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WorksheetsFinal History test study guide.
Total questions: 86
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What was the outcome of the Election of 1800?
John Adams as Pres. and Charles Pinchney as VP.
Thomas Jefferson as Pres. and Burr as VP.
George Washington as Pres. and Thomas Jefferson as VP.
Why was the election of 1800 important?
It was the first tie handled successfully that led to the peaceful transition of power.
Caused a new amendment.
What were the main issues of Jefferson´s Presidency?
Increased federal taxes for everyone, but the rich.
Expansion of the military to help defend the continent.
Economic prosperity and trade agreements with many foreign nations
Tension with Britian, Embargo acts, and Louisiana Purchase
What were the causes of the War of 1812?
Impressment of American sailors by the British Navy.
Increased violence between Native Americans and White settlers.
War Hawks who wanted war with Great Britian.
What were the effects of the War of 1812?
Immediate abolition of slavery in the U.S.
The U.S. gaining control over Canada.
Political peace as the Federalist party died out.
A growth of American Patriotism.
Native Americans could no longer resist white settlers.
What was the Era of good feelings?
An era of political peace and economic boom.
Why did Jackson win the 1828 election?
More men had the right to vote and triple the amount voted.
Promises of economic reform and tax cuts for everyone from poor to rich.
Support from wealthy landowners and elites who put their full support behind him.
What was Jacksonian Democracy?
The idea the the common people should control the government.
What started the Nullification Crisis?
The feeling towards the tariffs that lead to the Nullification Crisis?
North supported it, while the South opposed it.
The North hated it and felt oppressed, while the South loved it.
Which state threatened to secede during the Nullification Crisis
Why did white settlers want Native American land?
To preserve Native American culture.
To create national parks.
To establish trade routes.
To farm cotton and new territories.
What was the Indian removal act?
A law that granted land to settlers in the West no matter if people were living there.
A law that allowed the Pres. to make a trade with the Native Americans for their land in the East for land in the Great Plains.
A treaty that recognized Native American sovereignty for all Native Americans no matter what.
A military strategy to combat Native American tribes all across the U.S.
What was Jackson´s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling about Native Americans?
Jackson used the military to forcefully remove the Natives
Where did the trails of tear lead?
How many died on the trail?
The trails led to California about 1,000 died on the trail in spring.
The trails led to New York about 10,000 died on the trail in fall.
The trails led to Texas about 500 died on the trail in summer.
The trails led to Oklahoma about 4,000 died on the trail in winter.
How did Jackson want to be seen by the Cherokee?
How did they actually see him?
Jackson wanted to be seen as a friend the Cherokee saw him as a mentor to their people.
Jackson wanted to be seen as the great white father, the Cherokee saw him as the devil.
Jackson wanted to be seen as a leader. the Cherokee saw him as a supporter.
Jackson wanted to be seen as a liberator. the Cherokee saw him as a negotiator.
How was the term manifest destiny used by Americans?
Used to justify movement west by white settlers into land already occupied.
What was the purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
To establish relations with Native Americans.
To explore the new land from the Louisiana Purchase.
Make detailed maps and notes about plants, animals, etc.
To find a all water route to the Pacific Ocean.
What was the biggest impact
of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
It prepared the way for settlement in the west.
How did Sacagawea help the expedition?
Sacagawea showed that the white people wanted relations with the Natives
Sacagawea identified landmarks to show better routes.
What issues did the U.S. face with Florida?
Economic downturns in the 1800s for all Americans of any class.
Natural disasters affecting agriculture in all parts of the continent.
Spanish control was weak, Native American raids, and Spanish refused to help stop the raids.
Cultural differences with European settlers as they couldn't get along.
How did the US add Florida?
The US added Florida through the Adams-Onis Treaty.
Florida became a US territory after the Mexican-American War.
The US purchased Florida from Britain.
Florida was acquired through the Louisiana Purchase.
Why did tension between Americans and Tejanos began?
