9th Grade US History – FINAL EXAM
125 QUESTIONS
Matching and Multiple Choice- 1 pt each
Total: 125 points
Constitution – 10 questions
Separation of power
- Preamble
Representative democracy
- Bill of Rights
Legislative Branch – what are they in charge of, congress, how it’s broken into 2 houses, qualifications for
office for each
Executive Branch – what is included in this branch, what it’s in charge of/responsibilities, qualifications for
office
Judicial Branch – what this branch does/is in charge of, how they get their positions and term
Checks and Balances
Jacksonian Democracy - 10 questions
Elections of 1824 and 1828
Jackson’s view of the presidency (being the champion of the common man)
What Jackson thought of the US Bank
Spoils system
What specific groups thought of Jackson and why (Democrats, Whigs/Republicans, Slaves, Native
Americans, White Southern Farmers)
Tariff of 1828- why was the South upset, why did the North want it?
Native American Policies in the mid-1800s
Worcester v Georgia Supreme Court Case
Trail of tears
Abolition, Underground RR, Antebellum Reforms (Pre-Civil War) – 30 questions
Temperance movement
- William Lloyd Garrison
Dorthea Dix and Prison Reform
- What abolitionists wanted
Anti-Slavery Society
- Underground Railroad
Sojourner Truth
- Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
- Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke
Harriet Jacobs
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin- it’s impact on society and slavery
American Anti-Slavery Society and American Colonization Society
1836 Gag Rule
- Fugitive Slave Act
Women’s role in society in the 1830s-40s - Seneca Falls Convention
Transcendentalism
Results of the Mexican War (question of slavery in new territory)
Bleeding Kansas
- John Brown’s Raid - effects on North and South (viewpoints)
Senatorial debates (Lincoln/Douglas debates)
Election of 1860
- Fort Sumter and Secession
Civil War – 35 questions
- Advantages and disadvantages of the North and the South
- North/Union battle plans and strategies (Anaconda plan)
- South/Confederate battle plans and strategies (Attrition)
- African American soldiers/experience -- 54th Massachusetts regiment
- General McClellan
- First Battle of Bull Run
- General Lee
- General Grant
-
Special Orders #191
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Lee’s Surrender
- Southern plea to France and Britain for help
- Emancipation Proclamation - effects
- Pickett’s Charge
- Vicksburg
- Improvements in technology in Civil War
Reconstruction – 15 questions
Southern economy
KKK- founding, goals, etc…
Lincoln’s reconstruction plan
Black codes
Compromise of 1877
Freedmen’s Bureau
Seymour (Democrats) racist campaign
- 13, 14, 15 amendments
- sharecropping
- Radical Republican’s views of Johnson’s plan
- Johnson’s impeachment
- positives and negatives of Reconstruction
- Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Industrial Revolution- 10 questions
Define Industrial Revolution
Railroads (Importance, Effects on the West, Workers)
Growth of Big Business (Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan)
Robber Barons/Captains of Industry
Vertical and Horizontal consolidation/integration
- Monopoly
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Social Darwinism
The West – 15 questions
- Push/Pull factors of the West
- Pacific Railway Act
- Morrill Land-Grant Act
- Homestead Act
- Homesteaders
- Tech and Farming
- Exodusters
- Native American V Whit view of land and land use
- Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Culture clash
- Battle of Little Bighorn
- Battle of Wounded Knee