Transcript 2nd/4th Quarter Review

2nd/4th Quarter Review
• Who were the midnight judges?
• Judges who received their appointments only hours before
John Adams left office.
• What law did the Supreme Court use in deciding Marbury v.
Madison?
• Judiciary Act of 1789.
• What motivated Thomas Jefferson to send Lewis and Clark
to the Louisiana Purchase?
• To learn about the West and find a river route to the Pacific
Ocean.
• What was the function of the Indian Removal Act?
• To open land in the Southeast to American farmers.
• How would you express why Jackson vetoed legislation to
renew the Second Bank of the United States?
• He believed the bank was too powerful.
• How, with the technical advances of the 19th century, could
workers more easily assemble products and replace
defective parts?
• Because of interchangeable parts.
• During the 1800’s, what made the growth in
communication, trade and travel possible?
• Steamboats, railroads, and the expansion of roads and
canals.
• What best describes the occupations of most people in
Europe and the US in the early 1700’s?
• Farmers
• Before the War of 1812, why were Americans reluctant to
build new factories and machinery?
• Because British manufacturers could produce large
amounts of goods and charge lower prices.
• How would you explain how Eli Whitney contributed to the
Industrial Revolution?
• He introduced mass production and interchangeable parts.
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Why did southern leaders refer to cotton as “King Cotton?”
Because of the importance of the Cotton trade to the South’s economy.
Why did cities grow rapidly during the mid-1800’s?
Immigration and the migration of rural inhabitants to urban areas.
How would you classify the roles of Douglass, Truth, and Tubman in the
abolition movement in relation to their race?
Key, since all were former slaves who spoke for the movement.
From 1836 to 1844 in the US House of Representatives, what discussion
was prevented by the Gag Rule?
Antislavery petitions
What is the main idea of Transcendentalism?
To encourage people to follow their personal beliefs and rise above
influence.
How would you describe the views of Horace Greeley and William Lloyd
Garrison relating to abolition?
Both were abolitionist.
• Why did the American Anti-Slavery Society split in
1840?
• Over the role of women in the abolition
movement.
• What was the purpose of the American
Temperance Society and the American
Temperance Union?
• To urge people to give up or to limit the
consumption of alcohol.
• How would you classify the movement led by
Harriet Tubman?
• She led the Underground Railroad Movement, a
network of people who arranged transportation
and hiding places for fugitive slaves.
• How did German immigrant Levi Strauss earn his
fortune in California?
• By making durable denim work pants to sell to miners.
• What treaty ended the Mexican War?
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• When Stephen Douglas introduced the KansasNebraska Bill, how did southern senators react?
• They agreed to abandon their plan for a southern
railroad route if the new territory west of Missouri was
opened to slavery.
• How would you describe the Fugitive Slave Act?
• A part of the Compromise of 1850
• What happened after John Brown seized the federal
arsenal at Harpers Ferry?
• He hoped slaves in the region would join him, but none
did.
• Which presidential candidate opposed the spread of slavery but
promised not to support abolishing slavery where it already existed?
• Abraham Lincoln.
• Which was the fort that controlled the entrance to Charleston
Harbor?
• Fort Sumter
• How did suspending habeas corpus allow President Lincoln to
silence the Copperheads?
• By withdrawing constitutional protection against unlawful
imprisonment.
• What best identifies where Lee’s attempt to launch an offensive into
Union territory ended in defeat?
• Gettysburg
• How would you classify people known as carpetbaggers?
• Northern born Republicans who came South after the war
• What best describes the sharecropping system?
• Sharecroppers provided landowners with their labor in exchange for
part of the crop.
• What were the features of Lincoln’s plan for
Reconstruction?
• Lenient and fair treatment for the South
• What was the purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau?
• To aid poor whites and former slaves in the South
• How would you describe when Reconstruction ended?
• 1877, when President Hayes removed the last federal
troops from the South.
• What was the location of the first capital of the
Confederacy?
• Montgomery, AL
• What influenced the works of James Fenimore Cooper and
Washington Irving?
• Nationalism
• Who turned the fight for women’s rights into a political
movement?
• Susan B. Anthony
• Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write her powerful
antislavery novel?
• After reading slave narratives and meeting fugitive slaves in
Ohio, where she lived.
• How would you describe the people John Brown intended
to arm as a result of his raid on Harper’s Ferry?
• Enslaved people and begin an insurrection against
slaveholders.
• How would you explain the Southern reaction to the
abolition movement?
• Uniting in their defense of slavery.
• How would you identify the major issue dividing parties in
the election of 1860?
• Slavery
• Which party was united by its followers’ opposition to the
expansion of slavery?
• Republican Party
• How would you express the reason Angelina and Sarah
Grimke joined the antislavery movement?
• They rejected the views of their southern, slaveholding
family.
• Who was the Underground Railroad designed to aid?
• Slaves
• How would you describe the issue which led to the
Civil War and resulted in the Compromise of 1850?
• Maintaining the balance of power of slave and free
states in the Senate.
• How would you generalize the Dred Scott decision?
• Slaves were property and property could be taken to
any territory.
• What was the main idea of the Morrill Act of 1862?
• The grant of public lands to states for land grant colleges
• What was the main result of Lincoln suspending writs of
habeas corpus?
• A person could be imprisoned indefinitely without trial.
• Robert E. Lee did not accept command of the Union troops
because…
• He could not fight against Virginia.
• What was the purpose of General William Tecumseh
Sherman’s “March to the Sea” through Georgia?
• To destroy everything that might be of use to the enemy.
• How would you summarize the importance of the capture
of Chattanooga by Union forces during the Civil War?
• They would then control a major railroad running South to
Atlanta.
• What was the most important transportation advantage
held by the North during the Civil War?
• More miles of railroad tracks.
• What was the theme of Lincoln’s plan for
reconstruction?
• To reconcile with the South rather than punishing it.
• How would you describe the attitude of the Radical
Republicans toward the citizenship of former slaves?
• They should be granted citizenship, including the right
to vote.
• What abolished slavery in the North?
• The adoption of the 13th amendment.
• What laws was the 14th amendment designed to
protect?
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• What amendment protects the suffrage of African
American men?
• 15th amendment
• What role did Alabama play in establishing the
CSA?
• Six of the Seven seceding states met in
Montgomery to establish the CSA.
• What happened Feb. 1, 1861?
• AL, MS, LA, FL, GA, TX had seceded from the
Union.
• Worchester v Georgia=Cherokee
• California=Free
• 40 Acres=Freed slaves