Americans resented taking orders, didn't want to learn spanish, and slavery was outlawed.
Political alliances with Mexico, rising military power, and Mexico wanted Florida.
Disputes over water rights, farm land, what books to read, and food.
Many Americans came illegally, showed little respect for culture, and didn't want to become citizens.
What happened to the Alamo?
The Alamo was abandoned and fell into ruins in the 19th century becoming a historical site that has tourist.
The Alamo was a peaceful negotiation site between Texas and Mexico to end the war with Mexico.
The Alamo was under siege for 12 days before it fell with the Mexicans killing all the people inside.
Which General helped the most to Texas freedom
and beat Gen. Antonio López de Santa Ana.
Texas was annexed as soon as it became independent.
What countries wanted the territory of Oregon?
Russia and Spain
France and China
Why did we want Oregon?
We wanted Oregon for its land and a way to the pacific ocean.
We wanted Oregon for its abundent natural resources.
What countries eventually got Oregon and how did they split it?
Russia and Great Britain divided Oregon along the 50th parallel.
Where did the U.S believe the border between Mexico and Texas was?
Where did Mexico believe the border between Mexico and Texas was?
U.S. believed the border was at the Nueces River. Mexico believed it was at the Rio Grande.
U.S. believed the border was at the Rio Grande. Mexico believed it was at the Nueces River.
U.S. believed the border was at the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico believed it was at the Rio Bravo.
U.S. believed the border was at the San Antonio River. Mexico believed it was at the Pecos River.
What was the tipping point that started the war between Mexico and the U.S?
The annexation of Texas with thousands of Mexicans getting killed.
The discovery of gold in California and U.S forcefully taking California.
Mexico soldiers fired on U.S soldiers in disputed area, 16 Americans killed.
The signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What 3 places were most important during the Mexican-American war?
California, New Mexico, Mexico city
How did the U.S and Mexico end the war?
What did Mexico give up?
What did the U.S have to do?
Signing of the treaty of Guadalupe, Mexico Cession, and U.S had to pay 15 million.
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Mexico gave up territories including Florida and Nevada, the U.S. paid $5 million and canceled debts.
Signing of the treaty of the Treaty of Amiens, Mexico retained all territories, the U.S. paid $20 million and withdrew its troops.
Signing of the Treaty of Paris ,Mexico gained territories including Texas and Arizona, the U.S. paid $10 million and took no claims.
What was the Geography of the North?
The South?
The South had swamps and marshes and a warmer climate with tons of rainfall.
The North had swamps and marshes with a scorching hot summer.
The North had forests, fertile soil, rocky shores, and cold winters.
The South was industrial with factories and tons of homes.
What was the economy of the North?
The South?
The North had an industrial economy, while the South had an agricultural economy.
The North had a agricultural economy, while the South had an industrial economy.
The North relied on slave labor for their economy while the South had a free labor market for their economy.
What was the transportation in the North?
In the South?
The North relied on horses and carriages, the South used trains and buses.
The North used trains and Sleek clipper ships, the South used steam powered boats.
The North used boats and ferries, the South relied on bicycles and motorcycles.
The North depended on air travel, the South used subways and trams.
How was the society in the North?
In the South?
The South was urban and almost everyone was middle class, everyone treated the same no matter what race or how much money they had.
The South was very rural, White Americans some very wealthy most poor with most being illiterate, African Americans most slaves very few free.
North was very rural and based on farms and plantations, all colored treated terrible and faced tons of discrimination.
The North was very Urban and becoming industrialized, African Americans faced discrimination, and immigrants faced hostility.
How did slaves fight back against their owners?
Slaves fought back through passive resistance, escape, and violent resistance.
Slaves fought back by forming alliances with poor whites to take down their owners.
Slaves were always treated kindly by their owners and had no reason to fight back.
Slaves accepted their fate without resistance and would stay slaves for decades to come.
What was the Underground Railroad?
