US I Final Exam Review. Early Presidents Question: The right of the Supreme Court to declare an act...

US I Final ExamReview

Early Presidents

•Question: The right of the Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional was affirmed in the Supreme Court case of…..?

Early Presidents

•Answer: Marbury vs. Madison

Early Presidents

•Question: Which early American President believed that the only way the United States could be successful would to ensure that America was an agricultural country.

Early Presidents

•Answer: Jefferson’s Philosophy

Early Presidents

•Question: The Secretary of the Treasury suggested that the nation's capital be moved from New York City to a new city in the South in order to help gain support for his national debt plan?

Early Presidents

•Answer: Hamilton’s Bank Plan

Early Presidents

•Question: Which event was a response to an unpopular excise tax imposed by the federal government?

Early Presidents

•Answer: Whiskey Rebellion

Early Presidents

•Question: In the 1790s America was divided over whether the central government or state governments should be stronger. The group that favored strong central government was?

Early Presidents

•Answer: Federalists

Early Presidents

•Question: This President’s philosophy began the practice of replacing high-ranking members of the executive branch when a new President takes office?

Early Presidents

•Answer: Jackson’s Philosophy

Early Presidents

•Question: The ____ was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.

Early Presidents

•Answer: XYZ Affair

Early Presidents

•Question: In the 1790s America was divided over whether the central government or state governments should be stronger. The group that favored strong state government was?

Early Presidents

•Answer: Anti-Federalists

Early Presidents

•Question: During John Adams's presidency, Democratic-Republicans were outraged by laws that they believed the laws violated freedom of speech. What were these laws?

Early Presidents

•Answer: Alien and Sedition Acts

Reform Movements

•Question: A belief in personal responsibility for salvation was one important feature of the ___________?

Reform Movements

•Answer: 2nd Great Awakening

Reform Movements

•Question: ____________ is a Christian theological movement named for the affirmation that God is one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarians, who define God as three persons coexisting consubstantially in one being.

Reform Movements

•Answer: Unitarianism

Reform Movements

•Question: The reform effort evolved during the 19th century, initially emphasizing a broad spectrum of goals before focusing solely on securing suffrage for women. 

Reform Movements

•Answer: Women’s Movement

Reform Movements

•Question: ____________ is increased spiritual interest or renewal in the life of a church congregation or society, with a local, national or global effect.

Reform Movements

•Answer: Revivalism

Reform Movements

•Question: The _____________________ was the first women's rights convention.

Reform Movements

•Answer: Seneca Falls Convention

Reform Movements

•Question: ________________is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Reform Movements

•Answer: Temperance

Westward Movement

•Question: The document that established hemispheric dominance for the United States?

Westward Movement

•Answer: Monroe Doctrine

Westward Movement

•Question: Who was the Secretary of State for President James Monroe, who suggested and outlined the Monroe Doctrine, establishing one of the major foundations for all future American foreign policy?

Westward Movement

•Answer: Secretary of State John Adams

Westward Movement

•Question: Completed in 1825, the _________ connected the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes?

Westward Movement

•Answer: Erie Canal

Westward Movement

•Question: The United States went to war against Britain because Britain was interfering with U.S. foreign trade during the ________________?

Westward Movement

•Answer: War of 1812

Westward Movement

•Question: Who attempted to unite Native Americans into a confederacy in the Indiana territory to protect their homeland against white intruders?

Westward Movement

•Answer: Tecumseh

Westward Movement

•Question: The name of the 1803 territorial acquisition under then President Thomas Jefferson?

Westward Movement

•Answer: Louisiana Purchase

Westward Movement

•Question: The Congressional Act which directly led to the “Trail of Tears” in which the Cherokee Indians were forcibly relocated from their homes in the American Southeastern states?

Westward Movement

•Answer: Indian Removal Act

Westward Movement

•Question: What was the name of Henry Clay’s proposal of a government-sponsored program to harmonize and balance the nation's agriculture, commerce, and industry?

Westward Movement

•Answer: The American System

Industry and Politics

•Question: The inventor of a mechanical reaper that did the work of five farm workers was….?

Industry and Politics

•Answer: Cyrus McCormick

Industry and Politics

• Question: _________________ was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy.

Industry and Politics

•Answer: Tariff of 1828

Industry and Politics

•Question: The _________________ was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

Industry and Politics

•Answer: Industrial Revolution

Industry and Politics

•Question: _________ is the idea that is promoted by the concept of nullification?

Industry and Politics

•Answer: States’ Rights

Industry and Politics

•Question: ______________ was a financial crisis in the United States in 1837 that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.

Industry and Politics

•Answer: Panic of 1837

Industry and Politics

•Question: States’ Rights was the idea that is promoted by the concept of_____________?

Industry and Politics

•Answer: Nullification

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the _________________ was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Missouri Compromise

War and Rising Conflict

• Question: The _____________ Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Kansas-Nebraska Act

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: _________________ party, nick name of American Party, U.S. political party that flourished in the 1850s. The party was an outgrowth of the strong anti-immigrant and especially anti-Roman Catholic sentiment that started to manifest itself during the 1840s.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Know-Nothings

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: This former slave published a newspaper, worked as an urban slave, and lectured on the evils of slavery.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Frederick Douglass

War and Rising Conflict

•Questions: The ____________________ of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Illinois, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Lincoln-Douglas Debates

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: This man is most well known for leading a violent slave revolt.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Nat Turner

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: The _________ , one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War; or, in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Wilmot Proviso

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: The final borders of the lower 48 states were established in the…?

