Name _______________________________
US I Final Study Guide
Date ______
Test Date ____________
Directions: Fill in the following questions and identify the following
words/people/battles. Email with any questions and hand in the block of the test (before
test starts) for the extra credit on the test.
1. What Tariff hurt the South’s trade with Europe? 156
2. Francis Scott Key wrote what song after the bombing of Fort Henry? 181
3. The “necessary and proper” clause in the Constitution gives what kind of powers?
157
4. What treaty enraged France and eventually led to the Quasi-War? 164
5. What document most influenced the First Amendment to the Constitution? 155
6. What Virginian was the principal author of the amendments that became the Bill
of Rights? 155
7. Why did the Boston Manufacturing Company, a huge textile mill, employed
mostly women and children? 198
8. What were yeomen farmers in the southern social structure? 155
9. How did John Quincy Adams win the 1824 election? 215
10. Why was the Supreme Court decision in Gibbons v. Ogden so historically
important? 190
11. Who organized the first major slave uprising in the United States? 209
12. Describe conditions in the 1800s for workers in New England’s textile mills. 198
13. In the North, citizens ____ the abolitionist movement 246
14. Large numbers of Irish immigrants began leaving their homeland in 1845 because
why? 231
15. What became the mainstay of the economy of California after Mexico secularized
the missions in the state? 261
16. What was the purpose of the Gadsden Purchase? 291
17. Why did the Confederate commander at Vicksburg surrendered? 337
18. Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant was the series of generals who Lincoln hired
after firing which general, who ran against him in an election? 338
19. What did the 13th Amendment do? 348
20. President Andrew Johnson believed that the ____ caused the Civil War. 360
21. Originally, the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to accomplish what? 371
22. Southerners, particularly Democratic Party supporters, referred to Northerners
who moved South at the beginning of Reconstruction as ____. 366
23. People using the phrase “Pike’s Peak or Bust!” were 388
24. Why did the army encourage the killing of the buffalo? 402
25. What is laissez-faire economics? 414
26. Issuing stock allows a corporation to raise large amounts of money for big
projects while doing what? 422
27. What happened at the Haymarket Riot? 432
28. Who did the populists appeal to, that posed a challenge for the democrats? 473
29. Why were subway systems developed? 451
30. Name the two railroads that built transcontinental road? 416
Identify:
224 national nominating convention
224 spoils system
224 caucus system
225 secede
225 nullification
362Military Reconstruction Act
363Tenure of Office Act
371Enforcement Acts
361Civil Rights Act of 1866
360black codes
361Fourteenth Amendment
361Fifteenth Amendment
410Andrew Carnegie
412Alexander Graham Bell
430Karl Marx
420Jay Gould
419Cornelius Vanderbilt
412Thomas Alva Edison
410Edwin Drake
432Eugene V. Debs
434Samuel Gompers
425John D. Rockefeller
33054th Massachusetts
164Fallen Timbers
285Popular sovereignty
157implied
285 Cotton
Democrats
356Pocket veto
214favorite sons
386Virginia City
425monopoly
164Quasi-War
Essay: Answer the following in complete sentences on the lined paper provided.
1. Describe the four main provisions of the Alien and Sedition Acts. 166
2.
Study the diagram and explain James Madison’s point of view. 156
3. Discuss the reasons Texas did not join the United States immediately upon winning independence
from Mexico. 269
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4. What events raised tensions between the United States and Mexico, finally leading to war between
the two countries? 272
5. DBQ: During a debate, Abraham Lincoln posed a question to Stephen A. Douglas that put Douglas
in a dilemma. Complete the diagram by describing the dilemma and Douglas’s response.
299
6. How did railroads help to settle the Great Plains? 394
7. Describe the problems of urban living in the late 1800s, and explain their causes. 454
8. What is a corporation, who owns it, and how does it raise money? 422
9. Describe several reasons why Europeans immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s.
442
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