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Date Spring 2016 Class
Unit 2 Test A (Standards 6-10)
1. How did the Northwest Ordinance lead to the creation of new states?
2. How were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark important to westward expansion?
3. How did British naval vessels help instigate the War of 1812?
4. Why was the Erie Canal significant for early America?
5. How was the Monroe Doctrine important to American history?
6. Which idea of Eli Whitney’s had major consequences for the production of other goods,
even to this day?
7. The invention of the cotton gin is an example of the types of technological
improvements associated with which historical era?
8. Explain how the Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine are similar.
9. Explain howAmericans used the concept of Manifest Destiny to justify westward
expansion.
10. How are temperance, abolitionism, and public school similar?
11. What was the main purpose of the Seneca Falls Conference?
12. One of the most distinctive features of “Jacksonian democracy”.
13. The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 allowed cheaper freight travel by water between
Buffalo and -?
14. The emerging idea in the mid−1800's that the United States should control the land between the
Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
15. Which country did the United States purchase Florida from in 1819?
16. The land that was included in the Louisiana Purchase was mainly located in which
region of the U.S.?
17. By a treaty signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana
Territory from which country?
18. How did the United States acquire Florida from Spain?
19. Which document was the first to ban slavery in a state or territory of the United States
of America?
20. What impact did the Northwest Ordinance have public education?
21. As the United States expanded westward, what was one of the issues that divided the
country?
22. What is one of the ways that Great Britain interfered with American exports in the
years before the War of 1812?
23. Which group worked to reduce the consumption of alcohol?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The American Anti-Slavery Society
The American Philosophical Society
The National Women’s Suffrage Association
The American Temperance Society
24. Horace Mann is known primarily for his efforts in which reform movement?
25.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
The excerpt above is from the Declaration of Sentiments which was written at the first
women’s rights convention which took place in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. This
declaration was modeled after which significant document?
26. Which two women were the organizers of the women’s rights convention held in Seneca
Falls, New York in 1848?
27. During the mid-1800s, more people received the right to vote in the United States.
Women, however, were denied this right, which led to the rise of which movement?
28. Which innovation led to increased production in American factories in the early 1800s?
29. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin in 1793 led to an increase of what? (Name two)
30. In 1831, what slave led a revolt in Virginia in which nearly 60 white people were killed?
31. Who founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833?
32. Which abolitionists grew up in a slave-owning family in South Carolina?
33. What did the Grimke sisters famously argue?
34. How did the Missouri Compromise affect the expansion of slavery into western
territories?
35. How did the Nullification Crisis threaten the unity of the United States?
36. Why was the Wilmot Proviso controversial in 19th Century America?
37. How did the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision increase tensions between slave and
free states?
38. What did President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address primarily express?
39. How did General William T. Sherman mainly contribute to the Union’s victory in the
Civil War?
40. Why was the Battle of Antietam important in the Civil War?
41. Explain the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation.
42. In what way was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin so important to the
abolition movement?
43. What was the name of the newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison published in order
to spread his anti-slavery ideas?
44. Which religious group strongly supported the abolition of slavery and founded the
world’s first anti-slavery society in 1775?
45. In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed the territories of
Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the legalization of slavery based on popular vote.
This decision was a victory for those who were in favor of states’ rights. The KansasNebraska Act repealed parts of which previous decision?
46. Why was slavery important to the economy in the South before the Civil War?
47. In the 1850s, the territory of Kansas became known as “Bleeding Kansas” after violence
erupted between abolitionists and those who were pro-slavery. Why were people living
in Kansas so divided on the issue of slavery?
48. What was one of the terms of the Compromise of 1850 that was strongly supported by
the South?
49. This key Civil War leader claimed to be fighting to preserve the Union, not to abolish
slavery. However, on January 1, 1863, after a show of Union strength at Antietam, he
issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared slaves “forever free.” Which
famous Civil War figure is described above?
50. Often named the single greatest northern military leader in the Civil War, this West
Point graduate was known for his victory at Vicksburg in 1863 and his leadership over
the Union Army during the latter half of the war. Which famous Civil War figure is
described above?
51. Which person was named the Confederacy’s president when the first Southern states
seceded from the Union in February of 1861?
52. In which 1864 battle did General William T. Sherman defeat a major southern city and
then begin his famous March to the Sea?
53. Why was the Battle of Fort Sumter an important battle?
54. What contributed to the North’s steady population growth in the years prior to the
Civil War?
55. Taking over command of the Richmond forces in 1862 after General Johnston was
injured defending the southern capital, this leader was once offered the command of all
Union troops. Choosing instead to remain loyal to his home state, Virginia, he became
the South’s greatest military figure. Which famous Civil war figure is described?
56. Which was a MAJOR difference between Andrew Johnson’s view of Reconstruction
and the view of the Radical Republicans?
57. What was the primary goal of colleges like Morehouse College in the 1800s?
58. How did the Fourteenth Amendment forever shape post-Civil War America?
59. What did the Black Codes do?
60. How did the impeachment of Andrew Johnson affect Reconstruction?
61. The Thirteenth Amendment did what?
62. After the Civil War, many freed slaves did not have enough money to purchase their
own farms, so they worked on farms owned by other people. They rented land and pain
for it with the crops that they grew. These people were known by what name?
63. Which amendment said that citizens may not be prevented from voting because of race
or previous status as a slave?
64. What is the name given to the laws that created a policy of “separate but equal” that
meant that blacks were segregated from whites?