US History to 1865 Final

Question 1

________ issued a neutrality proclamation in May of 1793 bc he felt that this would stop debates about supporting sides

Answer 1

Washington

Question 2

Slaves in the French colony of Haiti rebelled against their owners in the ______ _____

Answer 2

Haitian Revolution

Question 3

_____ ______ was elected the 2nd president of the US

Answer 3

John Adams

Question 4

____ _____ with France prompted the Federalists to seek potential war with them. French ministers tried to ___ Americans

Answer 4

Maritime disputes, bribe

Question 5

____ _____ occured when a Virginian slave plotted a revolt modelled on the Haitian slave rebellion. Though it never materialized, knowledge of the plan heightened general anxiety in the US over the continued possibility of slaves

Answer 5

Gabriel’s Rebellion

Question 6

_____ ______ meant that Jefferson sought to symbolically scale back the tastes and pageantry of previous administrations

Answer 6

Republican Simplicity

Question 7

___ and ______ went on an expedition (hired by Jefferson) to investigate Indian territory from Mississippi River out to the Pacific Ocean

Answer 7

Lewis, Clark

Question 8

_______ + _________ occured when France and England pressed the US not to aid their enemies

Answer 8

Barbary Wars, Maritime Troubles

Question 9

The ______ Act of 1807 prohibited American Ships from engaging in trade in any foreign post

Answer 9

Embargo

Question 10

____ ____ ran for president and won in 1808, he was the 4th president and he wrote the Constitution of the United States and was a main supporter of central government in America

Answer 10

James Madison

Question 11

______ continued foreign policy liked Jefferson

Answer 11

Madison

Question 12

_____ ____ was the presidentress of the United States - she modeled the idea of what a First Lady would look like and she became a key player in society in D.C>

Answer 12

Dolley Madison

Question 13

_____ tribes, led by Chief Tecumseh, solidified his Indian Confederacy in the Northwest Territory

Answer 13

Shawnee

Question 14

Indiana’s governor, ____ ____ ____, made agreements with other tribal leaders to buy 3 million acres of Indian land which ended up infuriating Tecumseh, the Indian leader

Answer 14

William Henry Harrison

Question 15

_____ marched through Europe during 1812 and Americans questioned whether they should be on the side of the French or the English

Answer 15

Napolean

Question 16

The strict Embargo Act was replaced with a ___ _______ ____ in 1809 that allowed trade with foreign powers outside of England, France, and their colonies

Answer 16

non-intercourse act

Question 17

In 1810 the Non Intercourse Act expired and Congress allowed for ____ with foreign powers

Answer 17

trade

Question 18

Henry Clay and John Calhoun led the group called the ___ ___

Answer 18

Wark Hawks

Question 19

The US attacked _____ but did not gain much over the course of two and a half years

Answer 19

Canada

Question 20

Indians led by Tecumseh gained in strength and sided with the _______

Answer 20

British

Question 21

In August of 1814, the British offensive of British Ships began in _________ ____

Answer 21

Chesapeake Bay

Question 22

In 1814, during the battle of 1812, DC was thrown into panic and people rushed to _____ as the city ____

Answer 22

evacuate, burned

Question 23

_____ _____ grabbed a portrait of George Washington and President Madison’s papers

Answer 23

Dolley Maddison

Question 24

It was during the burning of DC amid the Battle of 1812 that ___ ___ ___ composed the Star Spangled Banner

Answer 24

Francis Key Scott

Question 25

____ ____ _____ occured when Jacksons force was resoundingly victorious in the battle against the british

Answer 25

Battle of New Orleans

Question 26

The ____ of _____ was signed between the British and the US in 1815

Answer 26

Treaty, Ghent

Question 27

The ____ of _____ gave a rise of American nationalism as Americans fought the British and won the right to their land. The biggest winners were the War Hawks who carried the Republican party in new directions while the biggest losers were the Indians

Answer 27

War, 1812

Question 28

Virginian Republicans maintained a hold on the presidency as _______ was elected in 1816 and 1820

