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Semester 2 Final Exam Review
Chapters 7-15
FINAL is Tuesday May 26
Who took notes during the Constitutional
Convention and was known as the
“Father of the Constitution”?
James Madison
What were some of the problems faced
under the Articles of Confederation?
Trade between states
Each state had its’ own currency
Government could not impose taxes
Why were Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams not at the Constitutional
Convention?
They were serving as ministers or
ambassadors in other countries
What was George Washington’s role at
the Constitutional Convention?
President, he presided over the
proceedings
What were people called who
a) supported the Constitution
b) were against the Constitution
a)Federalists-for
b)Antifederalists-against
What was the compromise that made
states with high and low populations
accept the constitution?
The Great Compromise
It set up two houses of congress, one
based on population and one with equal
representation
Who makes up these branches of
government?
a)Legislative
b)Executive
c)Judicial
a) Senate and House of Reps
b)President
c)Supreme Court/Federal Courts
Which branch of government is elected by
the electoral college?
Executive-President
What compromise was made to satisfy
slave states and free states?
3/5 Compromise
What is the purpose of our 3 branches
of government?
Separation of Power
What is the power of the Judicial Branch?
To determine if laws and actions are
Constitutional
What power does the Executive
(President) have in making laws?
Can veto or propose laws
What branch of government can make
laws and override a Presidents’ veto?
Legislative
What is each of these amendments?
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
1. Freedoms of religion, speech, press,
assembly and petition
2. Right to bear arms
3. Lodging Troops in Private Homes
4. Search and Seizure
5. Rights of the Accused
Because Washington served ______
terms, later presidents considered this
the term limit.
two
Alexander Hamilton was the first
Secretary of the Treasury. What did he
want to do that Thomas Jefferson thought
was unconstitutional?
Establish a Federal Bank
What part of Hamilton’s plan did
southerners oppose because they bought
lots of imported goods?
Protective tariff
When the south agreed to repayment of
state debts, what did they get in return?
The capitol was moved to the south
The United States accepted a treaty with
Britain to avoid going back to war with
them. It was very unpopular. What was
that treaty?
Jay’s Treaty
Avoiding national debt and staying out of
foreign affairs were advise given by
George Washington in what?
His farewell address
The Alien and Sedition Acts were the
least popular laws passed by which
president?
John Adams
When Americans were sent by John
Adams to France they were asked to pay
the French a bribe to negotiate shipping
rights. Americans refused to pay the
bribe. This was called the?
XYZ Affair
Abigail Adams was very influential during
John’s presidency. What law did she
encourage him to pass that would ensure
that newspapers could not criticize him?
Sedition Act
Which political party was?
Founded by Alexander Hamilton
Emphasizing manufacturing and trade
Wanted a strong federal government
Supportive of the British
Federalist
What do you know about the Republican
Party!
Leaders were Jefferson and Madison
Supported Farmers and agriculture
Supported France in their revolution
Wanted strong states’ rights
Did not want a Federal Bank
Keep the power with the little guys!
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in
the election of 1800. The House of Reps
decided that Jefferson would be
president. What position did Aaron Burr
get?
Vice President (2nd place was vice)
The supreme court got the power of
judicial review in what supreme court
case?
Marbury v. Madison
Which president bought the Louisiana
Territory from France for $15,000,000?
Thomas Jefferson
What did Jefferson’s Embargo Act do?
Banned U.S. trade with all other
countries (very unpopular)
During the War of 1812 the blockades
were mostly hurting people in what part
of the country and why?
New England States-their economy was
based on trade
Who was President during the War of
1812?
James Madison
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner
and where?
Francis Scott Key at the Battle of Ft.
McHenry
Who was the governor of the Indiana
Territory who destroyed Prophetstown
at the Battle of Tippecanoe?
William Henry Harrison
Who won the Battle of New Orleans
after the War of 1812 had officially
ended?
Andrew Jackson
Who was elected our 5th president and
his presidency was known as the “Era of
Good Feelings?
James Monroe
What war hawk spoke for
the people of the West and
supported the construction
of roads and canals?
Henry Clay of
Kentucky
What war hawk spoke for
the south and opposed
tariffs?
John C. Calhoun
Who supported the North,
was from Massachusetts and
supported tariffs?
Daniel Webster
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2
How did the
bank of
the US boost American
businesses?
Lent money and controlled the money
supply, hopefully leads to a boost on
American businesses
What two events had kept British
goods out the of the United States?
The War of 1812
Embargo Act
Why were the British dumping
goods on the American market?
To drive American
competitors out of
business
What goods did the Tariff of 1816 tax?
Foreign textiles, iron, leather
goods and paper
Describe infrastructure
Building of roads, bridges, and canals
What did the three Supreme Court Cases;
McCullogh vs. Maryland, Dartmouth College vs.
Woodward, and Gibbins vs. Ogden NOT protect and
improve during the years 1819-1824?
Interstate commerce
Capitalism
Stronger state government
Stronger federal government
Stronger State Government
Who did James Monroe send to
Florida in 1817 to push the Seminoles
back into Florida?
Andrew Jackson
Who was James Monroe’s Secretary of
State and elected our 6th president?
John Quincy Adams
What means to give up?
cede
What document did John Quincy Adams
write to protect the United States from
colonization and to protect the freedoms of
Latin America?
