Terms Midterm

Question 1

Lewis and Clark

Answer 1

Commissioned by Pres. Jefferson to map and explore the interior of the US

Question 2

Era of good feelings

Answer 2

Name for pres monroes two terms

Question 3

Salem witch trials

Answer 3

3 girls started blaming women. Over 20 in the end were executed. Not just about religion but land

Question 4

Dawes act

Answer 4

Federal law that provided Indian families w/ 160 acres of reservation land

Question 5

Battle of Saratoga

Answer 5

Lasted 6 months. Over one million men died

Question 6

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 6

Congress taxed all liquor. All the corn from farmers gone to waste- lost a lot of money

Question 7

Second great awakening

Answer 7

Series of religious revivals. Attracted women, blacks and native Americans

Question 8

Battle of little big horn

Answer 8

Sioux warriors slaughtered more than 80 soldiers

Question 9

French and Indian war

Answer 9

Fought for control of eastern N. America

Britain v. French and Indian allies.

Question 10

Stamp act

Answer 10

Required colonist to purchase stamps on legal documents

Question 11

Treaty of Paris

Answer 11

1. Britain recognized colonies to be free
2. Allowed western expansion
3. Fishing rights, back prisoners of war & Mississippi River access

Question 12

Cult of domesticity

Answer 12

Married women should restricts their activities to their home and families

Question 13

Dread Scott case

Answer 13

Black slave suing for freedom based on living in free territory w/ master for five years. Supreme Court ruled him slave not citizen.

Question 14

Bacons Rebellion

Answer 14

First Rebellion in American colonies- frontiersmen took part

Question 15

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 15

Executive order by Lincoln- freeing the slaves in all confederacy territory

Question 16

First great awakening

Answer 16

1st great American revival
“New light” - supports
“Old light” - opposes

Question 17

Lincoln- Douglas debates

Answer 17

Series of seven debates in towns throughout Illinois during the 1858 senatorial election

Question 18

Cotton gin

Answer 18

Invention used to quickly separate the seeds from the cotton ball

Question 19

Marburg v. Madison

Answer 19

Chief Justice Marshall asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the constitution

Question 20

Monroe doctrine

Answer 20

Statement of foreign policy- Europe should not interfere with American affairs in the United States

Question 21

Sharecropping

Answer 21

System of work and lively hood for freedmen who were employed (enslaved) in the cotton industry

Question 22

Pilgrims

Answer 22

People of god who left home in England to find their religious freedom

Question 23

Oregon settlement

Answer 23

Migratory trend. Stimulated by the optimistic reports of rich farm land and mild climate

Question 24

Shays rebellion

Answer 24

Effort to prevent courts from foreclosing on the farms of those who couldn’t pay

Question 25

Stamp act congress

Answer 25

Congress asked the king to get rid of the stamp act- no right to tax them

Question 26

Tea act

Answer 26

American merchants not allowed to sell tea to colonists

Question 27

Trail of tears

Answer 27

Land & water route used to force Cherokee Indians fro their homes

Question 28

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 28

Stopped the war and gave back land taken in the war

Question 29

Indentured servants

Answer 29

They signed contracts w/ America colonists to come to America. Had to work for 7 years (or more). Food, clothes and shelter provided

Question 30

Great railroad strike

Answer 30

Railroad workers stopped working in response to wage cuts

Question 31

A century of dishonor

Answer 31

Written by Helen hunt Jackson. Telling about the injustices made on the native Americans during expansion

Question 32

Start spangled banner

Answer 32

Written by Francis Scott key during war of 1812

Question 33

Yeomen farmers

Answer 33

Small landowners who farmed their own land and usually did not have slaves

Question 34

Intolerable acts

Answer 34

Passed in response to the Boston tea party. Set up to punish Massachusetts

Question 35

Annexation of Texas

Answer 35

Southern states supported Texas slavery. North feared expansion of slavery

Question 36

Fugitive slave laws

Answer 36

Couldn't help run away slaves-get punished and fined | Could capture slaves in free states

Question 37

Battle of Antietam

Answer 37

North succeed in stopping Lee's confederate forces in Maryland

Question 38

Erie Canal

Answer 38

363 mile long artificial water way connecting Hudson River to Lake Erie

Question 39

Three fifths compromise

Answer 39

Number of each state representatives in congress based on freed people and 3/5 of the slaves

Question 40

Boston massacre

Answer 40

British soldiers fired into group of colonists, killing some- instigation from the colonists