History- Making of America

Question 1

how many states did America have originally

Answer 1

13 states

Question 2

it was a federal republic meaning ………..

Answer 2

states had the same power as the federal government

Question 3

which type of people only had the vote or any power

Answer 3

white property owning men

Question 4

who was the first president

Answer 4

George Washington

Question 5

what did George Washington do

Answer 5

fought wars with Indians to gain land

Question 6

which president made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803

Answer 6

President Jefferson

Question 7

what was key to south economy

Answer 7

cotton

Question 8

what was cotton dependent on

Answer 8

slavery

Question 9

what did the Missouri compromise in 1820 do

Answer 9

made sure that each new slave state would be balanced by a new free state

Question 10

what were the 5 civilised Indian tribes

Answer 10

cherokee
chickasaw
seminole
creek
choctaw

Question 11

what did president Andrew Jackson do

Answer 11

led the 5 civilised Indian tribes to their expulsion west in the
Trail Of Tears - 1834

Question 12

what did the Plain Indians such as Lakota depend on

Answer 12

buffalo
lived nomadically in tipis

Question 13

in the 1840s pioneers began travelling west in wagon trains along trails such as

Answer 13

the Oregon and California trails

Question 14

what did the Oregon and California trails promise

Answer 14

a promise of a new life in a better economy

Question 15

what were the conditions of the Oregon and California trails

Answer 15

harsh weather conditions
rivers
diseases
mountains

Question 16

what was the largest mass migration in American history

Answer 16

the Californian Gold Rush 1849

Question 17

what happened in the Californian Gold Rush 1849

Answer 17

300,000 people went
places like San Francisco grew
many people made lots of money

Question 18

what year did the south leave the union

Answer 18

1861

Question 19

when the south left the union what did they call themselves

Answer 19

confederacy

Question 20

why did the south go to war with the north

Answer 20

to keep slavery

Question 21

what did the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 do

Answer 21

states could pick whether to have slavery or not

Question 22

what did the Supreme Court do

Answer 22

sided with the slave owners

Question 23

who were two abolitionists

Answer 23

John Brown
Frederick Douglass

Question 24

what did Fredrick Douglass and John Brown do

Answer 24

spreaded the idea of ending slavery

Question 25

what did the Emancipation Proclamation do

Answer 25

freed slaves

Question 26

1863 - 54th Massachusetts

Answer 26

ex slaves in South Carolina were taught to read and many were given 40 acres of land

Question 27

what did the Transcontinental railroad of 1869 do

Answer 27

united the east and west

Question 28

what was good about the transcontinental railroad

Answer 28

opened up easier travel

Question 29

what was bad about the transcontinental railroad

Answer 29

cut across Indian hunting grounds

Question 30

what did the cattle industry introduce

Answer 30

new trails new cow towns however these were violent drunken places

Question 31

what did the Homesteaders Act 1862 offer

Answer 31

160 acres for $10 for a promise to farm for 10 years (many returned due to difficult farming conditions, loneliness and harsh weather)

Question 32

why did tensions rise between white settlers and Indians

Answer 32

over land and water

Question 33

what was Little Crows war 1862 because of

Answer 33

response to the government starving the Indians

Question 34

what was the result of the Great Sioux War

Answer 34

the government began exterminating the buffalo forcing all Indians to : assimilate or die move to reservations sign the Dawes Act

Question 35

Big business grew and the first corporations such as

Answer 35

Carnegie steel company

Question 36

how many original states were there in america

Answer 36

13

Question 37

who were 4 early presidents

Answer 37

George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson

Question 38

which tribes were forced out of the east 1830-1838

Answer 38

cherokee creek chocktaw seminole chickisaw

Question 39

states of the south

Answer 39

florida alabama mississipi georgia north carolina south carolina virgina texas louisiana

Question 40

when was the start and end of the civil war

Answer 40

start: 1861 end: 1865

Question 41

when was the emancipation proclamation

Answer 41

1863

Question 42

new cities that had grown by 1900

Answer 42

san francisco denver dodge city

Question 43

changes jn African American life after 1877

Answer 43

jim crow laws segregation army removed from south

Question 44

what was the jim crow laws

Answer 44

were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation, remained in force until 1965.