A group of people who used their head, hearts, and homes to help enslaved people escape the South.
A society of ultra rich agarians who would trick African Americans into thinking they were escaping just to beat them.
A transportation system for goods to be send from the South all across the world.
A military strategy during the Civil War that would involve using railroads underground to get behind enemy lines.
What was the Underground Railroad made up of?
A small network of people or individuals working together.
Who was the most important person to the Underground railway?
What did Harriet Tubman do for the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman was a conductor for a train service that helped enslaved people go to Canada.
Harriet Tubman wrote a book about the Underground Railroad and how hard it was to make it to the North.
Harriet Tubman helped 300 enslaved people escape and made 20 trips to the South.
Harriet Tubman was a famous abolitionist speaker who advocated for the end of the fugitive slave act.
What is the fugitive slave law?
A law that forced Northern states to help recapture or give back escaped slaves.
What did the law define enslaved people as?
Citizens with the same rights as a white person.
Laborers under contract for 5 years.
Free individuals with privileges.
Property with no rights.
What is the definition of a abolitionists?
Abolitionists are people who wanted to end slavery.
Who are the 5 most important people to the abolisitionist movement?
Abraham Lincoln,
Henry Ford, Mark Twain, Elvis Presley, and Andrew Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Alexander Hamilton, Ronald Reagan, and Clara Barton
Susan B. Anthony, Benjamin Franklin, FDR,
Thomas Edison, and Eleanor Roosevelt
George Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, and Angelina and Sarah Grimke.
Why were white Southerners unwilling to end slavery?
They needed slaves for their economy as they relied heavily in cotten.
They were influenced by foreign governments to maintain slavery as a way to pay back debts.
They thought ending slavery would lead to economic collapse of the entire United States.
They believed slavery was a moral obligation and that god wanted them to own another human.
What were the one thing women could participate in before
the women's rights movement?
Owning property
Voting in elections and being counted to decide representation.
Reform and temperance movements.
Pursuing higher education
Why did abolitionist not want women
to join the movement?
They feared it would distract from the primary goal of ending slavery.
What rights did women not have?
Women were not allowed to speak in public.
Women had limited education opportunites.
Women did not have the right to vote.
Women could not own property or keep wages.
Women could not be beaten by their spouses.
Where was the first Women's Rights Movement meeting held?
Who led it?
Seneca Falls, New York. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Chicago, Illinois. Led by Alice Paul and Sarah Grimke.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Led by Sojourner Truth and Angelina Grimke.
Boston, Massachusetts. Led by Susan B. Anthony.
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
The Declaration of Sentiments was a formal statement of the Injustices suffered by women.
What does the number of representatives a state have mean?
It represents the amount of law-making power that state has.
Who had the most law making power in the House of reps. and the Senate?
North in House.
Equal in Senate.
South in House.
Equal in Senate
North in House.
North in Senate
South In House.
North in Senate
Equal in House.
Equal in Senate.
What was the debate over Missouri about?
The debate was about Missouri's admission as a territory into the U.S.
The debate was about whether Missouri should be free or enslaved as it was above the Ohio River.
The debate focused on the construction of a new railroad in Missouri that would go from D.C to Missouri.
The debate was regarding the state's capital city location.
What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?
That the South give up their agricultural economy and become industrialized.
That California be admitted as a free state and to keep Missouri as a slave state.
It marked the end of the Mexican-American war with Mexico giving up Missouri
It admitted Maine as a free state with Missouri as slave state.
Congress drew a line at the 36°30' parallel.
What were the 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850?
California as a free state
Popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah
abolition of the slave trade in D.C.
A stricter Fugitive Slave Law
The Compromise of 1850 will provide a long term solution to
the law-making issue.
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
How did the North and the South feel about it?
Mark Twain
Both Northerners and Southerners liked it, feeling it expressed great emotion.
Louisa May Alcott
Northerns hated it and got it banned. South loved it and every Southerner had a copy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
More Northerners want to become abolitionist. South felt it misinterpreted slavery.
