US History 1R Final Exam Study Guide
1. About how many African Americans served in the Union Army
2. What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867
3. When did the American Revolution take place
4. Define the Civil Rights Act of 1866
5. Name the border states (Civil War)
6. What was the impact of the 1st Battle of Bull Run
7. List the ways white southerners tried to prevent African Americans from voting
8. What were the terms of Lincoln’s plan of Reconstruction
9. What is the Lecomptom Constitution
10. Name the two largest immigrant groups of the 1800s
11. Explain the factors that drove the Southern economy
12. What role did George Washington play during the Revolution
13. What was the 13th Amendment
14. Explain the Bill of Rights
15. What role did Clara Barton play during the Civil War
16. What was the Great Compromise
17. Name the 3 branches of government
18. Define secession
19. What was the Middle Passage
20. Who led the Mormons to Utah
21. What was the significance of the Declaration of Independence
22. Explain Hamilton’s view on the Constitution
23. What was Shay’s Rebellion
24. What is mercantilism
25. Who were carpetbaggers
26. What was the Whiskey Rebellion
27. Define war of attrition
28. Who were scalawags
29. Explain the difference between Federalists and Anti-Federalists
30. Who assassinated Lincoln
31. What was the importance of the Battle of Antietam
32. Plessy vs Ferguson (Supreme Court Case)
33. What was the significance of the Dred Scott Decision
34. Who were the Redeemers
35. Who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry
36. What Supreme Court case established judicial review
37. Define impressment
38. Who was the hero of the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812)
39. Who wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin
40. Why did some Americans oppose the annexation of Texas into the Union
41. What was the Fugitive Slave Act
42. What years did James Buchanan serve as president
43. Who won the presidential election of 1852
44. Who won the election of 1860
45. Explain the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
46. Who were the Sons of Liberty
47. What was the Indian Removal Act
48. Did Stephen Douglas support Popular Sovereignty
49. What is sharecropping
50. Describe the crop-lien system
51. What was Booker T. Washington’s belief on how African Americans should react to discrimination
52. Who wrote the Virginia Plan
53. Who did Rutherford B. Hayes defeat in the election of 1876
54. Who drafted the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
55. What was the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
56. Who were Californios
57. What was the Quartering Act
58. Which president violated the Office of Tenure Act and was impeached.
59. Where did empressarios come from
60. What was the Anaconda Plan
61. Who were abolitionists
62. What was the Pottawatomie Massacre
63. What is Federalism
64. Who was the leader of the Bear Flag Revolt
65. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1875