Sem 1 Review
(Units 1-4)
(Units 1-4)
Important People
Acts/Laws/Treaties
Ideologies
Significant Events
100
What were some causes that encouraged the English to move to the Americas?
Religious persecution, economic opportunities, to spread religion, etc.
100
Log cabin enthusiast
Abraham Lincoln
100
What was the Gadsden Purchase of 1853?
Hint: mentioned in Jimmy Fallon video!
Purchase of land from Mexico (Arizona and New Mexico) to build transcontinental railroad from NOLA to LA
100
Ideology that argued that westward expansion was a God given right.
Manifest Destiny
100
After the Caning of Senator Sumner, who replaced Senator Sumner’s and Senator Brooks’ seats?
Didn’t change, they were re-elected and brought back into their position
200
What was one resource that traveled from the New World to the Old World through the Columbian Exchange?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Maize, tobacco, sugar, potatoes, lumber, beans, etc.
200
Supreme Court Justice who ruled in the Dred Scott Decision.
Roger B. Taney
200
What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Southern owners located and re-enslaved fugitives as well as free African Americans, broadened support of abolitionist cause in the North and Midwest, etc.
200
Novel depicting the horrors of slavery that changed many Americans' perspectives.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
200
What was the Underground Railroad?
Network of abolitionist northerners who aided escaped Southern slaves and helped navigate them towards the North
300
What did the Old Lights believe and what did the New Lights believe during the Great Awakening?
Old Lights - opposed to passion, importance of cultivating virtuous Christian life
New Lights - disagreed that faith is only rooted intellectually, importance of spiritual rebirth
300
Murderer or Martyr?
John Brown
300
What were two of the four parts of the Dred Scott decision of 1857?
1. MO compromise unconstitutional
2. Ruled against Dred Scott,
3. Denied federal government ability to control slavery in territories
4. Declared African Americans do not have rights
300
Political party arguing for the abolition of slavery.
Free Soil Party
300
The search for arable land in California by White Americans led to conflict with which communities?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Native Americans and Mexicans
400
Why did farmers in Western Massachusetts rebel during Shays Rebellion (1786-1787)?
To protest taxation policies of eastern elites who controlled the state’s government.
400
"The little woman who wrote the book that caused this great war."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
What was the cause of the creation of the Lecompton Constitution and what was the loophole?
Pro-slavery faction in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act wanted to propose state constitution, even if Kansas becomes state without slavery, there is still provision in it that protects slavery in Kansas anyways.
400
Ideology that argued that people living in a territory should decide whether it can have slavery or not.
Popular Sovereignty
400
What was happening in the Democratic Party during the Election of 1860 that helped the Republicans win? And give one example!
Increased Sectionalism: northern democrats rejected southern proposal to protect slavery in territories and two separate conventions with two separate presidential candidates
500
What was the Benevolent Empire and what problems were the people that took part trying to solve?
Web of reform organizations that were heavily Whig and built by Evangelical Protestant men and women during the Second Great Awakening. They were trying to establish the “moral government of God”. Targeted drunkenness, adultery, prostitution, and crime.
500
Senator from Illinois who argued for popular sovereignty.
Stephen A. Douglas
500
What were the two parts of Kentucky’s John. J. Crittenden’s proposal of compromise between North and South?
Constitutional amendment to protect slavery from federal interference in states which slavery already existed
Westward expansion of MO Compromise line to CA border
500
What was the hypothetical question posed by Lincoln during the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Freeport Question/Doctrine: If people of territory vote slavery down in violation of Dred Scott, what should happen?
500
What was the Panic of 1857?
Significant economic depression that was caused by overspeculation in railroads and western lands, inflation from California gold which led to closure of banks and businesses.