Final Exam Review

Person who wanted to end slavery in the U.S.

• Advocate

• Abolitionist

• Capitalist

• Puritan

Economic system in which citizens and companies own the means of production

• Socialism

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Communism

What were the causes of the Civil War?

• Slavery, sectionalism, balance of power in Congress, abolitionists, states’ rights

• Slavery, sectionalism, Bleeding Kansas, Washington's Precedents

• Sectionalism, states' rights, Harper's Ferry, Assassination of Lincoln

• Monroe Doctrine, Bleeding Kansas, slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Settlement of a dispute (disagreement) by each side giving up some demands

• Compromise

• Treaty

• Peace agreement

• Amendment

Decree issued by President Lincoln freeing slaves in rebel-held territory

• Gettysburg Address

• Inaugural Address

• Farewell Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group

• Propaganda

• Discrimination

• Bias

• Persecute

An economic policy of establishing colonies to gain wealth

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Mercantilism

• Tariffs

Which of the following was an effect of the triangular trade?

• Rice and Tobacco were exported to the Americas

• The end of European colonialism

• The decrease in trade between continents

• The expansion of slavery

What was the cause of the French and Indian War?

• There was a dispute between France and Britain over the Ohio River Valley

• Native Americans attacked the French near Pittsburgh

• Colonists were angry over unfair taxes

• There was a disagreement between Britain and Spain about who should get the Native Americans’ land

What was one effect of the French and Indian War?

• Colonists had to assume the war debt by paying higher taxes

• France declared war on Britain

• British colonies became rich from the acquisition of the Ohio River Valley

• Spain declared its independence from Britain