the new western territories.

Question 9

Lincoln’s Farewell address

Answer 9

Lincoln’s Farewell Address was a speech made by president-elect Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois on February 11, 1861 on his way to his inauguration in Washington, D.C. Several thousand citizens of Illinois gathered to see Lincoln depart.

Question 10

Lecompton Constitution

Answer 10

The Lecompton Constitution, the second constitution drafted for Kansas Territory, was written by proslavery supporters. The document permitted slavery (Article VII), excluded free blacks from living in Kansas, and allowed only male citizens of the United States to vote.

Question 11

Fort Sumpter

Answer 11

The first battle of the Civil War, in which the fort in Charleston Harbor was captured by the Confederates on April 14, 1861, after 2 days of shelling.

Question 12

Gettysburg

Answer 12

A three day battle in southern Pennsylvania, widely considered a turning point in the war, in which Union forces successfully countered a second confederate invasion of the North.

Question 13

Appomattox Court House

Answer 13

Virginian village where confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered to union general Ulysses S Grant.

Question 14

Joint Committee on Reconstruction

Answer 14

was a joint committee of the United States Congress that played a major role in Reconstruction in the wake of the American Civil War

Question 15

Stephen Douglas

Answer 15

Senator from Illinois, he authored the Kansas Nebraska Act. Running for senator he engaged Lincoln in a series of public debates about slavery in the territories. He beat Lincoln in the race.

Question 16

Anaconda plan

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The Unions primary strategy calling for a naval blockade of major southern seaports and then dividing the confederacy by gaining control of the Tennessee , Cumberland and Mississippi Rapiver

Question 17

Sam Huston

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A commander in Texas’s fight for independence. He was responsible for catering Santa Anna. He was also Texas’s first president.

Question 18

Carpetbagger

Answer 18

Northern emigrants who participates in the Republican governments of the reconstructed South.

Question 19

Embargo Act

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A law promoted by President Thomas Jefferson prohibiting American ships from leaving for foreign ports, in order to safeguard them from British and French attacks. This was disastrous for the US ecnomy.

Question 20

Monroe Doctrine

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US foreign policy that barred further colonization in the Western Hemisphere by European powers and pledged that there would be no American interference with any existing European colonies.

Question 21

Whig party

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Political party founded in 1834 in opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats; Whigs supported federal funding for international improvements , a national bank, and high tariffs on imported goods

Question 22

Lewis and Clark

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Led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, a mission to the pacific coast commissioned for the purposes of scientific and geographical exploration

Question 23

Mexican war

Answer 23

U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America

Question 24

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 24

Military order issued by president Lincoln that freed slaves in areas still controlled by the confederates

Question 25

Shakers

Answer 25

Founded by Mother Ann Lee Stanley in England, the UNited society of believers in Christ's Second coming settled in watervliet, New York, in 1774 and subsequently established 18 additional communes in the Northeast, Indiana, and Kentucky

Question 26

Freeman's bureau

Answer 26

Reconstruction agency established in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care and land plowing

Question 27

Battle of Vicksburg

Answer 27

A protracted battle in northern Mississippi in which Union forces under Grant besieged the last major Confederate fortress on the Mississippi River, forcing the inhabitants into starvation and the submission.

Question 28

Radical republicans

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Senators and congress men who strictly identifying the civil war with the abolitionist cause,caught swift emancipation of the slaves punishment of rebels and tight controls of confederate states.

Question 29

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 29

A series of violent conflicts in the Kansas territory between anti slavery and pro slavery factions over the status of slavery

Question 30

Ulysses Grant

Answer 30

Established general after his success in the civil war. Then he was president which his presidency was filled with scandal and fiscal problems.

Question 31

Spoil systems

Answer 31

The filling of federal government jobs with persons loyal to the party of the president -originated in Andrew Jackson's first term; the system was replaced in the Progressive Era by civil service

Question 32

Women's rights

Answer 32

Wave of activism sparked by Betty Friedans in 1963

Question 33

Santa Fe Trail

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A 19th-century transportation route through central North America that connected Independence, Missouri with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, it served as a vital commercial highway until the introduction of the railroad

Question 34

Popular sovereignty

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Legal concept by which the white male settlers in the new US territory would vote on slavery

Question 35

Louisiana purchase

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President Thomas Jeffersons purchase of the Louisiana territory from the French for $15 million doubling the size of the US.

Question 36

War of 1812

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Conflict fought in North America and at sea between Great Britain and the US, 1812-1815, over American shipping rights and British efforts to spur Indian attacks on American settlement. Canada and Indians also fought in the war

Question 37

Missouri compromise

Answer 37

Legislative decision to admit Missouri as a slave state and abolish slavery west of the Mississippi River and north of the parallel 36 30'

Question 38

Lowell system

Answer 38

Model New England factory communities that during the first half of the 19th century provided employees, mostly young women, with meals, a boardinghouse and moral discipline, as well as educational and cultural opportunities.

Question 39

William loyd garrison

Answer 39

In 1831, he started an anti slavery newest paper, and helped start the the New England Anti Slavery society . Two years later, he assisted in the founding of the American anti slavery society.

Question 40

Harriet Tubman

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Born a slave, but escaped to the north. Then she returned to the south 19 times and guided 300 slaves to freedom.

Question 41

Nat Turner

Answer 41

Planner of the only slave revolt to get past planning, in 1831 the revolt began with slaves killing members of Turners masters household, then spread to neighboring farms recruiting salves. Before the militia shut it down. At least 55 white people dead and 17 slaves were hanged

Question 42

Compromise of 1850

Answer 42

A package of five bills presented to the congress by Henry clay intended to avoid secession or civil war by reducing tensions between North and South over the status of slavery

Question 43

Moral land grant

Answer 43

Federal statute that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, which were founded to provide technical education in ag, mining and industry.

Question 44

Antietam

Answer 44

Turning point battle near near Sharpsburg, Maryland, leaving over 20,000 soldiers dead or wounded in which the union stopped confederate forces.