Final Study
Questions: History 7A: Summer 2018
True or False:
Questions are taken from chapters 6 to 15.
Some will be
eliminated.
1. During the
1780s, abolitionist sentiment spread.
2. Studies of
divorce patterns in Connecticut and Pennsylvania show that after 1773 women
divorced on about the same terms as men.
3. In 1790, the
Missouri legislature explicitly allowed women who owned property to vote.
4. The Articles
of Confederation denied Congress the power of taxation.
5. The Northwest
Ordinance provided a source of income for the Articles of Confederation
government.
6. Shay’s
Rebellion shattered the peace of western New York in 1788.
7. The
Constitution created a Supreme Court with a chief justice and nine associated
justices.
8. John Jay,
Thomas Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote the Federalist Papers to win
support for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
9. The Bill of
Rights was ratified in 1781.
10. The differing
philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton provide insight into
the birth and development of political parties.
11. Thomas
Jefferson believed that the strength of the American economy lay not in its
industrial potential but in its agricultural productivity.
12. John C.
Calhoun in his second report to Congress proposed a Bank of the United States.
13. At the Battle
of Fallen Timbers, General Samuel Houston crushed Indian resistance in the Northwest
Territory
14. Nearly 50
rebels were executed after the failure of the Whiskey Rebellion in 1792l
15. George
Washington, in his farewell address, warned against making permanent alliances
with distant nations that had no real interest in promoting American security.
16. Russia agreed
to stop searching American vessels on the high seas for contraband as part of
Jay’s Treaty of 1790.
17. The Alien Law
of 1798 established an eight year probationary period before foreigners could
apply for full U.S. citizenship.
18. Approximately
30% of the 35,240,000 people counted in the 1810 census were black.
19. Thomas
Jefferson was considered to be one of the great public speakers of his era.
20. Americans
were able to buy the entire Louisiana Territory for 450 million dollars.
21. The Barbary
War lasted for seven years.
22. The Battle of
New Orleans took place after the diplomats in Europe had finished their peace
negotiations.
23. Robert Fulton
sailed the first American steamship up the Columbia River in 1848.
24. The United
States bought the territory known as the Louisiana Purchase from France.
25. The Marbury v
Madison case served as an important precedent for judicial review of federal
statutes.
26. John Marshall
horrified Americans when he killed Supreme Court Justice Henry Knox in a duel.
27. In an annual
message send to Congress in December 1806, Jefferson urged the representatives
to prepare legislation outlawing the slave trade.
28. On August 24,
1814 a small force of British marines burned the U.S. capital.
29. Credit for
the Erie Canal belongs to New York’s governor, Aaron Burr who successfully
convinced the state legislature that the project could be successfully funded
by issuing bonds.
30. In 1815, most
manufacturing in the United States was still carried on in households, in the
workshops of skilled artisans, or in small mills.
31. In 1800,
there were twelve American cities with populations above 100,000.
32. The Missouri
Compromise of 1820 kept the balance of power in the Senate by admitting Texas
as a slave state and California as a free state.
33. Andrew
Jackson’s marriage was a major issue in the 1804 presidential election.
34. Andrew
Jackson asserted that the Federal Government was supreme over the states and
that the Union was indivisible during the nullification crisis of the early
1830s.
35. In 1832,
Andrew Jackson agreed with John Marshall’s support of the Supreme Court
decision (Worcester v Georgia) that denied the right of a state to extend its
jurisdiction over tribal lands.
36. During the
Trial of Tears of 1838, about 4,000 Indians died on the way.
37. America’s
second party system came of age in the election of 1800.
38. In 1860,
about 80% of white Southerners belonged to families owning slaves.
39. About 60 % of
slaves in the South worked in industry in the South.
40. Most slaves
encountered Christianity in a church setting.
41. The typical
fugitive slave was a young, unmarried male from the upper South
42. After 1830,
Southerners became less tolerant of free blacks.
43. The
interstate slave trade sent an estimated three to four thousand slaves in a
southwesterly direction between 1815 and 1860.
44. In their
Declaration of Sentiments, the participants in the Seneca Convention of 1848
demanded the right to vote.
45. Per capita
annual consumption of distilled beverages in the 1820’s was about half of what
it is today.
46. Roger Taney
launched the antislavery journal The Liberator in 1831.
47. By 1827,
Mexican settlements in present day New Mexico contained about three hundred
thousand people.
48. In 18550, the
Mexican legislature prohibited further American immigration and importation of
slaves to Texas.
49. Davy Crockett
became the first president of the Texas Republic.
50. Over 15,000
Americans died at the Battle of the Alamo.
51. Joseph Smith
arrived in Utah and sent back word that he had found the promised land for the
Mormon people.
52. The Mexican
American War lasted about seven years.
53. The Mormon
leader, Daniel Webster, was killed by a mob while being held in jail in Carthage,
Illinois.
54. The Wilmot
Proviso of 1848 would have opened all land obtained from Mexico to slavery.
55.
Representative Charles Sumner battered John C. Calhoun with a cane in 1856.
56. The Fugitive
Slave Law made it more difficult for slaveholders to recapture escaped slaves.
57. The
Democratic Party developed in the 1830s.
58. Uncle Tom’s
Cabin sold 20,000 copies in a single year.
59. During the
ante-bellum period, Southerners encouraged the use of proslavery textbooks.
60. The Dred
Scott case reinforced the Compromise of 1850.
61. Harriet
Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
62. John Brown
was executed after his raid on Harper’s Ferry.
63. In the Dred
Scott case of 1857, Supreme Court Justice John Jay made several rulings.
64. The Lecompton
Constitution of Kansas supported slavery.
65. Texas was the
first state to leave the union.
66. Abraham
Lincoln was nominated for president by the Republicans because he had a more
moderate position on slavery than front-runner William H. Seward.
67. All of the
twenty slave-holding states joined the Confederacy.
68. The South had
less railroads tracks than the North in 1861.
69. Jefferson
Davis proved a more effective war leader than Lincoln.
70. The Union
army won the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia on December 2, 1862.
71. The
Confederates fired on Fort Sumter in Florida on June 6, 1861.
72. The Southern
economy was more adaptable to the needs of a total war.
73. At the
beginning of the Civil War, Britain and France depended on the South for one
tenth of their cotton supply.
74. The
Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 freed all slaves in the continental United
States.
75. Although
popular with Democrats, emancipation was viewed by most Republicans a betrayal
of northern war aims.
76. Almost
6,000,000 African-Americans eventually served in the Union armed forces.
Identification
Questions: Be prepared to write short paragraphs describing who, what, and when
about the following topics. Some will be
eliminated.
Bill of Rights
President George
Washington
The Alien and
Sedition Acts
James Madison
Lewis and Clark
Alexander
Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
War of 1812
Dred Scott
(Supreme Court case)
Mexican-American
War
Andrew Jackson
Louisiana
Purchase
Cherokee Removal
Sam Houston
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates
Compromise of 1850
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Election of 1860
Emancipation
Proclamation
