U.S. History Midterm Review

Question 1

The assassin of Abraham Lincoln was a bad actor named:

Accepted Answer

John Wilkes Booth

Question 2

Those who supported the passage of the new Constitution called themselves...

Accepted Answer

Federalists

Question 3

The commanding general of the rebel army:

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 4

Which of the thirteen colonies was NOT founded as a religious shelter?

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 5

What was the primary intention of Columbus's voyage?

Accepted Answer

Finding a new route to India.

Question 6

We call the rapid growth in machines and technology in the early 19th century the:

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution

Question 7

Which of the following rights is NOT included in the Bill of Rights (first 10 Amendments)?

Accepted Answer

Right to education

Question 8

Probably the most significant invention of the Industrial Revolution that changed America:

Accepted Answer

The railroad

Question 9

The Drafting of the Constitution included compromises between all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Eastern and western states

Question 10

Which of the following events occurred FIRST?

Accepted Answer

The French and Indian War

Question 11

The War of 1812 (with Britain) was fought primarily over...

Accepted Answer

The kidnapping of American sailors (impressment)

Question 12

My social studies teacher is Mr.

Accepted Answer

Golombuski

Question 13

The Union manufactured around 500,000,000 of these French-invented bullets in the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

Minie Ball

Question 14

In which of the following colonies did the Puritans initially settle?

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts

Question 15

The only state that was independent before joining the U.S.:

Accepted Answer

Texas

Question 16

The largest city in the South, taken early in the war by the Union Navy, on the Mississippi

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 17

The controversial 1854 law allowing two new states to vote on whether slavery would be legal:

Accepted Answer

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 18

The social movement to end slavery was called...

Accepted Answer

Abolitionism

Question 19

The general who won the Battle of New Orleans and who later became president:

Accepted Answer

Andrew Jackson

Question 20

The Native American nation pushed off their land by Georgia with Andrew Jackson's approval:

Accepted Answer

Cherokee

Question 21

The concluding battle of the American Revolution was at...

Accepted Answer

Yorktown

Question 22

The MAIN author of the Declaration of Independence was...

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 23

The Mexican-American War ended in 1848 with...

Accepted Answer

Mexico giving large amounts of land to the U.S.

Question 24

Supreme Court Judge Roger Taney ruled that ______ was a slave and could not sue for his freedom

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott

Question 25

Who was the principal organizer of the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Adams

Question 26

Which of the following events provoked the Coercive Acts (i.e. the Intolerable Acts)?

Accepted Answer

The Boston Tea Party

Question 27

Union General who engaged in Total War, executing his March to the Sea:

Accepted Answer

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 28

President Lincoln issued the _________, freeing all slaves in rebelling states in the Civil War

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 29

The Mexican-American War began because...

Accepted Answer

American troops stationed on disputed land were attacked

Question 30

John Brown famously made his attack here, attempting to end slavery in Virginia:

Accepted Answer

Harpers Ferry

Question 31

The President who made the Louisiana Purchase from Emperor Napoleon of France was...

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 32

Which of the following events did NOT contribute to the tension that resulted in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The invention of the telegraph

Question 33

The part of the Triangle Trade known as the Middle Passage was:

Accepted Answer

The shipment of slaves from Africa to the Caribbean/Americas

Question 34

The Anaconda Plan was a ________ strategy, meant to ______________.

Accepted Answer

Naval... Prevent the rebels from shipping between ports.

Question 35

By the time of the Civil War, the entire South was growing mostly:

Accepted Answer

Cotton

U.S. History Midterm Review

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U.S. History Midterm Review

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