History Study
Guide
Alabama High
School Graduation
Exam
Who was the director of the
Seneca Falls Convention and a
women’s rights advocate?
Elizabeth
Cady
Stanton
Who is known for
her work in
women’s rights,
esp. the suffrage
movement?
Susan B.
Anthony
(She was once
on a $1 coin)
Who was the woman who tried to
get poor women to use birth
control?
Margaret
Sanger
Who was the
Chief Justice
of the U.S.
Supreme
Court during
the formative
years?
John Marshall
Who wrote our National Anthem,
“The Star Spangled Banner?”
Francis Scott Key
What U.S.
President was
elected by the
Common Man
(1828) and
moved Indians to
reservations?
Andrew
Jackson
Who raided the army arsenal at
Harpers Ferry to get weapons to
kill slave owners?
John
Brown
Who was the
President of
the U.S. during
the Civil War?
(he wanted no
extension of
slavery)
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the
commander of
the SOUTHERN
Army during the
Civil War?
Robert
E. Lee
st
1
Who was the
and only
President of the Confederacy
(during the Civil War)?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the leader of the Union
Army (NORTH) during the Civil War?
(he was a weak President later)
Ulysses
S. Grant
Who created the idea
of Social Darwinism?
“Survival of the Fittest”
Charles
Darwin
What rich American owned most of
the oil rights in the United States?
John D. Rockefeller
Who founded the
Niagara
Movement which
became the
NAACP?
(National
Association for the
Advancement of
Colored People)
William E. B. Dubois
Who was the founder
of the Tuskegee Institute
(an Alabama flight school for blacks)?
Booker T.
Washington
Who invented
peanut butter
and developed
over 300
products from
peanuts?
George Washington
Carver
What U.S. President was one of
the “Rough Riders” during the
Spanish-American War?
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
What U.S.
President
created the
League of
Nations after
World War I, but
the U.S. didn’t
join it?
Woodrow Wilson
Whose
assassination
started World
War I?
Archduke
Francis
Ferdinand
Who was the
leader of
Germany who
killed Jews
during WWII?
Hitler
Who made the first non-stop flight
from U.S. to Paris?
(His plane was named The Spirit of St. Louis)
Charles Lindberg
Which U.S. President who was blamed
for the Great Depression?
Herbert
Hoover
Who was the
U.S. President
during the Great
Depression and
WWII?
(he created TVA
and alphabet
agencies)
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Who was the
leader of
Russia
(Soviet Union)
during World
War II?
Joseph Stalin
Who was the leader of the British
forces (England) during World War II?
Winston
Churchill
Who was the
leader of Italy
during World
War II?
Benito
Mussolini
Who was the U.S. Supreme
Commander of World War II?
General
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
Who was the
first person to
warn the
colonists that
the British
soldiers were
headed to
Lexington and
Concord?
Paul Revere
What is the
name of
England’s Bill
of Rights?
(It was signed
in 1215 by
King John)
Magna
Carta
What was the Constitutional
Convention’s decision to
apportion representation in
Congress Called?
Senate (2 people) and
House of Representatives
(based on population)
When deciding how to apportion
representation, what was the
Constitutional Convention’s
decision to count
5 slaves as 3 people?
Which Branch of the U.S.
Government makes the laws?
Legislative Branch
Which Branch of the U.S.
Government enforces the law?
Executive Branch
Which Branch of the U.S.
government interprets the law?
Judicial Branch
What states we can change or
add laws as times change,
or as necessary?
Elastic
Clause
What was the name of the laws
which separated blacks and whites?
Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws)
Which treaty ended the
French and Indian War?
(England got all land east of Mississippi)
Treaty of
1763
What treaty gave the
U.S. all the land east of the
Mississippi River?
(it ended the
American Revolution)
What was the process of
kidnapping British Navy men and
forcing them into military service?
Impressments
What is a government
order prohibiting the
movement of
merchant ships into
or out of its ports?
What is the surrounding and
blockading of a city, town, or
fortress by an army attempting
to capture it called?
siege
What document describes how
to become a state?
Northwest Ordinance
Missouri Compromise
The ______________________
established that new states above
36o 30’ North would be free,
and those below could decide.
