Final Exam Part 2- Vocab

Question 1

Hamilton’s Financial Plan

Answer 1

pays off national debt and sets up national bank

Question 2

Federalists

Answer 2

led by Hamilton, pro-British, central-government

Question 3

Democratic-Republicans

Answer 3

led by Jefferson, pro-French, state-government

Question 4

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 4

anti-French/Democratic-Republican laws that limit immigration of French and the Free Speech of the Demo-Rep

Question 5

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 5

Jefferson purchased the Modern Midwest from France

Question 6

Marbury v. Madison

Answer 6

Supreme Court established Judicial Branch as a true Third Branch of the US Government

Question 7

Judicial Review

Answer 7

the Supreme Court would exercise power to decide
if an act of Congress or President was Constitutional

Question 8

Embargo Act

Answer 8

America cannot export any of its goods to other countries

Question 9

Nonintercourse Act

Answer 9

America could trade with
all nations except Britain and
France

Question 10

War Hawks

Answer 10

Democratic-Republican representatives that push for the War of 1812

Question 11

Hartford Convention

Answer 11

Federalists threaten secession, end of the Federalist Party

Question 12

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 12

ends the War of 1812

Question 13

The Era of Good Feelings

Answer 13

after War of 1812, Federalist Party is no longer a party, Democratic-Republicans dominate politics

Question 14

Panic of 1819

Answer 14

economy falls apart, land speculation by the
National Bank fuels the disaster

Question 15

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Answer 15

-Missouri admitted as a slave state
-Maine admitted as a Free State
-no slavery allowed in territories above Missouri’s border

Question 16

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 16

a warning to European powers to
end colonization in the New World

Question 17

Democratic Party

Answer 17

formed by Andrew Jackson

Question 18

Spoils System

Answer 18

created by Andrew Jackson, government offices would be rewarded to loyal party members based on the party in charge

Question 19

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 19

determines that states cannot tax federal institutions, the Constitution gave the federal government implied powers

Question 20

Worcester v. Georgia

Answer 20

determines that Cherokees do not have to move West

Question 21

Whig Party

Answer 21

forms around opposition to Andrew Jackson

Question 22

Industrial Revolution

Answer 22

shifts the nation’s economy from agriculture to manufacturing

Question 23

Temperance Movement

Answer 23

• creates mental hospitals, schools for the blind and deaf, and prisons
  -creation of public school system

Question 24

Cult of Domesticity

Answer 24

women get married, pump out kids, and be the moral leader of the household while the man works

Question 25

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 25

first feminist political convention

Question 26

Manifest Destiny

Answer 26

idea that westward expansion was necessary

Question 27

Compromise of 1850

Answer 27

-California is a free state -split New Mexico into two territories, people decide if slave or free state -ban slaves in Washington D.C. -Fugitive Slave laws

Question 28

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 28

Douglas proposes to split Nebraska territory into two parts and allow settlers to vote on free or slave through Popular Sovereignty

Question 29

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 29

Pro-Slavery and Abolitionists fight in Kansas over slavery in territories

Question 30

Dred Scott Case

Answer 30

know

Question 31

John Brown

Answer 31

leads a slave uprising in the South because he wanted slavery to end immediately, killed, abolitionist thought he was a hero

Question 32

Crittenden’s Compromise

Answer 32

the last effort to save the Union and states seceding by Congress

Question 33

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 33

first battle of the Civil War

Question 34

Anaconda Plan

Answer 34

blockade the south, split it in half, capture the Mississippi

Question 35

First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 35

showed that this would be a long war

Question 36

Battle of Antietam

Answer 36

Union victory gave Lincoln the idea of the Emancipation Proclamation (changing course of the war)

Question 37

Monitor v. Merricmac

Answer 37

first naval battle between two ironclad ships, signals a new era in naval warfare

Question 38

Trent Affair

Answer 38

North fires on British vessel carrying Southern diplomats, Lincoln averts war with Britain by releasing the diplomats

Question 39

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 39

turning point

Question 40

Gettysburg Address

Answer 40

Lincoln motivates the Union to win the war

Question 41

Writ of Habeus Corpus

Answer 41

arrests made without people being informed of the reason for the arrest, suspended by Lincoln

Question 42

Greenbacks

Answer 42

paper money backed by nothing, help finance the war, lead to creation of new national banking system

Question 43

Copperheads

Answer 43

peace Democrats

Question 44

surrender at Appomattox Court House

Answer 44

Lee surrenders to Grant, end of war in the east

Question 45

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (Warm and Fuzzy)

Answer 45

-full pardons to Confederates who took an Oath of Allegiance and accepted emancipation -state governments could be reestablished when 10% of states voters took oath

Question 46

Wade-Davis Bill (Cold and Harsh

Answer 46

-50% of states voters take the oath of allegiance -only those who did not serve in Confederate military or government could vote on a new state constitution

Question 47

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 47

welfare agency that provided food, shelter, medical aid to black and white Americans left destitute by the war

Question 48

13th Ammendement

Answer 48

ended slavery

Question 49

14th Amendment

Answer 49

everyone born in the US is a citizen, that right could not be taken away

Question 50

15th Ammendment

Answer 50

African American men have the right to vote

Question 51

Black Codes

Answer 51

know

Question 52

Sharecropping

Answer 52

know

Question 53

KKK

Answer 53

know

Question 54

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Answer 54

splits South into 5 military districts, troops ensure African Americans have rights and are safe

Question 55

What do Scalawags and Carpetbaggers accomplish?

Answer 55

form a political alliance with African Americans to govern the region in politics

Question 56

Panic of 1873

Answer 56

banks, industry, railroads go broke, Grant Administration sides with Big Money, leaves the poor on their own

Question 57

The Compromise of 1877

Answer 57

federal troops evacuate the south, Reconstruction ends

Question 58

know fails and successes of Reconstruction

Answer 58

know