American Studies II - Examination

Directions: Seventy-five questions from this list will be on your exam on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6th.

Chapter 11

  • Why didthe American Industrial Revolution begin in New England?
  • How did the invention of the cotton gin affect Native Americans?

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  • The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by
  • What are the provisions of the American System?

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  • Which ofthe following is true about President Madison’s plan to strengthen the nation after the War of 1812?
  • For what is Nat Turner best known?
  • A telegraph that would allow people to communicate quickly over long distances was demonstrated by
  • What purpose did spirituals serve on Southern plantations?
  • What did the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1819 case of McCulloch v. Maryland show?
  • The Monroe Doctrine warned European powers to
  • Why was the Missouri Compromise so important to the nation?

Chapter 12

  • What was the central principle of Jacksonian democracy?
  • What did Andrew Jackson’s practice of rewarding his political backers become knownas?

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  • Which political leader was a strong nationalist but later changed his views to become the leading supporter ofnullification and states’ rights?

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  • Why was the doctrine of nullification popular in the South?
  • Why didSoutherners object to high tariffs on manufactured goods?
  • The forced journey of the Cherokee people from their Georgia homeland to Indian Territory became known as
  • Why were the Cherokees forced to move west?

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  • Who controlled the nation’s money supply during most of Jackson’s presidency?

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  • Andrew Jackson disliked the national bank and attacked it because

Chapter 13

  • What phrase did Americans use to explain their expansion westward?
  • The Donner-Reed Party began their ill-fated journey at

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  • Who commanded the Texas army and was president of the TexasRepublic?

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  • Most missionaries and farmers moving into the Far West traveled along:

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  • Which of the following bestillustrates Manifest Destiny?

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  • The person most responsible for adding California, Oregon, and the Southwest to the United States is
  • The discovery of gold in California took place near a mill owned by

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Chapter 14

  • Americans who opposed immigration were part of the

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  • The main objective of the Nativists was to

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  • This way of thinking stressed that the spiritual world was more important than the physical world. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about this.

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  • A severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death is known as:

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  • A person who leaves his or her country to live elsewhere is called

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  • What are PUSH and PULL factors in immigration?

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  • Who was in the “Know-Nothing” Party?

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  • Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1840?

Chapter 15

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  • Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
  • The belief that the people living in a region should vote to decide whether to permit slavery was based on an idea called

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  • The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to

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  • How did the Supreme Court add to the tensions over slavery in the 1850s?

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  • What were the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South by the mid-1850s?
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for
  • What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

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  • Hoping to seize weapons for a slave rebellion, ______captured a U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
  • What effect did the Compromise of 1850 have on slavery?
  • What role did John Brown play in the slavery controversy?

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  • This new political party was formed by Free-Soilers, Northern Whigs, and Democrats who opposed the spread of slavery.
  • What event affected the outcome of the 1860 presidential election?
  • Who was a leading abolitionist, former slave, and the publisher of a newspaper?

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  • Why did the Southern states decide to secede after the election of 1860?
  • In 1860 and 1861, eleven Southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the
  • Which states seceded before the attack on FortSumter?
  • The Confederate States were:

Chapter 16& 17

  • The North’s strategy to defeat the South in the Civil War was called
  • The Civil War began when Southern forces attacked U.S. troops at
  • Name the following “border states” in the Civil War:
  • Who was put in charge of all Union army nurses?
  • The Union’s plans for victory included
  • The First Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Shiloh proved that:
  • Why did the Union Navy establish a blockade of the South’s coastline at the beginning of the war?
  • The Confederacy won all of the following important battles:

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  • Why was the Battle of Gettysburg an important event?
  • What part of the Union strategywas completedwith Grant’s victory at Vicksburg?

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  • Northern Democrats who wanted the Union to stop fighting and make peace with the South were known as
  • What caused President Lincoln to become dissatisfied with General McClellan's command after Antietam?

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  • Five days after the Civil War ended Lincoln was assassinated by ______at ______.
  • How did the South’s plantation economy put it at a disadvantage in fighting the Civil War?
  • What problems did The South face during the war?

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  • The Emancipation Proclamation freed

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  • President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after

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  • In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln promised

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  • Many African American soldiers fought for the Union. One regiment engaged the Confederates in hand-to-hand combat at FortWagner, winning respect for African American soldiers. One of the first states to organize all-black regiments, was:

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  • Compare the Union draft to the Confederate draft.