The movement
attempting to end the
legal sale of alcohol
temperance
What is the movement to end
slavery called?
Abolition
What is the term which means
“pride in one’s country?”
nationalism
What was the high tax on
imported goods,
designed to help
American factories by
causing import prices
to be higher?
Which court case stated
“once a slave, always a slave?”
Dred Scott Decision
Which law stated the North had to
return runaway slaves to
Southern slave owners?
Fugitive
Slave
Act
What law gave settlers 160
acres of land if they agreed
to live on it for 5 years?
Homestead Act
Lincoln’s
attempt to free
slaves in the
South was the
Emancipation
______________
Proclamation
______________
Northerners
who helped the
South during
the Civil War
and
Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Southerners who
helped the North
during the Civil
War were called
Scalawags
____________
Area of the country that
always voted Democratic in
early elections was called
___________
Solid South
To own all of something in business,
or a particular kind of business
monopoly
Newspaper writers who
exposed corruption were called
muckrakers
______________
Upton
Sinclair
____________,
a muckraker,
wrote
“The Jungle”
an expose’ on
the meat packing
industry
This court
case
established
“separate
but equal”
Plessy
vs.
Ferguson
What area of the USA is known for
their farming and plantations?
The
South
Which state got its
independence from Mexico?
(It was once an independent nation)
Texas
Andrew Jackson defeated the
Creek Indians at
Horseshoe Bend, Alabama
________________
The fort under fire when
Francis Scott Key wrote the
“The Star Spangled Banner”
during the War of 1812?
Fort
McHenry
Kansas-Nebraska Act:
It proposed that the states would
have the freedom to decide the
issue of slavery
(Let the people decide)
What was the Doctrine called?
The first capital
of the
Confederacy
Montgomery,
Alabama
The 2nd capital of the
Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia
The county that
attempted to secede
from Alabama during
the Civil War
What was the only U.S. state formed
as a direct result of the Civil War?
(It seceded from Virginia)
West
Virginia
The city on the Mississippi River
that Grant captured to split the
South during the Civil War
Vicksburg, Mississippi
This battle was the turning
point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Where did Lee
surrender to
Grant to end
the Civil War?
Appomattox Courthouse
What place in the Americas
connected the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans?
(associated with yellow fever)
Panama
Canal
Germany invaded this country
to begin World War II
Poland
This U.S. Naval Base was
bombed by the Japanese on
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
D-Day began here June 6, 1944
(a city in France where U.S. troops
landed during WWII)
Normandy
Two Japanese cities where
atomic bombs were dropped by
the United States
Hiroshima &
Nagasaki
The turning point of the
American Revolution
(huge defeat of England)
Saratoga
Which amendment to the
Constitution ended slavery in
seceding states?
multiple choice 
13th
14th
15th
18th
Which amendment
to the Constitution
made former
slaves citizens?
multiple choice 
13th 14th 15th 18th
Which amendment to the
Constitution gave all men the
right to vote?
multiple choice 
13th
14th
15th
18th
Which amendment to
the Constitution created
the income tax?
14th
15th
16th
18th
Which amendment to
the Constitution stopped the
sale of alcohol?
14th
15th
16th
18th
Which amendment to the
Constitution repealed the 18th
Amendment?
13th 14th 19th 21st
This was a war to regain Holy Land
from Muslims for Christians
(led by Pope Pious II)
Crusades
During this period of time
there was a REBIRTH
of learning in Europe
Protestant Reformation led
The _________________________
to the creation of other churches
outside the Catholic faith
In this war,
the French
and Indians
fought
settlers, and
the settlers
moved into
the Ohio
Valley
French & Indian War
These two acts stopped
the creation of
monopolies
Clayton & Sherman
Anti-Trust Acts
Urban means “city”
______
Rural means “country”
______
A word describing farms and
plantations in the South
A German U-boat sank this
British ship involving the
USA in World War I
(There were 128 Americans on board at the time)
Lusitania
This German telegram
caused the USA to enter
World War I
(It promised Mexico land in America
if they would declare war on the USA)
Zimmerman
Note
This organization was created
by President Woodrow Wilson
(similar to United Nations;
the USA did not join)
League of Nations
During the
1920’s
GOOD
TIMES
nickname
Jazz Age
A person who worked on a farm in
exchange for a percentage of crop
sharecropper
was called a _______________
A person who rented land and shared
the proceeds of his crop was called a
tenant farmer
_____________
What was movement which
attempted to end the sale of
alcohol in the USA?