Answer 28

James Monroe

Question 29

The ________ Compromise occurred in 1820 and raised the issue of whether another slave state should be admitted to the Union

Answer 29

Missouri

Question 30

The ____ _______ caused the American Continents by free constitution which they have assumed are not to be assumed as subjects for future colonization

Answer 30

Monroe Doctrine

Question 31

___ ____ ____ was president during the era of the Republican Complexity

Answer 31

John Quincy Adams

Question 32

The Virginian Dynasty included ______, _________, and _____

Answer 32

Jefferson, Adams, and Monroe

Question 33

Confidence and an _______ spirit increased in America after 1815

Answer 33

entrepreneurial

Question 34

_____ _____ includes changes in transportation, texture mills and factories creating jobs, innovation and legal practices, as well as an increase in tarriffs

Answer 34

Market revolution

Question 35

____ _______ are led by private investors and companies who gained monopolies over stagecoach, canal, steamboat, and railway routes

Answer 35

travel innovations

Question 36

rapid expansion of ______ occured after 1815 and included textile mills and shoemaking as well as factory style organization

Answer 36

manufacturing

Question 37

the ____ ______ of Europe occurred in 1819 and worsened the situation in the US which was experiencing a contraction of funds as banking called in loans

Answer 37

financial crisis

Question 38

The 1828 Election occurred between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Jackson was referred to as ___ ______

Answer 38

Old Hickory

Question 39

The Election of _____ was the first presidential election in which the president was determined by popular vote

Answer 39

1828

Question 40

By 1834/36, National republicans called themselves “_____
and Democratic Republicans called themselves “_____

Answer 40

Whigs, Democrats

Question 41

_____ won the ‘34 election by popular vote. He believed in limited federal government

Answer 41

Jackson

Question 42

____ _____ suffrage became a popular topic - individuals desired freedom to vote regardless of the amount of land they owned

Answer 42

white male

Question 43

__________ democratic agenda was committed to his image as a “_____ _____”. He had an aggressive frontier policy

Answer 43

Jackson’s, common man

Question 44

Jackson believed that _____ removal was paramount in American

Answer 44

Indian

Question 45

The _____ ______ was the campaign for moral reform in American that occured in the late 1830s

Answer 45

Temperance Movement

Question 46

By the late 1830’s, _____ became a divisive topic

Answer 46

slavery

Question 47

_______ leaned in sympathy toward the Whig Party

Answer 47

Abolitionists

Question 48

Jackson defined the ____ party and discussed politics of opportunity

Answer 48

democrats

Question 49

Jackson caused the Indian removal route of 1830 causing the ____ __ __

Answer 49

Trail of Tears

Question 50

Jackson passed the _____ ______ Act of 1830

Answer 50

Indian Removal

Question 51

During the ___ ____, the banks had concentrated undue economic power in the hands of few

Answer 51

Bank War

Question 52

During the _____ of ______ national debt disappeared and a surplus of government funds caused the general economic pressure of 1837

Answer 52

Panic, 1837

Question 53

___ ____ ____ had a one term presidency which took the brunt of the 1837 panic and worked to stabilize financial panic

Answer 53

Martin Van Buren’s

Question 54

The ____ _____ was the idea that white Americans by Providence had a mission to expand Westward

Answer 54

Manifest Destiny

Question 55

There was a dispute between Britain and the US as to whether _____ Country belonged to them

Answer 55

Oregon

Question 56

The _____ _____ occurred in 1830 when Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Answer 56

Mormon Exodus

Question 57

In 1821, ____ won its independence from the United States, and in 1829, it sought more independence

Answer 57

Mexico

Question 58

At the ________, rebels took refuge in this Franciscan mission during the course of which the Mexican army shot 300 men and killed 137 of those at the refuge

Answer 58

Alamo

Question 59

President _____ was supportive of the idea of annexing Texas; before he entered office Texas was officially annexed to the US

Answer 59

Polk

Question 60

During the ___ _____ War, General Zachary Taylor in Texas took 4000 men in an army to the banks of the Rio Grande (the dividing line of dispute) into Mexico