Emily Dickinson
Northerns and Southerns both hated it and wanted to destroy every copy ever made.
What did the Kansas Nebraska Act do?
What was the disagreement over it about?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act abolished slavery in the territories, but that angered the South who wanted more slave states.
The act mandated that all settlers in Kansas and Nebraska must be free laborers, but there was no labor to be done.
It established a federal government in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, but nobody could decide who would be the leader.
The act opened the region of the great plains to settlers, but the territory would decide about slavery based on popular sovereignty.
How did both sides react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The South sent all their slaves to use the land for farming while the North sent their workers to make factories.
Both sides sent a few of their citizens to get along with each other and to rebuild relations.
The South sent young men while the North raised money to sent weapons and troops.
Nothing happened on both sides the land was left empty.
How did both sides attack each other in Kansas?
Both sides did not attack each other, but instead provided aid to each other to attack the Native American tribes there.
The North held debates against Southerners on whether to allow slavery while the South held farming competitions between slaves and Northern workers.
They did not attack each other and instead kept good relations.
The South looted and burned down Lawrence while John Brown raided Pottawatomie and hacked 5 guys to death with a sword.
Who was Dred Scott?
Dred Scott was a Civil War general who valiantly led the charge in Fort Wagner.
Dred Scott was a enslaved person who field a claim for his freedom with the Supreme Court
Dred Scott was a Supreme Court justice who ruled that enslaved people would never be citizens.
Dred Scott was a famous abolitionist leader who led the Underground Railroad.
What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case?
The case was dismissed without a ruling by the Supreme Court causing him to keep filing again and again.
The Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, stating that African Americans were never citizens and that Congress couldn't ban slavery.
Dred Scott was awarded damages for his wrongful enslavement and set free in Maine with his family.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Dred Scott, granting him citizenship and allowing him to move to the North with his family.
What was Lincoln's beliefs?
Lincoln believed that slavery was a moral issue.
Lincoln believed that the country could not survive being split half free and half slave.
What was Douglas' beliefs?
Douglas believed that there was no problem having a divide Union of half free and half slave.
Douglas believed that the Dred Scott case put the issue of slavery to rest.
What was the outcome of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Lincoln lost, but he became a national figure and it brought the issue of slavery back to the spotlight.
Lincoln won and became the president and used his full power to get rid of slavery completely.
Douglas won and became president while Lincoln would never come back to politics.
Douglas lost, but would later become president.
Who ran in the election of 1860?
Who won?
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell.
Abraham Lincoln won with 40% of the votes.
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Andrew Johnson, and John Adams.
Andrew Johnson won with 60% of the votes.
George Washington, James Buchanan, Donald Trump, and Barack Obama.
Barack Obama won with 67% of the votes.
James Madison, FDR, Woodrow Wilson, and Ulysses S. Grant.
FDR with 57% of the votes.
What did the South realize after the election of 1860?
What did they do?
The South realized their votes were too split and decided to form a new party that would align with all there ideas.
The South realized they had no more power in the federal government and decide to secede.
The South realized they had no power so they sought to negotiate with the North to not end slavery.
The South realized they now had absolute power in the federal government and decide to get more slaves to increase its agricultural production.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
The Emancipation Proclamation required the everyone should have a slave.
The Emancipation Proclamation was the declaration of war against the Confederate states.
Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
It made ending slavery another purpose of the war.
Foreign countries would not aid the South as they did not support slavery.
It impacted the economy of the South as they would lose almost all of its workforce.
It was a war strategy.
What was Lincoln trying the convey in the Gettysburg Address?
Lincoln was conveying the fact that we should never be unprepared for this and we need to grow our military.
Lincoln was conveying the fact that we needed to crush the Confederates forever and never let them heal.
Lincoln was conveying the importance of ending slavery and that we should honor everyone who died there.
