US Gov Test

Question 1

What Is Jamestown?

Answer 1

The first permanent English settlement in North America

Question 2

When was Jamestown founded?

Answer 2

1607

Question 3

When did the first enslaved people arrive at Jamestown?

Answer 3

1619

Question 4

When was Declaration of Independence signed and declared?

Answer 4

1776

Question 5

When was the Louisiana Purchase

Answer 5

1804

Question 6

When was the adoption of the US Constitution

Answer 6

1787

Question 7

Civil War

Answer 7

1861-1865

Question 8

When did the Reconstruction era end?

Answer 8

1877

Question 9

Full suffrage for women with the 19th Amendment

Answer 9

1920

Question 10

When was the Prohibition Era?

Answer 10

1920-1933

Question 11

When was the Great Depression

Answer 11

1929-1939

Question 12

World War II

Answer 12

1939-1945

Question 13

Civil Rights Movement

Answer 13

1954-1968

Question 14

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 14

1962

Question 15

When did the Cold War end?

Answer 15

1991

Question 16

1st part of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 16

California was admitted to the Union as a free state

Question 17

2nd part of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 17

Popular sovereignty will be used in Utah and New Mexico territories.

Question 18

3rd part of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 18

Texas and New Mexico borders settled, Texas gets $10 Million to help pay debts.

Question 19

4th part of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 19

Slave trade, but not slavery itself, abolished in Washington D.C only.

Question 20

5th part of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 20

Stronger federal enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.

Question 21

Compromise of 1850

Answer 21

5 Parts, a set of laws that “settle” issues dealing with slavery in new territories.

Question 22

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 22

Required that all “escaped” slaves should be captured and returned to their masters and that officials and officers of free states must cooperate.

Question 23

Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 23

an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed whithin a new states border.

Question 24

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 24

The ruling that reinforced slavery and said African Americans were not U.S citizens

Question 25

Who was John Brown

Answer 25

a white abolitionist who wanted to end slavery and start slave uprisings.

Question 26

What did John Brown do

Answer 26

murdered pro-slavery supporters in KA, raided Harper's Ferry (where they kept military weapons) hoping that slaves would meet him and take their freedom back by force. He was captured by Marines

Question 27

When and Where did John Brown do this

Answer 27

Oct. 16, 1859 Harper's ferry in Virginia

Question 28

Declarations of Secession

Answer 28

Mississippi - Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana Texas Virginia Arkansas North Carolina Tennessee

Question 29

Causes of Secession

Answer 29

to protect their states' rights, the institution of slavery, and disagreements over tariffs.

Question 30

Who was the American Civil war between?

Answer 30

The Union and the South

Question 31

Fort Sumter

Answer 31

Where the first shots of the war were fired. With only one casualty a horse

Question 32

Antietam

Answer 32

Bloodiest day in U.S History victory for the Union

Question 33

Vicksburg

Answer 33

First major battle of the Civil War

Question 34

Gettysburg

Answer 34

Union victory turning point in the war

Question 35

Chattanooga

Answer 35

Where alot of the confederates supplies where union victory

Question 36

Estimated number of Civil War Deaths

Answer 36

620,000

Question 37

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Answer 37

William Tecumseh Sherman marching his army through Georgia

Question 38

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 38

Lincoln said that all slaves in Confederate territory are here by free

Question 39

Freedmen’s Bureau

Answer 39

provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

Question 40

Carpetbaggers

Answer 40

a northerner who moved to the south during the period of Reconstruction for economic, social, and sometimes political opportunities.

Question 41

Scalawags

Answer 41

a white southerner who supported the Republican Party during the period of Reconstruction.

Question 42

Lynching

Answer 42

mobs/groups of people attacking and killing people usally by hanging without a trial

Question 43

Ida B. Wells

Answer 43

led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s and women's rights

Question 44

Plessy vs. Ferguson Case

Answer 44

separate, but equal facilities

Question 45

Convict Leasing

Answer 45

arresting mostly Black men and then forcing them to work for major companies.

Question 46

14th Amendment

Answer 46

granted citizenship to all people "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,

Question 47

15th Amendment

Answer 47

granted black men the right to vote

Question 48

Gilded Age

Answer 48

a time of great political corruption and wealth inequality in the late 1800s

Question 49

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 49

steel industry

Question 50

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 50

railroad industry

Question 51

What was the Biltmore Home

Answer 51

Was Gerorge Vanderbilt estate

Question 52

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 52

one of the richest men in the world oil industry

Question 53

JP Morgan

Answer 53

American Finacer

Question 54

Monopoly

Answer 54

are businesses that have total control over a sector of the economy, including prices.

Question 55

Social Darwinism

Answer 55

the idea that people become powerful because they are just naturally better

Question 56

Ellis Island

Answer 56

the main immigration center for the United States from 1892-1954.