Prohibition
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to
stop the Great Depression
The
New
Deal
This act created:
unemployment insurance
old age pension
help for the handicapped
Social Security
This New Deal organization
insured bank deposits
F.D.I.C.
Franklin D.
Roosevelt talked
to people over
the radio in a
series of
broadcasts
called
“fireside chats”
The wind blew topsoil away in the
Dust Bowl
west during the ___________
To kill an entire
group of people
GENOCIDE
Alabama Indian Tribes
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Cherokee
Creek
These three Amendments to
the U.S. Constitution are
collectively known as the
__________
Civil War
Amendments
This is required before one can
vote in the United States
citizenship
“The Father of the Blues”
Famous jazz musician from Alabama
W. C. Handy
Drained areas
around Panama
Canal to control
mosquitoes
and end the
Yellow Fever
epidemic
William
Gorgas
The first permanent Spanish
settlement in present day USA
St. Augustine, Florida
First successful permanent English
settlement in present day USA
Jamestown, Virginia
Cornwallis surrendered to
Washington here
(French broke British blockade)
Yorktown
This state was admitted to the
Union on December 14, 1819
The Indians were moved from
southeast United States to this present
day state on the “Trail of Tears”
Oklahoma
Mormons moved
here to practice
their religion
without
interference
Utah
Gold was discovered here
starting with the 1849 Gold Rush
Sutters Mill, California
Area of the country that
developed industrially
early in our history
Thomas Jefferson wrote this
document which caused the
separation of the U.S. from England
Declaration of Independence
Who warned
us to avoid
political
parties and
foreign
alliances in his
farewell
address?
George
Washington
The supreme
law of the
United States
that begins
“We the people”
Constitution
The First 10 Amendments to the
Constitution are collectively known
Bill of Rights
as the ______________
In 1776, the war in which
the American colonists
fought England
(France helped the colonists)
Revolutionary War
U.S.A. vs. England (again)
2nd American Revolution
War of 1812
Name of land Thomas Jefferson
purchased from France (Napoleon)
Louisiana Purchase
Scientific expedition from
Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean to
map the Louisiana Purchase
Lewis & Clark Expedition
A time when there
was only one
political party was
called the . . .
The Indians were moved from the
south to Oklahoma along the
Trail of Tears
The belief that it was America’s
right and destiny to own the
land from the Atlantic
to the Pacific was . . .
The U.S. defeated
Mexico and got land
from Texas to California
in this war
Mexican War
* The U.S. fought the Spanish
in this war
* A short war (fought in Cuba)
started fueled by yellow
journalism/muckrakers
Spanish
American
War
Woodrow
Wilson was
President
during this
war
The trenches
World
War I
During this time, there was
widespread unemployment.
The crash of the stock market
signaled the start of
The Great Depression
______________________
The killing of the Jews in
WWII in Germany
Holocaust
The event where colonists threw
tea into the harbor over taxes
Boston Tea Party
1st shots of American
Revolution were fired here
“the shot heard around the world”
Lexington & Concord
1st Battle of American Revolution
(after war was declared)
Bunker
Hill
Andrew Jackson
defeated the
British
Battle fought
after the War of
1812 was over
New Orleans
Battle of ______________
Yankee general
who destroyed
everything from
Atlanta to
Atlantic Ocean
(Civil War)
William T. Sherman:
Sherman’s “March to the Sea”
Man associated with Jamestown
* Tobacco
John
Smith
* No Work – no food
King of
England during
American
Revolution
George
III
Leader of
Boston’s
Sons of
Liberty
Samuel
Adams
Commander of
Continental
Army
1st President of
the USA
George Washington
Said “Federal
government has
MOST power”
Federalists
Alexander
Hamilton
President who
said, “States
government
have most
power”
Was for
States’ Rights
Thomas Jefferson
Who said it?
Give me liberty
or give me death!
