U.S. History Review Questions: Part I Beginning until 1877 Mrs. A. LeRoux

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U.S. History Review QuestionsPart IBeginning
until 1877Mrs. A. LeRoux
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What mountain range is number 1?
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Sierra Nevada
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What mountain range is number 2?
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Rocky Mountains
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What mountain range is number 3?
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Appalachian Mountains
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What area is marked by the number 4?
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Great Plains
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What body of water is number 5?
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Gulf of Mexico
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What river is number 1?
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Mississippi River
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What river is number 2?
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Rio Grande River
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What Indian group is likely to live in the
structure above?
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Inuits
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What were reasons for exploration of the New
World?

• Economic - Gold, Natural resources, and trade
• Religion

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What were obstacles to exploration?

• Poor maps and navigational tools
• disease/starvation
• fear of unknown
• lack of adequate supplies

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What were accomplishments of exploration?

• Exchange of goods and ideas
• Improved ships and navigational tools
• new lands or territories

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What areas were claimed by Spain?

• Florida
• Mexico

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What areas were claimed by France?

• Quebec
• Mississippi River Valley
• Areas West of the Appalachian Mountains

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What was the first permanent English settlement
in North America?

• Jamestown (1607)

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Why were the colonies of Plymouth and
Massachusetts Bay Colony settled?

• Religious Freedom

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Pennsylvania was settled by __________.

• Quakers

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Georgia was a _______colony.

• Debtors colony

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New Englands economy was based on_____________.
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Fishing, shipbuilding, trade and port cities
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Political life in New England was centered
around________.
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Town meetings
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The economy of the Southern Colonies was based
on_________.
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Large farms/plantations, cash crops, wood
products and slavery
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What is an indentured servant?

• Men and women who did not have money for passage
  to the colonies and who agreed to work without
  pay for the person who paid for their passage.

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England________the colonies after the French and
Indian War.

• taxed

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One tax England passed to help pay the cost of
the French and Indian War was the______.

• Stamp Act

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Key philosophies of the Declaration of
Independence

• People have rights
• government protects peoples rights
• power comes from the people

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Who was King of Great Britain during the
Revolutionary War?

• King George III

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What was the last Battle of the Revolutionary War?

• Battle of Yorktown

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Who was the British general that surrendered at
Yorktown?

• Lord Cornwallis

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Who was the author of the Declaration of
Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

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Who said,Give me liberty or give me death?

• Patrick Henry

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Who wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet describing
King George III as a royal bully?

• Thomas Paine

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What is the name of the treaty that ended the
Revolutionary War?

• Treaty of Paris

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If you could say one word to describe the
Articles of Confederation, what would it be and
why?

• weak

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What is federalism?

• A system that divides power between the national
  government and governments of the states.

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How many branches of government did the U. S.
Constitution create?

• 3 (Legislative, Executive, Judicial)

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Who was the author of the Bill of Rights?

• James Madison

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Political Parties formed because of the
differences between____and _____.

• Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

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What president is responsible for purchasing the
Louisiana Territory?

• Thomas Jefferson

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Even though the U.S. did not win (nobody did),
what was an important result after the War of
1812?

• gained respect from European Nations

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James Monroe wrote the________.

• Monroe Doctrine which warned European nations not
  to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.

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The United States gained Florida from________.

• Spain

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The Oregon Territory was divided
between____and____.

• Great Britain and the United States

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Who invented the cotton gin?

• Eli Whitney

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Jo Anderson and Cyrus McCormick worked to invent
the_____.

• the mechanical reaper.

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The steamboat was invented by______.

• Robert Fulton

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Abolitionists believed that slavery was________.

• wrong

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Three abolitionist leaders were_____

• Harriet Tubman
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass

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What does suffrage mean?

• Right to vote

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Three women who worked for womens rights
were_____.

• Sojourner Truth
• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The Civil War was fought over the ________issue.

• slavery

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The first state to secede or leave the Union
was____.

• South Carolina

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Who was President of the United States during the
Civil War?

• Abraham Lincoln

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Who was President of the Confederate States of
America during the Civil War?

• Jefferson Davis

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Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?

• Robert E. Lee

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The Civil War began with the firing on _________.

• Fort Sumter

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The turning point of the Civil War was________.

• The Battle of Gettysburg

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One thing that helped the Union defeat the
Confederates was

• The Union blockade of Southern ports

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The 13th Amendment banned

• slavery

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Carpetbaggers were Northerners who

• Took advantage of Southerners after the Civil War.

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The period following the Civil War was called____.

• Reconstruction