Transcript US HISTORY UNIT 1 TEST NOTES

US HISTORY UNIT 1
TEST NOTES
October 2, 2014
IF CALIFORNIA ENTERED THE
UNION AS A FREE STATE, THE
SALVEHOLDING STATES
WOULD BECOME A MINORITY IN
THE
SENATE
Answer: True
LAND THE UNITED STATES
BOUGHT FROM FRANCE THAT
DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE
NATION WAS CALLED THE
ORLEANS PURCHASE
Answer: False
NEW
TREATY THAT END THE WAR
OF 1812, WAS CALLED THE
TREATY OF PARIS
Answer: False
TERM THAT REFERS TO A
STATE LEAVING THE UNION IS
CALLED SECESSION
Answer: True
ANTISLAVERY NOVEL THAT
CHANGED THE NORTHERN
PERCEPTIONS OF SLAVERY
WAS CALLED UNCLE TOM’S
CABIN
Answer: True
FIRST CIVILIZATION IN NORTH
AMERICA
Answer: Olmec
Matching
SPANISH EXPLORERS IN THE
NEW WORLD
Answer: Conquistador
Matching
ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER THAT
ARGUED “GOVERNMENT EXIST TO
PROTECT THE PEOPLE AND IF
GOVERNMENT FAILS TO DO THIS
THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REVOLT”
Answer: John Locke
Matching
WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND
ENGLAND IN 1754 IN NORTH
AMERICA
Answer: French and Indian War
Matching
QUEBEC ACT AND COERCIVE
ACT
Answer: Intolerable Acts
Matching
THE SYSTEM
CREATED TO PREVENT
ANY ONE OF THE THREE BRANCHES
OF GOVERNMENT FROM BECOMING
TOO POWERFUL IS CALLED
Answer: Checks and
balances
THE GREAT COMPROMISE
PROPOSED THAT IN ONE HOUSE OF
CONGRESS THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES THAT STATES
WOULD BE REPRESENTED
ACCORDING TO THE SIZE OF THEIR
Answer: Population
THE NATION’S FIRST TWO
POLITICAL PARTIES WERE THE
FEDERALIST
AND THE
Answer: DemocraticRepublicans
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
1800 RESULTED IN A TIE
OF
BETWEEN WHICH TWO
CANDIDATES
Answer: Jefferson and
Burr
THE UNITED STATES DECLARED
WAR ON______IN 1812
Answer: Britian
IT WAS CLEAR THAT A LARGE,
WELL-TRAINED ARMY WOULD BE
NEEDED TO DEFEAT THE SOUTH
AFTER THE UNION DEFEAT AT
Answer: The First Battle of
Bull Run
WHAT UNION VICTORY CUT THE
CONFEDERACY IN TWO
Answer: Vicksburg
IN ADDITION TO ENDING THE
ENSLAVEMENT ON MILLIONS OF
AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE
NORTH’S VICTORY IN THE CIVIL
WAR ALSO SAVED THE UNION
AND STRENGTHENED THE POWER
OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
OVER THE
Answer: States
WHAT MADE
RIVER TRAVEL MORE
RELIABLE AND UPSTREAM
TRAVEL EASIER
Answer: Steamboats
WHILE THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES HAD A
MAJORITY OF NORTHERNERS IN
1819, ADMITTING ANY NEW
STATE, EITHER SLAVE OR FREE,
WOULD UPSET THE BALANCE IN
Answer: The Senate
A COTTON GIN
Answer: Removes
cotton seeds
THE SOLUTION
THAT
EMERGED IN THE
MISSOURI
COMPROMISE WAS ADMIT
MISSOURI
Answer: As a slave state
and Maine as a free state
ON FEBRUARY 2, 1848, MEXICO’S
LEADERS SIGNED THE
Answer: Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo
THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY’S
EXPANSION DIVIDED THE
COUNTRY NOT ALONG PARTY
LINES, BUT ALONG
Answer: Sectional lines
A FREE AFRICAN AMERICAN
COULD BE FALSELY TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY UNDER THE TERMS OF
THE
Answer: Fugitive Slave
Act