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AMS Bailey 2010 - 2
4th 9 Weeks SG 2010
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Locate area obtained with the Louisisna Purchase | area between Mississippi River & Rocky Mountains |
| How was the Louisiana Purchase obtained? | Pres. Thomas Jefferson bought it from France for $15 million; largest single purchase of land in history of US |
| What was the significance of the Louisiana Purchase? | it more than doubled the size of the US; westward expansion exploded |
| What was the purpose of the Lewis & Clark expedition? | explore the Missouri River area; establish peaceful relations with American Indians |
| What were the results/accomplishments of the Lewis & Clark expedition? | learned alot about the land; created peaceful relations with Native American tribes |
| War of 1812 - causes | freedom of trade on the "seas"; War Hawks - wanted to go to war with GB; impressment of US sailors |
| War of 1812 - president | James Madison |
| War of 1812 - most influential military leader | Andrew Jackson |
| War of 1812 - turning point | Battle of Lake Erie - opened up Great Lakes region |
| War of 1812 - song that came out of it | The Star Spangled Banner (written following battle at Ft. McHenry) |
| Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner? | Francis Scott Key |
| Describe the economy of the US following the War of 1812. | economic growth |
| What were the political objectives of the Federalist Party? | stable national bank; high protective tariffs; strong central government; loose interpretation of Constitution |
| What was Manifest Destiny? | the belief that the US should spread its borders all the way to the Pacific Ocean; Pres. Polk; westward expansion |
| What were the results of the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison? | established the power of judicial review; judicial review gave the Supreme Court the sole right to declare laws unconstitutional; the Supreme Court became an equally powerful branch of the federal government |
| What was the purpose of the reservations for Native Americans? | to reduce the conflict between Native Americans & white settlers |
| Indian Removal Act | act of Congress to move the Indians east of the Mississippi to "Indian Territory"; Pres. Jackson - wanted to open more land for settlers; SC ruled it unconstitutional - Jackson refused to enforce the law, removing Indians anyway, defying SC ruling |
| How did US attempt to reduce Native American & white settler conflicts? | relocate Indians to "Indian Territory" |
| How did the Cherokee resist the Indian removal policy? | adopted the "white man" culture |
| Indian Removal Act - Pres. Jackson refused to enforce the law | the forced march of the Cherokee to "Indian Territory" is referred to as the "Trail of Tears" |
| Samuel Slater - invention/significance | textile mill/changed the way goods were manufactured in the US |
| Eli Whitney - inventions/significance | interchangable parts/contributed to the growth of mass production in US manufacturing; cotton gin/led to a greater demand for cotton growing = increased the need for slaves in the South = contributed to one cause of the CW |
| Robert Fulton - invention/significance | steamboat/improved river transportation - could easily move up & down rivers |
| Samuel Morse - invention/significance | telegraph/communication across country |
| Elias Howe - invention/significance | sewing machine/improved how clothing was made; women began working at home |
| What effect did the design of interchangeable parts have on American manufacturing? | growth of using mass production in factories |
| Which invention affected the textile industry? | cotton gin |
| Which invention affected the economy of the South? | cotton gin |
| Which invention led to the expansion of slavery? | cotton gin |
| Congress was most concerned about what issue when a territory applied for statehood (1820 - 1860)? | would the state be a free or slave state |
| Missouri Compromise - terms/author | area in LA Purchase north of 36, 30' closed to slavery; Maine entered Union as free state & Missouri as slave state/Henry Clay |
| Compromise of 1850 - terms | California enters Union as free state; Congress passed Fugitive Slave Act |
| Fugitive Slave Laws | law created to discourage actions of abolitionists; fugitive slaves would be arrested in free states; illegal to assist a fugitive slave escape - would be arrested |
| Underground Railroad - identify - how it worked/safety | a secretive network of abolitionists (secret b/c it was illegal to assist fugitive slaves); a chain of homes & farms where fugitive slaves could hide |
| Underground Railroad - leaders | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth |
