1st Semester Final Exam Study Guide
Industrialization and Immigration
1. What is meant by “push” factors?
2. Name some examples of push factors.
3. What is meant by “pull” factors?
4. Name some examples of pull factors.
5. Did immigration help or hurt the Industrial Revolution? Why?
6. Was the Irish Potato Famine a push or pull factor? Why?
7. Write a sentence using the word urban using context clues.
8. Write a sentence using the word rural using context clues.
9. Who invented the cotton gin?
10. What was the North’s economy based on?
11. What was the South’s economy based on before the Civil War?
Voting Rights
12. What is another word for the right to vote?
13. What was the reason for and the outcome of the Seneca Falls convention?
1820’s to 1840’s
14. As the nation grew, each area developed a feeling of sectionalism. What is meant by this statement?
15. Besides admitting both Missouri and Maine, what did the Missouri Compromise help preserve?
16. In the 1820’s President Andrew Jackson threatened to hang the first man who dared to hurt Federal troops he would send to the South. Luckily, the South backed down. Which state were the troops supposed to be sent to?
17. What were the federal troops supposed to stop?
18. What cash crop did many Southerners grow because of the demand from Northern and English textile factories?
19. Define the bold word: Americans felt optimistic about the future of their country when they saw railroad tracks being laid further and further out west.
20. Define the bold word: Many Southerners were angry and pessimistic about finding a solution to the problem of slavery when they heard about the Nat Turner rebellion.
21. Define the bold word: Many Westerners embraced the newly emerging Republican Party enthusiastically after it was formed.
1850’s
22. Define the bold word: Rather than promising the voters things he could not deliver, Abraham Lincoln took a realistic approach.
23. Define the bold word: Abolitionists were upset to hear that Congress had passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
24. What part did Frederick Douglass play in the abolition movement?
25. What part did William Lloyd Garrison play in the abolition movement?
26. What part did Harriet Tubman play in the abolition movement?
27. What part did Harriet Beecher Stowe play in the abolition movement?
28. Name the organization that helped slaves escape to freedom in the North?
29. Name the slave who brought a lawsuit against his owners. How did the Supreme Court rule in the case?
30. In its decision, the Supreme Court cited which Constitutional amendment?
31. How did this amendment, according the justices, protect slavery?
32. Because of westward expansion, the Missouri Compromise was replaced with what new law?
33. Who thought up the idea of “popular sovereignty” and what does it mean?
34. Which territory’s request to enter the Union in the1850’s caused problems?
35. Why did it cause problems?
36. Because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown, border ruffians and others poured into Kansas to try to influence the vote. What were citizens of this state supposed to vote on?
37. Because of all the violence, what nickname was this state given?
38. Abraham Lincoln and his rival, Stephen Douglas debated each other. Read Lincoln’s position regarding slavery on pg. 468 and, in your own words, explain what he meant.
Civil War
39. Define the bold word: The threats against President Lincoln’s life never ceased.
40. What were some advantages the North had going into the Civil War?
41. What were some advantages the South had going into the Civil War?
42. Name the theory about power sharing between the states and federal government, first proposed by John C. Calhoun in the 1820’s, said states had the right to leave?
43. Explain what this theory is and how it works.
44. Instead of threatening to leave the Union like they did in the 1820’s, this time 11 states actually will. Which state was the first to leave?
45. What was the name of this new country they formed?
46. Who was their first president?
47. Where was this new country’s capital eventually located?
48. Why was it dumb to place its capital where it did during the war?
49. How did Southerners react when President Lincoln decided to resupply a federal fort in Charleston harbor?
50. What was the name of this fort?
51. What happened because of the Southerners’ response?
52. Name the 4 border states.
53. What was a “border state”?
54. Because he didn’t want to make the border states angry, President Lincoln phrased the Emancipation Proclamation carefully. According to this document, who did he free?
55. In reality, was anyone freed? Why or why not?
56. There were 600,000 casualties of this war. Most of the men died from?
57. The bravery of these soldiers convinced Lincoln to consider pushing for granting voting rights to some African-Americans. Name this regiment.
58. Twenty-three of these men won the Congressional Medal of Honor for their valiant fighting while trying to take what fort?
59. The battle of Antietam in Maryland has what distinction?
60. In battle after battle during the last days of war, these two great generals faced each other. Who were they and which side did they fight for?
61. The Southern Army of the East formally surrendered in Mr. Wilber McLean’s parlor on April 9, 1865. Name the city he lived in.
62. Six days later, a famous actor shot the President. Who was he?
63. How long did the President live after being shot?
64. What did Secretary of War Edwin Stanton say after he passed?
65. Why did he shoot the President?
66. How did this event affect Northern leaders?
67. Who became president after Lincoln’s assassination?
1860’s & 1870’s
68. Congress and the President argued over who should control the rebuilding of the South. What was this time period called?
69. Immediately after the war, the 13th Amendment made what horrible practice outlawed forever in the U.S.A.?
70. Who formed the Ku Klux Klan?
71.What was the Klan’s purpose?
- How did they accomplish their goals?
73. Thanks to this amendment, male citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on their race. Name the amendment.
74. What is a scalwag?
75. What is a carpetbagger?
76. Because of this amendment, all citizens (regardless of race or gender) must be treated fairly and equally under the law. Name the amendment.