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Midterm Exam Review
US History I
Part I: Articles of Confederacy and Constitution
Who were the Anti-federalists?
People who were against approving the new Constitution
What was the document outlining the first form of government of the U.S.?
Articles of Confederation
What is the name of the set of amendments (changes) in the Constitution that were passed to protect individual rights?
Bill of Rights
What is the term for the powers given to separate branches of government to keep any one branch from gaining too much power?
Checks and Balances
What were the people called who supported the new Constitution?
Federalists
This term means the official approval of the Constitution?
Ratification
Part II: The Divisive Politics of Slavery
Which man’s election into the presidency led to the secession of Southern states from the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
What required Northerners to return escaped slaves to their masters?
Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the escaped slave who was a famous “conductor” of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was elected as the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What major political party was born out of the slavery issue?
Republican Party
What part of the country depended on slavery because of their plantation economy?
South
What part of the country opposed slavery because they did not need it in their industry?
North
Part III: The Civil War Begins
What were some advantages of the South during the Civil War? (List three)
Demand for its cotton, better generals, soldiers eager to defend their way of life
What were some advantages of the North during the Civil War? (List three)
More people, more factories, more food production, better railroads
What was the name of the first battle that was won by the Confederates and was inspired to win by General Stonewall Jackson?
Bull Run
What freed all slaves behind Confederate lines?
Emancipation Proclamation
Who is the general who successfully defended the Confederate capital?
Robert E. Lee
Who was the General who led the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
Part IV: The North Takes Charge
What battle turned the tide of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address and who delivered this address?
The purpose was to honor the dead and ask Americans to rededicate themselves to preserving the Union. Abraham Lincoln delivered this address.
How did the Civil War end (hint – who surrendered?)?
The Confederates surrendered.
Who shot and killed President Lincoln? Where did it happen?
John Wilkes Booth at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Part V: Reconstruction and Its Effects
Who was the first African-American senator?
Hiram Revels
Who was the president after Lincoln’s assassination?
Andrew Johnson
Define “Radical Republicans”.
Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders
Define “Carpetbaggers”.
Northerners who moved to the South after the war
Who were the secret group of white Southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
What was the period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
Define “scalawags”.
White Southerners who joined the Republican Party
13th Amendment
Abolished Slavery
14th Amendment
Gave African Americans citizenship
15th Amendment
Gave African Americans the right to vote
Tell four things the Freedman’s Bureau did to help newly freed slaves
provided food, provided housingprovided medical aid, established schools, offered legal assistance
Part VI: Changes on the Western Frontier
What was the Homestead Act?
A law that offered 160 acres of land free to anyone who would live on and farm it for five years
What was the policy in which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and culture and become part of the white culture?
assimilation
Define “Grange”.
A social organization for farmers, but soon began to concentrate on battling the railroads
What type of home was made from prairie turf?
soddy
What is populism?
A political movement that sought advancement for farmers and laborers during the late 1800s
Part VII: The Expansion of Industry
Explain the “Bessemer process”
a cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850
What did Christopher Sholes invent?
the typewriter
Who used a trust to gain total control of the oil industry in America?
John D. Rockefeller
Who established the world’s first research laboratory in Meno Park, NJ where he perfected the incandescent light bulb and later invented an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power?
Thomas Alva Edison
Who was Mary Harris Jones?
an organizer in the women’s labor movement who fought for the rights of women and children
Explain vertical integration (You can draw & label a picture if that makes it easier for you to explain.)
vertical integration – a company’s taking over its suppliers and distributers and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product
ex. Carnegie attempted to control as much of the steel industry as he could. He bought out his suppliers – coal fields, iron mines, ore freighter, and railroad lines – in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems
Explain horizontal integration (You can draw & label a picture if that makes it easier for you to explain.)
companies producing similar products merge ex. Carnegie also attempted to buy out competing steel producers.
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Old Navy, Gap, Piperlime, Banana Republic – clothing stores owned by same company
Darden – Restaurant Company that owns the following
restaurants: Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, Yard House, Seasons 52,
The Capital Grille, Eddie V’s
Department Stores/Companies Merge – Sears, Kmart, Land’s End, Craftsman, etc
Explain how America has changed since the time of the Civil War. (List three ways or draw a picture(s) to show the changes. Label your picture.)
Slavery has been abolished; African Americans are citizens with the right to vote. African Americans have more opportunities (own homes, have jobs, get an education, etc.)
America’s military is stronger and more technologically advanced. There is less discrimination in the military.
The federal government has more power and the states are not as independent.
Choose one invention from the late 1800’s, early 1900’s. Write a paragraph (five sentences) explaining how the invention has changed the way Americans live. (Be sure to have an introductory sentence, three detail sentences (examples), and a concluding sentence.) – For your review, you can just fill in the chart.
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