Final Exam Review
1. True or False: America was the only country that had factories. False
2. What was the name of the first permanent English settlement established in the Colonization era?
Jamestown, Virginia
3. List events that occurred during the Revolutionary Era.
Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
4. Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans used a strict construction of the Constitution. This means they
interpreted the constitution word for word, and did not deviate from the Constitution at all.
5. What are the 5 freedoms of the first amendment?
RAPPS – religion, assembly, press, petition, speech
6. What was the name of the first permanent English settlement established in the Colonization era? (yes, this
is a repeat question) Jamestown
7. What improved transportation, led to a use of steamships as a primary means of transportation, and made it
possible for a business to sell its product all over America by producing it in one city and shipping it to cities
across America? railroads
8. What did the Northwest Ordinance do?
Ensured the orderly expansion of the U.S. by establishing a procedure for admitting states into the
Union
9. Why did English settlers form colonies in North America?
Escape religious persecution, create new economic opportunities, increasing the prestige of the
English King
10. True or False: After the Civil War the nation changed from a primarily agrarian nation to a primarily
industrialized nation. True
11. Which principle is defined as the power being divided between the national and state governments?
Federalism
12. What is one action colonists took to oppose the Stamp Act?
Petitions, boycotts, mobs attacked tax collectors
13. A desire by European nations to create new commercial opportunities overseas led to
_________________. Exploration and colonization of North America
14. An effect of the __________________ _______________ was that women who sought work migrated
from rural communities to cities. Industrial Revolution
15. Name some Antifederalists that feared the national government would gain too much power under the new
constitution. Patrick Henry, George Mason
16. What caused the expansion of representative government in the colonies?
British neglect of the political affairs of North America
17. Name a cause of urbanization? Workers moved closer to manufacturing centers
18. Who was Frederick Douglass?
Born a slave in Maryland, escaped to freedom, most famous abolitionist
19. The French modeled their revolution after the _____________ Revolution. American
20. What gave formerly enslaved people government protections of civil and political rights?
Reconstruction Amendments
21. Thomas Jefferson explained why he wanted to avoid foreign alliances in his First Inaugural Address. Name
one reason why he wanted to avoid foreign alliances.
European wars threatened national security
22. Which amendment increased African American representation? 15th Amendment
23. Which reform movement is being described? “Reformers were concerned that alcohol was having a negative
influence on American society.” Temperance
24. In what region did tariffs hinder (hurt) economic development? (It would helpful to know the states in that
region)? South (Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia)
25. Which amendment outlawed slavery? 13th
26. Washington said the division of government power into __________ parties was a threat to democracy in
his Farewell Address? Political
27. Which document established elections in the colonies contributing to the growth of representative
democracy? (hint: it was the first written constitution in the colonies)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
28. How did the southern climate and geography lead to the Civil War?
It led to sectionalism because the southern geography encouraged plantation farming and slavery
29. How does the Constitution insure the government can be relevant and change over time?
Amendment process
30. Name the first African American senator who served during Reconstruction. Hiram Rhodes Revels
31. In which region did slaves from Africa make plantations profitable? Southern
32. Two political sects would be the same thing as political parties.
33. Where was the women’s rights convention held that focused on women gaining the right to vote?
Seneca Falls, New York
34. Which political party supported making Manifest Destiny an official federal policy? Democratic
35. In what year did Robert E Lee surrender at Appomattox Court House? 1865
36. Who favored tariffs because they believed it would increase the demand from American manufactured
goods? Northern industrialists
37. In 1870 the first African American senator was sworn in – who was he? Hiram Rhodes Revels
38. What were the 2 groups that argued over the creation of a strong national government?
Federalists and Antifederalists
39. What transportation network helped promote the free enterprise system? The building of roads
40. Horace Mann believed _______________ promoted economic equality. education
41. True or False: The population density in northern states differed from Southern states because more people
lived in cities in the north. True
42. True or False: Deciding whether a new western state would be a free or slave state contributed to
sectionalism. True
43. What opened new markets for goods? railroads
44. Why did Washington establish a cabinet of officers to lead parts of the government?
To manage the issue of defining authority in central government
45. Who wrote Civil Disobedience and stood up for his beliefs when he refused to pay a tax to support the
Mexican American War and went to jail? Henry David Thoreau
46. How did the steam engine give the north an advantage over the south in the Civil War?
The north used it in factories to run machinery & in boats and trains to cut shipping costs
47. Be able to locate the Mexican Cession on a map.
48. True or False: Publications like The Liberator, The Northern Star, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin led to the South
becoming more alienated from the North. True
49. Put the following land acquisitions in the correct chronological order: Florida, Louisiana Purchase, Gadsden
Purchase, Mexican Cession, Texas? LA Purchase, Florida, TX, Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase
50. Name a book that led to more support of the abolitionist movement? (hint: Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin