P2 Group Beginning of the Year

What was the MAIN cause for the Civil War?

• Dispute over States rights.  
• Spreading slavery into the territories.
• Expansion of slavery into the northern states.
• Northern jealousy over the south's free labor

What country did the U.S. defeat and gain the territory of Texas to California from? 

• Spain
• Mexico
• Great Britain
• Portugal 

What doubled the size of our country is 1803?

• Gadsden Purchase
• Louisiana Purchase
• Annexation of Texas
• Oregon Territory

What event started the Civil War? 

• Election of President Lincoln
• Attack on Fort Sumter
• The Battle of Manassas
• The Battle of Gettysburg

What one industry had the largest impact on the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800's?

• Steel
• Railroad
• Oil
• Finance 

What era in American history saw the most change (socially, politically, economically, etc.)

• Industrial Era
• Progressive Era
• Civil War Era
• West Ward Expansion

A journalist who wrote about the corruption and problems of society were known as what?

• Muckrakers 
• Scapegoats
• Suffragists
• Fake News

During what period in American history did Laissez Faire policies flourish? 

• West Ward Expansion
• Pre Civil War
• Civil War 
• Industrial Revolution

Which general from the Civil War does not belong? 

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Stonewall Jackson
• P.G.T. Beauregard 

How many American Presidents (1-30 only) were assassinated?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4