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U.S. History -Early America Review
Study Guide
1.What major advantage did the conquistadors have over Native Americans?
2.The early settlers of Jamestown survived with the help of the______________________.
3.What was the first direct tax the British imposed that enraged the colonists?
4.Which colony offered a new chance to the poor who had been imprisoned in England?`
5.The change in power in England in which William and Mary became the new rulers is known as
6.During the Great Awakening, Southern Baptists ____________________________________
7.The colonists protested the Stamp Act by doing what?
8.After the Boston Massacre, the British brought peace to the colonies temporarily by repealing the
9.The laws known as the “Intolerable Acts” were the Coercive Acts and the
10.The continent that Christopher Columbus discovered was named by Europeans in honor of who?
11.The towns of New Orleans and Mobile were founded by settlers from where?
12.British lawmakers repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 because
13.The special militia unit in Concord, Massachusetts, was known as the
14.In his pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that
15.The first country to recognize the United States as an independent nation was
16.The main characteristic of an ideal republic is that
17.How many amendments did the Bill of Rights have when it went into effect?
18.The decision in the Marbury v. Madison case established
19. What is a cotton gin?
20.In 1849, thousands of people went to California to __________________________
21.Some leaders opposed the Bank of the United States because
22.The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from ________________
23.The solution that emerged in the Missouri Compromise was to admit Missouri and
24. The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was
25.How many amendments to the Constitution did Congress agree on and send to the states to approve?
26.What did Hamilton and the Federalists support as important to the strength of the United States?
27.The key factor that led to the rapid industrialization of the United States was the
28.The system that President Jackson used to appoint people to government jobs was known as
29.During the Panic of 1837,
30.The American Temperance Union focused on
31.The person responsible for publishing The Liberator was
32.Crittenden’s Compromise proposed Constitutional amendments that would
33.How did President Lincoln address the South in his inaugural speech?
34.Why was Robert E. Lee turn down command of the Union troops?
35.Lincoln suspended writs of habeas corpus. As a result,
36.What was Jefferson Davis’s strategy for winning the Civil War?
37.Why was Chattanooga an important military objective for Union forces?
38.To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the U.S and
39.What state was the first to secede from the Union?
40.What did the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation do?
41.What did Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction call for?
42.Why did Ulysses S. Grant win several Southern states in the 1868 election?
43.Which of the following was an advantage the South enjoyed over the North from the beginning of the war?
44.Citizens of the South suffered food shortages during the Civil War because
45.Who was the group that Southerners called carpetbaggers?
46.As the Civil War began, President Lincoln’s goal was
47.What made the capture of New Orleans an important naval victory for Union forces?
Vocabulary:
Proclamation Act of 1763
Great Compromise
spoils system
Jean Jaques Rousseau
Jonathan Edwards
Andrew Jackson
Samuel F.B. Morse
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Amerigo Vespucci
Edwin M. Stanton
Jefferson Davis
Stonewall” Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Robert Anderson
Seven Days Battle
Pickett’s Charge
James Madison
James K. Polk
Legal Tender Act