First Semester Review

Question 0

Antislavery novel that strengthened the abolitionist movement

Answer 0

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 1

System in which child laborers were paid very little for dangerous factory work

Answer 1

Lowell System

Question 2

Jefferson defeated Adams in this “revolution”

Answer 2

Election of 1800

Question 3

All states above 36’30’ would be free of slavery

Answer 3

Missouri Compromise

Question 4

Resolutions declaring Alien & Sedition Acts unconstitutional

Answer 4

Virginia-Kentucky Resuolutions

Question 5

Protestant revival movement characterized by sweeping reforms

Answer 5

2nd Great Awakening

Question 6

System under which state citizens would vote on slavery

Answer 6

popular sovereignty

Question 7

Document that declared all slaves in seceding states free

Answer 7

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 8

Women’s rights convention held in New York

Answer 8

Seneca Falla Convention

Question 9

Whig economic system including high tariffs and a national bank

Answer 9

American System

Question 10

Landmark SCotUS decision that establishef judicial review

Answer 10

Marbury v. Madison

Question 11

System in which political leaders appointed their supporters to government positions

Answer 11

spoils system

Question 12

Controversial SCotUS decision that made banning slavery illegal

Answer 12

Dredd Scott Decision

Question 13

War after which the US gained California and other areas

Answer 13

Mexican War

Question 14

Act that forced all Indian tribes off their land and into reservations

Answer 14

Indian Removal Act

Question 15

US-British war nicknamed “Mr. Madison’s War”

Answer 15

War of 1812

Question 16

Religioua reformation begun by Johnathan Edwards

Answer 16

First Great Awakening

Question 17

Declaration that interferince by European countries in New World affairs would be viewed as aggression

Answer 17

Monroe Doctrine

Question 18

Bank of US
Excise tax on whiskey
Funding at par
Assumption of state debts
Tariff

Answer 18

Hamilton’s financial plan

Question 19

Created territories of Kansas and Nebraska and established popular soverignty

Answer 19

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 20

Lincoln defeated Breckinridge, Bell, and Douglas

Answer 20

Election of 1860

Question 21

John C. Calhoun and South Carolina riot over 1832 tariff

Answer 21

Tariff Crisis

Question 22

Anti-War of 1812 convention that destroyed the Federalists

Answer 22

Hartford Convention

Question 23

Anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic party

Answer 23

Know-Nothing Party

Question 24

Treaty that ended the Mexican War

Answer 24

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 25

Addition to the Constitution that established basic citizens’ rights

Answer 25

Bill of Rights

Question 26

Jeffersonian land purchase that doubled US size

Answer 26

LA Purchase

Question 27

Debates that increased Lincoln’s popularity with the public

Answer 27

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Question 28

US agency that aided freed slaves

Answer 28

Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 29

Idea that the US was destined to span from coast to coast

Answer 29

manifest destiny

Question 30

Federalist judges appointed late in Adam’s term

Answer 30

midnight judges

Question 31

War over slavery and states’ rights

Answer 31

Civil War

Question 32

Temperance movement, women’s rights movement, abolitionist movement, etc.

Answer 32

Reform movements

Question 33

Fletcher v. Peck, McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, etc.

Answer 33

John Marshall court decisions

Question 34

Belief that women were to be confined to the home and were unsuited to learning

Answer 34

Cult of Domesticity

Question 35

Revolution that included the introduction of the steam engine and the Erie Canal

Answer 35

transportation revolution