CATEGORY 1
Where was the shot hear round the world fired?
Concord
What party became the real successor of the Whig Party?
Republican Party
The loss of what railroad junction was the final blow to the Confederacy?
Petersburg
Why was Tammany Hall allowed to continue its corruption?
Democratic leaders needed its help in obtaining votes
Progressive education emphasized
experience
In what capacity did the Swamp Fox help the war effort?
lanching guerrilla raids
The South faced all the following shortages on the home front except shortages of
gold, food, clothes, cotton
cotton
What event made British intervention in the Civil War highly unlikely?
Emancipation Proclamation
Grantism is a synonym for
political corruption
What was the goal of the city manager form of government?
government efficiency
According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of his debate with Douglas?
the immorality and expansion of slavery
When Lincoln first called for troops, how long did their englistments last?
three months
Which scandal centered on New York City government?
Tammany Hall
What was most significant about the coal miners' strike in 1902?
The federal government acted as a mediator.
Which progressive ran on a platform called New Nationalism in 1912?
Theodore Roosevelt
Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 was most responsible for worsening tensions between the North and the South?
Fugitive Slave Law
A border state was a
slave state that did not secede
What was the primary reason Andrew Johnson was impeached?
He dismissed the secretary of war
Who often said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
Theodore Roosevelt
What black agricultural researcher found many uses for the peanut?
George Washington Carver
One reason the Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced was to
ensure that the transcontinental railroad would benefit Illinois
What were the Copperheads?
Southern smpathizers in the North
In what scandal did James Fisk and Jay Gould participate?
manipulating the price of gold
American leaders were afraid to grant the Philippines independence too quickly primarily because they
feared that another country would take over the Philippines
The "irreconcilables" believed that the United States should
avoid all entanglement with Europe