Patrick
Henry
British General who surrendered
to Washington at Yorktown
General _____________
Cornwallis
Dictator of France
Sold Louisiana to USA
for $15 million
Napoleon
• 5th President of the USA
• Ran Unopposed
• Era of Good Feelings
James
Monroe
____________
Eli Whitney invented the cotton
gin, as well as interchangeable
parts for guns
The steam boat was invented by
Robert Fulton
________________
Developed the
“American System”
of better roads
Bank of U.S.
Protective Tariff
Henry Clay
Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Harriett
Beecher
Stowe
He published the
anti-slavery
newspaper called
the “Liberator”
He ran the antislavery movement
William Lloyd Garrison
Woman involved
in the movement
to help mental
patients and
make sure they
were treated
fairly
Dorothea Dix
A former slave
He published
“North Star”
newspaper
Frederick Douglas
A former
female slave &
traveling
speaker after
emancipation
Sojourner Truth
This woman
was
associated
with the
Underground
Railroad
Harriet
Tubman
This man was associated with
“Free Public Education”
Horace
Mann
The man
responsible
for the
founding of
Mobile, AL
Iberville
LeMoyne
Mobile
Serbian who assassinated the
Archduke of Austria-Hungary,
starting World War I
Gavrilo
Princip
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Who wrote
The Grapes
of Wrath?
John
Steinbeck
Who wrote
The Old Man and the Sea?
Ernest Hemmingway
Who wrote The Sun Also Rises?
Ernest
Hemmingway
Who wrote
The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Who wrote The Raven?
Edgar Allen Poe
Who wrote
The Last of the Mohicans?
James
Fennimore
Cooper
The attempt by John Adams to
keep Federalists in control
during Jefferson administration
Midnight
Appointments
An American foreign policy
opposing interference in the
Western Hemisphere from
outside powers
Monroe
Doctrine
U.S. program of economic aid
for the reconstruction of Europe
(named after George C. Marshall)
Marshall
Plan
The Italian immigrants
accused of payroll robbery
during the Red Scare
Sacco
and
Vanzetti
This would
allow trade
with China and
keep the nation
from being
divided
Open Door Policy
Time after WWI when people in
the U.S. were afraid the
Communists would take over
Red
Scare
Journalist Muckraker
Ida
Tarbell
Political party that wanted
government ownership of the
transportation industry and
free coinage of silver, direct
election of Senators and the
graduated income tax
Populist Party
The period of rebuilding the
South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Boom towns sprang up
________
overnight, usually around gold
mines.
The
_______________________
ended the Missouri
Compromise, created the
Fugitive Slave Act, admitted
California as a FREE state
Lincoln’s speech
to dedicate a
cemetery
Gettysburg
Address
A cause of the “Dust Bowl” was
drought (lack of rain)
_______________________
The goal of Lincoln’s
presidency was to
preserve the Union
______________________
The practice of commercialism
based on the buildup of gold or
silver bullion
Mercantilism
Teddy
Roosevelt and
the
_____________le
Rough Riders
d the charge
up San Juan
Hill during
Spanish
American War
Progressive Era
Period of reform in the
1800s that saw the
beginnings of the
prohibition movement,
suffrage, muckrakers and
economic reform
Yellow
_______________
journalism exaggerates stories to
attract readers to the newspapers
Flappers
Young women
who showed
disdain for
appropriate
dress and
behavior
during the
1920’s
Law requiring appropriate
imprisonment
Habeas Corpus
Suspended by
Lincoln during Civil War
Birmingham,
AL
This Alabama
city grew up
around the iron
and steel
industry
This Alabama city is noted for
its shipping industry
Mobile,
AL
Concentration
camp during
WWII when
Hitler was killing
Jews
(during
Holocaust)
Auschwitz
Court case
Sued Vanderbilt for using
waterways where there was a
monopoly
Vanderbilt won in Supreme Court
(New York)
Aaron
Burr
_____________ki
lled Alexander
Hamilton in a
duel
Court case:
Gave Congress the power to
create a bank and stated
Maryland had no power to tax it
Dressed as a black man in
minstrel shows
Jim
Crow
This gave 160 acres of land to
those who would settle it for 5
years and improve it
Homestead
Act
Rich American
from Scotland
who gave
money to
create libraries
and colleges
Andrew
Carnegie
At one time
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
___________________
was the richest man
in America who made
his money from the
shipping industry.