U.S. History Sem. 1 Vocab

Question 1

Alfred Mahan

Answer 1

US Navy Admiral that convinced the US government to construct many new battleships

Question 2

Joesph Smith

Answer 2

Founded the Mormons

Question 3

John Hoeven

Answer 3

North Dakota’s US Senator

Question 4

Edwin Stanton

Answer 4

His dismissal lead to Johnston’s impeachment

Question 5

Clara Barton

Answer 5

Civil War nurse; founded the Red Cross

Question 6

Ben Franklin

Answer 6

Oldest delegate to attend Constitutional Convention

Question 7

Harriet Tubman

Answer 7

Helped more than 300 slaves safely flee the South by using the Underground Railroad

Question 8

Hiram Revels

Answer 8

First African-American senator in history

Question 9

Patrick Henry

Answer 9

Anti-Federalist leader

Question 10

John Deere

Answer 10

Invented steel plow

Question 11

Kevin Cramer

Answer 11

North Dakota’s US Representative

Question 12

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 12

Winner of the 1916 presidential election

Question 13

Jeanette Rankin

Answer 13

First women in Congress elected to the House of Representatives in 1916 from Montanta

Question 14

Nat Turner

Answer 14

Led a bloody slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831

Question 15

George Dewey

Answer 15

Naval commander who led the American forces that steamed in to Manila Bay and destroyed the Spanish fleet during the Spanish-American War

Question 16

Edmund Randolph

Answer 16

Governor of Virginia who proposed the Virginia Plan

Question 17

William Taft

Answer 17

President whose actions split the Republican party after he angered both progressives and conservationists

Question 18

Teddy Roosevelt

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At 42 years old, he was the youngest president

Question 19

Thaddeus Stevens

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Major leader of the Radical Republicans

Question 20

George Washington

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Elected presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention

Question 21

James Madison

Answer 21

Proposed the idea of using the electoral college in chosing the President

Question 22

yellow journalism

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Sensational style of writing that exaggerates the truth to lure new readers

Question 23

19th Amendment

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Granted women the right to vote

Question 24

17th Amendment

Answer 24

Allowed for the popular, or direct, election of senators

Question 25

Prolific Diaz

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Military dictator who ruled Mexico for more than 3 decades before the Mexican Revolution

Question 25

Reconstruction

Answer 25

Period of rebuilding after the Civil War

Question 26

William Tecumseh Sherman

Answer 26

Military commander during the Civil War who lead a march southeast through Georgia, creating a wide path of destruction

Question 28

William Seward

Answer 28

Arranged to buy Alaska for the US from the Russians

Question 29

Sojourner Truth

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Leading spokesperson for the rights of African-American women

Question 30

manifest destiny

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the 19th century belief that the US would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific and into Mexican territory

Question 31

recall

Answer 31

the procedure for removing a public official from office by a vote of the people

Question 32

referendum

Answer 32

a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people

Question 33

Ex Post Facto

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a law which allows a person to be convicted or punished without a trial

Question 34

imperialism

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the policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries by economic, political, or military means

Question 35

abolition

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movement to end slavery

Question 35

abolition

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movement to end slavery

Question 36

entrepreneurs

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a person who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture

Question 37

scalawags

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white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War

Question 38

14th Amendment

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makes all citizens born or naturalized in the US, including former slaves, citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws

Question 39

market revolution

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the major change in the US economy produced by people's beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves

Question 40

Teller Amendment

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Stated that the United States had no intention of taking over any part of Cuba

Question 40

Delaware

Answer 40

The first state to ratify the Constitution

Question 41

carpetbagger

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A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War

Question 42

Slavery

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Peculiar institution

Question 42

muckraker

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One of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of businesses and public life in the early 1900's

Question 43

Battle of Vicksburg

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Turning point of civil war in the west

Question 43

initiative

Answer 43

A procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than by the lawmakers

Question 44

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 44

Turning point of CivilWar in the east