American History Honors Final Exam
Chapter 7- Life in the New Nation, 1783-1850
1. The Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819,
2. Settlers in Texas fought a war for independence against
3. Preachers during the Second Great Awakening taught that
4. The increase in the United States population during the period before 1830
was mostly a result of
5. Starting in 1843, settlers moved west in organized wagon trains along what
trail?
6. Outdoor meetings held to bring people back to religious life were known as
Chapter 8- The Growth of a National Economy, 1790-1850
7. One reason many manufacturing mills were built in New England was
8. The Monroe Doctrine stated that
9. What invention made cotton “king”?
10. How did the Jacksonian Democrats differ from the National Republicans?
11. How did President Jackson react to Georgia’s seizure of Cherokee lands?
12. The labor movement began in the early 1800s to protest what?
13. A typical slave owner might have described slaves as what?
14. The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall made several decision
that strengthened what?
15. After the 1824 presidential election, critics charged that Adams and Clay had
16. The 1828 election saw the rise of two new political parties,
Chapter 10- The Coming of the Civil War, 1846-1851
17. Radical abolitionists demanded immediate what?
18. Uncle Tom’s cabin was a book that attacked
19. What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850?
20. What did the fugitive slave act specify?
21. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect slavery in the new territories
22. Who were the main supporters of the new Republican Party?
23. “Bleeding Kansas” earned its name from clashes over what?
24. The decision in the case Scott v. Sanford protected the rights of
25. By attacking the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, John Brown hoped to…
26. Southern states began to secede following the election of 1860 because
Chapter 11- The Civil War, 1861-1865
27. At the start of the war, the South’s basic strategy could be summarized as…
28. If Grant’s army could gain control of the Mississippi River, the Confederacy
would be
29. The Confederate war effort was hurt by Southerners’ fierce devotion to
30. During the Civil War both the Confederate and Union governments created
what, in order to guarantee they had enough troops?
31. With the departure of southern congressmen, Republicans passed laws to
strengthen the power of
32. During the early part of the war, Lincoln’s main goal was to
33. After the Emancipation Proclamation, many African Americans…
34. Confederate forces at Gettysburg were blown apart by shells in what event?
35. George McClellan said that if he were elected President in 1864, he would
36. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment showed that Congress accepted
Chapter 13- The Expansion of American Industry, 1850-1900
37. In 1885, Alexander Graham Bell helped set up a company to build
38. Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse both worked wonders with
39. Why were industrialists during the age of big business called “captains of
industry”?
40. According to the theory of social Darwinism, what was the role of the
government in economic matters?
41. Critics of powerful industrialists referred to them as
42. The goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to
Chapter 15- Politics, Immigration, and Urban Life, 1870-1915
43. What attracted many immigrants to the United States?
44. How were Asians regarded by many white Americans?
45. What development led to the first wave of Mexican immigration in the early
1900s?
46. What typically led an immigrant to achieve success in America?
47. What contributed to the growth of cities?
48. Describe the urban areas of the early 20th century.
49. During the late 1800s the port of entry for the majority of immigrants was
50. President Theodore Roosevelt reached the Gentlemen’s Agreement in 1907
with the goal of
51. Why did many immigrants support city political machines?
52. The Pendleton Service Act was passed to
53. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigration laws discriminated most
against
Chapter 17- Becoming a World Power, 1890-1915
54. Under imperialism, the stronger nation attempts to
55. As a result of the peace treaty with Spain, the U.S. gained
56. The U.S. annexed Hawaii because
57. In China, The U.S. competed with other nations for
58. President Roosevelt threatened to use the U.S. navy to…
59. Anti-imperialists argued that imperialism rejected the principle of
Chapter 18- The Progressive Reform Era, 1890-1920
60. In 1906 Upton Sinclair’s novel entitled The Jungle exposed dangerous
workplace conditions in what industry?
61. Journalists known as muckrakers worked at
62. Some Americans resisted progressive reforms because they disliked
Chapter 19- The World War I Era, 1914-1920
63. One of the main causes of the war, imperialism, involved
64. Much of Europe was drawn into the war because of
65. The Sedition Act made it illegal to
66. Wilson’s goal for the League of Nations was
67. Under the terms of the peace treaty, Germany had to do what?
Chapter 21- Politics and Prosperity, 1920-1929
68. American feared the Communists because they were
69. The Palmer Raids were organized to root out groups whose activities…
70. Republican Presidents in the 1920s generally favored
71. Harding and Coolidge both based their foreign policy on a return to
72. Under the Kellogg-Briand Pact, 15 nations agreed not to use
73. The Red Scare was a response to
Chapter 22- Crash and Depression, 1929-1933
74. After the Crash of 1929, thousands of American banks closed, because they
75. During the Depression working women were
76. Hoover believed that the best way to end the Depression was through
77. To get the Bonus Army marchers to leave the capital, the military
78. One of Franklin Roosevelt’s traits that appealed to Americans was his
79. Roosevelt easily won the 1932 presidential election by promising
Chapter 23- The New Deal, 1933-1941
80. What best characterizes Roosevelt’s first hundred days in office?
81. Why did FDR declare a bank holiday early in his administration?
82. People who believed that the New Deal did not do enough were mainly
83. Frustrated by a Supreme Court that had invalidated New Deal programs and
progressive state laws, Roosevelt attempted to
84. Why did FDR cut back on expensive relief programs in 1937?
Chapter 24 and 25- World War II
85. Which nations became known as the Axis Powers after they signed a mutual
defense treaty in 1940?
86. In following a policy of Appeasement, Britain and France were…
87. Which nation’s actions finally forced the U.S. to enter the war?
88. What act allowed Britain, France, and their allies to obtain U.S. weapons
without having to pay up front?
89. D-Day was the code name for the Allied invasion of
90. The purpose of the Manhattan Project was to
Cold War
91. The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to
92. American interest in developing the hydrogen bomb intensified when
93. The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military
intervention in
94. Immediately after WWII, many of the countries of Eastern Europe were
occupied by
95. The policy known as containment was designed to
John Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson
96. One result of adopting a defense policy of “flexible response” was that the U.S.
…
97. During the early 1960s, the nation faced all of the following domestic
problems except
98. The Great Society Focused of providing solutions to the problems of
The Vietnam War
99. What was the United States’ main goal in Vietnam?
100.
What act authorized President Johnson to conduct the war in
Vietnam?
101.
What did President Nixon say would bring about “peace with honor”
in Vietnam?
102.
Congress passed the War Powers Act in order to…