Final Exam Review Jeopardy

American Revolution

100

This was one tax levied on colonists that led to the Revolution

- Stamp Act

- Tea Act

- Townshend Act

200

This Massachusetts rebellion helped Americans realize they needed a stronger central government

Shays' Rebellion

300

This event was memorialized by Paul Revere to make it seem as if the British staged an organized, premeditated attack on the colonists

The Boston Massacre

400

This Virginian was the leader of the Continental Army

Washington

500

This was the final battle of the American Revolution

Yorktown

The Early Republic

100

He was the Secretary of the Treasury under Washington and created the first National Bank

Hamilton

200

He was Secretary of State under Washington and a Democratic-Republican

Jefferson

300

He was the second president who signed the Alien and Sedition Act

Adams

400

The Sedition Act violated this amendment by prohibiting speech critical of the government

1st Amendment

500

Washington's Farewell Address contained this warning

-  don't get involved in foreign affairs

- don't take on debt

- stay unified/ don't form political parties

Civil War

100

This was the side that seceded after the election of Lincoln in 1860

Confederacy

200

This man led a raid on the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry Virginia in a failed attempt to arm a slave revolt

John Brown

300

This law allowed two new territories to use popular sovereignty (popular vote) to decide whether or not to allow slavery, leading to Bleeding Kansas

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

400

The Civil War started in ____ and ended in ____

1861-1865

500

Lincoln was assassinated by ____ ______ _____ shortly after the Union's victory in the Civil War

John Wilkes Booth

Reconstruction

100

This amendment outlawed slavery

13th

200

This amendment guaranteed birthright citizenship, overturning the Dred Scott case

14th

300

This amendment gave African American men the right to vote

15th

400

These two things were promised to newly freed slaved as reparations (repayment) for slavery, but were never delivered

"40 acres and a mule"

500

Reconstruction was considered a _______ because the system of slavery was replaced with a system of segregation due to the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

failure

The Gilded Age

100

Wealthy business owners were known as _____ ______ because of their shady and exploitative practices

Robber Barons

200

A monopoly is when

one business controls an entire industry/ market

300

These worker groups were formed to protect from labor abuses

unions

400

capitalism is when ________ industry is run for ______

private; profit

500

This journalist wrote The Jungle and exposed the unsafe and unsanitary conditions in Chicago's meatpacking plants 

Upton Sinclair