Year in Review2

Question 1

Which battle was an enormous victory by the Continental army that changed the course of the Revolutionary war

Accepted Answer

Battle of Saratoga

Question 2

Who was the enslaved African American whose suit for freedom reached the U.S. Supreme Court?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott

Question 3

Which challenge did the Confederate states have during the Civil War that the North did not?

Accepted Answer

Lack of industry and transportation

Question 4

The first successful English settlement in the Americas

Accepted Answer

Jamestown

Question 5

The Supreme Court belongs here

Accepted Answer

Judicial Branch

Question 6

This is a meeting of members of a political party to choose candidates for upcoming elections

Accepted Answer

caucus

Question 7

Which case represented the first time the Supreme Court used judicial review.

Accepted Answer

Marbury v. Madison

Question 8

Sir Walter Raleigh sent settlers here twice. The colony didn't survive

Accepted Answer

Roanoke

Question 9

Who was considered the “Father of the Constitution”

Accepted Answer

James Madison

Question 10

Which of the following was a major reason many Americans wanted to separate from England.

Accepted Answer

Tariffs were expensive and colonists could not vote

Question 11

What are the first words in the Preamble of the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

We the people

Question 12

A series of essays published to explain and support the Constitution was called

Accepted Answer

The Federalist Papers

Question 13

The pattern of exchanging goods among the Americas, Africa, and Europe

Accepted Answer

Triangular Trade

Question 14

Which was the bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 15

This is a certificate that promises to repay borrowed money in the future plus additional $

Accepted Answer

bond

Question 16

One of the first white abolitionists to call for an immediate end to slavery, creator of The Liberator

Accepted Answer

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 17

Who did Douglas debate in the famous Senate race in 1858?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln

Question 18

He helped to start the Sons of Liberty & used propaganda to convince colonists of violations

Accepted Answer

Sam Adams

Question 19

Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for U.S. annexation of the Oregon territory

Accepted Answer

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight

Question 20

When was the American Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Mid 1800s

Question 21

Which region mostly hated Lincoln and resented his winning of the election of 1860?

Accepted Answer

South

Question 22

An English Quaker who wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution

Accepted Answer

William Penn

Question 23

Which of the following was a major path that settlers traveled to get to the far west coast?

Accepted Answer

Oregon Trail

Question 24

To bring in goods from other countries

Accepted Answer

import

Question 25

The division of authority among Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches

Accepted Answer

Separation of Powers

Question 26

American colonist who favored American independence

Accepted Answer

Patriot

Question 27

The banning of printed materials because they contain offensive ideas

Accepted Answer

censorship

Question 28

Who was the secretary of the treasury in Washington&#x27;s cabinet?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Hamilton

Question 29

1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 30

Which confederate general held his ground at the First Battle of Bull Run?

Accepted Answer

Stonewall Jackson

Question 31

Which Act prohibited trade with foreign countries in 1807?

Accepted Answer

Embargo Act

Question 32

Which event doubled the size of the United States?

Accepted Answer

Louisiana Purchase

Question 33

Top executors from each branch of government plus the attorney general make up the

Accepted Answer

Cabinet

Question 34

Producing enough to meet the needs of the people

Accepted Answer

Subsistence Farming

Question 35

Which strategy was used by the Patriot militia to attack the British soldiers on their own land

Accepted Answer

Guerilla hit and run

Question 36

He was responsible for the survival of the people of Jamestown & worked with the Powhatan

Accepted Answer

Captain John Smith

Question 37

Leader of France. Sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.

Accepted Answer

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 38

This amendment prevents cruel and unusual punishment for a crime

Accepted Answer

8th

Question 39

A Native American who taught the pilgrims survival skills

Accepted Answer

Squanto

Question 40

The tie in the election of 1800 was decided by

Accepted Answer

House of Representatives

Question 41

What was the biggest complaint from the north about the fugitive slave act?

Accepted Answer

They shouldn't be punished for helping people

Question 42

Who is known as the Father of Public Education?

Accepted Answer

Horace Mann

Question 43

Where were the first shots of the civil war fired?

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 44

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 deal with?

Accepted Answer

Allowing slavery into the newly acquired western lands

Question 45

An advocate of women's rights, organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, was actively involved in abolition

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 46

The right to vote

Accepted Answer

suffrage

Question 47

Which state was the first to ratify the Constitution

Accepted Answer

Delaware

Question 48

Under the Articles, how many states did Congress require approval from in order to pass a law

Accepted Answer

9

Question 49

This document declared all slaves living in rebelling territories free from slavery

Accepted Answer

Emancipation proclamation

Question 50

The idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 51

The first person to sign the Declaration of Independence

Accepted Answer

John Hancock

Question 52

Which side won the American Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Union

Question 53

What was the name of the system used by slaves to escape to freedom?

Accepted Answer

Underground Railroad

Question 54

Who was known as “The Swamp Fox” because of his imaginative war tactics in the swamps?

Accepted Answer

Francis Marion

Question 55

He was an experienced soldier who was chosen to command the continental army

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 56

How did the U.S. acquire the southwestern states?

Accepted Answer

War with Mexico

Question 57

Who was the presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention

Accepted Answer

George Washington

Question 58

The president belongs to

Accepted Answer

Executive Branch

Question 59

George Washington appointed him the first Secretary of State

Accepted Answer

Thomas Jefferson

Question 60

Authority not specifically mentioned in the Constitution, but is suggested in its language

Accepted Answer

Implied Power

Question 61

A mocking figure representing an unpopular individual

Accepted Answer

effigy

Question 62

What was Sojourner Truth's birth name?

Accepted Answer

Isabella Baumfree

Question 63

After he gave up the campaign to conquer the Carolinas, Cornwallis and his troops retreated to

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 64

Which document was similar to a break up letter between America and England?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

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