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EOCA US History
Review for EOCA in US History
Question | Answer |
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Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? | in England |
Where were textile factories built? | in the Northeast |
Why were textile factories built in the northeast? | seaports were there |
Who did the Industrial Revolution cause employers to hire due to lack of workers? | women, children, and immigrants |
How did factory goods compare to hand-made goods? | cheaper and faster to produce |
What grew because factories grew? | cities |
What happened because cities grew? | there were higher populations |
How did the economy change with the Industrial Revolution? | moved from self-sufficient farm economy (growing food)to market economy (buying food) |
What happened as a result of the cotton gin? | an increased need for slavery because cotton was more profitable |
What were the benefits of trains? | pull greater loads, go anywhere, and used all year |
What was the disadvantage of trains? | dangerous |
What did Eli Whitney use to mass produce muskets? | interchangeable parts |
Which regions produced raw materials for northern factories? | southern and western |
What did the Industrial Revolution cause because of a need to get goods to market? | Transportation Revolution |
What was the result of the Transportation Revolution? | steam engines for ships, more and better roads, and the development of canals to connect waterways |
What type of apartments, often inhabited by immigrants, were found in crowded city slums? | tenements |
What type of working conditions were found in city slums? | dirty and unsafe |
What happened when immigrants came from other countries looking for jobs? | cities grew |
Is the belief that the U.S. had the right to spred democracy from coast to coast. Many Indians were killed as a result | Manifest Destiny |
saw jim bowie, william Travis and Davy Crockett, the famous mountain man die where they were outnumbered by the mexicans and deafeated | The Battle of the Alamo |
got its independence and later became a state after the deafeat of Santa Ana the mexican dictator | Texas |
what were the route used by pioneers and wagons to get west | Sata Fe Trail, Mormon Trail, and Oregon Trail |
were seeking religous freedom when they came to thee great salt lake, vthey were led by vrigham young but joseph smith started the religion | the mormons |
were al forms of communication between east and west | telegraph, pony express, an clipper ships |
border dispute down thee rio grande led to which war | the war with mexico |
the traty of gualaupe hidalgo ended the war and gave the U.S. the area known as what | California |
discovered gold by accident in california near Sutter's Fort | James Marshall |
saw more people lose everything, however, store keepers made the most during this era | California Gold Rush |
believedd slavery was sinful against all american principles (people against slavery) | Abolitionists |
Who was the abolitionist, who was a former slave, who talked President Lincoln into freeing the slaves? | Frederick Douglass |
What novel writwn by harriet beacher stowe made northerrners aware of the evils of slavery. | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
What Supreme Court decision was important because it stated slaves were still property of the owner even if they lived in a free state? | The Dred Scott Decision |
Who led a raid at Harpers Ferry that incrasedd southerners suspicions of the norrtherners and helped this guy become an abolitionists' hero when he was hung? | John Brown |
What freedom, which meant states could make their own decisions (including leaving) the Union, made the South think it was okay to secede? | State's Rights |
What means to decide if states want slavery or not? | Popular Sovernity |
Who were Sojourner Truth and Harriett Tubman? | Abolitionists with the Underground Railroad |
What part of the Compromise of 1850 said it was illegal to help runaway slaves and made northerners upset with the South? | Fugitive Slave Act |
Before the Civil War how did the South feel about the North? | politically and economically overwhelmed |
Where were the first shots of the civil war? | Fort Sumter |
What was the Union goal in the civil war? | to free the slaves |
What proclamation fred the slaves? | Emancipation Proclamation |
who wrote the emancipation proclammation? | Abraham Lincoln |
After Lincoln waselected, many southern states did what? | seceded from the union |
What were three advantages of the South during the war? | Home field advantage, fighting for independence, and better generals |
Who did not want to end slavery at first but stopped its spread to new territories? | President Lincoln |
Who was offered commanad of the union? | Robert E. Lee |
Why did Robert E. Lee turn it down because he was from a southern state? | virgina |
What did the North and South do to force soldiers to fight in the war? | draft |
what started because the country was running out of money for the war? | Income Tax |
Who was Lincoln's last and most seccessful genral for the war for the North? | Genral Grant |
Who was Lincoln genral nicknamed lil mac who was replaced by genral grant? | Genral McClellan |
What did the South not have enough of in the Civil war? | money, food, and weapons |
Where did the south surrender to the North on April 9, 1865? | Appomattox Courthouse in Virgina |
What happened to president lincoln after the war in Ford's theather? | Assainated by John Wilkes Booth |
Who became the 17th president? | Andrew Johnson (vice president) |
What did Johnson, the new Southern president from tennessee begin to rebuild the country? | Reconstruction |
What did the North have that helped win the war? | More factories, soldiers, and railroads |
Black codes and Jim crow laws kept blaccks from exercising all of their what? | Freedoms |
The 13th, 14th, and 15th ammendments are called what ammendments? | Civil war Ammendments |
The Fredman's bureau gave Food and what to fred slaves? | Education |
What ammendment officially abolished slavery in the U.S.? | 13th ammendment |
radical republicans thought president Johnson was not doing a good job of what? | Rebuilding the Country |
House of representatives impeacheed him for his diagreements the senate needed 2/3 vote to impeach | ross voted not guilty |