history final

Question 1

How did Southern leaders justify southern secession?

Answer 1

By saying the north’s has unconstitutional state rights

Question 2

Why did John Brown lead an attack on Harper’s Ferry?

Answer 2

Wanted to fight against slavery

Question 3

What law aroused great opposition and widespread disobedience in the North concerning runaway slaves?

Answer 3

Fugitive slave law

Question 4

What is the belief that people living in a region should decide key issues?

Answer 4

Popular sovereignty

Question 5

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 5

Harriet beecher

Question 6

Who was the President of the Confederacy?

Answer 6

Jefferson Finis Davis

Question 7

What is a draft?

Answer 7

When the government requires MEN to serve in military

Question 8

Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 8

To justify the deaths in war

Question 8

Where did the draft laws cause riots?

Answer 8

New York City (also known as…THE BIG APPLE)

Question 9

Why did Lee want to take the war to the North?

Answer 9

To relive pressure on Virginia

Question 10

Who practiced Total War?

Answer 10

General William Sherman

Question 11

Why did the Southern states secede after the 1860 election?

Answer 11

Lincoln was elected and his plan was to end slavery

Question 12

What was the 54th Massachusetts regiment?

Answer 12

The first military unit consisting of black men

Question 13

What Union general was often criticized for his fighting strategies and removed from power TWICE?

Answer 13

George McClellan

Question 14

What event triggered the fighting between the North and the South?

Answer 14

Fort Sumter

Question 15

What battle was considered the turning point in the Civil War?

Answer 15

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 16

What were passed to limit the freedoms of the former slaves in the South?

Answer 16

Black codes

Question 17

What Amendment gave African Americans full citizenship?

Answer 17

14th amendment

Question 18

What did the Fifteenth Amendment do?

Answer 18

Allowed men of colored to vote

Question 19

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

Answer 19

Abolish/ended slavery

Question 20

Why did the House of Representatives impeach Andrew Johnson?

Answer 20

Broke ten year office act

Question 21

Who operated the schools to educate former slaves ?

Answer 21

Freedmen’s bureau

Question 22

What did the compromise of 1877 do?

Answer 22

Promised to remove soilders from the south if they promised to be good

Question 23

How was the law handled by vigilantes?

Answer 23

By taking it (unlawfully) into their own hands

Question 24

What had happened when gold was discovered in the Black Hills?

Answer 24

Caused a massive gold rush and attracted many folk seeking a fortune.(Erm what the sigma?!Why would you make it public you found gold...WHAT A FOOL)

Question 25

Why did U.S. soldiers kill Ghost Dancers in the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 25

Because they refused the to stand down

Question 26

Armed resistance of Native Americans to white settlement of their lands in the West ended with who's arrest?

Answer 26

Geronimo

Question 27

What were some of the problems miners encountered?

Answer 27

Harsh living conditions and dangerous working conditions

Question 28

To force the Sioux back on the reservations, who did the government send?

Answer 28

George Armstrong Custer

Question 29

What was the goals of labor unions?

Answer 29

Better pay,better working conditions,and better benefits

Question 30

What was the Bessemer Process?

Answer 30

Making steel

Question 31

Critics of powerful industrialists referred to Bessemer Process as…?

Answer 31

Robber barons

Question 32

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 32

If your better than other people you’ll survive

Question 33

During the late 1800s, why did children often work in factories?

Answer 33

Make money + CHEAP CHILD LABOR WAHOOO

Question 34

What is Ellis Island?

Answer 34

One of the United States major immigration station

Question 35

What is angel island?

Answer 35

Processing center for immigrants

Question 36

What are people who come into a country called?

Answer 36

Immigrant (duh)

Question 37

What part of the nation did immigrants rarely settle?

Answer 37

Country side (YEEHAW 🤠)

Question 38

Why were Chinese recruited to the United States?

Answer 38

They were good workers for cheap

Question 39

What is a muckraker?

Answer 39

Journalists who try’s uncover corruption and social problems

Question 40

What territories did the U.S.gain from Spain?

Answer 40

Guam,puerto Rico ,Philippines,Hawaii

Question 41

Why was the U.S.S. Maine moved to Havana Harbor?

Answer 41

It exploded 💥 AAAAAA KABOOM KABOOM 🤯

Question 42

In China the United States competed with other nations for what?

Answer 42

Trade supplies

Question 43

What did the Platt Amendment call for?

Answer 43

Protect cubas independence from foreign intervention

Question 44

Why was the building of the Panama Canal important?

Answer 44

Made travel easier and faster for Central America

Question 45

What is imperialism?

Answer 45

When countries take over countries to be more powerful (POWER 💪)

Question 46

How did the U.S. acquire Panama?

Answer 46

Brought it off

Question 47

Who were the popular newspaper publishers printing stories about Cuban rebels?

Answer 47

The yellow journalism

Question 48

Why did the U.S. annex Hawaii?

Answer 48

Because they wanted to give them our culture and wanted their land/resources

Question 49

What ended Progressivism?

Answer 49

Ww1

Question 50

What did most Progressives think government should do with workers and the poor?

Answer 50

Help more with charity’s and financial help/aid