Werdman Final. US History Honors

Colonial traders carried rum, molasses, slaves and gold between North American, Africa and the Caribbean in this trade:

Triangular trade

These 3 country’s had colonies in North America

England, France and Spain

The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War. It’s most far reaching result was ____________ lost all land in the new world.

France

Britain tried to stop the settlement of American colonists west of the Appalachians with this proclamation:

Proclamation of 1763

The main reason for the American colonists declaring their independence from Great Britain was

no taxation without representation

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This battle was the turning point of the Revolution. After the American victory here the French joined the fight on the American side against the British:

Saratoga

These were the first battles of the American Revolution and the “Shot heard ‘round the World:

Lexington and concord

What was the colonists most powerful weapon against the British Taxes? It forced the British to repeal the Stamp Act.

Boycotting

The ideas of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson expressed in the Declaration of Independence stressed the fact that governmental power should rest upon the ____?

Consent of the people

What was the name of Thomas Paine’s pamphlet that changed many Americans minds and convinced many people to support the cause of independence

Common Snese

What does the first Amendment guarantee?

Freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion.

What convinced the majority of Americans that the country was heading for disaster under the Articles of Confederation and that a constitutional convention should be called.

Shay’s Rebellion

The ___________ promised by Roger Sherman was an agreement made at the Constitutional Convention between the large and small states about how each state would be represented in bicameral Congress.

Great Compromise

The compromise that called for three-fifths of all slaves to be counted for representational purposes is called the

3/5 compromise

What condition was the government in under the Articles of Confederation?

Weak

Congress consists of two parts:

Senate and House of Representatives.

How is the president elected?

By the electoral collage

When is a President impeached?

When the house of reps. presents charges.

A change in or addition to the Constitution is known as an

amendment.

The formation of the political parties can be traced back to the different philosophies of

Hamilton and Jefferson

When a state refuses to follow a federal law in their state

Nullification

The first secretary of the Treasury

Hamilton

The first secretary of State

Jefferson

A broad undefined territory west of the Mississippi River acquired by the US from France in 1830 for $15 million which doubled the size of the US

Louisiana Purchase

In reaction to the war between France and England, President Washington issued a declaration of

neutrality

Why was the case of Marbury vs. Madison important?

It established Judicial review

One of the reasons the U.S. declared war against the British in 1812 was the ___________of U.S. sailors and seizure of American ships.

impressment

How much land did the US loose to the British from the Treaty of Ghent?

NONE

3 things federalists would have supported

Strong central government, national bank, manufacturing

Who created the cotton gin, interchangeable parts and mass production?

Eli Whitney

What were the goals of the American System?

to unify the nation, create a national currency and improve methods of transportation in the new nation

What did the Monroe Doctrine state?

warned European powers not to interfere with the affairs of the U.S. and the Western Hemisphere

What was the missouri compromise?

admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state and made slavery illegal in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase.

Which president is the “spoils system“ associated with?

Jackson

Creator of the American System

Henry Clay

What was the forced relocation to the west of the Missippi of the Cherokee People called?

Trail of Tears

Nationalism

Extreme pride in ones country

What did southerners do as the Abolition movement gained power in the North?

Unite in defense of slavery

What is Fredrick Douglas famous for?

Escaping slavery, writing the North Star Newspaper, speaking out against slavery

The founder of the method of peaceful protest called Civil Disobedience is known as

Thoreau

Restrictions put on free blacks

Black Codes

Temperance movement goal

limit the consumption of alcohol

Customs said women belonged in the home

Cult of Domesticity

This woman worked to reform prisons and conditions for the mentally ill

Doreathea Dix

The movement to outlaw slavery

abolition

The belief that the United States was meant to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican Territory

Manifest destiny

The slogan “Fifty-four Forth or Fight” refers to

The Northern border of Oregon territory

The conflicts over the balance of free and slave states delayed the annexation of______

Texas

Who was the president during the war with Mexicao?

Polk

Why did the Mormons move west?

To escape religious persecution

The term forty-niners refers to

gold rush miners

Who was the Texas commander-in-chief during the Texas Revolution against Mexico?

Sam Houston

The Fort Laramie Treaty was repeatedly violated by

The US government

The primary dispute between the U.S. and Mexico that prompted the Mexican-American War in 1846 was the U.S. demand that the border between Mexico and the U.S. be the

Rio Grande River

The Gadsden Purchase

Completed the lower 48 state borders.

Who helped free over 300 slaved using the underground railroad?

Harriet Tubman

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

The Admission of California as a free state, the adoption of a stricter fugitive slave law, and the adoption of popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

What did the Free Soil party oppose?

The expansion of Slavery into the US territories

The Dred Scott Case

The Supreme court ruled that being on free territory did not make a slave free.

Popular sovrignty

Leaving the decision of whether a territory would become a free or slave state to the voters of the territory.

Lincoln’s position that slavery was a moral evil and its spread to the territories had to be stopped was expressed during the _______debates.

Lincolon-Douglass

The Republican Party was formed by

People’s similar opinions about opposing slavery

Who was elected president in 1860 when the country split along sectional lines. He carried all the Northern states and none of the Southern states.

Lincoln

The know-nothing nativist party was against

immigrants

The first president of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

What was Lincolns goal when the Civil War began?

Preserve the Union

The southern states began to sucede from the union after

Lincolns election

Prisoner of War camp where union soldiers were taken

Andersonville

Bloodiest day in American History

Battle of Antietam

What were the Northern states called during the Civil War

Union

The Civil War battle considered the turning point of the Civil War because it crippled Confederate Forces so badly that they never again invaded the North was

Gettysburg

The final surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army occurred at

Appomattox

Which amendment abolished slavery

the 13th

What really freed no slaves but gave the Union troops a high, moral purpose for fighting the war and prevented England and France from interfering on the side of the South.

The Emancipation Proclamation.

Clara Barton was best knows for

Improving health and sanitation for soldiers

The Union’s wartime military strategy to strangle the South through blockade and cut it in half by traveling up the Mississippi River

Anaconda Plan

Which two generals adopted a strategy of “Total war“ against the south?

Grant and Sherman

When it came to reconstruction, Lincoln wanted to

go easy on the south

Which amendment provided citizenship and civil right for freed slaves

14th amendment

This signaled the end of Reconstruction

the Compromise of 1877

Which amendment protected the voting rights of all male citizens, regardless of race, color, or having been a slave

15th amendment

This group used terrorist tactics in an effort to prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights

KKK

The House of Representatives impeached President Johnson for having violated the

Tenure of Office Act

President Grant and Reconstruction lost popularity with voters because of

scandal

Homesteader

someone who farmed free land given by the government

________of the Plains Indians was intended to help them adapt to white culture.

assimilation

Populism was founded by

Farmers

When the U.S. Army’s seventh cavalry slaughtered 300 Native Americans in South Dakota, marking an end to the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians

battle of Wounded Knee

Which invention ended the wide-open western frontier era?

Barbed Wire

____ gave federal land to help finance agricultural colleges

Morrill Land Grants

the technique used by labor unions to gain workers rights

collective bargaining

_____ made it possible during the late 1800’s for skyscrapers to be constructed

Bessemer process

This term was used to justify the existence of poverty, the success of big business, and the power of millionaire industrialists

Social Darwinism

He attempted to control the entire steel industry through vertical integration and horizontal consolidation

Carnegie

He took control of the oil industry in the United States

Rockefeller

Workers who are used to break strikes

scab

The robber barons of the late 1800’s were

powerful industries

Monopoly

When one company controls a industry

inventor of the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

Did the government regulate businesses in the late 1800’s?

No