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2. The system in which sororities of young women lived together in factory housing and worked long hours in textile mills was called what?

3. The Lowell System

4. The location of a utopian philosophical community based on the concept of transcendentalism.

5. Brook Farm

6. Which battle in the Civil War secured the fame of Ulysses S. Grant and proved his effectiveness as a general?

7. Vicksburg

8. Which geographical region had the largest concentration of support for the Constitutional Union Party in the election of 1860?

9. Upper South

10. Which Civil War battle constituted the bloodiest single day in American history?

11. Antietam

12. The ideas of this Enlightenment political philosopher was largely present in the Declaration of Independence.

13. John Locke

14. What American ethnic group did the exiled French from Canada eventually become known as?

15. Cajuns

16. In the late 1840s, most of the criticism of the Mexican War came from which political party?

17. Whigs

18. Who is the successor of Joseph Smith who is responsible for settling the Mormon Church in Utah Territory?

19. Brigham Young

20. This man, known as the father of public education, stated social reform would be accomplished through an educated populace, therefore education was vitally needed.

21. Horace Mann

22. By opening territory north of the 36,30 line to slavery, the Kansas- Nebraska Act effectively repealed...

23. The Missouri Compromise

24. Which U.S. state did the United States gain in the Adams-Onis Treaty?

25. Florida

26. What stated that in any territory acquired from Mexico “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist?”

27. Wilmot Proviso

28. What was accomplished by the Treaty of Ghent?

29. It ended the War of 1812 and re- established the pre-war status quo between England and the U.S.

30. What was significant about the Dartmouth College v. Woodward ruling?

31. States were not allowed to overtake private institutions; it upheld the sanctity of contracts which would be a great stepping stone for private business

32. What was the result of the XYZ Affair?

33. President John Adams started to build the US Navy and an undeclared naval war between the US and France started in the Caribbean.

34. What was the significance of the Marbury v. Madison case?

35. It established the concept of judicial review.

36. What was the effect of the Embargo Act of 1807?

37. It caused economic depression, especially in New England; it weakened the Jefferson administration because it was so unpopular; it had little effect on England and France; it inadvertently helped lead to the development of American manufacturing

38. Which major event in American social history is referred to when one talks of the “Burned-Over District?”

39. The Second Great Awakening

40. What was the name of an act passed during the latter stages of the Jackson Administration that declared that government transactions could only take place with gold and silver currency?

41. The Specie Circular

42. The early years of Jackson’s Administration were crippled as a result of an internal cabinet scandal regarding allegations of adultery. Name this scandal.

43. The Peggy Eaton Affair

44. Which U.S. President ran a “Log Cabin” and “Hard Cider” campaign to appeal to the common man?

45. William Henry Harrison

46. The belief that America was entitled to spread from ocean to ocean in order to bring enlightened republicanism to the continent is called?

47. Manifest Destiny

48. Which U.S. president is responsible for the annexation of the Republic of Texas?

49. John Tyler

50. One of the causes of the War of 1812 was the fact that the British navy would forcibly seize American ships and force American sailors into His Majesty’s Service. What is this action called?

51. Impressment