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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Three branches of government | Legislative, executive and judicial |
| The first 10 amendments of the constitution are know as the | Bill of rights |
| These events are in chronological order | Declaration of Independence, creation of the constitution, Lewis and Clark expedition, and Lincoln becomes president |
| Define “checks and balances” | Ensured that nor branch in government becomes too powerful. |
| Congress consists of what two houses | Senate and the House of Representatives |
| Briefly describe the first amendment | Freedom of speech |
| Briefly describe The second amendment | Right to bear arms |
| What was the main disagreement between the federalists and democratic republicans | On the implied powers of the constitution to allow the creation of the national bank. |
| List the three main people involved with the Louisiana expansion | James Monroe, Robert r. Livington, and Thomas Jefferson |
| Who was the first secretary of treasury? | Alexander Hamilton |
| What was the first captial of the United States | New York City |
| Who presidency was known as the “era of good feelings”? | James Monroe |
| How did Washington deal with the war between England and France? | Remained neutral |
| The star spangled banner, patriotism, and Andrew Jackson war hero all ahve to do with what war | War of 1812 |
| Americas belief that it would eventually own all of North America was known a | Manifest destiny |
| Who wrote star spangled banner | Francis Scott key |
| Which doctrine limited European influence in north and South America and made us “big brother” of the western hemisphere | Monroe doctri |
| What group in the early 1800s wanted to declare war on England, protect us from Indians and take over Florida and Canada | War hawks |
| Why was the battle of New Orleans fought after the war of 1812 was over | News of the treaty has not reached the shores of the United States by January 8,1815 |
| Which man brought the idea of inter changeable parts to America | Eli Whitney |
| Who invented the steam train | Richard Trevithick |
| Which immigrant group was considered dirty and diseased | The Chinese |
| Roads on which tolls are collected are known as | Tollway |
| The 10th amendment had to do with | The powers are reserved to the people |
| Who won the 1828 election | Andrew Jackson |
| What was the corrupt bargain | When Henry clay was bribed to convince congress to elect Adam’s |
| Jackson took advice from these people instead of his own cabinet was the | Kitchen cabinet |
| List 2 benefits of jseing water power to replace hand tools | Machine provide more consistent and reliable output and offer ore adaptability |
| The tariff 1828 was known as the tariff of what | The protective tariff |
| What is the vote of people in a election | The electoral |
| Which law enforcers native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to move to lands west of the Mississippi | The Removal act of 1830 |
| Which country did Texas declare its dependence from | Mexico |
| In the 1840s, president polks belief in manifest destiny led to which war | Cilvil war |
| Which person first brought Americans to Texas | Stephen F. Austin |
| The triangle trade connected which 3 major areas of the world | Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
| Who was the famous conductor of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| Define popular sovereignty | government based on consent of the people |
| How did Abraham Lincoln feel about southern states seceding? | his fears that secession would cause the weakened government to descend into anarchy |
| Which 1852 novel, written about the horrors of slavery sharply divided the north and the south | Uncle toms cabin |
| The abolitionist newspaper the liberator, the Kansas Nebraska act and the Fred sort decision all led to which war? | Civil war |
| Which invention led to dramatic increase in slave labor in America | The cotton gin |
| John brown, Fredrick Douglas and William Lloyd garrison all were leaders of the what movement | Abolitionists |
| The compromise of 1859 allowed the ste of what to enter the union as a free state | California |
| What was the main difference between the confederate and United States constitution | the Confederate Constitution sought different guarantees of states' rights and protected slavery as an institution. |
| The confederate capital during the civil war was, what VA | Richmond, Virginia |
| Abraham Lincoln’s speech to dedicate a battle field cemetery during the civil war was known as the what address | Gettysburg address |
| The emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in the | Confederate states |
| Which battle of the civil war made th south give up the idea of invading the north | Battle of Gettysburg |
| The process of re admitting the former conferderare states to the union was known as | Andrew Johnson |
| Briefly describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments | The 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the US. The 15th Amendment gave Black Americans the right to vote. |
| The speciation of public facilities by race is known as | Segregation |
| Which agency helped former slaves after they gained their freedom | The freemen’s bureau |
| Which region if the us was most affected by Jim Crow laws | Southern United States |
| Literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather clauses were always the south tried to stop Africans Americans from | turned African Americans away from the polls |
| Which group formed after the civil war tried to intimidate African American office holders and voters | The KKK |
| Why did most newly freed slaves stay on the same plantation | ey now owned part of the land, did not have opportunities to find work elsewhere, and some former masters offered them good jobs if they stayed and worked. |
| Electricity allowed manufacturers to build their factiroee awa from what which had previously been used to power machinery | Steam engines |
| Social Darwinism is a belief that ensures “survival of the ___” | The fittest |
| Which man started a factory town and produced railroad cars | Pullman |
| Which man created the first affordable car, the model t | Henry ford |
| Which man was a leader in the steel industry in Pittsburgh | Andrew Carnegie |
| Which man created the standard oil company | Rockefeller and Henry Flagler, |
| Which man created a cheap and Effie net way to produce steel | Henry Bessie |
| A “political machine” helped the needs of which class of people | Machine workers |
| Which law made monopolies illegal and helped increase competition in buisness | The Sherman antitrust act |
| Who were people who were brown in America and opposed immigration | The anti aliens |
| A what is a group that tries to improve pay and working conditions for the working class | Labor union contracts |
| the what era was a time when poeple wanted to refirm, or chnge the ornkeme associated eitj nug buinesses | NUG |
| What invention of Theodore Rosevelt’s was designed to protect people | USFS |
| The wjat act required truthful labeling on all products | SN 343 |
| The Roosevelt |
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