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Gadsden Purchase

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: A white American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: John Brown

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: The _____________ ruled that slaves did not have rights, declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, and pleased Southerners.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Dred Scott Decision

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: President of the United States who attempted to purchase California from Mexico. Later would advocate for war with Mexico.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: President James K. Polk

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: Under Mexican rule, the main appeal ________ held for American settlers was cheap land.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Texas

War and Rising Conflict

•Question: The ________________, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War or the Invasion of Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico.

War and Rising Conflict

•Answer: Mexican-American War

Civil War

•Question: She would eventually create the American Red Cross after the Civil War.

Civil War

•Answer: Clara Barton

Civil War

•Question: This battle is considered a turning point in the Civil War because it made the South give up the idea of invading the North.

Civil War

•Answer: Battle of Gettysburg, PA

Civil War

•Question: The ____________ or Scott's Great Snake is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.

Civil War

•Answer: Anaconda Plan

Civil War

•Question: Grant and Sherman's strategy targeted not only the Confederate army but also the civilian population of the South.

Civil War

•Answer: “Total War”

Civil War

•Question: The stated aim of the ___________________ was to free slaves behind Confederate lines.

Civil War

•Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War

•Question: In an effort to silence the Southern sympathizers, or “Copperheads,” Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, a clause of the Constitution that forbids unlawful imprisonment.

Civil War

•Dissent against Abraham Lincoln

Civil War

•Question: An unrecognized confederation of secessionist American states existing from 1861 to 1865.

Civil War

•Answer: Confederacy

Historical Figures

•Question: The name of a man killed by an anti-Mormon mob in 1844?

Historical Figures

•Answer: Joseph Smith

Historical Figures

•Question: First elected President of the United States?

Historical Figures

•Answer: George Washington

Historical Figures

•Question: Succeeded President Taylor after his passing in office.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Millard Fillmore

Historical Figures

•Question: Conductor on Underground Railroad.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Harriet Tubman

Historical Figures

•Question: 81 year old delegate to the Constitutional Convention.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Historical Figures

•Question: President of the United States during the XYZ Affair.

Historical Figures

•Answer: John Adams

Historical Figures

•Question: Secretary of the Treasury under Washington.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Alexander Hamilton

Historical Figures

•Question: His victory in April 1862 advanced the Union plan to split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.

Historical Figures

•Answer: David Farragut

Historical Figures

•Question: The President referred to as a “King” in the press.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Andrew Jackson

Historical Figures

•Question: Abolitionist who published the “Liberator”

Historical Figures

•Answer: William Lloyd Garrison

Historical Figures

•Question: Organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Lucretia Mott

Historical Figures

•Question: President of the Confederate States of America.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Jefferson Davis

Historical Figures

•Question: The leader of the philosophical movement know as transcendentalism.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Historical Figures

•Question: Massachusetts representative who argued for the Bank of the United States.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Daniel Webster

Historical Figures

•Question: President during the War of 1812.

Historical Figures

•Answer: James Madison

Historical Figures

•Question: Vice-President who took over after the death of President Harrison.

Historical Figures

•Answer: John Tyler

Historical Figures

•Question: President in office at time of original 7-state secession.

Historical Figures

•Answer: James Buchanan

Historical Figures

•Question: President who purchased Louisiana.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Thomas Jefferson

Historical Figures

•Question: An African-American social reformer, abolitionist orator, writer, and statesman.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Frederick Douglass

Historical Figures

•Question: Attended an anti-slavery convention in London and was discriminated against because of gender.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Historical Figures

•Question: One of the founders of the Republican Party.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Horace Greely

Historical Figures

•Question: President who established US Hemispheric superiority.

Historical Figures

•Answer: James Monroe

Historical Figures

•Question: Senator from South Carolina, secretary of war, secretary of state, vice president of the United States--twice--was one of the giants of 19th century American politics.

Historical Figures

•Answer: John C. Calhoun

Historical Figures

•Question: An American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Margaret Fuller

Historical Figures

•Question: Confederate, General of the Army of Northern Virginia.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Robert E. Lee

Historical Figures

•Question: Former President accused of “The Corrupt Bargain” with Henry Clay

Historical Figures

•Answer: John Quincy Adams

Historical Figures

•Question: President at the outbreak of the US Civil War.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Historical Figures

•Question: Escaped slave, wrote “A Narrative of a Northern Slave.”

Historical Figures

•Answer: Sojourner Truth

Historical Figures

•Question: President who was left with the legacy of President Jackson.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Martin Van Buren

Historical Figures

•Question: Whig President who died in office of pneumonia.

Historical Figures

•Answer: William Henry Harrison

Historical Figures

•Question: First Commissioner of Education in Massachusetts.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Horace Mann

Historical Figures

•Question: President of the United States during the Mexican American War.

Historical Figures

•Answer: James K. Polk

Historical Figures

•Question: General during the Mexican-American War who will later become President.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Zachary Taylor

Historical Figures

•Question: An American politician and soldier, best known for his role in bringing Texas into the United States as a constituent state. His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from Mexico.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Sam Houston

Historical Figures

•Question: Commanding General who worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

Historical Figures

•Question: Won the Presidential election of 1852.

Historical Figures

•Answer: Franklin Pierce