U.S. History Finals

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

Abolished Slavery in 1865.

Question 2

Emancipation Proclomation

Answer 2

Freed all enslaved people in states still in rebellion AFTER 1863.

Question 3

Manifest Destiny

Answer 3

The belief that it was God’s plan that America extended its territory to the pacific ocean.

Question 4

Why Mexican officials would be upset by the annexation of Texas by America?

Answer 4

Because they thought they were stealing their land.

Question 5

What year did the United States go to war with Mexico?

Answer 5

1846.

Question 6

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 6

Suggested that citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide if they wanted to permit slavery.

Question 7

Compromise of 1850

Answer 7

Eased tension over slavery

Question 8

John Brown

Answer 8

Abolitionist (person who wanted to get rid of slavery) who attacked a federal arsenal in Virginia. He intended to have uprising of slaves. He was caught and hung.

Question 9

Dread Scott

Answer 9

Ground breaking supreme court ruling.

• Sued his owner for freedom.
• Claimed the owner took him to a free territory, so he should be free.
• The court said he was property, and not a citizen.
• Could not sue in the court system.

Question 10

Civil rights act of 1866

Answer 10

Granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S besides Native Americans.

Question 11

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 11

1803, U.S bought Louisiana from the French, U.S doubled in size.

Question 12

John C. Calhoun

Answer 12

He predicted that if the south could not live in safety within the union, the only solution would be secession. (withdrawing)

Question 13

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 13

• Founding Father
• principal author of the Declaration of Independence
• third president.

Question 14

Alexander Hamlinton

Answer 14

Helped write US constitution.
A Founding Father of the United States
chief staff to General George Washington.

Question 15

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 15

The 16th president

Helped get rid of slavery

Question 16

Andrew Jackson

Answer 16

7th president

Question 17

William Barrett Travis

Answer 17

a lieutenant colonel in the Texas Army

He died at the Battle of the Alamo.

Question 18

political Machines

Answer 18

An organization linked to a political party that often controlled local government.

Question 19

Gospel of wealth

Answer 19

An article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy.

Question 20

homestead act

Answer 20

method of acquiring a piece of U.S. public land by living on and cultivating it.

Question 21

Embargo Act

Answer 21

A government ban on trade with other countries.

Question 22

Impressment

Answer 22

A kind of legalized kidnapping in which people are forced into the military service.

Question 23

Provisions of the Missouri Compromise

Answer 23

1. Maine was admitted a free state.
2. Missouri was admitted as a slave state.
3. Slavery would not be allowed in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36 30 line.

Question 24

Cotton Gin

Answer 24

A machine that removed seeds from cotton fiber.

Question 25

Abolition

Answer 25

The immediate ending of slavery.

Question 26

Kansas-Nebraska Act Outcomes.

Answer 26

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

Question 27

Harriet Tubman

Answer 27

an African-American abolitionist.

Question 28

Southern Advantage at the start of the civil war

Answer 28

The North produced three-fourths of the nation’s wealth. They had a bigger army including thousands of black soldiers.

Question 29

Victory at Saratoga

Answer 29

The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Question 30

Boston Massacre

Answer 30

The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a “patriot” mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed.

Question 31

committees of correspondence

Answer 31

The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

Question 32

Stamp Act

Answer 32

an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

Question 33

Mercantillist

Answer 33

The theory that a state’s power depends on it’s wealth.

Question 34

Why puritans came to America

Answer 34

The Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to practice religious freedom.

Question 35

Virginia Slave Code

Answer 35

were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia’s House of Burgesses regulating activities related to interactions between slaves and citizens