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US History TAKS #2
McLaughlin/Brown-U.S. History-CHS TAKS Review #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| war between the U.S. and England, it was the only time, other than 9/11, that our Capital was attacked | War of 1812 |
| one of the causes of the Civil War | slavery |
| Southern states thought they had the right to follow only the laws that were good for their state, and nullify the others | states' rights & nullification |
| President of the Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| U.S. President during the Civil War | Abraham Lincoln |
| Northern General that helped lead the North to victory | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Southern General that led the South to many victories early in the Civil War | Robert E. Lee |
| first fighting of the Civil War | Fort Sumter |
| Northern victory, gave the North control of the Mississippi River and cut the South in half | Battle of Vicksburg |
| huge victory for the North, after this battle the South was on the run | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Northern strategy to weaken the South, Lincoln declared all slaves in the Southern states free | Emancipation Proclamation |
| U.S. system which includes: economic choice, competition, profit and limited government regulations | Free Enterprise Economic System |
| government controls most economic decisions and owns most of the means of production | Command Economic System |
| growing crops just to feed a family | subsistence farming |
| growing crops for commerical sale | market-oriented farming |
| small scale production requiring little capital | cottage industry |
| the spreading of ideas, technology, religions and other cultural practices | cultural diffusion |
| relating to a city, of or in a city | urban |
| relating to the countryside, of or in the countryside | rural |
| rights that connot be taken away or surrendered | unalienable rights |
| the right to vote and the exercise of that right | suffrage |
| an original document, picture or journal from the time period in which the event occurred | primary source |
| information that comes from other sources such as a textbook or encyclopedia | secondary source |
| wrote The Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the U.S. | Thomas Jefferson |
| leader of the Continental Army, Ist President of the U.S. | George Washington |
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