Lincoln was conveying the importance of having a workforce that would work the farms to help provide food for the troops.
What does total war mean?
A strategy that focuses solely on military engagement of guerilla warfare.
A type of warfare that avoids civilian involvement and instead just keep attacking the enemy head on.
A conflict where only economic resources are utilized to get more foreign investments.
A type of warfare that attack the soldiers will to keep fighting and taking out the ability to supply soldiers.
What did the Northerner soldiers do in Georgia?
Burned and bent railroads.
Trampled or burned fields and supplies of hay and food.
Stripped houses of all items of value.
Killed all livestock and animals for food and what couldn't be carried was left om the side of the road.
What were the terms of surrender at Appomattox Court House?
Food be sent to all Confederate soldiers.
Soldiers could return home with their horses or mules, while officers could keep their weapons and swords.
The Confederate soldiers would all become homeless and everything be given to Northerners or their slaves.
The Confederate leaders would be sentenced in a court of law for their crimes.
What did Lincoln's assassination cause?
A shift towards slavery and a agricultural economy.
The process of reuniting the nation to be different than what Lincoln planned.
What happened to slavery after the Civil War?
Slavery was expanded in the United States into all states.
Slavery remained legal in border states, but was outlawed everywhere else.
Slavery was abolished in the United States and freed 4 million slaves.
Slavery was replaced by indentured servitude where you could never pay off your debts.
What was Andrew Johnson plan for the Southern states to rejoin the Union?
Southern states must ratify the 13th amendment and a majority of white male votes must pledge loyalty to the U.S.
Southern states needed to establish a new constitution before rejoining that would allow slaves to take the homes of former white Southern slave holders.
Southern states were required to adopt a military government that would outlaw slavery.
Southern states had to pay reparations to the Union that would pay off their war debt.
What was sharecropping in the South?
A contract where former slaves would rent land from plantation owners for a share of the money gained from the crops.
What happened to African Americans who went into sharecropping?
They faced exploitation, debt, and continued poverty.
What was the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment?
Abolished slavery, granted citizenship to all naturalized or born person in the U.S, prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
Freedom of religion, press, speech, and press, the right to bear arms, and prevent forcing citizens to house soldiers.
Protects citizens from unreasonable searches or seizures, the right to the jury, and right to a speedy and public trial.
Prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, limits the Judicial power of federal courts, and how to break the tie of the electoral college.
How did the "Black Codes" limit freedmen?
The Black Codes kept freedmen at the bottom of society by requiring segregation.
The Black Codes limited freedmen to farming or unskilled labor jobs.
The Black Codes stated that freedmen without jobs could be arrested and hired out to plantation owners.
What were the "Jim Crow" laws?
A set of laws that enacted segregation in Southern states between blacks and whites in everyday life.
Regulations for public transportation in the South that would not allow former Confederates to ride buses.
Laws that promoted equal rights for all citizens no matter their race or color.
Federal laws that protected voting rights for minorities.
What was the Plessy v. Ferguson case about?
The Plessy v. Ferguson case was about women's rights and how they women should have the right to vote.
The Plessy v. Ferguson case dealt with immigration laws and how that everybody who lived in the U.S for 5 years would be granted citizenship.
The Plessy v. Ferguson case focused on labor rights and how white Americans worked less than everybody else.
The Plessy v. Ferguson case was about segregation and how it violated the 14th amendment.
What was the ruling of the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
The ruling declared segregation unconstitutional and required Southerners to pay African Americans for mistreatment.
The ruling mandated integration in public facilities no matter your skin color.
The ruling found segregation did not violate the 14th amendment and it's allowed.
What were the effects of the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
The case led to the South implementing more "Jim Crow" laws for more segregation in public places.
The ruling was overturned immediately by the Supreme Court and required the South to get rid of the "Jim Crow" laws.
The case led to the abolition of racial segregation and required that every facility be used by ever person no matter race.
It established a national standard for civil rights protections that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
