EXAM

Question 1

Which treaty ended the Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

Treaty of Paris 1783

Question 2

Which explorer came through Pickens County?

Answer 2

De Soto

Question 3

Who surrender in the Civil War?

Answer 3

Robert E Lee

Question 4

What was the Great Compromise

Answer 4

Virginia and New Jersey Plan mixed. One party (the Senate) has 2 per state. One party (the House) has representatives by the population

Question 5

The slaves were counted as ⅗ of a person

Answer 5

The ⅗ Compromise

Question 6

Missouri and Maine

36- 30

Answer 6

Compromise of 1820

Question 7

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 7

Compromise of 1850

Question 8

What happened Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Answer 8

Jefferson was gonna buy NOLA for 10,000,000 and the Spainish sold the whole state for 15,000,000

Question 9

How many times has the U.S, constitution been admitted?

Answer 9

27 times

Question 10

What were the first 10 amendments

Answer 10

The Bill of Right

Question 11

13, 14,15,16 amendments

Answer 11

13. Freed Slaves
14. Made them citizens (slaves)
15. Gave the slaves voting rights
16. Income Tax

Question 12

who wrote Sinners in the hands of an angry God and what kind of preaching was that?

Answer 12

Jonathan Edwards and Fire and Brimstone

Question 13

Primogeniture

Answer 13

Oldest son gets everything

Question 14

When was the First Thanksgiving

Answer 14

1621

Question 15

Ethnocentrism

Answer 15

judging someone’s else’s culture by your standards and what you do

Question 16

Who was George the 3rd

Answer 16

he was on the throne from 1760 to 1820- before he left the throne he went crazy

Question 17

What was the Loode government

Answer 17

Articles of Confederation

Question 18

what is the Middle Passage

Answer 18

it was the point where they slaves would get transported, hand full of oatmeal

Question 19

Mercantilism

Answer 19

between england and colonies, they took advantage of the colonies and their resources; British colonies only trade with Britain

Question 20

Know How to make a law

Answer 20

1. It is written down, given a number, given a public reading, assigned to a committee, then it is voted on
2. After sending through the house, you have to go to the senate and do the whole process again, after this they would have to have identical conclusion
3. They have a joint committee to decide on it then they have to send it through both house and senate again
4. If it makes it pass that then it has to go to the president (if signed then it is immediately put into law) if not signed it is sent back to Congress and if it voted by ⅔ (66%) it gets put in law
5. Someone can challenge this in court, Supreme Court has 9 people in it. If is doesn’t go against the constitution the law is thrown out but if not the law stands as is.
6. You can change the supreme court by changing the constitution by getting Congress to vote (75%) you can also get (75%) of the states and it can be changed.

Question 21

Roe vs. Wade

Answer 21

abortion; they wanted it to be medically supervised

Question 22

Gideon vs. Wainwright.

Answer 22

he tried to be his own lawyer because he could not afford one, they then said that the government would appoint you with one

Question 23

Miranda vs. Arizona

Answer 23

hey started making everyone state their rights when they were arrested it
If you were not stated your rights you can have the case thrown out.

Question 24

Plessy vs.Ferguson 1896

Answer 24

supreme court ruled separate could be equal

Question 25

Brown vs. Board of Education 1954

Answer 25

came against that and said that separate was not equal

Question 26

No taxation without representation and what does it mean

Answer 26

The Colonies war cry. It was where American colonists were being taxed by a British Parliament to which they had no representatives

Question 27

Checks and Balances

Answer 27

where no one branch gets too much power

Question 28

The President's veto over rules everything but how much does it take to veto him

Answer 28

It takes 66% for veto

Question 29

The 3 g’s

Answer 29

Gold, God, Glory. (In that order)

Question 30

Sectionalism | South vs North differences

Answer 30

the south was in favor of slavery and the north was against it.

Question 31

What happened to Lincoln in Ford's theater

Answer 31

was shot in the back of the head by John Wilks Booth

Question 32

Manifest Destiny

Answer 32

that the USA would rule over the continent from East to West

Question 33

the rules they set up when they got off the Mayflower. You don’t work you don’t eat.