| Underground Railroad - publications | North Star (F. Douglass); The Liberator (W.L. Garrison); Uncle Tom's Cabin (H.B. Stowe) |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act - Why did fighting break out? What did it become known as? | slavery; Bleeding Kansas |
| Dred Scott case | Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not a citizen, living on free soil for a time did not make him free; & ban on slavery in parts of LA Territory was not constitutional |
| Tariff of Abominations | tax on imported goods to encourage purchase of American-made products; South felt they were paying extra money so the North would make a profit |
| general causes of Civil War | states' rights/sectionalism/slavery/Republican Party |
| economy of South | agriculture/based on slave labor |
| economy of North | industry/based on factory workers (low wages, poor conditions) |
| 1st shots fired in Civil War | Ft. Sumter |
| What event directly contributed to the South seceding from the Union? | election of A. Lincoln as president (1st Republican pres.) |
| Put the following events in chronological order: passage of the 13th Amendment, Emancipation Proclamation, Election of A. Lincoln, Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott Decision | Missouri Compromise, Dred Scott Decision, Election of Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment |
| Put the following events in chronological order: South Carolina secedes from Union, Virginia secedes from Union, Ft. Sumter lost to CSA, Jefferson Davis chosen as president of the CSA, Lincoln elected president of USA | Lincoln elected president of USA, South Carolina secedes, J. Davis chosen president of CSA, Ft. Sumter lost to CSA, Virginia secedes from Union |
| states of the Confederacy | 11 - SC, MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX, VA, NC, AR, TN |
| states of the Union | all US states which did NOT secede & join the Confederacy ... including the slave states of DE, MD, KY, MO (border states) |
| border states | slave states that did not secede from the Union - DE, MD, KY, MO |
| top military leader of South | Gen. Robert E. Lee |
| top military leader of North | Gen. Ulysses S. Grant |
| president of Confederacy (CSA) | Pres. Jefferson Davis |
| president of Union (USA) | Pres. Abraham Lincoln |
| advantages of South | excellent military leaders; defense of homeland until North grew tired |
| advantages of North | strong navy; factories; large population; healthy economy; railroads |
| Who was most affected by the Emancipation Proclamation? | slaves in areas that rebelled against the Union (those in Confederacy) |
| Why was the Union successful in western campaigns of CW after 1863? | they controlled the Mississippi River |
| William T. Sherman - primary goal of his march to Atlanta | destroying the Southern economy & ending the war |
| What military strategy did Grant use to defeat the CSA? | total war - destroying everything enemy needs to keep fighting |
| Battle of Vicksburg - What did it do the Confederacy? significance to Union forces? | divided the Confederacy into 2 parts/turning point in war - vital to Union victory |
| Battle of Gettysburg - significance | last attempt of CSA army to invade North |
| Appomattox Court House - significance | Gen. Lee (CSA) surrendered to Gen. Grant (USA) |
| What happened to Pres. Lincoln? | assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater - watching My American Cousin |
| What was the mood of the country following the Civil War? | hostility, hard-feelings, ill will - remained for many years |
| Reconstruction - purpose (goals)/whose responsibility | years between 1865-1877; federal government worked to rebuild the South/responsibility of Pres. Johnson (became pres. when Lincoln was assassinated) |
| What group disagreed with Lincoln/Johnson's goals for Reconstruction? | radaical Republicans - demanded most dramatic changes in South, want South punished |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | citizenship for blacks (males) |
| 15th Amendment | voting rights to blacks (males) |
| freedmen - who they were/jobs they held | ex-slaves/sharecroppers |
| Freedmen's Bureau - purpose | created to help former slaves in South; educated ex-slaves/poor whites |
| Black Codes - purpose | re-establish conditions of pre-Civil War times for ex-slaves; laws that denied black Americans their civil rights |
| carpetbaggers | Northerners (Republicans) who came to South after CW - did not want the "best" for the Southern people |
| scalawags | white Southerners (Republicans)- believed to have betrayed the South (their own people) |
| Jim Crow laws - purpose/results | laws that enforced segregation in the South/black Americans continued to experience economic & political oppression (domination, cruelty), despite 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments |
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