Monroe Doctrine
Who was elected in the
“Corrupt Bargain” election?
John Quincy Adams
What political party did William Henry
Harrison and John Tyler support?
Whigs
What president passed the
Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
What Native American group moved
towards present day Oklahoma between
the years 1838-1839 and which president
enforced the Indian Removal Act?
Cherokees and
Martin Van Buren
Who was the President of the National
Bank that Andrew Jackson despised?
Nicholas Biddle
What changed the way people
lived in the 1700’s?
The Industrial
Revolution
Who invented the cotton gin
and interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
What is the growth of cities due to
movement of people from rural
areas to cities?
urbanization
What did each of the following
invent?
Cyrus McCormick
Elias Howe
Robert Fulton
Samuel Morse
Peter Cooper
Mechanical reaper
Sewing machine
Steam engine- Clermont
Morse Code
American made steam
locomotive
Who had a vision and led a
slave revolt in 1831 that killed
about 60 whites?
Nat Turner
Who was the early pioneer that
cleared a route with 30 other
men and it became known as the
Wilderness Road?
Daniel Boone
What did Henry Clay propose
in 1820?
The Missouri Compromise- It stated that Maine
would enter the Union as a free state and Missouri
would enter as the a slave state to keep the balance in
the Senate.
Who was the youngest of fifteen
children and would begin holding
religious revivals?
Charles Finney
What was the organized effort to
end alcohol abuse and the problems
it created?
Temperance movement
What was the total ban of alcohol
sales and consumption called?
Prohibition
Who worked to reform prisons and
establish asylums for the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
Where were the first public schools set
up and who was the Superintendent of
the public schools?
Massachusetts and
Horace Mann
Who published the abolitionist newspaper
called the Liberator?
Who published the abolitionist newspaper
called the North Star?
Who made more than 19 trips south and
saved more than 300 slaves?
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
What is the right for women to vote?
What amendment gave women the
right to vote?
Suffrage
1920-
th
19
amendment
Who wrote Little Women?
Who wrote Walden?
Who wrote Moby Dick?
Who wrote Scarlet Letter?
Louisa May Alcott
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Nathanael Hawthorne
Name three trails that began in
Independence, Missouri?
Santa Fe Trail
Oregon Trail
California Trail
Besides the anti-slavery law, what were
American Settlers violating in Texas?
Catholicism, they weren’t Catholic
Santa Anna was the dictator of Mexico
after they gained independence from
what European country?
Spain
Where were the Texans and Tejanos
fighting for Texas Independence?
The Alamo
Zachary Taylor was a Mexican War hero
who later became what?
President of the United States
The land between the Nueces and Rio
Grande rivers was disputed at the
beginning of what event?
Mexican War
True or False- Kansas was part of the
land gained by the Mexican Session
False-it was part of the Louisiana
Territory and included in the Missouri
Compromise
What did John C. Calhoun demand be
part of the Compromise of 1850?
Fugitive Slave Act
In terms of slavery, what did David
Wilmot (Wilmot Proviso) want to do with
the land gained by the Mexican Session?
Make it illegal or ban it
Stephen Douglas proposed this to
extend the railroad through Illinois.
Kansas-Nebraska Act making the
territories popular sovereignty
Which party split into 2 parts for the
election of 1860?
Democrats
What happened to Preston Brooks after
he beat Charles Sumner unconscious?
Southerners sent him canes to show
their support
Name 2 things that happened as a
result of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
>More northerners opposed slavery
>Many free African Americans were
sent south into slavery
>Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written
>Fugitive Slaves had to get to Canada
for freedom
South Carolina was the first state to do
this following Lincoln’s election.
Secede
Ft. Sumter was the outbreak of what?
Civil War
What required all able-bodied males to
serve in the military?
Draft
What do we call states that had slavery
but remained in the Union?
Border States
What term means “to free”?
Emancipate
What term means to surround and
bombard an enemy position and in
what Civil War battle(s) was this used?
Siege-Vicksburg and Petersburg
The number of soldiers killed, wounded
or missing during a battle is its’?
Casualties
Name 4 Advantages for the North at
the beginning of the Civil War.
More People
More Factories
More farmland
More Railroads
Who was the confederate commander
nicknamed “Stonewall”?
Thomas Jackson
Who was the Union commander who
always hesitated and was never ready
to attack?
George McClellan
Who was the Union commander who
was removed from power after “The
Crater”?
Ambrose Burnside
Who was the Union commander in the
west until the final year of the war
when he was brought east by Lincoln?
He was nicknamed “The Butcher”
U.S. Grant
Lincoln asked this Confederate
commander to lead the Union before
the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
Who was Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederate States of
America
How long was the siege when Ulysses S.
Grant captured Vicksburg?
47 Days
What was the first Major Battle of the
Civil War?
Bull Run
Antietam is famous because it
prompted Lincoln to do what?
Issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Chancellorsville is where which famous
figure from Battle of Bull Run was
killed?
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
Who attempted to go up a hill 14 times
at Fredericksburg and lost 1000’s of
men? (Pathetic)
Ambrose Burnside
Gettysburg was fought July 1,2, and 3
and was known as the ______ of the
Civil War.
Turning point
Sherman’s March went through which
3 Southern states?
Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina
Where did General Lee surrender to
General Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse
What was significant about the 54th
Massachusetts?
It was the first African American regiment
formed after the Emancipation Proclamation