Semester Two Final

Question 1

A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States.

Accepted Answer

The Thirteenth Amendment

Question 2

What was typically the last step in this sequence? First gold discovered, next mining camps, then boomtowns, and finally

Accepted Answer

ghost towns

Question 3

How did Catherine Sedgwick contribute to American culture?

Accepted Answer

She wrote books sympathetic to Indigenous people and women.

Question 4

How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?

Accepted Answer

It doubled the nation's size.

Question 5

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

Accepted Answer

that African Americans had no right to sue in federal court

Question 6

In the early 1800s, all of these were American symbols except

Accepted Answer

the Statue of Liberty.

Question 7

Which poet wrote about America's growing importance to the world?

Accepted Answer

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 8

Which of these describes the economic policy known as laissez-faire?

Accepted Answer

government non-interference with business

Question 9

How did the invention of the cotton gin impact the cotton crop in South?

Accepted Answer

Cotton became the South's most important crop.

Question 10

The practice of rewarding political supporters with with government jobs.

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spoils system

Question 11

Who would agree with the following statement: "Being tied to one spot on Earth would be like being in jail."

Accepted Answer

the Nimiipuu

Question 12

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Accepted Answer

It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.

Question 13

What gave early American art its individual identity?

Accepted Answer

the unique subject matter

Question 14

How did mining change the West?

Accepted Answer

by opening areas to new colonization

Question 15

Which group was focused on eliminating slavery?

Accepted Answer

abolitionists

Question 16

In the early 1800's, where did most Americans live?

Accepted Answer

east of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 17

Which style of music was the creation of African American Slaves?

Accepted Answer

Spirituals

Question 18

All of these were an effect of the Homestead Act except:

Accepted Answer

a decrease in colonists moving west.

Question 19

What was gained through the Gadsden Purchase of 1853?

Accepted Answer

a good railroad route to California

Question 20

A company that controls all production and sales of a particular product or service.

Accepted Answer

monopoly

Question 21

An economic system in which farms and businesses are privately owned and operated for profit.

Accepted Answer

capitalism

Question 22

Which of these was a Northern advantage at the start of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

abundant natural resources

Question 23

How did Frederick Douglass spread his message of freedom for all people?

Accepted Answer

through newspapers

Question 24

A land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops.

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rancho

Question 25

Which of these led to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804?

Accepted Answer

Louisiana Purchase

Question 26

The geography of the South supported the growing of cash crops in all of these ways EXCEPT

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it had fast-moving rivers as a source of power.

Question 27

Which of these was the model for the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

Question 28

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Accepted Answer

It turned many more people against slavery.

Question 29

What forced the Indigenous groups of the Plains to finally move to reservations?

Accepted Answer

extermination of the bison

Question 30

Which of these was an obstacle to unity in the United States in the early 1800s?

Accepted Answer

poor transportation

Question 31

An area of land set aside by the federal government for the use of an Indigenous nation.

Accepted Answer

reservation

Question 32

Which event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?

Accepted Answer

the shelling of Fort Sumter

Question 33

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

Accepted Answer

It temporarily ended the slavery debate.

Question 34

The name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across North America?

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 35

Which of these is an important aspect of industrialization?

Accepted Answer

machine-made products

Question 36

Issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate States to be free.

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 37

The United States acquired land in all of these ways except

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through inheritance

Question 38

How was Mexico affected by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Accepted Answer

It decreased its territory by half.

Question 39

Which opinion was expressed by those who opposed the expansion of the United States?

Accepted Answer

The United States bullied its weaker neighbors.

Question 40

Which reformer worked toward bettering the education system?

Accepted Answer

Horace Mann

Question 41

Which of these was an incentive for settlers to travel to Oregon Country?

Accepted Answer

fertile farmland

Question 42

Which of these was one legacy of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Accepted Answer

They mapped a route to the Pacific.

Question 43

Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to

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helping the imprisoned.

Question 44

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

Accepted Answer

It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves.

Question 45

All of these characterize John Marshall’s Supreme Court decisions in the early 1800s except

Accepted Answer

they established the power of states over the federal government

Question 46

What was the significance of the 36˚30' parallel?

Accepted Answer

It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned.

Question 47

Secret network of free black and white people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to free states and Canada.

Accepted Answer

The Underground Railroad

Question 48

A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States.

Accepted Answer

the Dred Scott case

Question 49

Which of these contributed to the flood of new colonists in the West?

Accepted Answer

growth of railroads

Question 50

Why did General Lee join the Confederate military?

Accepted Answer

He felt loyalty to his native Virginia.

Question 51

What economic system, based on private ownership, did Henry Clay promote?

Accepted Answer

capitalism

Question 52

According to Henry Clay, what role did government have in encouraging economic growth?

Accepted Answer

funding transportation projects

Question 53

Which of these was an obstacle for women who were working to end slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

They could not voice their opinions.

Question 54

Which of these contributed to the start of the Mexican-American War?

Accepted Answer

the annexation of Texas by the U.S. Congress

Question 55

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

Accepted Answer

It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.

Question 56

The belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent.

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 57

In which way were the lives of enslaved people and women similar?

Accepted Answer

Both were denied rights.

Question 58

What was an effect of the high tariffs that Congress placed on imported goods after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Foreign competition decreased.

Question 59

How did the U.S. government entice railroad companies to take on the transcontinental railroad project?

Accepted Answer

by offering land subsidies

Question 60

Which of these describes Henry David Thoreau’s approach to individualism?

Accepted Answer

He questioned society's rules and institutions.

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Semester Two Final

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