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

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

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

Number 3

Number 2

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Number 12

Whose presidency officially ended Reconstruction in the South?

Constitutional Convention

1st successful steamboat was developed by

Treaty of Paris

Lake Huron

The author of History of Plymouth Plantation is John Winthrop.

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

Union general that led the Peninsula Campaign

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

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

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

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

Number 1

Number 9

The series of escape routes for slaves escaping the South

Which colony set a precedent for religious freedom in America?

Mississippi River

Who presented the Compromise of 1850?

Treaty of Ghent

In which battle did the Confederates lose the Mississippi River?

1st battle in the Civil War

Who invented the reaping machine?

Who was the author of the Blue-Backed Speller?

Trade in the East was revived by the Renaissance.

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

Tuskegee Institute was founded by Booker T. Washington.

Union general that led the March to the Sea from Atlanta

Defeated the Confederate army at Gettysburg

Who established a large settlement in Texas?

End of the Civil War

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

Baja California

Emancipation Proclamation

Number 11

The person that is remembered as the Angel of the Battlefield

Number 10

The president of the Confederate States of America

Captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson for the Union

The largest wagon train ever to go west

Pilgrim landing at New Plymouth

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

California Gold Rush

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

Who was the first president to be impeached?

Stamp Act Congress

Louisiana Purchase

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

Bloodiest single day

Missouri Compromise

1st elected president of the Republic of Texas

Number 7

The battle where Stonewall Jackson earned his famous nickname

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

Great Basin

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

The most decisive battle

Christopher Columbus first landed on which island

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.

Why was the Missouri Compromise significant?

Newfoundland

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

The Cherokee forced relocation was called

Why was the Civil War fought?

Alaska

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

Whom did Abraham Lincoln debate during his Illinois senatorial campaign?

Richmond

The most widely used textbook was the New England Primer.

The Father of American Missions

Cleared the way for a Union invasion of Georgia

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

Commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia