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Title: US History First Semester Test Study Guide
Description: US History First Semester Test Study Guide
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • The main issue temporarily solved by the Missori Compromise of 1820 was...
    • Slavery
    • The Compromise of 1850 did the following:
    • Admitted California as a free state, Passed the Fugitive Slave Act, Nullified the Compromise of 1820
    • Violoenc in the Kansas territory was a direct result of the
    • Kansas-Nebraska Act
    • Popular sovereignty held that the decision of whether a territory would be free or slave should be left to the...
    • residents of the territory
    • In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that...
    • being on free territory did not make a slave free.
    • The main issue in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates was...
    • Slavery in the territories.
    • Name famous abolitionists:
    • Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Frederick Douglass
    • The 1860 Republican platform on which Abraham Lincoln ran for teh presidence DID NOT include a demand for...
    • abolition of slavery in the Southern states.
    • The President of the Confederate States of America was...
    • Jefferson Davis
    • The first act of open rebellion by the Confederacy was at...
    • Fort Sumter
    • In what area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
    • Military Leadership
    • The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in which area?
    • The Confederacy
    • Which of the following abolished slavery?
    • The 13th Amendment
    • The Battle of Gettysburg is considered a turning point in the Civil War because it...
    • Was the last Confederate invasion of the Union
    • Which pair of military officers is known for having adopted a strategy of "Total War" during the Civil War?
    • US Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman
    • The significance of the outcome of the Battle of Vicksburg was that it gave the Union forces control of...
    • The Mississippi River
    • Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to the Union?
    • Appomattox
    • President Johnson's impeachment was a result of...
    • His opposition tot he Radical Republicans in Congress
    • What was intended to protect the voting rights of all male citizens, regardleaa of race, color, or previous condidion of servitude?
    • 15th Amendment
    • What signaled the end of Reconstruction?
    • The Compromise of 1877, which made Hays president
    • Who supported the most radical plan for Reconstruction?
    • The Radical Republicans
    • What did Congress establish to help former slaves adjust to freedom?
    • Freedmen's Bureau
    • Scalawags were Southern whiets who
    • Became Republicans
    • Carpetbaggers were northern Republicans who
    • Moved to the South
    • What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments commonly referred to?
    • The Reconstruction Amendments
    • What did the 14th Amendment do?
    • Defined who was a citizen, protect the civil rights of citizens, and require all the states to follow the Bill of Rights
    • What one thing contributed to the end of the open range cattle era?
    • Barbed wire
    • Sand Creek and Wounded Knee ar famous for being the sites of...
    • US Army massacres of Native Americans
    • The Exodusters...
    • were former slaves from the south who settled on the Great Plains
    • The HOmestead Act required...
    • to live and work the land for 5 years.
    • Literary tests and poll taxes were designed to
    • Keep African Americans from voting
    • What prevented the greatest number of children from being able to attend public high school?
    • Racism
    • Who founded the NAACP?
    • WEB DuBois
    • Jim Crow laws were that...
    • separated races
    • In Plessy V. Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled...
    • Racial segregation in public accommodations was legal
    • Booker T Washington created the...
    • Tuskegee Institute
    • Robert M LaFollette gained fame for being a
    • reform govenor
    • The 17th Amendment allowed for...
    • direct election of senators
    • In the Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed
    • unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry
    • Susan B anthony was best known...
    • as a leader in the women's suffrage movement
    • Define Suffrage:
    • The right to vote
    • Carrie Nation was a leader in prohibition. What is prohibition?
    • Sale and production of alcohol
    • The 19th Amendment:
    • allowed for suffrage for women
    • The formation of the Bull Moose Party in 1912 led to the election of:
    • Woodrow Wilson
    • Founder of Socialist Party of America:
    • Samuel Gompers
    • Interstate Commerce Act:
    • Regulated railroad rates
    • What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1880's?
    • New methods of steel construction
    • Industrial consolidation and trusts functioned during the late 1800's to reduce
    • Competition
    • The Sherman Antitrust Act:
    • was used by labor unions to fight for worker rights
    • In the late 1800's, collective bargaining was used to...
    • win worker rights
    • Scab's are workers who:
    • are used to break fights.
    • The Bessemer Process:
    • Madi it easier and cheaper to produce quality steel
    • Written communication was enhanced with the 1876 invention of:
    • typewriter
    • Social Darwinism discouraged:
    • Government Intervention
    • Andrew Carnegie gained control of a large percentage of the steel industry by...
    • buying out his suppliers, buying out his competition, underselling his competitors
    • Inventor of Telephone:
    • Alexander Graham Bell
    • Industry of the Great Strike of 1877:
    • Railroads
    • Industrial Workers of the World was organized by:
    • Radical unionists and socialists
    • The first successful oil well was drilled in 1859 by:
    • Edwin Drake
    • John D Rockefeller:
    • Standard Oil Company
    • Samuel Gompers:
    • Socialist Party
    • Stalwarts supported:
    • Spoils System
    • Tammany Hall was the name...
    • NYC political Machine
    • Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by
    • social reformers
    • Purpose of patronage:
    • reward one's supporters
    • The Chinese Exclusion Act:
    • Decreased Chinese Immigration
    • The Gentlemen's Agreement:
    • Caused anti-American rioting in Japan
    • Tammany Hall was run by:
    • William Marcy "Boss" Tweed
    • The East Coast reception station for immigrants:
    • Ellis Island
    • Mark Twain novel that gave the name for time of corruption in the 1800s.
    • The Guilded Age
    • Movement by native-born Americans against immigration:
    • Nativism
    • The policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political or military control over weaker territories:
    • Imperialism
    • Alfred Mahan advocated for:
    • Development of a Naval Fleet, Building a canal across Panama, establish additional Naval bases
    • What influenced America to acquier Hawaii?
    • US businesses owned sugar plantations there
    • Yellow Journalism:
    • Reported exaggerating the news