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History test 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an abolitionist? | a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery |
| What does the term Antebellum mean? | latin for the time before war |
| What is Emancipate? | Free |
| What is Reapportion? | redistribution |
| Who invited the cotton Gin in 1798? | Eli Whiney |
| what does the cotton gin do? | separates the cotton from the seed |
| What does assimilate mean? | become a part of |
| what is a system of public works and facilities within a city, state, or country | infrastructure |
| definition of nationalism | identification with one's own nation and support for its interests |
| What does nullify mean | void or discontinue |
| What is the idea that the people in a place should decide the rules for themselves | Popular sovereignty |
| What is sectionalism | concern with local interest |
| a political party that developed in opposition to Andrew Jackson and his party (the democrats) | Whig party |
| What was the trail of tears? | a route taken by Native Americans when they were forced off their lands |
| what does cede mean | to give up |
| a person who has escaped and is hiding it called what? | fugitive |
| a person who is killed for their beliefs is called what? | martyr |
| What is a prodigy? | a young person who has exceptional qualities or abilities |
| What is propaganda? | biased or misleading information |
| what war was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848 following the 1845 American annexation of Texas | Mexican American War |
| What was the Gadsden purchase | an agreement to buy what is now Arizona and New Mexico between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854 |
| What was the anti-slave novel written by Harriot Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's cabin |
| What did the Missouri compromise do? | admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, so as not to upset the balance between slave and free states; it also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line |
| What three things did the Kansas-nebraska act do? | repealed the Missouri Compromise created two new territories, allowed for popular sovereignty |
| What happened in response to the creation of the Kansas-nebraska act | a violent uprising called Bleeding Kansas |
| What political party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into western territories after the passing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act | Republican Party |
| What enslaved African American man, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves | Dred Scott |
| What happened at Harper's Ferry? | a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there |
| What former slave allegedly planned an enslaved insurrection to coincide with Bastille Day in Charleston, South Carolina | Denmark vesey |
| What did the 10th Amendment do? | any powers that are not specifically given to the federal government, nor withheld from the states, are reserved to those respective states, or to the people at large |
| When was the 10th Amendment ratified? | on December 15, 1791 |
| Who was the 6th president of the US | John Quincy Adams |
| What did Henry Clay, senator, Speaker of the House, and secretary of state do | As senator, he forged the Compromise of 1850 to maintain the Union, but such compromises could not settle the fractious issues that ultimately resulted in Civil Wa |
| Was the Compromise of 1850 successful? | No, it could not settle the fractious issues that ultimately resulted in Civil War |
| What two SC sisters moved to Philadelphia to join the abolitionist movement? | Sarah and Angelina Grimké |
| What did Charles Pinckney help Jefferson acquire? | the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon |
| Who was John Brown? | an American abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of slavery |
| T or F the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the US? | T |
| James Gadsden, for whom the Gadsden Purchase is named pertains to what purchased land | land which the US bought from Mexico- the southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico |
| Who was the 7th President and where was he from? | Andrew jackson |
| Why did he nearly go to war with SC? | because of the nullification crisis |
| What party formed because of Andrew Jackson and the democrats? | Whig party |
| What slave owner was a defender of the institution of slavery? | John C. Calhoun |
| What did John C. Calhoun's doctrine of nullification state? | it stated that individual states had a right to reject federal policies that they deemed unconstitutional |
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