Answer 33

Mayflower Compact

Question 34

What was the starving

Answer 34

The first winter for the Pilgrims. More that half of them died

Question 35

The school law was for kids to be able to read the bible

Answer 35

The Massachusetts Law

Question 36

Why did people want their kids to know how to read

Answer 36

So they could read their bible

Question 37

Who were the people in the underground railroad?

Answer 37

Sojourner Truth | Harriet Tubman

Question 38

John Smith

Answer 38

was an English man who married a Indian girl and wrote the General History of Virginia

Question 39

Where was The Lost Colony

Answer 39

Roanoke, VA

Question 40

What was the word carved into the tree when the Colonist got back to Roanoke

Answer 40

Croatoan

Question 41

Where was the first conoly

Answer 41

St. Augustine, Fl

Question 42

What was the first successful colony?

Answer 42

Jamestown

Question 43

What is the black legend?

Answer 43

The Spanish were Cruel to the natives

Question 44

What primary source proved the Black Legend right

Answer 44

Las Costas Diary

Question 45

Cortez killed Montezuma even after making a deal to give him a lot of gold

Answer 45

Montezuma’s Revenge

Question 46

Seasoning

Answer 46

Getting used to your new environment

Question 47

The Indians gave what disease to the Europeans

Answer 47

Had STD’s and gave it to the Europeans

Question 48

The Europeans gave what disease to the Indians and what happened to the Indians

Answer 48

Europeans brought smallpox | Indians died because they weren't immune to it.

Question 49

Who was Lewis and Clark

Answer 49

Explorers for the Louisiana Purchase. They were sent to check out what we bought

Question 50

These people Opposed to alcohol

Answer 50

Temperance League

Question 51

Shot by prominent politician

Answer 51

Alexander Hamilton

Question 52

Who shot Alexander Hamilton

Answer 52

Aaron Burr

Question 53

Sutter's mill | January 24, 1848

Answer 53

Where they first found golds

Question 54

What is significant about this date December 14 1819.

Answer 54

Alabama became a state

Question 55

These two people ran off and made their own free colony

Answer 55

Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams

Question 56

Who was the only confederate president?

Answer 56

Jefferson Davis

Question 57

Who was the Little Giant

Answer 57

Stephen A. Douglass

Question 58

What was Lincoln's trade

Answer 58

a Lawyer

Question 59

Who Surrendered to Washington and why did he

Answer 59

Cornwallis | He was surrounded

Question 60

Only freed slaves in state of rebellion

Answer 60

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 61

Where was the first Confederate Capital and where was it moved to

Answer 61

Montgomery, AL to Richmond VA

Question 62

Died in the Battle of Chancellorsville by friendly fire

Answer 62

Stonewall Jackson

Question 63

Sending someone to fight for you

Answer 63

Second

Question 64

Didn't live in white house | Set the limit to 2 terms but that didn't become a law until after

Answer 64

George Washington

Question 65

What 3 things was George Washington known for

Answer 65

First president First commander in chief Continental Congress

Question 66

Found on accident by the natives

Answer 66

America

Question 67

Working for Isabella and Ferdinand from Spain

Answer 67

Christopher Columbus

Question 68

What was CC 3 ships

Answer 68

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

Question 69

What year did CC sail the ocean blue

Answer 69

1492

Question 70

First European to see Pacific

Answer 70

Balboa

Question 71

Said all the way around the world | He was killed by the natives somewhere through.

Answer 71

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 72

Believe in many gods

Answer 72

Polytheism

Question 73

What did Lincoln say the Civil War was fought for

Answer 73

To preserve the Union

Question 74

What did the South say the Civil War was about

Answer 74

States Wrights

Question 75

Compare British and American Soldiers

Answer 75

Do yall know this one

Question 76

Compare North and South

Answer 76

Do yall know this one

Question 77

THE NINE REINDEER

Answer 77

Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen and Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. RUDOLPH