19 - Tredyffrin/Easttown School District



Directions: Seventy-five questions from this list will be on your exam on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6th.

Chapter 11

• Why did the American Industrial Revolution begin in New England?

• How did the invention of the cotton gin affect Native Americans?

• The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by

• What are the provisions of the American System?

• Which of the following is true about President Madison’s plan to strengthen the nation after the War of 1812?

• For what is Nat Turner best known?

• A telegraph that would allow people to communicate quickly over long distances was demonstrated by

• What purpose did spirituals serve on Southern plantations?

• What did the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1819 case of McCulloch v. Maryland show?

• The Monroe Doctrine warned European powers to

• Why was the Missouri Compromise so important to the nation?

Chapter 12

• What was the central principle of Jacksonian democracy?

• What did Andrew Jackson’s practice of rewarding his political backers become known as?

• Which political leader was a strong nationalist but later changed his views to become the leading supporter of nullification and states’ rights?

• Why was the doctrine of nullification popular in the South?

• Why did Southerners object to high tariffs on manufactured goods?

• The forced journey of the Cherokee people from their Georgia homeland to Indian Territory became known as

• Why were the Cherokees forced to move west?

• Who controlled the nation’s money supply during most of Jackson’s presidency?

• Andrew Jackson disliked the national bank and attacked it because

Chapter 13

• What phrase did Americans use to explain their expansion westward?

• The Donner-Reed Party began their ill-fated journey at

• Who commanded the Texas army and was president of the Texas Republic?

• Most missionaries and farmers moving into the Far West traveled along:

• Which of the following best illustrates Manifest Destiny?

• The person most responsible for adding California, Oregon, and the Southwest to the United States is

• The discovery of gold in California took place near a mill owned by

Chapter 14

• Americans who opposed immigration were part of the

• The main objective of the Nativists was to

• This way of thinking stressed that the spiritual world was more important than the physical world. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about this.

• A severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death is known as:

• A person who leaves his or her country to live elsewhere is called

• What are PUSH and PULL factors in immigration?

• Who was in the “Know-Nothing” Party?

• Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1840?

Chapter 15

• Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• The belief that the people living in a region should vote to decide whether to permit slavery was based on an idea called

• The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to

• How did the Supreme Court add to the tensions over slavery in the 1850s?

• What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South by the mid-1850s?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for

• What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

• Hoping to seize weapons for a slave rebellion, ________________ captured a U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.

• What effect did the Compromise of 1850 have on slavery?

• What role did John Brown play in the slavery controversy?

• This new political party was formed by Free-Soilers, Northern Whigs, and Democrats who opposed the spread of slavery.

• What event affected the outcome of the 1860 presidential election?

• Who was a leading abolitionist, former slave, and the publisher of a newspaper?

• Why did the Southern states decide to secede after the election of 1860?

• In 1860 and 1861, eleven Southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the

• Which states seceded before the attack on Fort Sumter?

• The Confederate States were:

Chapter 16 & 17

• The North’s strategy to defeat the South in the Civil War was called

• The Civil War began when Southern forces attacked U.S. troops at

• Name the following “border states” in the Civil War:

• Who was put in charge of all Union army nurses?

• The Union’s plans for victory included

• The First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Shiloh proved that:

• Why did the Union Navy establish a blockade of the South’s coastline at the beginning of the war?

• The Confederacy won all of the following important battles:

• Why was the Battle of Gettysburg an important event?

• What part of the Union strategy was completed with Grant’s victory at Vicksburg?

• Northern Democrats who wanted the Union to stop fighting and make peace with the South were known as

• What caused President Lincoln to become dissatisfied with General McClellan's command after Antietam?

• Five days after the Civil War ended Lincoln was assassinated by ________ at __________.

• How did the South’s plantation economy put it at a disadvantage in fighting the Civil War?

• What problems did The South face during the war?

• The Emancipation Proclamation freed

• President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after

• In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln promised

• Many African American soldiers fought for the Union. One regiment engaged the Confederates in hand-to-hand combat at Fort Wagner, winning respect for African American soldiers. One of the first states to organize all-black regiments, was:

• Compare the Union draft to the Confederate draft.

