U.S History Final Exam Study Guide

What was a major point of contention between lawmakers who were deciding how to admit new states into the Union

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Gold Rush

• Slavery vs. anti-slavery debate in the territories

• Wade-Davis Bill

What was the name for American trappers who explored the Rocky Mountains in the early 1800s

• Mountain Men

• Frederick Douglass

• Radical Republicans

• Jim Crow

What was an early name of modern-day Texas

• KKK

• Scalawag

• 15th Amendment

• Lone Star Republic

What was responsible for annexing most of the American southwest

• Slavery

• Treaty of Guadalupe

• Gold Rush

• Imperialism

What was responsible for the final piece of the American southwest

• 2nd Amendment

• Know-nothing party

• Gadsden Purchase

• Literacy Test

What was a group of immigrants who became stuck in the Sierra Nevada mountains in winter and had to go to extreme lengths to survive

• Investors

• 49ers

• KKK

• Donner Party

What finally ended slavery in the US

• Fifth Amendment

• Sixteenth Amendment

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Twentieth Amendment

Who were terrorized and killed by the thousands because of Gold Rush

• Native Americans

• Immigrants

• Slaves

• African Americans

Who believed that liberty was a natural right, granted at birth

• Brigham Young

• Frederick Douglass

• Jim Crow

• Lincoln

What was the nickname given to California gold-rushers

• Lone Star Republic

• 15th Amendment

• Wade-Davis Bill

• 49ers