Corrected version of SS final study guide

What were people who flocked to California in search of riches called?

What was accomplished at the Hampton Roads conference?

What did the “Legal Tender act” do?

What was the practice of British capturing sailors on US ships called?

This treaty ended the war of 1812

What French leader sold his countries major land holdings in North America?

True or false: the capture of Vicksburg ended the war.

This massive land purchased from the French for 15 million was called what?

What Shwanee chief led attacks against white settlers and helped the British?

Using insults and false rumors during a campaign is know as what?

Who was the president during the war of 1812?

What battle resulted from Lee‘s invasion of Pennsylvania

Where did Lincoln meet with southern delegates in February 1865 to discuss peace?

When the USS constitution took down British shops early in the war, it earned this nickname.

After Lincoln was elected, this state became the first to secede from the union.

America became divided into regional interests know as what?

Thomas Jefferson‘s idea that power should be held by the people not the aristocracy is called what?

This battle in which 180 Texans held out for 13 days became a rallying cry for Texas rebels.

Because Jackson represented a shift from the elite to the common man, he is known as this.

True or false: America gaining control of Canada was NOT an out come of the War of 1812.

This former slave, author, and elegant speaker helped spread abolitionism in America.

How might general grants fighting style be described?

This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed many Americans to the horrors of slavery.

this country, who controlled Florida, eventually ceded it to the United States.

Where did a reluctant general Lee surrender to general grant?

What was the supreme court case that was a fight for the appointment of judges and the judiciary act of 1801?

This battle, the most famous of the war of 1812, was fought after peace had already been declared.

The union victory at Antietam allowed Lincoln to do this.

True or false: the northern states had an advantage in the war because they were fighting a defensive war.

What is the period following the Civil War called?

Who led the battle of Tippicanoe against the followers of Tecumseh and their village?

What helped president Lincoln get elected for a second term?

How could the pre-war northern economy be described?

Why were some politicians against annexing Texas?

In 1821 Mexico gained its independence from what country?

Andrew Jackson first gained national fame for winning this battle in the war of 1812.

True or false: Lincoln said that he would never interfere with slavery, ever.

What did the British do during the invasion of Washington DC?

What did the morrill land grant do? Pick 2 of them because I could not fit

Jackson attacked this territory without permission while looking for the Seminole tribe.

What was the northern plan implemented to blockade and surround the south?

The agrarian-based Southern economy relied on this for increased profits.

True or false: blocking northern ships from bringing enlistments was not one of the goals of the anaconda plan.

Abraham Lincoln was a member of this new party created to stop the spread of slavery.

How could Lincoln’s second inaugural address be described?

Which bill did Andrew Jackson sign into law in 1820 that eventually resulted in the trail of tears?

What did the embargo act of 1807 do?

What are the four border states?

What was discovered in california in 1848?

True or false: the battle of Gettysburg brought an end to the war.

How did most Soldiers die during the civil war?

True or false: the fact that slaves made ideal confederate soldiers was an advantage of the southern states.

What new technologies made this one of the first modern U.S wars?

Who were the copperheads?

This Mexican general and president drove into Texas to confront rebellious Texan-Americans.

Robert E. Lee invaded this second northern state in 1863.

The expansion of political participation under Jackson is known as what?

True or false: shrinking land available for farming was one of domestic policies.

True or false: French attacks on American ships was one of the causes of the war of 1812.

What does manifest Destiney mean?

This general gained the nickname stonewall when his line held during the battle of bull run.

This Supreme Court case infuriated many northerners by denying due process to African Americans.

This political compromise over the spread of slavery drew a line between free and slave states.

This proposed law banning slavery in the states acquired in the Mexican Cession was not passed by Congress.

True or false: prior to the civil war, racism only existed in the south.

Which state created the first African American regiment, the 54th?

True or false: the revolutionary war happened during the same time as manifest Destiney.

True or false: Kentucky was one of the 11 states that seceded from the union.

during the British attack on Baltimore’s Ft. McHenry, this man wrote this song.

What effect did the civil war have on medical practices?

Why did general Lee think it would be welcomed into the border state of Maryland?

What Was the name of the expedition sponsored by Jefferson to explore the western United States?

How did Andrew Jackson expand suffrage, or voting rights, to more people?

The virginia and Kentucky resolution introduced nullification. What is nullification.

True or false: after the battle of bull run, the north considers giving up

When Jackson became president, most states had this requirement to vote?

Why did conscription create class conflict?

Because they lacked manufacturing, who did the south reach out to for help?

True or false: slaves aided the confederacy in many ways, but they did not fight for the confederate army.

What impact did the Civil War have on the government?

What battle resulted from lee‘s invasion of Maryland?

True or false: one of the problems of the emancipation proclamation was that the slaves didn’t want to be emancipated.

What route did settlers take to the northwest corner of America?

After the Civil War, what would the president and Congress disagree about?

True or false: all four border states immediately banned slavey.

True or false: in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Oregon territory became part of the U.S.

What was the purpose of Sherman’s “March to the sea“?

What was the battle cry to threaten the British to get out of Oregon?

What political party believed in a strong central government?

Who shot Abraham Lincoln?

How long did Lincoln call for initial enlistments?

What was the name of the Native American who helped Lewis and Clark?

When Sherman reached the sea, which city did he present to Lincoln as a Christmas present?

What did the Homestead act do?

What problem did Jefferson Davis face in organizing a central war effort?

This man led a raid on Harper’s ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to lead a slave rebellion.

Marbury V. Madison produced what Supreme Court power to declare laws unconstitutional?

Lincoln suspended the right to habeas corpus. What is habeas corpus?

What peace treaty ended the Mexican-America war?

Jefferson had to deal with raiding American ships in this region?