1. Semester 2 Final Exam
Review Day!

2. Name 2 advantages of the North

3. More railroads
Larger population
More industry
Lincoln

4. Name 2 advantages of the South

5. Better military leaders
Better trained soldiers
They knew the land
agriculture

6. How did voting rights change and expand in the early 1800s?

7. Some states extended voting rights to more white males.

8. The Louisiana Purchase was important to the United States because it

9. nearly doubled the size of the country.

10. The Battle of Antietam was important because…

11. shifted control of the Civil War from the South to the North and was the bloodiest single day.

12. How was slavery and the idea of manifest destiny connected in the 1840s and ’50s?

13. . Americans did not know if the institution of slavery would be allowed in the new territories

14. What led to the flood of Irish immigrants entering the United States in the mid-1840s?

15. potato blight

16. What were slave codes?

17. strict state laws that controlled the actions of slaves

18. During the 1820s, sectionalism grew in the United States
During the 1820s, sectionalism grew in the United States. Sectionalism is when

19. politicians disagree over the interests of different regions.

20. What was a consequence of the Compromise of 1850?

21. The balance between free and slave states ended in the Union.

22. How did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, affect the United States?

23. It increased the size of the United States by almost 25 percent.

24. The Lewis and Clark expedition was undertaken in order to explore the Louisiana Purchase, to learn about the plants and animals of the West, and to….

25. attempt to find a river route to the Pacific Ocean.

26. What did John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry do to affect life in the United States

27. heightening the conflicts between slave and free states.

28. What event of Native American history became known as the “Trail of Tears”?

29. the forced 800-mile march Cherokee Indians made in their removal from Georgia

30. The Emancipation Proclamation was an order from Lincoln

31. calling for all Confederate slaves to be freed.

32. What is judicial review?

33. the power of the judiciary branch to declare laws unconstitutional

34. What was a result of the Missouri Compromise?

35. An equal balance between free and slave states was maintained.

36. What agreement led to the purchase of the southern parts of what are now Arizona and New Mexico?

37. Gadsden Purchase

38. The nullification crisis was a dispute over the power of the

39. states to reject laws they didn’t agree with.

40. How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?

41. States or territories would decide whether to permit slavery

42. What is the Fugitive Slave Act

43. People were paid for returning runaway slaves to slaveholders.

44. The Industrial Revolution is best defined as a

45. period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry.

46. All of the Alamo’s defenders were killed at this battle

47. Battle of the Alamo

48. The purpose of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was to

49. remind Americans of the reasons that the Civil War was being fought.

50. What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery

51. wrote a book exposing the harsh reality of slave life

52. What was the significance of Marbury v. Madison?

53. It established the Supreme Court’s power to check the other branches of government.

54. What agreement warned European nations about interfering with any future conflicts or wars in Latin America?

55. Monroe Doctrine

56. The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was significant because it

57. marked the start of the organized women’s rights movement.

58. The First Battle of Bull Run

59. shattered the Union’s hope of winning the war quickly and easily.

60. The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the

61. Republican Party being formed.

62. What was the “spoils system” practiced by newly-elected president Andrew Jackson?

63. rewarding supporters by giving them government jobs

64. What happened to California’s population as a result of the Gold Rush?

65. Immigrants and Americans flocked to California to “get rich quick” and stayed to build a stable frontier society.

66. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford established that

67. the Missouri Compromise’s restriction on slavery was unconstitutional.