Chapter 18

• Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War in search of wealth and political power were known as

• How did corruption in Grant’s administration hurt Reconstruction?

• What brought Reconstruction to an end in the South?

• Who were most likely to support the Democratic Party during Reconstruction?

• The Ku Klux Klan wanted to

• How did white Southerners resist Reconstruction?

• Food, clothing, and education were provided to former slaves by the:

• Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by:

• African Americans in the North and the South gained the right to vote from:

• The __________ Amendment prohibited state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

• The Radical Republicans opposed President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, saying it was too

• Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called for

• The __________ Amendment abolished slavery.

• What amendment gave African Americans full citizenship?

• Why did the House of Representatives impeach Andrew Johnson?

• What laws did some Southern states pass in the late 1800s to enforce racial segregation in public places?

• Describe the sharecropping system that developed in the South?

• In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

Chapter 20

• What did Mark Twain call the age where the wealth of a few masked society’s problems such as widespread poverty and corruption?

• What was true of sweatshops?

• What was the term that reformers applied to a small businesses where workers labored long hours in poor conditions and for low pay?

• Many immigrants worked in dark, crowded clothing factories called _____.

• Name three examples of Captains of Industry (or Robber Barons).

• John D. Rockefeller gained control over much of the oil industry by

• Andrew Carnegie would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

• What two strikes did the president end by using troops against the strikers?

• Why was the steel industry so important to the nation’s economic growth?

• Inventions helped industry because they

• How did the nation’s population trends cause its industries to grow?

• Many factory owners used child labor because

• A corporation is a

• What were the goals of early labor unions?

• Immigrants and African Americans were paid

• How did industrial growth affect the distribution of wealth in the United States?

Chapter 21

• "The Tweed Ring " referred to

• What were the safety hazards at the Triangle Factory?

• Urbanization is defined as:

• What procedures did immigrants encounter as they docked at Ellis Island?

• Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in New York might be returned home if they

• An apartment building in a poor, run-down urban neighborhood was called a __________.

• In the 1890s, immigration patterns shifted dramatically, with most immigrants now coming from

• Which best describes the main goal of the social gospel and settlement movements?

• During the late 1800s, the port of entry for the majority of immigrants was

• In the late 1800s, which of the following were problems of urban life?

• The "new" immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1880s were from which countries?

• Why did native-born Americans discriminate against the new immigrants?

• Why did Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Chapter 22

• What reform resulted from Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle?

• The organization that led the fight women’s suffrage was

• The __________ Amendment to the Constitution gave women full voting rights.

• The two main leaders of the Women’s Suffrage Movement were?

• Why is the 18th Amendment considered to be a progressive reform?

• What were basic goals shared by most progressive reformers?

• Jane Addams founded __________.

Who Am I?

• James Buchanan

• John Brown

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Carnegie

• Jefferson Davis

• Dorothea Dix

• Stephen Douglas

• John D. Rockefeller

• Roger Taney

• Harriet Tubman

Famous Civil War Battles

• This Union victory was part of Sherman’s use of “Total War” and “March to the Sea”.

• This bloody battle in western Tennessee in April of 1862 produced the most savage fighting of the war to that point.

• The Confederate invasion of the North was stopped here in the bloodiest one-day battle in American history.

• A victory here allowed Union forces to capture the city of Richmond, VA.

• The union’s defeat here convinced Lincoln to send the state militia units home and raise a real army to fight the war.

Famous Civil War Figures

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Thomas J. Jackson

• Robert E. Lee

• George McClellan

• George Pickett

• William Tecumseh Sherman

Determine if the person is BEST associated with the Union (USA) or the Confederacy (CSA)

P.G.T. Beauregard

Jefferson Davis

Frederick Douglass

Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas J. Jackson

Robert E. Lee

George McClellan

George Meade

William T. Sherman

Jeb Stuart

Maps: Study the following maps: Chapter 12-17. There will be a selection of maps on the exam

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