Answer 60

Mexican American

Question 61

General ____ ____ was the US General primarily involved with the Mexican Award

Answer 61

Zachary Taylor

Question 62

The Mexican American War was also called ____ _____

Answer 62

Polk’s War

Question 63

General _____ successfully helped American push South

Answer 63

Taylor

Question 64

_____ ____ were discovered in the American River near the Sierra Nevada in 1848

Answer 64

Gold Flakes

Question 65

the ___ ____ occurred between 1849 and 1852 and caused more than 250,000 49ers to move to the Golden State. This also attracted a lot of _____

Answer 65

gold rush, immigrants

Question 66

By 1860, there was economic and ______ growth in American

Answer 66

industrial

Question 67

____ ____ patterned an innovative plow that quickened work in 1837

Answer 67

John Deere

Question 68

___ _____ developed a wheat reaper that made harvesting quicker

Answer 68

Cyrus McCormick

Question 69

By 1850, ____ traversed over 9000 miles of track, motlu in New England and in the Mid Atlantic States

Answer 69

trains

Question 70

Railroads quickened transportation and allowed for the massive growth of the ____ and _____ industries

Answer 70

Iron, coal

Question 71

The _____ also boomed around the time of 1844 to prevent train crashes

Answer 71

telegraph

Question 72

____ ______ was the idea that as a laborer, you were also free and independent and may benefit and grow from your wages - this could lead you to higher positions in society, even without prior connections or inheritance

Answer 72

free labor

Question 73

Freed black abolitionists such as ____ ____ pushed abolitionist rights

Answer 73

Frederick Douglas

Question 74

By the 1830s, ______ stretched from Southern Virginia to central Texas

Answer 74

Cotton

Question 75

By 1860 many Southern States had _____ (albeit enslaved) majorities

Answer 75

black

Question 76

The ______ ______ position was that white southerners were caring for slaves and argued that states had the right to regulate slavery

Answer 76

pro-slavery

Question 77

The major cash crops of the Plantation Economy were ____, ____, _____, and _____

Answer 77

cotton, sugar, rice, tobacco

Question 78

the south was ______ and ____ based

Answer 78

agricultural, slave

Question 79

the plantation culture was based on the code of _____

Answer 79

chivalry

Question 80

slaves most often worked as ___ ____

Answer 80

field hands

Question 81

plantation belt _____ lived within the orbit of the planter class and were able to make some profit off crops

Answer 81

yeomen

Question 82

slave holding political officials tried to win the sway of _____ class folk

Answer 82

lower

Question 83

There was an ______ evolution in the South with the cotton plantation economy booming

Answer 83

industrial

Question 84

the _____ _____ had to do with the acquisition of territory from Mexico during which there was a heated debate as to whether slavery should be allowed or not.

Answer 84

Wilmot Proviso

Question 85

PA Democrat, ___ _____ proposed that Congress ban slavery from all territory acquired in war.

Answer 85

David Wilmot

Question 86

___ ____ propositions got supported from those against freedoms for african Americans, aka “white man’s proviso”

Answer 86

Free soil

Question 87

During the election of ____, fragmentation of parties concerning the slavery concreted that Democrats were pro-slavery

Answer 87

1848

Question 88

Anti-slavery whigs and democrats called for a new party called the ___ _____ party which nominated VanBuren

Answer 88

free soil

Question 89

______ won the 1848 election and took a free soil approach to the new territories

Answer 89

Taylor

Question 90

The ______ of ______ was created through legislation guided by IL and settled an uneasy compromise between the North & South - it admitted that CA was a free state, and determined the TX boundary.

