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Study Guide 2017
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Why did Southern states agree to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment?
How did the South develop its industries after the Civil War?
What helped to bring about the end of Reconstruction?
Who was president of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Which state in the Confederacy was known for strong opposition to the war?
Early Civil War battles showed?
Which political party was formed in 1848 for the purpose of banning slavery in western territories?
What led to the violence in Kansas in 1855?
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1850?
What was the effect of the Missouri Compromise?
Why did American settlers in Texas come into conflict with Mexico in the 1830’s?
How did the U.S. and Britain settle their dispute over Oregon?
What led settlers and trappers to move to Oregon and the Far West in the 1820’s?
What theme was common in the poetry of Walt Whitman?
What was a result of Dorothea Dix’s efforts at social reform?
How did the Second Great Awakening encourage the spread of social reform?
How did improvements in transportation affect industry?
Which individual advanced the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. by pioneering the use of interchangeable
parts?
Describe daily life in a factory in the early 1800’s.
What is one reason Lowell, Massachusetts, was called a model factory town?
How did the U.S. gain Florida from Spain?
Why was John Quincy Adams an unpopular president?
What led to the creation of the Monroe Doctrine?
How did Britain try to persuade enslaved African Americans to join its army?
What is a way that BOTH Britain and France ignored the Americans’ desire to remain neutral?
What was a result of the Embargo Act?
What action BEST reflects Jefferson’s determination to reduce the size and power of the federal
government?
How did Alexander Hamilton plan to reduce the national debt?
What resulted from the disagreement between President Adams and Alexander Hamilton about whether the
U.S. should go to war?
What were President Washington’s beliefs regarding foreign policy?
What precedent did President Washington set at the beginning of his first term?
Whose trial helped establish freedom of the press?
What court is known as “the court of last resort,” whose decisions are final?
What is the most important power of Congress?
What are the basic goals set forth in the Preamble to the Constitution?
What is another name for the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania established in the 1760’s?
What colony had a ban on slavery until the 1750’s?
Why did the Spanish help the Patriots by attacking British forts on the Gulf of Mexico?
What strategy did the British have in mind when they shifted the focus of the war to the South?
What reason did Parliament give for raising taxes in the colonies after 1763?
How were British troops able to surprise the French at Quebec?
What contributed to early British defeats in the French and Indian War?
What was a major reason for the conflict between Britain and France in the Ohio Valley?
James Oglethorpe wanted a colony in which?
What is the earliest example of representative democracy in what is now the U.S.?
Powhatan turned against the Jamestown settlers because?
The Pilgrims who came to North America in 1620 were also known as?
The legal rights that Englishmen had led the colonists to expect?
Why did the English establish a colony on Roanoke Island?
The Magna Carta was the first document to?
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The amendment called for a majority of white men in each state to swear loyalty to the U.S. / could rejoin union
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It developed its own natural resources for making clothing
Stories of corruption in Grant’s administration
Jefferson Davis
North Carolina
The need for well-trained soldiers
Free Soil
The rivalry between proslavery and antislavery settlers
The slave trade is outlawed in Washington, D.C.
It helped ensure a balance of slave and free states for almost thirty years
Mexico banned further settlement by Americans
The U.S and Britain agreed to divide the land
The lure of fertile lands, plentiful rainfall, and a mild climate
Democracy
Insanity was treated as an illness, not a crime
Its stress on self-improvement led to a wish to improve the whole society
They made it easier for manufacturers to obtain raw materials and ship finished products
Eli Whitney
The employees, mostly women and children, worked long hours
Factory workers there lived in boarding houses
Spain gave Florida to the U.S.
He wanted to increase federal government spending
Americans feared that Spain would try to regain its colonies in Latin America
Offered them their freedom
Both captured American ships bound for Europe
It badly hurt American shipping and agricultural activities
He cut the federal budget
By requiring Southern states to help Northern states repay their Revolutionary War debts
The Republican party was divided, and Adams won re-election
The U.S. should remain independent from disputes between other nations
He named well-known, talented leaders to head government departments
Peter Zenger
Supreme Court
Make the nation’s laws
To form a more perfect union, to establish justice, to ensure domestic tranquility
The Mason-Dixon line
Georgia
To regain Florida
To capture key cities and win the support of local people
Colonists should help pay for the costs of the French and Indian War
By climbing a steep cliff at night
Inexperienced military leadership
French determination to halt westward expansion by the English
Debtors would be protected
Virginia’s House of Burgesses
The settlers raided Native American villages for food
Separatists
Expect a voice in their government
To provide new markets for English products and raw materials for English industries
Place limits on an English ruler’s power