WorksheetsReview- Prior to 1877
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What was the desire for change in Christianity and resulted in a split of the Catholic church?
Protestant
Enlightenment
Reformation
Market revolution
Who opened up trade from Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
The global transfer of goods between Europe & Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Triangular trade
Colombian Exchange
Market revolution
Lowell Textile Mills
These ideas challenged religious beliefs and lead to the foundations of the US government.
Reformation
Protestant
Enlightenment
Catholicism
The process of goods and enslaved people were exchanged across the Atlantic Ocean.
Colombian Exchange
Triangular Trade
The Colonies
Market Revolution
This group is known for - port cities and wheat/corn
northern colonies
middle colonies
southern colonies
The Sugar, Stamp, and Tea Acts were examples of
market revolution
taxation
declaring war
This group is known for cash crops like tobacco, rice and cotton which relied heavily on slaves
northern colonies
middle colonies
southern colonies
"Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" to be unalienable rights that can't be taken away from the government. Written by Thomas Jefferson
The Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
Federalism
This group is known for a large population, large cities and industries.
northern colonies
middle colonies
southern colonies
1st Government-- too weak!
Declaration of Independence
Constitution of the United States
Articles of Confederation
This prevents any one branch of the government to become to powerful.
popular sovereignty
checks and balance
amendments
taxation
Congress makes the laws and is what branch?
executive
legislative
judicial
This is one of our first political parties which wanted a strong central government, led by Alexander Hamilton.
Federalist
Democratic-Republican
Whigs
Free Soil Party
This party was led by Jefferson and wanted strong state governments but a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
Federalist
Democratic - Republicans
Whigs
Jeffersonian Republicanism
A nationalist policy on foreign affairs
Jeffersonian Republicanism
Monroe Doctrine
Jacksonian Democracy
Democratic Republicans
This president came up with the spoil system, which put his friends and supporters into the government administration.
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
Which president believed that people should control the government and it should be simple and serve the needs of its people?
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
James Monroe
This resulted into two states entering the US; one free, one slave and a dividing line of the 36 degree latitude line.
The compromise of 1850
Missouri compromise
Nebraska-Kansas act
popular sovereignty
The nations economy driven by technological advances and industries.
Erie Canal
Lowell Textile Mills
market revolution
sectionalism
Aided with the market economy but changed American culture and family life by hiring women and children.
Erie Canal
Lowell Textile mills
Underground Railroad
Tobacco plantations
Did not free slaves but stated that slavery was no longer a compromise!
The Gettysburg address
13th amendment
Emancipation Proclamation
15th amendment
16th president, born into poverty, self-educated and became a lawyer. He became known through a series of political debates.
Andrew Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Robert E Lee
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment ended slavery.
12th
13th
14th
15th
This speech helped unite the country during the worst of times.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Gettysburg Address
Reconcilation
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This amendment allowed for male African Americans to vote.
12th
13th
14th
15th
The right to vote for or against slavery.
secession
sectionalism
popular sovereignty
confederacy
Who was Dred Scott?
President of the Confederacy
Famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad
Slave sued for his rights to be freed
14th president
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Who was President during the Civil War for the Union?
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Pierce
Andrew Jackson
What was NOT a feature of the Compromise of 1850?
California entered as a free state.
Strengthened fugitive slave laws.
Missouri entered as a slave state.
Called for popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah.
How did people take action against slavery?
violence
helping slaves escape
showed slavery's horrors to bring awareness
all the above
What political party was born out of the slavery issue?
Whig Party
Free Soil Party
Know - Nothing Party
Republican Party
What led to the Southern states seceding from the United States?
lack of political power
slave rebellions
the Compromise of 1850
the Douglas-Lincoln debates
Who was Dred Scott?
famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
President of the Confederacy
slave who sued for his freedom
What is conscription?
civilians that became nurses during the war
drafting of civilians to serve in the army
an individuals income
states leaving the country to form their own
Which advantage was NOT one for the North/Union during the war?
more people
more food production
better railroads
better generals
The Emancipation Proclamation did all the following except
add pressure to Lincoln to abolish slavery
ended the war
freeing slaves behind Confederate lines
gave the war a moral purpose
Which one describes the South's economy during the war?
growing due to factories producing war supplies
Workers went on strike due to low wages
Taxes on individual's earned income
lack of agriculture and sales production
What event was the turning point to the Civil War?
The Gettysburg Address
The Battle at Gettysburg
Lee and Grant meeting at the Appomattox Court House
The Battle at Bull Run
The Freedmen's Bureau
gave African Americans the right to vote.
provided food and clothing to former slaves.
regulated states re-entering into the United States.
passed an act that said states could not discriminate against African Americans.
Congress passed a law saying states couldn't enact laws that discriminated against African Americans called
Reconstruction Act 1867
Freedmen's Bureau
Civil Rights Act 1866
14th Amendment
The era of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War is called
Reconstruction
Radical
Republican Era
The reconstruction acts
What is the system in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops?
scalawag
sharecropping
carpetbagging
tenant farming
Violence erupts in the South by many not wanting to allow African American rights, one main contributor of this was
the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Congress passed the Enforcement Acts.
the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President.
The Panic of 1873.