Answer 90

Compromise of 1850

Question 91

Northerners began to see the brutality of slavery through novels like Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by ____ _____

Answer 91

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 92

Northerner’s resistance to the ____ ___ ___ upset the South

Answer 92

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 93

in the ______ election, the whig party divided between the North and South, anti and pro-slavery

Answer 93

1852

Question 94

In 1852, Democrats successfully elected ____ of New Hampshire

Answer 94

Piercer

Question 95

The ____ _____ act dealt with the issue of railroad building which led to disputes about territores becoming states -> Senator Douglas introduced this act which settled the dispute

Answer 95

Kansas Nebraska

Question 96

The ____ _____ were a nativist movement that was anti-catholic and often called the “American party” - they kept their information to themselves

Answer 96

know-nothings

Question 97

The Election of 1856 was Freemont vs. Buchanan. The ______ (Freemont) wanted to make all territory free and ______labeled Republicans extremists

Answer 97

republicans, democrats

Question 98

__ ______ became a key point of conflict after the KS NE Act of 1854, and was the prelude to the Civil War. It occured because KS elected a pro-slavery gov. and an anti-slavery gov. causing fightin to start on May 21 of 1856

Answer 98

Bleeding Kansas

Question 99

____ ____ was a radical anti-slavery soldier who attacked pro-slavery individuals at Pottawatomie

Answer 99

John Brown

Question 100

THe 1857 Supreme Court Trial ____ vs. ____ ruled that MS slave sued for freedom based on his traveling to different states could not be free on account of the fact that he was not a citizen and his home state was a slave state

Answer 100

Scott v. Sanford

Question 101

The Supreme Court Scott v. Sanford declared the ____ ____ to be unconstitutional

Answer 101

Missouri Compromise

Question 102

the ____ _____ Debates occurred seven times prior to Douglas’ winning of Douglas

Answer 102

Lincoln Douglas

Question 103

___ ____ occurred when democratic candidates were not secessionists after the election and southerners considered their options … SC seceded first

Answer 103

secession winter

Question 104

“____ ______ “ president is one who successor has already been elected causing him to just be waiting plaintively in office

Answer 104

lame duck

Question 105

_____ was a lame duck president and did nothing about secession

Answer 105

Buchanan

Question 106

Lincoln had a _______ tone in his inauguration speech as his main goal of the presidency was an end to _______

Answer 106

conciliatory, secession

Question 107

First shot of the Civil War occurred at ____ ___

Answer 107

Fort Sumter

Question 108

Fort Sumter surrendered to the _____

Answer 108

South

Question 109

The North was infuriated at the occurrence at Sumter. Lincoln called up 75,000 men and Northern ____ denounced the South, including Senator Douglas

Answer 109

Democrats

Question 110

Many in the _____ denounced ____ for not “upholing the peace” he had promised

Answer 110

South, Lincoln

Question 111

_______ _____initally denounced the secession of the southern states but eventually fought on behalf of VA when it seceded

Answer 111

Robert Lee

Question 112

The _____ Strategy of the Civil war was that it would win through land mass and military strategy called “offensive defensive” as devised by Jefferson

Answer 112

Southern

Question 113

The ________ strategy of the Civil War was that if the North did nothing, the south by default would be soverign …. they declared a naval blockade of the Confederacy

Answer 113

Northern

Question 114

____ ______ was president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He had war and political experience but little capcity for large military strategy

Answer 114

Jefferson Davis

Question 115

_____ ______ had little political experience but proved to be a strong leader as the President of the US during the Civil War

Answer 115

Abraham Lincoln

Question 116

before secession, much of the US army had been scattered across the west fighting ______

Answer 116

Indians

Question 117

the Capitol of Union ______ and Confederacy _____ were only 90 miles apart

Answer 117

D.C., Richmond

Question 118

The Battle of ____ _____ or ________ ended in the retreat of the Union forces as confederates were resupplied with reinforcements

Answer 118

Bull Run, Manasses

Question 119

Lincoln replaced McDowell with ______, who had a contrasting personality to Lee. He was temporarily replaced by Pope but then put back in for the battle of Antietem

Answer 119

McClellan

Question 120

The Battle of ________ was the bloodiest day of the whole war, Union forces had a copy of Lee’s orders which a confederate troop had wrapped around cigars he had carelessly dropped

Answer 120

Antietam

Question 121

_____ _____ emerged as key general and led troops to capture Ft. Henry on the Tennessee River and forced COnfederates to withdraw