Chapter 18

  • Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War in search of wealth and political power were known as

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  • How did corruption in Grant’s administration hurt Reconstruction?
  • What brought Reconstruction to an end in the South?

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  • Who were most likely to support the Democratic Party during Reconstruction?
  • The Ku Klux Klan wanted to

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  • How did white Southerners resist Reconstruction?
  • Food, clothing, and education were provided to former slaves by the:
  • Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by:

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  • African Americans in the North and the South gained the right to vote from:
  • The ______Amendment prohibited state and federal governments from denying the right to vote to any male citizen because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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  • The Radical Republicans opposed President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, saying it was too
  • Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction called for
  • The ______Amendment abolished slavery.
  • What amendment gave African Americans full citizenship?
  • Why did the House of Representatives impeach Andrew Johnson?
  • What laws did some Southern states pass in the late 1800s to enforce racial segregation in public places?
  • Describe the sharecropping system that developed in the South?
  • In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

Chapter 20

  • What did Mark Twain call the age where the wealth of a few masked society’s problems such as widespread poverty and corruption?
  • What was true of sweatshops?
  • What was the term that reformers applied to a small businesses where workers labored long hours in poor conditions and for low pay?
  • Many immigrants worked in dark, crowded clothing factories called _____.

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  • Name three examples of Captains of Industry (or Robber Barons).
  • John D. Rockefeller gained control over much of the oil industry by
  • Andrew Carnegie would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

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  • What two strikes did the president end by using troops against the strikers?
  • Why was the steel industry so important to the nation’s economic growth?

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  • Inventions helped industry because they
  • How did the nation’s population trends cause its industries to grow?
  • Many factory owners used child labor because
  • A corporation is a

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  • What were the goals of early labor unions?
  • Immigrants and African Americans were paid

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  • How did industrial growth affect the distribution of wealth in the United States?

Chapter 21

  • "The Tweed Ring " referred to
  • What were the safety hazards at the Triangle Factory?
  • Urbanization is defined as:
  • What procedures did immigrants encounter as they docked at Ellis Island?
  • Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in New York might be returned home if they

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  • An apartment building in a poor, run-down urban neighborhood was called a ______.
  • In the 1890s, immigration patterns shifted dramatically, with most immigrants now comingfrom
  • Which best describes the main goal of the social gospel and settlement movements?

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  • During the late 1800s, the port of entry for the majority of immigrants was
  • In the late 1800s, which of the following were problems of urban life?

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  • The "new" immigrants who came to the United States in the mid-1880s were from which countries?
  • Why did native-born Americans discriminate against the new immigrants?
  • Why did Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Chapter 22

  • What reform resulted from Upton Sinclair’s, The Jungle?
  • The organization that led the fight women’s suffrage was
  • The ______Amendment to the Constitution gave women full voting rights.
  • The two main leaders of the Women’s Suffrage Movement were?
  • Why is the 18th Amendment considered to be a progressive reform?
  • What were basic goals shared by most progressive reformers?
  • Jane Addams founded ______.

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Who Am I?

  • James Buchanan
  • John Brown
  • Henry Clay
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Stephen Douglas
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • Roger Taney
  • Harriet Tubman

Famous Civil War Battles

  • This Union victory was part of Sherman’s use of “Total War” and “March to the Sea”.
  • This bloody battle in western Tennessee in April of 1862 produced the most savage fighting of the war to that point.
  • The Confederate invasion of the North was stopped here in the bloodiest one-day battle in American history.
  • A victory here allowed Union forces to capture the city of Richmond, VA.
  • The union’s defeat here convinced Lincoln to send the state militia units home and raise a real army to fight the war.

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Famous Civil War Figures

  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Thomas J. Jackson
  • Robert E. Lee
  • George McClellan
  • George Pickett
  • William Tecumseh Sherman

Determine if the person is BEST associated with the Union (USA) or the Confederacy (CSA)

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P.G.T. Beauregard

Jefferson Davis

Frederick Douglass

Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas J. Jackson

Robert E. Lee

George McClellan

George Meade

William T. Sherman

Jeb Stuart

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Maps: Study the following maps: Chapter 12-17. There will be a selection of maps on the exam

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