RG T2 Final

Western Expansion & Geography

100

1. At the Mouth of the Mississippi River is which port city?

New Orleans

200

1. The concept  argues that the physical environment (geography) predisposes (influences) societies, cultures, states towards particular development trajectories is called what?
2. Provide an example of this term within American history.

Geographic Determinism

300

1. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important to the development of the nation because it... (GIVE TWO REASONS)

1. Increased trade, communication, population, immigration, access to new resources, & easier accessibility between the East Coast and the Midwest.

400

This SPECIFIC area of the United States produced the majority of America's cotton? (Hint: not "The South")

The Black Belt or the Cotton Belt

500

Death Valley, which has an elevation of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level and is considered the driest place in the continental United States, can be found in what state? 

California

Compromise Era

100

1. As a result of the Missouri Compromise, which state was added to the Union as a free state?

Maine

200

The compromise period sought to balance the power between free and slave states in which house of the legislature?

The Senate

300

1. What is the name forced march of the Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma typically called?
   
   
2. Which president signed this act?

1. The Indian Removal Act

2. President Jackson

400

1. The act allowed police officers and slave catchers to kidnap runaway slaves.

2. This was apart of which compromise?

1. The Fugitive Slave Act

2. The Compromise of 1850

500

These three compromise summarize the "Compromise era."

Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Civil War

100

The primary goal of the Lincoln Administration at the start of the Civil War was to.....

Reunite the Union.

200

This state was the most powerful state in the Confederacy 

Virginia

300

Name three advantages the North had over the South at the beginning and throughout the Civil War...

Population, Manufacturing production, exports, miles of railroad, food produciton, number of farms, iron production, banking capital

400

In total, nearly blank number of soldiers died due to the Civil War. (Score goes to the closest group who does not go over)

Answer: About 620k according to our notes and class text.

Or

Proposed: 761,000 - Hacker, J. David (December 2011). "A Census-Based Count of the Civil War Dead". Civil War History.

500

Write down all five of Foner's causes for the Civil War.

1. Market Revolution
2. Western Expansion
3. Technological Revolution
4. Universal White Male Suffrage
5. Election of 1860

Random

100

Lincoln was considered a (blank) Republican

Moderate Republican

200

This New York construction project passed through the golden passage in the early 19th century

Erie Canal

300

Based on 21st century America, what is the:

(1) Largest state in the union

(2) The smallest state in the union

(3) The state with the largest population

Label your answer 1/2/3

1. Alaska

2. Rhode Island

3. California

400

This political party pushed for the expansion of slavery in the South.

The Democratic Party

500

Name any two U.S. presidents which have been assassinated.

• Abraham Lincoln, in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
• James Garfield, in 1881 by Charles J. Guiteau.
• William McKinley in 1901
• John F. Kennedy, in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald (some conspiracy theorists disagree)

19th Century

100

An individual who believes women are equal to men is often called?

A feminist

200

This act passed in 1882 outlawed individuals of which country from entering into the United States?

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

300

Daily Double (Only the team picking this can answer)

1. Name two "old" immigrant groups from the 19th century.

2. Name two specific "new immigrant groups from the 19th century.

1. Old -> English, Irish, & German

2. New -> Italian, Russian, Greek, Austrian, Scandinavian, & Polish. Often summarized as Eastern and Southern Europe.

400

Name at least three territories gained by the U.S. after the Spanish American war

• Cuba
• The Philippines  
• Puerto Rico
• Guam
• Other “tertiary” islands
  • 7000+ islands

500

This 800+ page mid 19th century book, describes the origins of a materialistic interpretation of history, coins the term capitalism, and outlines the process of capital consolidation which would eventually become validate in the period known as the Gilled age

Karl Marx's Das Kapital or Capital (English).