Review Game Indust. Rev-Reconstruction.

• What did Eli Whitney invent that actually expanded slavery into parts of the South and the west?

• The Cotton Gin.

• Who established the first successful mechanized textile factory in America by memorizing the machine while in Great Britain?

• Samuel Slater

• The construction of the ________ _______ began in 1811 and by 1838 extended from Cumberland, Maryland to Illinois.

• National Road

• What project was responsible for New York City becoming the dominant port city in America?

• The Erie Canal

• What was Henry Clay’s proposal called where The Industrial North would produce goods and materials the South would buy, and the agricultural South would produce the grain, meat and cotton needed in the North?

• The American System

• What was the policy where the U.S. told outside powers not to interfere in the western hemisphere and at the same time the U.S. would not involve itself in European affairs?

• The Monroe Doctrine

• What was the Missouri Compromise? (decribe in full for 2 points)

• An agreement largely devised by Henry Clay where Maine would enter as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and the rest of the Louisiana territory split by the 36, 30 line.

• What was the name of the event where a “Declaration of Sentiments” were read that declared “all men AND women are created equal”?

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Who were the women rights activists who organized the event?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

• What was the name of the anti-immigrant party that held secret meetings and had secret symbols and handshakes?

• Know-Nothing Party

• Who founded the Newspaper “The Liberator”?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Who was the well-educated former slave abolitionist that worked for Garrison and then started his own paper called “The North Star”?

• Frederick Douglass

• Who was the significant figure in the education reform movement?

• Horace Mann

• What was the movement called that tried to prohibit the drinking of alcohol in the 19th century?

• Temperance Movement

• What was the belief that housework and child care were the only proper activities for married women?

• Cult of domesticity

• Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, that Lincoln referred to as “the little lady who started the big war”?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• What were the major provisions of the Compromise of 1850? (two points)

• California a free state, Fugitive Slave law, D.C. slave trade ended but slavery still practiced, popular sovereignty of New Mexico and Utah

• Who founded the Mormon church and was killed by a mob in jail?

• Joseph Smith

• Under the leadership of Brigham Young, where did the Mormons finally decide to settle in the west?

• Utah

• The Mexican-American war was ended by what treaty?

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Who was the “empresario” that wanted to establish a colony in Texas where “no drunkard, no gambler, and no idler” would be allowed?

• Stephen Austin

• Who was the Mexican dictator who led over 5,000 men to San Antonio to crush Austin and his men of 187 at the Alamo?

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• Who defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto with the battle cry of “Remember the Alamo!”

• Sam Houston

• What did President Polk send John Slidell to Mexico for?

• To buy California and gain approval for the Rio Grande as the Texas border.

• After Polk said that “American blood had been spilled on American soil”, what “resolution” questioned “whether our citizens, whose blood, was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not”?

• Lincoln’s “Spot Resolution”

• Who was the Native American chief who lead a rebellion against the United States based on a vision that a nearby tribesmen had?

• Chief Black Hawk

• What treaty gave lands to natives in the Central Plains in exchange for their promise not to attack settlers and allow construction of government forts and roads.

• Treaty of Ft. Laramie

• Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War?

• Ft. Sumter S.C.

• What was the act proposed by Stephen Douglass that repealed the Missouri Compromise and established the principle of popular sovereignty in the Nebraska territory?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Who was named commander of the Union Armies after his impressive victories at Shiloh and Vicksburg?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after a Union “victory” at what battle?

• Antietam

What battle was the “turning point” of the war and was the last time Lee would push into the North again?

Gettysburg

• Where did Lee surrender the Confederate Army ?

• Appomattox Court House

• Name 3 major advantages the North had over the South during the war.

• Larger industrial infrastructure, larger population, Navy, stable political leadership, better railroad system

• What major advantages did the South have?

• Defensive war, Home-field advantage, Better military leadership

• Who was the person who raided Harper’s Ferry, was captured, and hanged and became a martyr for abolitionists?

• John Brown

• What court ruling said that slaves did not have the same rights as citizens?

• Dred Scott

• What was the name of the North’s strategy to end the war?

• Anaconda Plan

• Name 3 things Lincoln did that were considered unconstitutional by the Chief Justice?

• Suspended habeas corpus, martial law, suspended voting rights of dissenting voices, arrested 13,000 Copperheads, shut down telegraphs of subversives

• What was Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan that would be approached“with malice towards none, with charity for all” as said in his 2nd inaugural address?

• The 10% Plan

• What 3 amendments addressed the abolition of slavery, citizenship and rights thereof, and voting?

• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

• True or False: Impeachment means to remove an elected official from office?

• False-It means to formally CHARGE an elected official

• What were the two names given to Southerners who joined the Republicans and to Northerners who moved down to the South to aide in Reconstruction efforts?

• Scalawags and Carpetbaggers

• What were the discriminatory laws that restricted African Americans’ lives?

• Black Codes

• Who led Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional Reconstruction?

• Andrew Johnson; Radical Republicans

• What group was formed in order to prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights?

• Ku Klux Klan

• What was the system where landowners divided their land among African Americans and they would, in return, give a portion of their harvest to the owner?

• Sharecropping