Answer 121

Ulysses Grant

Question 122

____ ____ were wooden ships layered with 2 inches of armor plate which caused some damage by sinking Union ships but no definitive confederate victories

Answer 122

ironclad frigates

Question 123

Lincoln made it clear that an alliance with the Confederacy was an alliance with _____

Answer 123

slavery

Question 124

____ control of congress pushed for more abolitionist laws such as the Confiscation Act of 1861

Answer 124

Republican

Question 125

Lincoln’s _____ Proclamation occured in 1863 and was a huge movement in the freedom of all slaves

Answer 125

Emancipation

Question 126

___ ____ was subsizidized by the Union government to create a fast mailing system in the US

Answer 126

Pony Express

Question 127

Battles of ____ and ____ were essential to the turning point of the Civil War

Answer 127

Vicksburg, Gettysburg

Question 128

Victory of the Union occurred at the battle of ______

Answer 128

Chattanooga

Question 129

Battle of _______ was a battle of the Union and confederates in the woods in which both lost many men

Answer 129

wilderness

Question 130

Siege of _____ occured when Grant cut railroad and laid siege to the confederate capitol

Answer 130

Siege

Question 131

______ March to the ______ occured when Sherman marched 100,000 men all the way from TN to GA and burned GA

Answer 131

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Question 132

Surrender of General Grant occured at _______ Court House in VA

Answer 132

Appomattox

Question 133

One day after the Civil War, Lincoln was _____ at ____ ___

Answer 133

assasinated, Ford’s Theater

Question 134

With france and England at War, President George Washington proposed to _____ ______

Answer 134

remain neutral

Question 135

As a Secretary of the Treasury, who proposed a national central bank modeled on the Bank of England>

Answer 135

Hamilton

Question 136

Which rebellion did President Gorge Washington lead a military force again?

Answer 136

Whiskey Rebellion

Question 137

Under President ________ the US expanded its territory west with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 from the French

Answer 137

Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase

Question 138

Which first Lady Hosted “squeezes” at the White House?

Answer 138

Dolley Madison

Question 139

A Native American confederacy led by Tecumseh allied with the British French or Americans in the War of 1812?

Answer 139

British

Question 140

Which major city was burned by the British in the War of 1812?

Answer 140

Washington, D.C.

Question 141

Which general led US troops to a decisive, though uneccessary victory at the Battle of New Orleans?

Answer 141

Jackson

Question 142

Which 3 Republican presidents made up the Virginia Dynasty?

Answer 142

Jefferson, Madison, Monroe

Question 143

Lewis and Clark were supposed to learn more about ________ ____ _____

Answer 143

native american territory

Question 144

What was the one of the main strengths of the Confederacy?

Answer 144

Area of land controlled

Question 145

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

Answer 145

Jefferson Davis

Question 146

Which battle was the bloodiest day of the Civil War?

Answer 146

Antietam

Question 147

Which Union general led the North to victories in the Western Theater?

Answer 147

Grant

Question 148

Lincoln signed which document which proclaimed all slaves free?

Answer 148

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 149

What two battles were significant turning points in the Civil War?

Answer 149

Vicksburg, Gettysburg

Question 150

Which presidential canidate in 1828 was known for his image as a rough military frontiersman and a common man

Answer 150

Andrew Jackson

Question 151

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname?

Answer 151

Old Hickorry

Question 152

What were some new political features of the 1828 election?

Answer 152

Popular election for president and all white men, even those without property, could vote

Question 153

Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy of 1830 caused Georgia Cherokee Indians to leave for Indian Territory via a route called

Answer 153

The Trail of Tears

Question 154

Whig politicians pushed for policies related to

Answer 154

abolition and moral reform

Question 155

Which democratic president pushed for the annexation of Texas and war with Mexico?

Answer 155

Poke

Question 156

A mormon exodus settled around the Great Salt Lakes in what would later be the state of ____-

Answer 156

Utah

Question 157

Two American political parties in the 1830s and 1840s were the _______ (Nationalist Republicans) and ______ (Democratic Republicans)

Answer 157

Whigs, Democrats