America: Land I Love: Test 6 (Semester Exam)

1st successful steamboat was developed by

How did the North and South compare to each other during the Civil War?

Union general that led the Peninsula Campaign

Number 9

Who was the author of the Blue-Backed Speller?

The person that is remembered as the Angel of the Battlefield

The most widely used textbook was the New England Primer.

Trade in the East was revived by the Renaissance.

Who negotiated the purchase that completely settled the southern border of the U.S.?

The author of History of Plymouth Plantation is John Winthrop.

What was the government as policy that prevented European colonization of the Western Hemisphere?

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

In which battle did the Confederates lose the Mississippi River?

Newfoundland

Tuskegee Institute was founded by Booker T. Washington.

Whom did Abraham Lincoln debate during his Illinois senatorial campaign?

California Gold Rush

A person who risks personal loss to develop and market new products or ideas

Commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia

The largest wagon train ever to go west

The half-million square miles of land granted to the U.S. by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was known as

Union general that led the March to the Sea from Atlanta

Number 10

Who was the first president to be impeached?

Emancipation Proclamation

Number 1

Who established a large settlement in Texas?

Cleared the way for a Union invasion of Georgia

The battle where Stonewall Jackson earned his famous nickname

The best-known evangelist of the 2nd Great Awakening was Jonathan Edwards.

The first permanent English settlement in the New World was Quebec.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

The type of government that the U.S. Constitution provided for a federal republic.

Whose presidency officially ended Reconstruction in the South?

What law divided the former Confederacy into five military districts with military officers to govern them?

Treaty of Ghent

Pilgrim landing at New Plymouth

Bloodiest single day

1st elected president of the Republic of Texas

A major turning point of the War for Independence was which battle

Number 12

The Father of American Missions

Who founded the Five Points Mission as the first settlement house in NYC?

The final battle of the War for Independence was the Battle of Yorktown.

Public primary school for all children was first promoted by Horace Mann.

End of the Civil War

Defeated the Confederate army at Gettysburg

1st battle in the Civil War

Number 11

Slavery in the U.S. was outlawed through the 13th Amendment.

Richmond

Number 3

The Cherokee forced relocation was called

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

Baja California

The president of the Confederate States of America

The most decisive battle

Which colony set a precedent for religious freedom in America?

Why was the Civil War fought?

Who invented the reaping machine?

The first U.S. government after the War for Independence was established by the Bill of Rights.

Mississippi River

Treaty of Paris

Stamp Act Congress

Constitutional Convention

Who is remembered as the most powerful voice of the 1st Great Awakening?

Christopher Columbus first landed on which island

Alaska

Who presented the Compromise of 1850?

The abolitionist who led a raid at Harper' Ferry was Stephen A. Douglas.

Captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson for the Union

Number 2

The series of escape routes for slaves escaping the South

Who was the nationally famous Tennessee frontiersman, marksman, and former congressman that fought at the Alamo?

Why was the Missouri Compromise significant?

Great Basin

Missouri Compromise

Number 7

Lake Huron

Louisiana Purchase