Test Practice 1
Corn, beans, squash
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The invention of this increased the demand for slavery in the South
Whitney's cotton gin
Led the Union during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Which side had superior infrastructure and more soldiers?
Union
What cash crop helped Jamestown succeed?
Tobacco
The main reason colonists declared independence from Great Britain
What was the belief that America should expand from coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny
Warned Europeans to stay out the Americas
James Monroe
Considered to be the best general of the war, led the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
The first permanent English colony in North America was:
Jamestown
The American Revolution officially ended with what Treaty?
Treaty of Paris
The Civil War began when Confederates fired upon what?
Fort Sumter
Expanded voting rights for white males, Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
What percentage of deaths in the Civil War came from disease? 30% 45% 55% 65%
65%
Pennsylvania was founded by....
William Penn
The first plan for government in the United States (hint, not the Constitution)
For bonus 100 pts, tell why they weren't effective
States had too much power, national government too weak
The Missouri Compromise (1820) tried to keep a balance between what?
Slave states and free states
James K. Polk
What amendment banned slavery forever?
Thirteenth
The French and Indian War was fought mainly between which two countries?
England and France
Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free enslaved people?
Confederate states
One of the reasons for this war was impressment of soldiers.
Bonus for 100: What future president was a war hero in this war?
War of 1812.
Bonus: Andrew Jackson
President when southern states began seceding
James Buchanan
Which Union general did not get along with Abraham Lincoln (hint, he was overly cautious)