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U.S. History Chapter 2

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What was the engine that quickly and efficiently removed cotton seeds from the boils?
Cotton Gin
Which Supreme court case asserted its right to judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
What statement by a president in 1823 declared the Americas were closed to further colonization?
The Monroe Doctrine
What brought Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
Missouri Compromise
What was a practice of appointing people to government jobs based on party loyalty and support?
Spoil System
What marked the beginning of an organized women´s movement?
Seneca Falls Convention
What boundary expansion more than double the size of the United States and gained control of the Mississippi River?
Louisiana Purchase
What was the movement for the immediate end of slavery?
The Abolitionist Movement
The antislavery movement gained new momentum in the 1830s as a result of the Boston newspaper, the Liberator founded by whom?
William L Garrison
What was the law signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830 that helped the states relocate Native Americans west of the MIssissippi River?
The Indian Removal
What state threatened to secede from the Union after a new tariff was levied in the late 1820s and 1830s?
South Carolina
What was the idea that the United States was meant ti spread all the way to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
What were armed Missourians who swarmed across the border to vote illegally in Kansas in the 1850s called?
Border Ruffians
What was an informed, well-organized network of sympathizers who helped thousands of enslaved persons flee north called?
The Underground Railroad
The Northerners, what was one of the most objectionable components of the Compromise of 1850s?
Fugitive Slave Act
Where were the Forty-Niners hoping to make their fortune?
California
Which battle was critical to the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle of Antietam
Where were first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
What amendment ended slavery?
13th amendment
What amendment declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied...on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"?
15th amendment
In order to keep Maryland in the Union, President Lincoln suspended a person's right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trail, which is known as what?
Habeas Corpus Suspension
What were white Southerners who supported Republicans and Reconstruction called?
Scalawag
What were Northerners who traveled to the South called?
Carpetbagger
Rebuilding the nation after the Civil War was known as what?
Reconstruction
Why did many Northerners head to Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Try to prevent slavery from happening (Bleeding Kansas)
What battle was the turning point in the east during the Civil War?
The battle of Gettysburg
What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
10% plan
Where was John Brown's 1859 raid into Virginia?
Harpers Ferry
In the election of 1844, James K. Polk campaigned to do what?
Resolving the Oregon Territory boundary dispute with Russia and the United Kingdom.
Reconstruction ended when Rutherford B. Hayes did what?
Went into office for the withdrawal of federal troops from the south
Why did the Compromise of 1850 fail?
Fugitive slave law
Why did Southern Democrats walk out of the 1860 Democratic Convention?
They rejected the rights of slavery everywhere
Why land did the United States obtain as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah
What were the North's advantages at the beginning of the Civil War?
North had a larger population, a greater industrial base, a greater amount of wealth, and an established government.
What were the South's advantages at the beginning of the Civil War?
Better Leadership
Why did Sherman march to the sea?
To frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
Where did Civil War deaths most often occur, on or off the battlefield?
Off
What was settled by the Compromise of 1877?
The intensely disputed 1876 presidential election.
Which Former Confederate state was NOT subject to a military district?
Tennessee
What are the Civil War Amendments?
13th, 14th, 15th
Which slave states stayed in the Union (often called "border states")?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
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