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Alabama High School Graduation Exam
Study Guide
1. What is the term which refers to the attempt by Europeans to take
back Holy Lands in the Middle East from Muslims?
2. Term referring to a “rebirth” of art and literature which began in Italy
3. Martin Luther began this revolt against the Catholic Church.
4. During the _____ _____, plants, animals, and diseases were
transferred between Europe and the Americas.
5. In what year did Columbus arrive in the “New World”?
6. Term which refers to Spanish soldiers who came to the “New
World” looking for treasure.
7. This is the oldest permanent European settlement in the United
States.
8. This is the oldest permanent English settlement in the United
States.
9. This was the 1st elected legislature in the English colonies.
10. Who won the French and Indian War?
11. This document limited the power of the King of England in
1215.
12. Who was the writer that often wrote about the natural rights of all men? Often his works discussed
the rights of the individual to rebel.
13. Who wrote the book, The Social Contract?
14. This is the term used to describe the huge movement to
revival in America during the 1700’s.
15. What did George Washington warn against in his Farewell
Address?
16. This term describes the right of the Supreme Court to cancel laws they believe to be unconstitutional.
17. When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
18. What document contains the key phrases; “all men are created equal & life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness”?
19. When was the Constitution of the United States written?
20. What document begins as “We the people of the United States in
order to form a more perfect union…”
21. What are the 3 branches of the federal government?
22. What are the 5 rights protected by the 1st Amendment?
23. What is the 2nd Amendment?
25. What is the 5th Amendment?
26. What is the 8th Amendment?
27. What did the 13th Amendment do?
28. What does the 14th Amendment do?
29. What did the 15th Amendment do?
30. What did the 19th Amendment do?
31. Who was the African-American slain at the Boston Massacre?
32. Who led the Sons of Liberty at the Boston Tea Party?
33. The 2nd Continental Congress chose him to lead the Continental
Army.
34. Where were the first shots of the American Revolution fired?
35. What battle during the American Revolution convinced the
French to join the US?
36. This treaty caused Great Britain to recognize US independence and gave the US all of the land east of
the Mississippi River.
37. This was the US’s plan for adding states north of the Ohio
River ( no slaves states allowed).
38. This purchase doubled the size of the US in 1803.
39. This forbade new slave states north of 36’ 30’ (1820).
40. This was the idea that God wanted the US to spread from
coast to coast.
41. This warned Europe about starting new colonies.
42. The name for the forced removal of Native Americans from
the Southeast.
43. Term which refers to people who wanted an immediate end to
slavery in the US.
44. She wrote an anti-slavery novel titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
45. He was a runaway slave. In addition he was also a great
abolitionist speaker and writer.
46. This was the 1st women’s rights convention in US history (1848).
47. Andrew Jackson became a war hero for his defeat of the British at
this battle.
48. He was the poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.
49. This made California a free state; made a tougher fugitive slave
law; and ended slave trade in Washington, D.C.
51. This Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were property, not
people. (1857)
52. He was a radical abolitionist who led a raid on Harper’s Ferry.
53. The county that seceded from Alabama after Alabama seceded
from the Union.
54. This ‘freed’ slaves in ‘ still-rebellious territories’ on January 1,
1863.
55. This was a major Union victory in the East in 1863.
56. He became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877.
57. This was the animal that Plains Indians used for food and clothing.
58. This is where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met in
1869.
59. List 3 inventions that helped Midwest farmers in the mid-1800’s.
60. A battle in which Sioux Indians wiped out General G. Custer’s
troops (1876)
61. This was the 1890’s political party which represented both black
and white farmers.
62. These were black Americans that migrated from the South to the
West.
63. List 2 “Robber Barons” and what their companies produced.
64. This is a huge company who controls the market of a product.
65. The idea in society that the ‘fittest’ will be successful.
66. This the term which refers to the rapid growth of cities.
67. These were journalists who exposed corruption in society.
68. He proposed drastic improvements in public education
in the US.
69. He criticized Booker T. Washington for compromising with
whites.
70. This Amendment made alcohol illegal throughout the US
(Prohibition)
71. These were 2 needs which led to US imperialism.
72. What year was the Spanish-American War?
73. This was a volunteer cavalry regiment led by Teddy Roosevelt.
74. This canal was built between 1904-1914, it provided a short-cut between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
75. These were the 4 main causes of WWI.
77. The enemy which fought the Allies during WWI.
78. This was a British passenger ship which was carrying US citizens sunk by the Germans. Its sinking
brought the US into WWI.
79. List 2 new weapons of WWI.
80. This treaty officially ended WWI, but started WWII.
81. List 2 very popular forms of mass entertainment in the 1920’s.
82. This was an African-American literary awakening in the 1920’s.
83. He was an Alabama musician known as the ‘Father of the Blues’.
84. He used the assembly line to aid in producing automobiles more
cheaply.
85. She demanded the right for women to use birth control.
86. Term which describes the fear of communism following the
Russian Revolution.
87. Italian immigrants wrongly accused and executed for murder.
88. List 3 groups of Americans that did not prosper in the 1920’s.
89. He was US President when the Great Depression began.
90. The date the stock market crashed, known as “Black
Tuesday”.
91. This was an environmental disaster that ruined Midwest
farmers.
92. FDR’s plan to end the Great Depression.
93. Money for the elderly and disabled.
94. Provides government protection of private bank accounts.
95. During the Great Depression, this provided jobs and electricity for
Alabamians.
96. FDR’s encouraging radio talks.
97. This was the Japanese attack on the US, draws the US into
WWII.
98. Who were the Axis Powers during WWII?
99. This was the murder of 6,000,000 Jews by Nazi Germans.
100. This American President made the decision to drop the
atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.