US History (chp. 1) 2015-2016

Question 1

How did the cotton gin impact the South?

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it strenghtened the institution of slavery

Question 2

Which of the following was part of the Compromise of 1850?

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The Fugitive Slave act was passed

Question 3

Practice Question: The first president of the US under the US Constitution was

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George Washington

Question 4

Who was the president that forced Native Americans to relocate?

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Jackson

Question 5

The first women's right convention was

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Seneca Falls

Question 6

Patriotism or love for one's country

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Nationalism

Question 7

The belief that it was God's will for Americans to take over the entire continent

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Manifest Destiny

Question 8

He was elected president in 1877 by Congress and ended Reconstruction.

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Hayes

Question 9

Which modern day state was known as Indian Territory?

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Oklahoma

Question 10

The Declaration of Independence was written to

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declare independence from England

Question 11

He was a famous abolitionist in the 1800s

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Douglass

Question 12

When Missouri became a slave state, what other state joined the US at the same time?

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Maine

Question 13

Which region of the country was more industrial?

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North

Question 14

This amendment gives the right to vote to all men

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15th

Question 15

What do protective tariffs do?

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increase price of foreign goods

Question 16

To limit the amount of alcohol consumed

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Temperance Movement

Question 17

He was responsible for giving the name "Boston Massacre" to the incident in 1770.

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Paul Revere

Question 18

The French and Indian War was fought over this river valley.

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Ohio

Question 19

This was the first British colony in the modern day US

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Roanoke

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT a natural right according to Jefferson?

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Property

Question 21

This nearly doubled the size of the US

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Louisiana Purchase

Question 22

The American Revolution began in this year.

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1775

Question 23

The cotton gin

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cleaned the cotton

Question 24

The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in

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the rebel south

Question 25

The War of 1812 was between the US and

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England

Question 26

This amendment guarantees citizenship

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14th

Question 27

This Native American tribe was forced to walk the Trail of Tears.

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Cherokee

Question 28

The American Revolution ended in this year.

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1783

Question 29

Allows people to choose byway of voting

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popular sovereignty

Question 30

Many people traveled this trail to head west.

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Oregon Trail

Question 31

This state was an independent country for 9 years before joining the US.

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Texas

Question 32

This amendment outlawed slavery in the US

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13th

Question 33

The US bought the Louisiana Purchase from this country

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France

Question 34

To get rid of slavery

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Abolition Movement

Question 35

What was one geographic advantage the South have over the North in the US Civil War?

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South was fighting in its own territory

Question 36

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, many Northerners headed for Kansas because

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they wanted to create an antislavery majority there.

Question 37

Means to withdraw or separate

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secede

Question 38

These two women organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

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Mott & Stanton

Question 39

Southerners that supported Reconstruction

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scalawag

Question 40

He wrote Common Sense.

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Thomas Paine

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